Emma Elizabeth (Bessie) Daschbach is a graduate of Duke University (B.A. 1998), Tulane Law School (J.D. 2001), and Columbia Law School (L.L.M. 2006). Bessie graduated from Duke magna cum laude. She was then a McGlinchey Scholar at Tulane and graduated from there magna cum laude, Order of the Coif and as the recipient of the Civil Law Studies Award. Bessie received a Master of Laws degree in International Law from Columbia where she graduated from Columbia’s Parker School of International Law and as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Bessie began her legal career in 2001 as a member of the Louisiana bar and a litigator at the New Orleans law firm of Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein and Hilbert, L.L.C. Bessie’s Louisiana practice focused on prosecuting construction defect claims in state and Federal trial and appellate courts on behalf of commercial property owners. She has lectured extensively on construction law matters, including causes of action, damages, insurance coverage evaluation, causation, use of experts, alternative dispute resolution and case management.

Bessie has served as a Junior Honorary Member of the Louisiana Law Institute, the committee charged by the Louisiana legislature with recommending revisions to Louisiana legislation and the Louisiana Civil Code. She is also a member of the American Bar Association International Practice Section, and, immediately before joining Siller Wilk, interned for the United Nations Legal Affairs office in New York and the International Labor Organization office in Bangkok, Thailand. Bessie also assisted in the compilation of course materials on implied warranties in the sale of goods under the Uniform Commercial Code, the Louisiana Civil Code and the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods to be taught at Tulane’s summer program at Queen Mary School of Law Centre for Commercial Law Studies in 2006.

Bessie is Vice-President of, and a cooperating attorney for, the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana. She has also assisted in an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League, litigation brought by the International Labor Rights Fund, and projects with the Open Society Justice Initiative.

Bessie has a working knowledge of Spanish.