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EP Forensics LLC

EP Forensics bridges the gap between law and science. Founded by nationally recognized trial lawyer and forensic expert Emily Prokesch, the practice provides legal teams with the specialized knowledge and strategic insight needed to challenge unreliable science, address the misuse of surveillance, and achieve just outcomes in the criminal legal system.

For more than a decade, Emily has worked at the intersection of courtroom advocacy and forensic science—representing clients in complex, high-stakes criminal cases while building deep expertise in forensic disciplines and rapidly evolving technologies that increasingly shape prosecutions. She recognized that effectively litigating forensic evidence requires a level of focus, specialization, and ongoing engagement with scientific developments that cannot be outsourced entirely to experts and is difficult to sustain while representing clients full-time.

EP Forensics was established in January 2025 to fill this gap. The practice delivers the highest level of forensic expertise in the form that best serves the case—expert consulting, behind-the-scenes litigation support, resource counsel, or co-counsel. EP Forensics also trains attorneys and officers, designs forensic units, and contributes to policy and standards development nationwide.

Mission

EP Forensics supports criminal defense teams by providing strategic, scientific, and legal expertise to challenge unreliable forensic evidence and surveillance technologies, while also leveraging sound science to strengthen defense strategies. With more than a decade of trial experience and forensic specialization, the practice bridges the gap between science and law in a way that is accessible to attorneys, their clients, judges, and juries. Whether serving as a behind-the-scenes expert or as co-counsel in criminal litigation, EP Forensics draws on cutting-edge science, litigation strategy, and policy reform to deliver current, reliable knowledge and approaches that empower zealous advocacy and promote just outcomes.

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Emily Prokesch

Founder, EP Forensics LLC

Emily Prokesch is a trial lawyer, forensic consultant, and legal strategist with over a decade of experience representing clients facing the most serious criminal charges and litigating cutting-edge issues in forensics. She is nationally recognized for her work challenging unreliable forensic disciplines—most notably firearms and other pattern-matching evidence—and for her leadership in building defense capacity to address complex scientific and technological evidence.

Before founding EP Forensics, Emily served as Forensic Practice Director at The Bronx Defenders, First Chair Trial Attorney at the Georgia Capital Defender’s Office, and Team Leader of the Discovery and Forensic Support Unit at the New York State Defender Association. In these roles, she represented clients facing charges from misdemeanors to homicides and capital cases, developed litigation strategies, supervised and trained attorneys, and led challenges to flawed forensic methods and over broad surveillance.

Emily also serves as Chair of the Legal Task Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) and is on the Standards Review Panel for the Forensic Science Standards Board. She teaches Forensic Evidence at Columbia Law School. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national conferences, and she is a frequent lecturer on forensic evidence and its role in litigation.

In 2019–2020, Emily was lead counsel in the landmark Frye litigation People v. Ross/A.M., the first admissibility hearing in New York State courts on firearms and toolmark comparison. The court excluded all evidence except a comparison of class characteristics, finding that other aspects of the discipline were not generally accepted as reliable by the relevant scientific community.

Emily holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she graduated cum laude and received the Archie A. Gorfinkel Award for excellence in criminal law. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, studying Race and Class in U.S. History, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention. She is admitted to practice in Georgia and New York in both State and Federal court.

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