Eric R. Reed
Associate
Professional Experience
Eric R. Reed is an associate with Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Feingold, LLP, where he focuses on business litigation and appeals. He previously worked at the Ventura office of New York-based Anderson Kill, LLP as a business and insurance recovery litigator.
Community
Mr. Reed currently teaches civil litigation skills and California civil procedure at the Southern California Institute of Law. He is a fifth-generation resident of Ventura County.
Publications (Selected)
Is It Time to Raise The Maximum Amount In Controversy in Limited Civil Cases? Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 18, 2018)
How Small Mistakes can Have Serious Consequences Under California's Contractor Licensing Laws, Construction Defect Journal (February 15, 2018)
National Union v. Cambridge Revisited: Six Years On, the Insurance Industry's Silver Bullet Has Yet to Strike Third-Party Administrators Again, Enforce (November 20, 2015) (with David E. Wood)
Can Record-Keeping Save Your Business Interruption Claim? Law360 (July 17, 2015) (with Allen R. Wolff)
New York's Highest Court Sends Clear Message to Liability Insurance Companies: Disclaim the Duty to Defend at Your Own Peril, 6 Litigation Commentary & Rev.18 (March/April 2014) (with Allen R. Wolff)
Supersedeas Relief for the Judgment Debtor Pending Appeal, King County Bar Association Bar Bulletin (December 2010)
Descent into Authoritarianism: Barriers to Constitutional Rule in Belarus, 28 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 147 (2004)
Education
Mr. Reed obtained his bachelor’s degree in Government cum laude from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He attended the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, and received Witkin and CALI Awards for Excellence in Election Law and Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Remedies, respectively.
During law school, Mr. Reed served as a judicial extern with The Honorable Randall J. Newsome, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. He also served as a law clerk for the administrative law judges of the California Office of Administrative Hearings, Oakland General Jurisdiction Office.