Erin Therrian

Overview and Practice

Erin joined our practice in 2011, as we began preparing for the estimation trial in the Garlock bankruptcy. She prepared the direct examinations for the scientific witnesses and the cross-examinations of the witnesses offered by the Asbestos Claimants Committee, and was part of the trial team.

She has worked on the expert evidence since she arrived — first in the Garlock bankruptcy, and from 2014 in the engagements that followed. She has deposed most of the experts the plaintiffs have offered in those matters. She works on the Bestwall estimation and on the scientific evidence in cosmetic talc litigation.

Erin also tries business cases — contracts, partnership and distribution disputes, indemnification, and unfair competition. She represented a distributor against a manufacturer in an international arbitration and the appeal that followed. She obtained recovery for a component part manufacturer from the finished-product manufacturer that had brought it into a personal injury case.

Much of her business work is for employers, in employment disputes and in the advice meant to avoid them. She has also worked with companies on contracts and due diligence.

She has represented individuals in real property, probate, and condemnation matters.

Representative matters

• What Arbitration Buys
• Statutory Indemnity Runs Both Ways
• Estimating on the Merits

Background

Erin graduated with distinction from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2011, where she served as Chief Counsel for the OU Legal Clinic and was on Oklahoma’s first team of licensed legal interns to try a civil rights case to a jury in federal court. She received her B.A. in political science magna cum laude from the University of North Texas in 2007.