Background
Emily Taylor prides herself on providing attentive, aggressive criminal defense for clients in all areas of self-defense and firearms law. She believes the best defense requires an intimate understanding of the law, and as one of the nation’s leading legal voices on the Second Amendment, she provides that educated, excellent defense. Emily has been a frequent lecturer and instructor to both law enforcement officials and civilians on firearms-carry laws and the use of force and deadly force, she is a frequent contributor to local and national news stations on issues of firearms law, and has been cited as an authority on firearms law in national publications. From a self-defense murder accusation to the lowest levels of self-defense misdemeanor, Emily fights tirelessly for her clients’ rights and freedoms. Emily also works as a lobbyist for gun rights in Texas, advocating tirelessly in Austin to strengthen our gun laws and repel the anti-gun lobbies.
Emily received her J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee in 2012. Prior to law school, she earned bachelor of arts degrees in both Anthropology and Psychology from Vanderbilt University. A native Texan, Emily returned from Tennessee to be sworn in as an Assistant District Attorney for Galveston County, Texas. As an Assistant District Attorney she took a broad range of felony and misdemeanor cases to trial in front of judges and juries, and was responsible for grand jury presentations, motions and hearings, and plea negotiations. She became a firearms and self-defense lawyer in 2014 and has focused her practice in this area ever since.
