Rachel Frank

Rachel Frank is an associate in Quinn Emanuel's Washington, D.C. office.  Her practice focuses on complex legal issues at all stages of litigation, with particular emphasis on appellate and Supreme Court matters.  She has significant experience in high-stakes constitutional litigation, regulatory disputes, and white-collar criminal investigations.

Rachel has served as counsel in merits cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, most recently in the October Term 2024 cases Glossip v. Oklahoma and Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton.  She has argued constitutional issues in federal district court, defended her clients’ rights against encroachment by government regulators, and briefed cases across the United States Courts of Appeals.  Her clients include major technology companies, prominent business leaders, and leading nonprofit organizations and universities.  Rachel has helped secure the reversal of multi-million dollar trial verdicts, defended settlements totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, and secured dismissal of criminal charges.  Rachel also has experience serving as counsel to individuals called to testify before the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

Rachel maintains an active pro bono practice focused on constitutional law, including matters involving the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Article V, and the collateral order doctrine.  She successfully secured compassionate release for a rehabilitated client serving a life sentence and helped secure recognition of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Before joining the firm, Rachel served as a law clerk to Judge Diana Gribbon Motz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  She received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Middlebury College.