Emily Swanson

Emily was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston with a dual degree B.S. in Criminal Justice and Psychology. After undergrad, she moved to Denver where she attended University of Denver Sturm College of Law and graduated with multiple honors and in the top 12% of her class. After law school, she began working for a firm where she specialized in litigating fair housing complaints, employment law and breach of contract claims. After a highly-publicized trial that resulted in a favorable verdict, she was recruited by a high-profile firm where she litigated complex first and third-party liability and bad-faith cases from the Plaintiff’s perspective. Eventually she realized she was prone to a defense-oriented mindset, and she made the switch to defense work. Emily joined Lasater & Martin in 2016 with extensive experience litigating and defending cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, subrogation