Bio

Emily Kanstroom Musgrave is an experienced trial lawyer and appellate advocate focusing on complex commercial litigation, including securities litigation, contract disputes, and government investigations, as well as public finance and bankruptcy-related litigation. As Co-Chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group, she leads clients through the appellate process, designing a successful appellate strategy, drafting briefs, and handling oral argument. She also assists clients with amicus curiae submissions, including to the U.S. Supreme Court. Emily represents clients in all stages of litigation, from pre-litigation counseling and investigation, through discovery, dispositive motion practice, trial, and appeal. Emily has significant experience representing leading life sciences, pharmaceutical, and retail companies, and their officers and directors, in securities litigation cases, including class actions, derivative actions, and SEC investigative and enforcement proceedings. Working closely with public finance colleagues, Emily also provides strategic advice to bond trustees and bondholders to protect their rights and to maximize recovery on their holdings in the face of complex litigation in state and federal courts, both at the trial and appellate levels. Emily previously served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, where she argued motions to suppress and took cases to both jury and jury-waived trial. She maintains a robust pro bono practice focused particularly on providing legal assistance to asylum seekers and survivors of domestic violence. She recently worked with a team that filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) alleging that USCIS wrongfully denied plaintiffs Special Immigrant Juvenile status, which allows certain children who have been abused, neglected or abandoned to seek lawful permanent residence in the United States. Before joining the firm, Emily served as a law clerk for the Honorable Margot Botsford of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. She also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Leo T. Sorokin, then a Magistrate Judge, of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. During law school, she was the managing editor of the International and Comparative Law Review. She also won the Wendell F. Grimes Moot Court Competition and was a member of the National Mock Trial team.