With over 15 years of experience in high stakes commercial litigation, Erica focuses her practice primarily on the defense of consumer class actions. Erica has successfully managed and defended large scale class actions in federal and state jurisdictions across the country, ranging from claims involving consumer protection and privacy, products liability, health care, and discrimination. Drawing on her extensive experience defending both publicly traded and private companies in numerous “bet the company" cases, Erica has gained a steadfast track-record of securing dismissals, defeating class certification, obtaining summary judgment, and negotiating highly favorable class settlements for her clients. Erica is also intimately familiar with strategies for litigating complex class actions in an efficient and economical manner, ensuring that clients benefit from both cost-effective and high quality representation. In addition, Erica proactively advises clients on long term risk mitigation strategies and works with companies to minimize future class action exposure.
Erica regularly presents and publishes on key issues impacting the defense of consumer class actions, including as to consumer standing, defect manifestation, ascertainability, and successive class action litigation. In addition, she serves as a co-chair of a subcommittee to the American Bar Association’s Mass Torts Committee and previously served on the executive editorial board of the Florida Bar Journal.
Erica earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University and her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif and was a member of the University of Miami Law Review.