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Ericka Harper Snyder
Associate
Boston
Ericka Harper Snyder represents corporate and individual clients in a variety of complex commercial disputes ranging from breach of contract to unfair and deceptive trade practices to products liability litigation. Her clients have included major companies involved in pharmaceutical manufacturing, telecommunications and electric power production.
Ericka also has extensive pro bono experience, including actively representing plaintiffs as trial counsel in a civil rights and fair housing class action litigation and in representing victims of domestic violence in obtaining and enforcing restraining orders in district, probate and superior courts. Her trial experience includes being appointed as a Special Prosecutor for the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office, where she tried a variety of criminal cases in state district court.
During law school, Ericka served as a law clerk for The Honorable Ralph Gants of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Prior to law school, she completed first-year coursework and field placement for a Master's Degree in Social Work (Social Policy and Planning).
Bars and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Representative Experience
The following is a brief summary of Ericka's experience and accomplishments:
Represented one of the nation's largest retail employers in a putative class action regarding a wage and hour dispute
Represents national corporations in general commercial litigation
Successfully defended an independent power producer in litigation over interpretation of a power purchase agreement
Represented a provider of prepaid wireless services and a wireless carrier in defense of a patent litigation
Defends a large pharmaceutical manufacturer against product liability claims in state and federal courts
professional / civic involvement
Boston Bar Association, Litigation Section, Member
Massachusetts Bar Association, Member
Women's Bar Association, Member
publications
Forum Shopping for Procedural Advantage, FOR THE DEFENSE (July 2003)
May a Third-Party Defendant Remove?, "GETTING OUT OF DODGE" REMOVAL TO FEDERAL COURT: A DEFENDANT'S GUIDE (Product Liability Advisory Council publication) (April 2003)
Taking and Defending Advice of Counsel Depositions in a Patent Infringement Action, American Conference Institute, Litigating Patent Disputes Conferences in Washington, D.C. (February 2003) and San Francisco (March 2003)
The Scope of Waiver Accompanying Assertion of the Advice of Counsel Defense to a Charge of Willful Patent Infringement in the District of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Business Litigation Conference (February 2003).
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