Haley B. Banks

Haley Banks is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office.  Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.  Haley has experience in litigation, trial, and arbitration in a variety of subject matters, and she has represented private equity firms, bankers, real estate developers, consultants, entertainers, medical journals, non-profits, artists, art fabricators, and galleries in commercial disputes.  Haley has experience dealing with commercial contract and fraud disputes, restrictive covenant and non-competition issues, fiduciary obligations, first amendment disputes, business divorces, internal investigations, and disputes involving allegations of employment discrimination, wrongful termination, and retaliation.  Haley is also active in the firm’s civil and criminal pro bono practices.

Haley joined the firm in 2020 after graduating from Harvard Law School and the Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations.  During law school, Haley interned with the Federal Public Defender’s Offices in Dallas and Honolulu and with the U.S. Department of Labor.  She also served as an assistant to Professor Michael Moffit, researching the prevalence of attorney malpractice in the settlement process.