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Emma L. Short

Associate

Emma Short is an associate in the Firm's Houston office and a member of the Logistics, Energy and Manufacturing Litigation Group.

Professional Biography


Emma Short represents clients across a variety of industries in litigation matters involving breach of contract, consumer products and products liability, oil and gas, shipping and distribution, and intellectual property. She has experience managing various aspects of pretrial practice with an emphasis on case development, drafting pleadings, discovery requests and responses, researching and drafting dispositive motions, and third-party discovery. Ms. Short practices in federal and state courts in Texas.

After law school, Ms. Short served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Zachary J. Hawthorn of the Eastern District of Texas, where she drafted orders, memorandums, and reports and recommendations regarding constitutional and/or federal law violations.

  • Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Commercial Litigation (2025)
  • Member – Houston Young Lawyers Association

Education

  • South Texas College of Law, J.D., 2018, magna cum laude
    • Note and Comment Editor – South Texas Law Review
  • University of Texas at Austin, B.S., 2014

Admissions

  • Texas, 2018
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas

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