Clerks Brochure - Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Eric Tirschwell, Partner
White Collar and Criminal Defense and Complex Civil and
Constitutional Litigation
Law Clerk to Honorable David V. Kenyon, U.S. District Court, Central District of
California, 1992-1994. Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1992); Amherst
College (B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1988).
As a law clerk, I had the privilege of walking into chambers every morning with
only one task at hand — to help my judge figure out the “right” result under the
law and facts of each case. It was hard for me to imagine any better legal job
and so my standards were very high. When I then joined Kramer Levin Naftalis
& Frankel, I had two goals in mind: to get involved in diverse and interesting
litigation matters and to put myself on a path for an eventual move to a U.S.
Attorney’s Office. Within three action-packed years as an associate, Kramer
Levin had helped me achieve both of these goals. I defended individuals in
SEC investigations, took my first depositions in a securities fraud class action,
argued in federal court on a pro bono false arrest case and worked with
former federal judge Marvin Frankel on the First Amendment school voucher
litigation that eventually ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court. By the middle of
my third year at the firm, with the assistance and support of several Kramer
Levin litigators who previously had served in the public sector, I received an
offer to become a federal prosecutor. After five exciting and demanding years
as an AUSA, I decided it was time to move on. While I looked at a number of
firms, some big and some small, I was ultimately drawn back to Kramer Levin
Naftalis & Frankel, to the good friends and exceptional lawyers I had worked
with, to its booming white-collar defense and litigation practices, to its strong
tradition of encouraging and supporting pro bono work, to its non-hierarchical
atmosphere, and to my sense — which continues to the present — that there
is no better place for me to practice law.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP