Biography
Emily Kapur is co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Silicon Valley office and co-head of artificial intelligence, where she leads the firm’s adoption of AI across a global litigation practice — evaluating and deploying tools, setting standards for their use, training lawyers to work with them, and integrating AI into the business of law.
She is also a full-time trial lawyer. Emily is lead counsel in high-stakes financial, securities, shareholder, and corporate disputes, co-chair of the firm’s crypto and fintech practice, and a regular strategic counselor to boards and executives facing bet-the-company problems. Much of her work sits where new technology meets financial markets, and presiding judges have described her handling of the “novel challenges” of emerging technology as “extraordinary” and demonstrating “creativity and sophistication.
Emily holds a Ph.D. in financial economics. She received her B.A., Ph.D., and J.D. from Stanford University and her M.Sc. from the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar.
