Eric O English

Practice Areas

General Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Litigation, Business/Corporate, Intellectual Property Litigation.

Career

A founding partner at Resolution Strategies LLP, Eric O. English focuses his practice on helping clients reach an accord on their disputes without having to resort to a protracted courtroom battle. In this regard, he uses his extensive prior experience in litigating complex commercial matters as well as his background as a mediator. He has successfully resolved matters throughout the United States and abroad. Admitted to practice before all Oregon and Texas state courts, Mr. English is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. He has received an AV Preeminent* peer review rating from his colleagues in recognition of his successful track record and superb ethics.

Mr. English's clients have included public entities, corporations, chief executive officers and nonprofit organizations, and he has worked on cases involving unfair competition, patent disputes, antitrust, labor and employment, dealer termination, and sexual abuse and assaults. Prior to focusing his practice on alternative dispute resolution, he was a litigation partner at a prominent Texas firm, and his experience has also included serving as general counsel to both a manufacturing company and retail chain.

In addition to being a founding member of the only firm dedicating its practice to the role of settlement counsel, Mr. English is a highly sought after mediator and has mediated high profile cases throughout the northwest.

Special Situations: Because of Eric’s background and experience, and his unique ability to solve problems, he has been engaged in many different roles, including service for publicly traded companies as interim general counsel and board member. Eric is often asked to serve as a mediator in high profile matters. Eric has worked with CEO’s and other business executives to resolve highly sensitive matters, both internally and with third parties.

Settlement Counsel: Eric has focused his practice on serving as settlement counsel since 2003. He has represented individuals, corporate clients, religious organizations, and public entities in a wide variety of complex disputes and litigation. Eric’s recent resolution successes include patent and antitrust litigation, dealer termination, industry competitor disputes, and multi-plaintiff litigation. He has represented individuals and businesses in business breakups, personnel disputes, and highly contentious labor and employment matters in addition to organizational assault and abuse claims. Eric believes in the firm’s philosophy that face-to-face meetings do more to settle cases than emails and phone calls. Eric’s settlement counsel engagements have taken him throughout the United States as well as Asia, South America, and Europe.

Professional Memberships

Eric is currently on the American Bar Association Task Force for Early Dispute Resolution, Chair of the Settlement Counsel Subcommittee of the Litigation Section, ADR Committee for the ABA, and member of the ADR Section Executive Committee for the Oregon State Bar. He has served on the board of a publicly traded company, the Advisory Council for the University of Texas Alumni Association and several other local boards and foundations.

Publications

The Many Shades of Settlement Counsel, ABA presentation on Settlement Counsel - The Many Shades of Settlement Counsel, 2014

Case Studies in Settlement Counsel, Case Studies in Settlement Counsel

Education

Experience

Eric's background includes experience as a trial lawyer in private practice, as chief litigation counsel, and as general counsel, as well as roles in senior management and the board of directors for private and publicly held companies. When it comes to understanding challenges at all levels, and executing the game plan with the trial team, few bring to the table what Eric does – and his success as settlement counsel the past 10 years speaks for itself.

Private Practice: Eric was a partner in both the commercial litigation and product liability sections of a 200+ attorney firm in Texas, where he tried cases for plaintiffs and defendants, handling complex commercial disputes, working productively with in-house counsel for large corporate clients, and coordinating the efforts of other outside counsel on complex class-action litigation.

Corporate Counsel: Eric’s in-house counsel experience has been with international and national publicly traded companies. As head of litigation and General Counsel, Eric honed his skills in dealing with mission critical issues in both the business and litigation arenas.

Awards