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Layla Husen

Layla Husen

Associate

St. Louis
314 552 6004 314 552 6004 direct


  • OVERVIEW
  • INSIGHTS

PRACTICES

  • Education

    • Saint Louis University School of Law,

      J.D., magna cum laude, 2021

      , Order of the Woolsack Honor Society

    • Saint Louis University,

      B.A., English and Legal Studies, magna cum laude, 2018

  • Admissions

    • Missouri

    • Illinois

  • Affiliations

    • The Theodore McMillian American Inn of Court

    • Women's White Collar Defense Association

    • American Bar Association

    • Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

  • Recognitions

    • Saint Louis University School of Law 1843 Scholar

    • Academic Excellence Award for Seminar: White Collar Crime

    • Academic Excellence Award for Evidence

    • Academic Excellence Award for Civil Practice

    • Academic Excellence Award for Torts

    • Saint Louis University Law Journal

      Note & Comment Editor, 2020-2021

      Staff Editor, 2019-2020

    • Helen Mandeville Prize in English Studies

  • Employment

    • Thompson Coburn LLP;

      Associate, 2021-Present

      Summer Associate, 2019; 2020

    • U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Mo.

      Extern, Spring 2020

    • Hacking Law Practice, LLC

      Law Clerk, 2019-2021

      Legal Intern, 2017-2019

  • Community

    • Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas

      Make-A-Wish Heroes Campaign Member

Layla assists clients with a wide variety of business litigation matters.

She performs legal research, drafts and reviews pleadings and other documents, supports case management, and assists with client communications. She serves clients at various stages of the litigation process and has supported litigation teams representing hospitals and government contractors in False Claims Act lawsuits.

During law school, Layla was an extern in the white-collar crime department with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri. Layla received top grades in trial advocacy, evidence, and her seminar paper on qui tam litigation. She also served as Note and Comment Editor for the Saint Louis University Law Journal.