Emily Lu Wang represents clients in complex commercial litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, she clerked for Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. During law school, she served as a summer clerk at the Antitrust Law Section of the California Department of Justice Attorney General’s Office.
Emily earned her law degree from Yale Law School, where she served as Submissions Editor for the Yale Journal of Law and Technology and as Student Director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic. In that role, she represented journalists and government whistleblowers in FOIA litigation and drafted appellate briefs and amicus filings in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Before law school, Emily was a Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineer at Palantir Technologies, an editorial assistant at Harper’s Magazine, and a software engineering intern at Google. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Harvard University and is a named co-inventor on a software patent.