Emily is a litigator in the firm’s General Liability Litigation Practice. She graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law, where she was a teaching and research assistant in federal jurisdiction law, earned a CALI Award for International Trade Law, and externed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
Before joining Shook, Emily focused on appellate law, working first as a research attorney at the Court of Appeals for the State of Kansas, and then completing a judicial law clerkship at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. In both positions, she drafted and edited orders and opinions, and provided legal research and case advice.
Presentations and Publications
Panelist, Appellate Court All-Star Update, Annual Conference, Kansas Women Attorneys Association, July 2025.
Panelist, The Clerk’s Advantage: Leveraging Early Clerkship Experiences into Long-Term Careers, Annual Conference, Kansas Women Attorneys Association, July 2024.
Purposivist Reasoning in Federal Civil Procedure, Denver Law Review, vol. 100, no. 383, 2023 (with Lumen N. Mulligan).
Panelist, The Clerk’s Advantage: Leveraging Early Clerkship Experiences into Long-Term Careers, Annual Conference, Kansas Women Attorneys Association, July 2024.
Purposivist Reasoning in Federal Civil Procedure, Denver Law Review, vol. 100, no. 383, 2023 (with Lumen N. Mulligan).