Neil C. Erickson

Neil Erickson is a trial lawyer with extensive trial, arbitration and mediation experience in a variety of areas. A significant amount of Neil's practice is in trust and estates litigation. Neil also has significant experience with all types of creditor rights, enforcing loan defaults, including receiverships and provisional remedies. His practice emphasizes general business and commercial litigation, which in addition to trust and estates litigation includes matters involving banks, hotels and other real estate, complex financial fraud, construction, intellectual property, probate litigation, corporate and partnership dissolution, financial institutions, securities and entertainment.

Neil has extensive experience representing lenders in all facets of lender litigation, including workout enforcement and foreclosure strategies, borrower fraud, enforcement of secured claims and guaranties, judicial and commercial foreclosures, bankruptcy litigation, lender liability defense and insurance claims. Neil has also litigated cases for talent involving contract and royalty disputes and has litigated automotive claims. 

Clients appreciate Neil’s sound judgment and ability to adapt his approach from case to case as to obtain the right and best results.

Neil is also co-general counsel for the Firm.

• Tried numerous cases to verdict or settlement in Trusts & Estates litigation.
• Tried numerous cases to verdict or settlement in Banking, Real Estate and Bankruptcy matters.
• Successfully prevailed in several trial with motions for judgment.
• Experienced in implementing strategic litigation procedures, including bifurcation, phased trials, summary judgment/adjudication and arbitration or mediation.
• Experienced in provisional remedies, including numerous receiverships, real and personal property foreclosure, injunctions and preclusive motions.
• Obtained a $13 million judgment in a federal securities fraud action, affirmed by the Ninth Circuit.
• Multiple appellate decisions, as detailed below.
  

• Ralph Andrews Productions, Inc. v. Writers Guild of America, West, 938 Fed.R.2d 128 (C.D. Cal. 1991)
• Blonder v. Cumberland Engineering, 71 Cal.App.4th 1057 (1999)
• Sea Foods Company Ltd. v. O.M. Foods Company, Ltd., 150 Cal.App.4th 769 (2007)
• Nader Automotive Group, LLC v. New Motor Vehicle Board (Volkswagen of America, Inc. and Audi of America, Inc., real parties in interest), 178 Cal.App.4th 1478 (2009)
• Ammerman v. Cathleen Callender, at el., 245 Cal.App.4th 1058 (2016) 
• Ian C. Dae v. Robert Traver, No. B305834, 21 D.A.R. 10163 (Cal. App 2nd September 27, 2021).
• The Palace at Washington Square, LLC v. Mechanics Bank, No. A164195, A164799 (Cal. App 1st March 17, 2023).