Emily Maxim Lamm is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  Ms. Lamm’s practice focuses on employment litigation, counseling, and investigations.  Ms. Lamm has particular expertise counseling on the legal and policy developments surrounding artificial intelligence and automation across the employment lifecycle.  She has also represented technology companies involving allegations of discrimination related to the use of algorithms and AI.  Ms. Lamm frequently speaks and writes on AI issues in employment and holds a program certificate from Wharton Online in Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making.

Ms. Lamm was selected as a member of Law360’s 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Editorial Advisory Board.  She Co-Chairs the LGBTQ+ Subcommittee and Women’s Subcommittee of the Washington, D.C. office, is an Associate Trustee for the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and is a Co-Chair of the Associates Committee of the D.C. Chapter of the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law.  Ms. Lamm maintains an active pro bono practice focused on LGBTQ+ issues.

Ms. Lamm graduated Order of the Coif from Vanderbilt Law School in 2019, where she served as the Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.  During law school, she was awarded the Lightfoot, Franklin & White Award for Best Appellate Brief, received the Scholastic Excellence Award in Employment Discrimination Law, and won the LGBT Bar Association’s Michael Greenberg Writing Competition.  In 2016, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude, in Biology from Denison University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year.  Ms. Lamm was awarded the Denison University President’s Medal and the James T. Glerum Jr. Presidential Top Student Athlete Award as a member of the Cross Country and Track and Field teams.

Ms. Lamm is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

Selected Speaking Engagements and Publications

• Instructor, LawPracticeCLE, Artificial Intelligence in Employment: Key Legal Considerations and Risks(December 16, 2022).
• Instructor, LawPracticeCLE, Employment in the Metaverse: Legal Considerations of a Virtual Reality Workplace (November 22, 2022).
• Panelist, Continuing Education of the Bar, Artificial Intelligence and Employment: Legal Risks and Considerations (October 11, 2022) (co-presented with Megan Cooney).
• Panelist, Strafford Webinar, Employment Law in the Metaverse: Harassment, Discrimination, Accommodations, Jurisdiction, Privacy, Cyber Security, Digital Outsourcing (September 29, 2022).
• Co-presenter at CLE class titled “Legal Risks: AI and Automated Systems” (April 21, 2022) with H. Mark Lyon and Danielle Moss.
• Panelist, Strafford Webinar, Use of AI In Employment Decisions: Legal Concerns in Hiring, Performance Management, and Termination (December 15, 2021).
• Panelist, Webinar, Human Resources Concerns During COVID-19(June 17, 2020).
• “10 Evolving AI Compliance Considerations For Employers,” Law360 (Mar. 1, 2023) (co-authored with Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter).
• “Medley Of State AI Laws Pose Employer Compliance Hurdles,” Law360 (Mar. 30, 2022) (co-authored with Danielle Moss and Harris Mufson).
• “The Aid Gap,” 69 Journal of Legal Education123 (2020) (co-authored with Vanderbilt Law Dean Chris Guthrie).
• “Flexibly Fluid & Immutably Innate: Perception, Identity, and the Role of Choice in Race,” 26 William & Mary Journal of Women & Law 525 (2020).
• “Bye, Bye, Binary: Updating Birth Certificates to Transcend the Binary of Sex,” 28 Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality1 (2019).