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Emma K.
Moppert

Position
Special Counsel
Office
New Orleans

Emma Moppert is special counsel in the Litigation Practice Group and a member of the environmental litigation team, where she represents clients in complex litigation involving general liability, toxic torts, environmental exposures, and workers’ compensation.


Emma’s practice focuses on insurance defense litigation, including general liability, toxic torts, and workers’ compensation matters. She represents insurers, employers, and corporate clients in complex disputes across state and federal courts, as well as workers’ compensation tribunals.

Emma has experience handling all phases of litigation, from early case evaluation through trial and resolution, including representing clients in insurance defense, general liability, workers’ compensation, and toxic tort matters. She has successfully tried and won a seven-day workers’ compensation bench trial and regularly drafts and argues motions and exceptions. Her practice includes conducting and defending depositions of plaintiffs, corporate representatives, fact witnesses, and experts, including in matters involving alleged chemical and benzene exposures, and guiding clients through private and court-ordered mediations.

Emma earned her juris doctor from Tulane University Law School and a certificate in civil law. While in law school, she distinguished herself as a skilled oral advocate, earning multiple first-place finishes in moot court competitions both regionally and nationally, recognition as Best Oral Advocate, and induction into the Order of the Barristers.

Presentations

  • "Playing Solid Defense: The Fundamentals of Workers' Compensation Claim Handling," Louisiana Assoc. of Self Insured Employers, Spring Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 3, 2026
New Orleans
Suite 5100
201 St. Charles Ave
New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
D: 504.582.8623
F: 504.589.8623
Emailemoppert@joneswalker.com

Education

  • Tulane University Law School
    JD and Civil Law Certificate, 2018
    CALI Award for Trial Advocacy; Dean’s Honor Scholarship; 1st Place — Tulane Intraschool Competition 2018; Best Oral Advocate — JRB Competition 2018; 1st Place — SWR FDMCC Competition 2018; Cicero C. Sessions Scholarship and Trial Award; James A. Wysocki Trial Advocacy Award; Order of the Barristers
  • George Mason University
    BA, English, magna cum laude, 2014
    English Honors; Dean’s List; Four-Year Academic Scholarship

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana

Court Admissions

  • US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
  • US District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
  • US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

Related Practices

  • Environmental Enforcement & Litigation
  • Litigation
  • Bankruptcy & Restructuring
  • Real Estate
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