Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers
Portrait of a Quinn Emanuel Associate
A lot can be said about the person to whom so much of our success is attributable: the Quinn Emanuel Associate. The chances are good that she graduated from a West Coast law school, such as Stanford, Boalt or UCLA, but twice as good that she came from an East Coast law school, such as Harvard, Yale or Columbia. Of course, she might also have attended a Midwestern law school, such as Michigan or Chicago. There is well over an eighty percent chance the Associate graduated from law school with honors, a seventy-three percent chance that the Associate was a law review member and a twenty percent chance that the Associate clerked for a federal judge following law school.
It is likely that our Associate was born in California, but four times more likely that the Associate was born elsewhere — and not necessarily in the United States. Other possibilities include Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong and India (forming a “Commonwealth Law Department”), as well as Taiwan, Germany, the Philippines, South Korea and the former Soviet Union.
Given that background, it is not surprising that the Quinn Emanuel Associate speaks fluent English — as well as French, Spanish, German, Italian, Armenian, Russian, Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Latvian and Hebrew.
The Quinn Emanuel Associate gained some “real world” experience before attending law school by working as a mechanical engineer, serving as a Congressional legislative assistant, serving in the United States Navy as a navigation officer and as a Navy frog man and serving in the Air Force as an intercontinental ballistic missile launch officer. (Fortunately, the last job never required that the Associate exercise his skill.)
The Quinn Emanuel Associate is also resourceful, having supported a writing career through winning appearances on television game shows, learning to “card count” at blackjack and writing a book revealing that the experience of attending law school need not be unmitigated drudgery.
The Quinn Emanuel Associate also combines considerable brawn and grace with brains, having played basketball with NBA players and played music professionally.
The Quinn Emanuel Associate’s legal acumen has not been developed at the expense of cultural interests, having studied violin in Japan (the “Suzuki” method), played bass for a heavy metal band, and earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama. The Quinn Emanuel Associate also has a wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, with an MBA degree from Stanford and a degree in Soviet economics from the Plakhanov Institute of Economics in Moscow.
And last, but certainly not least, the Quinn Emanuel Associate has made the firm a litigation powerhouse and a fun place to work.
