Emily Craven Reynolds is an associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department.

Emily represents a wide range of companies and individuals in securities litigation matters, class actions, white collar criminal defense, and internal investigations.  Emily also advises clients in high stakes complex commercial litigation matters, focusing on contract disputes, business torts, consumer products, and product liability claims.

Prior to joining the firm, Emily clerked for the Honorable Sharon Johnson Coleman in the Northern District of Illinois.  Emily also worked as a securities litigation associate at a major law firm in Chicago. 

While in law school, she served as a judicial intern to the Honorable M. David Weisman in the Northern District of Illinois and worked as an intern for the Department of Justice in the Cybersecurity Unit in Washington, D.C.

Emily’s experience includes representing:

  • A risk management company in a putative class action alleging Fair Credit Reporting Act violations*
  • An executive of a startup company in a DOJ/SEC investigation*
  • An investor in an emerging enterprise, providing advice and counsel as to derivative shareholder litigation for breach of fiduciary duty claims*
  • A commodities exchange in a putative class action concerning a financial product purchased by retail investors that allegedly derived its values from future contracts traded on the exchange, resulting in the federal court granting the motion to dismiss*
  • A food ingredients company against more than 800 toxic tort lawsuit claims, two of which went to trial before resulting in a global settlement*
  • A multinational technology company in products liability actions involving third party seller issues*
  • National consumer goods companies in defending putative class action claims alleging violations of state and federal consumer protection laws and false advertising*
  • An office leasing company in landlord-tenant dispute in multiple jurisdictions, obtaining favorable outcome for client*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • Illinois

Education

  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2019
    cum laude
  • BA in Political Science & Communication Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016

Languages Spoken

  • English