About Beatrice
Beatrice Franklin trained at two of the country's most prominent schools. She earned her B.A. in philosophy from Harvard University in 2011, then completed her J.D. at Columbia Law School in 2014. After law school she gained admission to the New York State Bar in 2015, and she has maintained that membership since.
Her early career mixed firm practice and a series of federal clerkships. She began as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in 2014. Beginning in 2015 she moved into the federal clerkship track. She clerked for Judge Jesse Furman at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2015. The following year she served as a law clerk to Judge Susan Carney on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2017 she was a law clerk to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court of the United States. After those clerkships she joined Susman Godfrey LLP as an associate in 2018.
The sequence of district, appellate and Supreme Court clerkships shaped a practice grounded in federal procedure and appellate advocacy. Those roles exposed her to complex briefing, oral argument preparation and the mechanics of decisionwriting at multiple levels of the federal system. On firm matters she has worked on litigation strategies that require coordination of discovery, motion practice and pretrial preparation.
Franklin's courtroom experience and clerkship background inform her approach to appellate and federal litigation. She brings an understanding of how judges at different levels analyze legal issues and craft opinions. That perspective can change how a case is briefed and how trial records are developed for appeal. Her work spans procedural and substantive issues typical in complex civil disputes handled in federal courts.
Since 2018 she has practiced at Susman Godfrey LLP in New York. There she handles litigation matters that involve layered procedural postures and contested factual records. Colleagues describe her as methodical in preparing records and focused in developing appellate arguments. She is active in the New York legal community through her bar membership and continues to draw on her clerkship experience when preparing filings and oral advocacy.
She focuses on complex civil litigation at Susman Godfrey LLP.
