Adelyn Curran is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Atlanta and New York offices. Her practice focuses on criminal defense, government investigations, and complex commercial litigation. She first joined the firm in 2022. Following a clerkship on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, she re-joined the firm in 2024. Adelyn is a graduate of Amherst College and Duke Law School.
- Duke University School of Law
(J.D., cum laude, 2022) - Amherst College
(B.A., American Studies, cum laude, 2017)
- The State Bar of Georgia
- The State Bar of New York (pending)
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Victoria Marie Calvert
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2023 – 2024
Austin Sarat, Robert Kermes, Haley Cambra, Adelyn Curran, Margaret Kiley, and Keshav Pant, The Rhetoric of Abolition: Continuity and Change in the Struggle Against America's Death Penalty, 1900-2010, 107 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 757 (2017).