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.
