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Profile
Emily Mankowski is an experienced litigation associate who defends clients in a range of high-profile pharmaceutical, products liability, and other complex litigations. Her practice involves matters in both state and federal courts, including multidistrict federal and consolidated state court actions, and various federal and state civil investigations.
Emily has experience in each phase of litigation, including conducting initial investigations, drafting written discovery, navigating discovery conferences, briefing dispositive motions, taking and defending significant depositions, assisting with expert discovery, negotiating mediations and settlements, and preparing for trial. She demonstrates proficiency and leadership with fact discovery and eDiscovery efforts, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of critical legal and factual issues for effective strategy formulation.
Emily maintains an active pro bonopractice, most recently preparing asylum applications for Venezuelan immigrants and renewal requests for DACA recipients.
Concentrations
- Products liability and mass torts
- Pharmaceutical litigation
- Government investigations
- Multidistrict litigation
- eDiscovery
Capabilities
Experience
- Mediator, Notre Dame Law School’s Applied Mediation Clinic, 2019
- Judicial Extern, Hon. John Robert Blakey, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2017
Recognition & Leadership
- Member, Chicago Bar Association, 2019-Present
- Member, Federal Bar Association
Credentials
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J.D., cum laude, Notre Dame Law School
- Articles Editor, Notre Dame Law Review
- Dean’s List
- Recipient, Dean’s Academic Excellence Award in Legal Writing
- Student Ambassador, Notre Dame Law School Admissions Office
- B.A., Political Science and Human Rights, with honors, Southern Methodist University
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois