About Emerald Lucas
Emerald Lucas is a first-generation college and law school graduate from Southern California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from California State University Northridge and, after working at a Los Angeles nonprofit focused on housing the homeless, attended Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C., where she focused on the intersection of technology and law. While in law school, Emerald served two terms as a Vernon E. Jordan Jr. Fellow at an international law firm, interned at the Department of Commerce's Commercial Law Development Program, and was an ACLU of Nevada First Amendment Fellow. In her final year she served as a Dean's Fellow teaching first-year students legal writing. After graduating in 2024, Emerald completed a clerkship with Judge Joseph Hardy Jr. at the Eighth Judicial District Court in Las Vegas before joining Bighorn Law.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Bighorn Law
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A Clark County jury awarded $550 million, $50 million compensatory and $500 million punitive, to Nimfa Escobia after her husband Marcial was killed by a driver traveling 107 mph while impaired by alcohol, methamphetamine, ecstasy, and marijuana.
A Clark County jury awarded Timothy Kuhn $114 million after USAA spent years stonewalling his claim from a 2018 rear-end collision it had originally conceded was not his fault.
A Clark County jury awarded $101 million against Progressive, $1 million compensatory and $100 million punitive, after the insurer delayed paying Hal Goldblatt's medical bills for months following a 2022 crosswalk collision that caused a traumatic brain injury.
In 2021, Omar Alrabadi was beaten unconscious by two men after a dispute that began inside Chayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar and spilled onto the LINQ Promenade in Las Vegas. A Clark County jury found Caesars Entertainment and Three Amigos Restaurant Group each 50 percent responsible for security failures and awarded $56.5 million on August 7, 2026. The award was $15 million in past damages and $41.5 million in future damages. The jury assigned no fault to Alrabadi.
A Clark County jury returned a $2.96 million verdict for a mother and her four children whose minivan was struck by a driver who had consumed alcohol and cannabis before traveling nearly 70 mph and crossing a median.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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