Eric Lasker

Eric Lasker litigates a wide variety of complex civil matters, with a current focus on toxic torts, environmental litigation, and pharmaceutical product liability. He has successfully represented his clients' interests as lead counsel in multidistrict, serial, and mass tort litigation, in jury trials and bench proceedings, and in oral argument in multiple federal courts of appeal and state supreme courts. Along with George Mason University law professor David Bernstein, Mr. Lasker authored “Defending Daubert: It’s Time to Amend Federal Rule of Evidence 702,”*1 which triggered the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules review of the text of Rule 702. At the Committee’s invitation, Mr. Lasker participated in a 2018 roundtable discussion on a potential amendment to Rule 702, and he also testified before the Committee in 2022 in support of the amendment. Mr. Lasker is the founding Chair of the IADC’s Rule 702 Sustainability Committee. 1 | 57 WILLIAM & MARY L. REV. 1 (2015).