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Erika M. Anderson

Erika M. Anderson
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Ms. Anderson has participated in all phases of the litigation process, including trying several cases to verdict.  She has served as part of the trial team of a $100 million trial that was the longest trial (15 weeks) in St. Louis County history and that resulted in a successful verdict for the firm’s client.  She was second chair trial counsel in a white collar criminal defense trial in the District of Nebraska.  Ms. Anderson has experience in litigating preliminary injunctions and in all aspects of motion practice and discovery.  She has drafted appellate briefs and has argued cases at the Illinois Court of Appeals.  Ms. Anderson has experience representing one of the nation’s largest oil refineries in both civil and environmental litigation.  Ms. Anderson has extensive experience in defending employers in both courts of law and before federal and state agencies.  She also has experience representing clients in investigations of suspected criminal conduct and in defending criminal cases.

Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Ms. Anderson served as the law clerk to the Honorable Karen E. Schreier of the United States District Court, District of South Dakota and as an associate in the litigation department at Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale P.C. in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was worked on cases involving trademark infringement, the first amendment, white collar crime and other commercial disputes.

Education

  • Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, J.D. 2002, magna cum laude
    • Hamline Law Review (2001-2002), primary editor
    • Note, A Man Without a Country: When the Inability to Deport Becomes a Life Sentence, 24 Hamline Law Review 372, 390 (Summer 2001)
  • Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakoa, B.A. 1999, magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • Missouri
  • Illinois
  • Minnesota
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

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