Jessica M. Erickson
Nancy Litchfield Hicks Professor of Law
Director, Richmond Law & Business Forum
Temporary Office Location: Refectory Room 134
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Profile
Professor Jessica Erickson teaches and writes in the areas of corporate and securities litigation. Her scholarship has appeared in the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Notre Dame Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, and Iowa Law Review, among other venues. Prior to joining the Richmond Law faculty in 2007, Professor Erickson practiced corporate and securities law at Hunton & Williams LLP, where her practice included securities class actions, derivative suits, internal investigations, and mergers and acquisitions.
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Presentations
Presenter, "Coalitions among Plaintiffs' Attorneys in Securities Class Actions," Penn Law's Institute for Law & Economics Workshop, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (December 2020)
Presenter, "Coalitions among Plaintiffs' Attorneys in Securities Class Actions," Law & Economics Workshop, NYU School of Law (November 2020)
Presenter, "Teaching and Thriving in 2020," Chicagoland Junior Scholars Workshop, Northern Illinois University College of Law (October 2020)
Presenter, "Working Hard or Making Work? Plaintiffs' Attorneys Fees in Securities Fraud Class Actions," Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Claremont McKenna College (November 2019)
Presenter, "Automating Securities Class Action Settlements," Automating Securities Class Action Settlements, Fordham University School of Law Faculty Workshop (October 2019)
Presenter, "Working Hard or Making Work? Plaintiffs' Attorneys Fees in Securities Fraud Class Actions," Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop, Boston University School of Law (September 2019)
Presenter, "Automating Securities Class Action Settlements," Symposium on Corporate Accountability, Vanderbilt Law School (April 2019)
Presenter, "Automating Securities Class Action Settlements," Vanderbilt Law & Business Workshop, Vanderbilt Law School (February 2019)
Presentations Prior to 2019
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Bar Admissions
Virginia
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Professional Experience
Professor of Law (2013 - present)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VAAssociate Dean for Faculty Development (2015 - 2021)
University of Richmond School of LawAssistant Professor of Law (2007 - 2013)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VAAssociate, Corporate Governance and Securities Litigation Practice (2003 - 2007)
Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VAClerk for Judge Michael Boudin (2002 - 2003)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
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Books
Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation (Edward Elgar Publishing) (Jessica M. Erickson et al., eds.) (2018).
Journal ArticlesThe Business of Securities Class Action Lawyering, 99 Indiana Law Journal (with Steven Choi et al.) (2023).
Coalition Building among Plaintiffs’ Attorneys in Securities Class Actions, 24 American Law & Economics Review 278 (with Steven Choi et al.) (2022) ((co-authored with Stephen Choi and Adam Pritchard)).
The Lost Lessons of Shareholder Derivative Suits, 77 Washington & Lee Law Review 1131 (2020).
Working Hard or Making Work? Plaintiffs’ Attorney Fees in Securities Fraud Class Actions, 17 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 438 (with Steven Choi et al.) (2020).
Investing in Corporate Procedure, 99 Boston University Law Review 1367 (2019).
Automating Securities Class Action Settlements, 72 Vanderbilt Law Review 1817 (2019).
Bespoke Discovery, 71 Vanderbilt Law Review 1873 (2018).
Piling On? An Empirical Study of Parallel Derivative Suits, 14 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 653 (with Stephen Choi et al.) (2017).
The Gatekeepers of Shareholder Litigation, 70 Oklahoma Law Review 237 (2017).
Heightened Procedure, 102 Iowa Law Review 61 (2016).
The Market for Leadership in Corporate Litigation, 2015 University of Illinois Law Review 1479 (2015).
Experiential Education in the Lecture Hall, 6 Northeastern University Law Journal 87 (2013).
The New Professional Plaintiffs in Shareholder Litigation, 65 Florida Law Review 1089 (2013).
Overlitigating Corporate Fraud: An Empirical Examination, 97 Iowa Law Review 49 (2011).
Corporate Governance in the Courtroom: An Empirical Analysis, 51 William and Mary Law Review 1749 (2010).
Corporate Misconduct and the Perfect Storm of Shareholder Litigation, 84 Notre Dame Law Review 75 (2008).
Book ChaptersThe (Un)Changing Derivative Suit, in Research Handbook in Representative Shareholder Litigation (Edward Elgar Publishing) (Jessica M. Erickson et al., eds.) (2018).
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In the News
Ahead of the Curve: Teaching In the COVID-19 Era (Law.com - Premium)
Tue., Aug. 11, 2020What schools are doing to survive a pandemic world (The National Jurist)
Thu., Jul. 16, 2020First-Quarter Securities Class Actions Respond To Outbreak (Law360)
Fri., Apr. 10, 2020Experiential education in the large lecture hall: Starting with learning objectives (ProfessorBainbridge.com)
Wed., Aug. 26, 2015 - Links