Prior to joining the firm, Eric was a litigation partner in the Palo Alto, California office of an international law firm where he concentrated his practice on complex litigation technology companies' business-critical machine learning systems. Previously, Eric was a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice at a global white-shoe law firm where he concentrated his practice on complex litigation and intellectual property matters.

Eric maintains an active pro bono practice and has represented clients in high-profile voter suppression matters, as well as in a successful class action that brought relief to victims of the Trump administration's travel ban that disproportionately affected Muslim families. His flagship pro bono project is establishing the public domain status of the works of Ahmad Shamlou, the most prominent post in Persian of the twentieth century, allowing for the publication of a comprehensive collection of his works in English.

While attending University of Michigan Law School, Eric was Contributing Editor for the Michigan Law Review and Executive Note Editor for the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review.

Before he went to law school, Eric was associate director of instructional technology at Denison University, where he lived through the dot-com boom as Denison's Digital Millennium Copyright Act agent. In that role, he also enforced and redrafted the university's Acceptable Use Policy for Network Resources during the Napster era.

Eric speaks Arabic and French and has some skill in Persian and Turkish.