Thompson Hine LLP

Business Litigation

Eric is a partner in the firm’s Business Litigation practice group and leads the firm’s extensive and multidisciplinary Tobacco Alternatives & Nicotine Products Industry practice. He started with Thompson Hine as a summer associate over 18 years ago and has spent all but two years of his career at the firm.

Eric is an accomplished trial and appellate litigator with extensive experience advising clients and litigating disputes related to actions by government agencies under the Administrative Procedure Act and state law equivalents. His litigation experience encompasses a broad range of matters, including constitutional challenges to state legislation and administrative actions, contract disputes, business torts, employment and non-compete matters, qui tam claims, unfair competition, unfair trade practices and consumer protection claims, insurance claims, and trademark, copyright, trade secret, and patent litigation. He has extensive experience trying claims in jury and bench trials in federal and state courts around the country, as well as in private arbitrations, and has briefed and argued appeals before the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, D.C., and Federal Circuits. Eric has conducted jury trials and arbitrations on fraud claims; breach of contract claims, including those arising out of breaches of noncompetition and confidentiality agreements; veil-piercing claims; claims regarding the fiduciary obligations of current and former employees and agents; warranty claims; and age and race discrimination claims.

As the leader of the firm’s Tobacco Alternatives & Nicotine Products practice, Eric advises clients on FDA and state regulatory compliance and enforcement issues, contractual and transactional matters, and intellectual property issues and represents clients with respect to subpoenas and civil investigative demands from state attorneys general or which are the subjects of state or federal investigations. Eric is lead counsel for the respondents in FDA v. Wages & White Lion Investments, LLC, which is currently pending before the Supreme Court of the United States.

The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2006, with high honors; Order of the Coif; managing editor, The George Washington International Law Review Marquette University, B.A., 2003, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa