Emily Westridge Black

Practice Areas

Emily is Managing Partner of Austin and Established Industries Sector Lead.

She focuses on the representation of companies and high-profile individuals in class actions, internal investigations, product liability litigation, global compliance and anticorruption matters, cybersecurity matters and other complex commercial litigation. Emily has secured major victories for clients, including walk-away, voluntary dismissals in a price-gouging class action against a prominent grocer and a breach of fiduciary duty suit against a hedge fund and its principals.

She recently obtained an early, favorable settlement of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action, as well as multi-million dollar judgments for a specialty retailer in two suits related to a security compromise of its payment card network. She has also been active in various investigations related to fraud and corruption, product safety concerns and executive malfeasance. Most recently, Emily has led investigations into alleged FCPA and UK Bribery Act violations by employees and agents of publicly traded transportation, manufacturing and software companies. She also represented an oil and gas services company in connection with a criminal investigation of alleged FCPA violations.

Prior to joining private practice, Emily served as a law clerk for the Honorable W. Osmond Smith III in the Superior Court of North Carolina.

Emily is a member of the A&O Shearman Women Council, a member of the Women Partners Committee, and a member of the D&I Leadership Committee.