Emily R. Schulman built a nationally recognized practice in white collar defense and government investigations with extensive trial and appellate experience in matters involving healthcare fraud, economic and securities violations and other enforcement issues before retiring from WilmerHale in 2022. She briefed and argued dozens of appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals and tried more than 20 jury trials in federal district courts. Her practice included internal investigations, criminal litigation, government enforcement actions and federal and state grand jury investigations, and she advised companies, boards and individuals facing allegations of healthcare fraud, false claims, economic misconduct and regulatory violations. Prior to entering private practice, she served for more than a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in Massachusetts, where she investigated and prosecuted economic and white collar fraud, money laundering, tax violations and public corruption.

Ms. Schulman was deeply engaged in professional and academic communities. She served as co‑chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Health Law Section, sat on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and was a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School since 2010. Her academic work included teaching US criminal law and procedure as a Visiting Professor at Srednerusskiy University in Russia and criminal law, criminal procedure and white collar crime as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Villanova University School of Law. She conducted national and international trainings on criminal enforcement and developments in healthcare and securities law, and she served on both the First Circuit Criminal Justice Act Screening Committee and the US District Court Criminal Justice Act Panel.