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Eric S. Johnson is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Washington, D.C. office.
As a member of the Trial Department, Eric focuses his practice on complex commercial disputes, intellectual property, and tax controversies. His litigation experience encompasses all aspects of trial. In 2006, he second-chaired a death penalty trial before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He also has argued several substantive motions, conducted multiple direct and cross-examinations, as well as taken and defended depositions.
Eric is an accomplished writer who has authored numerous dispositive motions and briefs. He filed an amicus brief in Lawson v. Maryland, a case in Maryland's highest court involving the admissibility of statements made to social workers by child victims of sexual abuse. Eric also has significant experience in managing discovery, conducting settlement negotiations and client counseling, as well as assisting clients with internal investigations.
After graduating law school, Eric clerked for Chief Judge A. Joe Fish of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Recently, Eric served as a member of the adjunct faculty at American University, Washington College of Law where he taught legal writing and rhetoric for two years.
During law school, Eric was an articles editor for the American University Law Review where he published a case note focusing on the Supreme Court's Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence entitled "Unsheathing Alexander's Sword: Lapides v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia" 51 Am. U.L. Rev. 1051 (2002). Before law school, Eric lived and worked abroad.
Eric is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, as well as the bars of the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Texas, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Education:
American University-Washington College of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2002
University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1995 | 