Senior Associate
Boston
Emma Frank represents life sciences clients in patent litigations and other intellectual property disputes before federal district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and federal appellate courts. She uses her training as a scientist not only to dig into clients' technologies, but to approach problems and develop solutions to protect clients' innovations and defend against assertions of competitors' intellectual property.
Emma has represented clients across a variety of technologies, including RNA single cell sequencing, small molecule pharmaceuticals, biologics, laboratory equipment, CAR T cell therapies, agricultural chemical products, and medical devices.
As a litigator, Emma plays a key role in developing case strategy from the outset of matters and implementing that strategy all the way through to trial. She works to make legally and technologically complicated issues understandable both for her clients and the judges and juries hearing her cases. Emma also regularly handles day-to-day case management, with experience overseeing fact and expert discovery, drafting procedural and dispositive motions as a lead drafter, and successfully arguing those motions in court. At trial, she has prepared both fact and expert witnesses for direct and cross examination, and handled bench memorandum and trial motions.
Emma also proudly maintains a robust pro bono practice and has previously represented clients in family law matters through the Women's Bar Foundation, unemployment assistance appeals through the Volunteer Lawyers Project, immigration and disability litigation as co-counsel with the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, and veteran affairs appeals through the Veterans Consortium. She has also worked with the Innocence Project on amici briefs in criminal cases involving genotyping software evidence.