Erica Jones is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, where her practice encompasses a range of business, regulatory, and corporate governance matters. She has extensive experience advising on antitrust issues involving allegations of price fixing, restraint of supply, monopolization, group boycott, bid rigging, and collusion across a wide range of industries, including sports, agriculture, and health care. In addition, Erica has worked in defense of securities class actions, derivative suits, and white collar criminal matters involving investigations by the SEC, DOJ, and state attorneys’ offices. She was one of a few women selected to be a Protégée for Proskauer’s Women Sponsorship Program, an initiative for high performing midlevel lawyers that champions emerging leaders.
Erica maintains an active, diverse pro bono practice, with a focus on immigration law, compassionate release and habeas corpus, and racial justice. She is an associate trustee with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and has been repeatedly recognized by the District of Columbia Courts’ Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll. She is also a recipient of Proskauer’s Golden Gavel Award for excellence in pro bono work.
Erica strives to stay on the cutting edge of developing areas of law through her membership in Proskauer’s Antitrust Tech Task Force, COVID-19 Task Force, ESG Working Group, and Private Credit Litigation Group. Erica’s ability to advocate for her clients is further bolstered by her recent Master’s Degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School with a concentration in Financial Reporting and Analysis.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Erica was an intern with the Department of Justice in the Constitutional and Specialized Tort Litigation Section. Outside of her career in the law, Erica has been featured on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, teaching ballroom dance to students at Lighthouse for the Blind.
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D.
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Auburn University, B.A.
Media Studies, summa cum laude
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Auburn University, B.A.
English Literature, summa cum laude
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University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School,
Master of Accounting
Admissions & Qualifications
- District of Columbia
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Memberships
Member, International Association of Young Layers (“AIJA”), Commercial Fraud Commission
Three-time Chairperson of the Washington, D.C. Summer Program
Member, Proskauer’s Women’s Alliance Steering Committee
Associate Trustee, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Protégée, Proskauer’s Women Sponsorship Program
Awards & Recognition
Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity, 35 Under 35 Award, 2023
D.C. Bar Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, Honoree, 2021
D.C. Bar Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, High Honoree, 2020
D.C. Bar Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, High Honoree, 2019
American Lawyer Runner-Up Litigator of the Week, 2024
Matters
Recent Representative Matters
- Defense of nation’s largest turkey producer in antitrust class action alleging claims of supply reduction.
- Represented web data company in successful motions to dismiss claims by Meta and X asserting breach of contract (and, for X, a panoply of tort claims) in connection with the scraping of publicly-available information.
- Represents wire manufacturer in antitrust and false advertising suit against three major copper wire competitors.
- Defense of pharmaceutical executive in multiple complaints by state attorneys general and purported classes regarding alleged pricing fixing in generic pharmaceuticals.
- Represented asset manager in SEC investigation of SPAC investments and certain reporting issues.
- Defense of individual in an SEC investigation for accounting fraud.
- Defense of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, in its own right and as debtors’ representative, in litigation related to the restructuring of the Commonwealth’s $74 billion of bond debt and $50 billion of unfunded pension obligations.