Magistrate Judge ERICA P. GROSJEAN

Federal Judicial Service:

United States District Court, Eastern District of California
Appointed as United States Magistrate Judge on October 12, 2015

Education:

University of California at Berkeley, A.B. 1997

with honors

Harvard Law School, J.D. 2000

          Editor of the Law Review
Cum Laude

Professional Career:

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Los Angeles, CA and New York NY

          2001-2015

partner

Law Clerk, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Hon. Herbert Y.C. Choy

          2000-2001

Biography:

Magistrate Judge Erica P. Grosjean was appointed in October 2015.  Judge Grosjean is a 2000 graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated with honors, cum laude.  After law school, she clerked for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, under the Honorable Herbert Y.C. Choy.  She then spent the next fourteen years at the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, a litigation-only law firm specializing in trial work.  She was elected a full partner in 2007.  She began her work in Los Angeles, and moved to Quinn Emanuel's New York office in 2012. 

During her private practice, Judge Grosjean specialized in civil litigation across a wide range of areas of law, including structured finance, patent infringment, contract, antitrust, misappropriation, insurance, securities, unfair competition, constitutional law, fraudulent transfer.  She has extensive experience at all stages of civil litigation, from drafting complaints to trying cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants.  She has practiced in state and federal courts primarily in California, New York, Delaware, and Massachusetts. 

Judge Grosjean presides over various types of civil cases randomly assigned to her with the parties' consent.