Shannon Prince is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Houston office. She joined the firm in 2023. Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation and Native American law. She has broad-based experience representing individuals, corporations, and tribal nations as both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts including helping to lead a tribal nation’s landmark case against corporations in the opioid industry, resulting in a large, nine-figure settlement. She is also a television legal commentator. Prior to joining the firm, Shannon worked as an associate at a prominent international law firm in New York.
- Yale Law School
(J.D., 2017) - Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
(AM, English, 2014)
(PhD, African and African American Studies, 2018) - Dartmouth College
(A.B., magna cum laude, 2009)
- The State Bar of Texas
- The State Bar of New York
- French
- Spanish
- American Sign Language
- Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics Distinguished Fellow
- American Council On Germany Young Leaders Conference Delegate
- Leadership Council for Legal Diversity Pathfinder
- A Good and Virtuous Nature May Recoil: On Consorting with Evil to Do Good
- Anti-racism Needs #Itoo
- Black Chinese Relations: The Story of my Family, One of the Oldest Chinese Families in Texas
- Black Death
- Conflict of Perspectives
- Despite intentions, Biden's Supreme Court promise is deeply misguided
- Editing Nature: Local Roots of Global Governance
- Embracing Indigenous Excellence for Native American Heritage Month
- Green is the New Black: African American Literature Informing Environmental Justice Law
- Green is the New Black: The Intersections of Ecocritical Readings of African American Texts and Environmental Justice Law
- Human Zoos, Conservation Refugees, and the Houston Zoo’s The African Forest
- Marxism is the new false flag to plant upon critical race theory
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Descendant’s Perspective
- Moves to silence critical race theory have only amplified its virtues
- Nine Minutes, Twenty-nine Seconds, Centuries: A Testimony on The Time It Took to Kill George Floyd
- Once You Go Black: White minds, black bodies, and the twisted 160-year-old history of The Upside
- The Place beneath Falling Stars
- Power is Created Not Conferred
- Principles of Effective Leadership
- Principles of Procedurally Just Policing
- President Trump Wanted to Defund the Police… Until Doing So Became Associated with Saving Black Lives
- Reckoning with the Past as an Antiracist Physician Leader
- “Seeking to be Whole" in I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell their Life Stories
- “Seeking to be Whole” in Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories
- Speaker, “Tactics for Racial Justice: Building an Antiracist Organization and Community” at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
- Tactics for Racial Justice: Building an Antiracist Organization and Community
- The Standing Rock Protests Were About More than Water
- The Princess and the Frog and the Critical Gaze
- The comedy and tragedy of Derek Chauvin's probation request
- The Written River
- The King and Us
- Tamir Rice and Marissa Alexander deserved the Rittenhouse treatment
- Wolves in Wellness Clothing
- "We're Imitating the Enemy" in Native American Voices, 3rd Edition