Erica Smilevski
Attorney
Antitrust Knowledge and Practice Support Attorney
Erica has more than 10 years of experience working with the Antitrust/Competition team, originally as an associate and now as the antitrust knowledge and practice support attorney. She supports key initiatives of the practice group relating to business development, associate training, and knowledge management.
Erica collaborates with the firm’s antitrust attorneys on business development initiatives. She identifies emerging legal issues and trends relating to competition, coordinates publication of the Competition Corner blog and podcast, and assists in the production of articles for in-house and external publications. Erica also creates presentations that enhance the firm’s profile and add value to our clients. She oversees the group’s Japanese Foreign Legal Advisor Program which provides legal and business development training to participating lawyers and strengthens our relationships with local firms in Japan. Erica also works to develop the internal training program for antitrust associates and coordinates access to external courses relevant to the practice group.
Erica previously worked as a senior associate in the firm’s Antitrust/Competition group where her practice focused primarily on international investigations. She represented major U.S. and multinational corporations in government investigations relating to alleged cartel activities brought by competition authorities around the world, as well as in follow-on class actions and other private litigation. Erica defended individual clients in connection with investigations by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, offices of the U.S. Attorneys, and state attorneys general. She also counseled clients on antitrust compliance.
- Benchmark Litigation: Antitrust Firm of the Year
- Chambers Global
- U.S. News & World Report: Antitrust Law Firm of the Year 2020
- GCR - Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defense
Erica is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section. As a member of the Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee, she helped coordinate the “Ask Me Anything About” program.
Erica leads a team of associates supporting the firm’s efforts to ratify the equal rights amendment. She has successfully represented pro bono clients, including an asylum seeker from El Salvador escaping domestic violence, a father from Poland seeking return of his children under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and a mother from Mexico seeking a U Visa after assisting in the prosecution of her abuser.
Credentials
Education
Erica received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 2006, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a chapter editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review Jailhouse Lawyers Manual. She graduated with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1998 with a B.A. in History.
Admissions
- New York
Related Insights & News
- Co-author, “Chapter V: Working With Multiple Competition Agencies in a Cartel Investigation,” ABA International Investigations and Merger Reviews: A Handbook for Antitrust Counsel (forthcoming)
- Co-author, “Chapter VIII: Compliance,” ABA International Criminal Cartel Handbook (June 2019)
- Co-author, “International Cartel Enforcement,” Lexis Nexis Practice Note (2017)
- Speaker/Instructor, “Antitrust Compliance Programs: Designing Effective Programs to Mitigate Risks,” Winston & Strawn LLP (September 2017)
- Speaker/Instructor, “Antitrust 101: Fundamental Concepts, the Sherman Act, and Restraints of Trade,” Winston & Strawn LLP (January 2017)
- Co-author, “The Antitrust Division’s New Model Corporate Plea Agreement,” ABA Cartel & Criminal Practice Committee Newsletter (Spring 2014)