Emma K. Burton

Emma Burton is a partner in Crowell & Moring's DC office and a member of the firm's Antitrust & Competition and Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation groups. Emma's primary practice involves assisting clients to achieve affirmative recovery through litigation, negotiation, and the pursuit of claims in large antitrust and tort settlements. Emma has helped Fortune 500 clients recover more than $3 billion in recent years, transforming in-house legal departments from cost centers into profit centers. Emma is experienced in the process by which class action settlements are administered and distributed and in effectively resolving disputes over allowable purchases, sufficiency of data, and jurisdictional issues. She has a proven track record of recovering funds that translate directly to her clients’ bottom lines.

Emma graduated from Brown University in 1994 and earned her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1997. While in law school, she was a member of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Emma originally joined Crowell in 1997 and returned to the firm in 2012 after an extended leave to focus on her family.