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Eric Alan Isaacson received his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Ohio University in 1982. He earned his Juris Doctor degree with high honors from Duke University School of Law in 1985 and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Mr. Isaacson served as a Note and Comment Editor for the Duke Law Journal, and in his third year of law school became a member of the Moot Court Board. After graduation, Mr. Isaacson clerked for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
In 1986, Mr. Isaacson joined the litigation department of O'Melveny & Myers, where his practice included cases involving allegations of trademark infringement, unfair business practices and securities fraud. He served as a member of the trial team that successfully prosecuted a major trademark infringement action.
Mr. Isaacson joined the plaintiffs' bar in 1989, and has taken part in prosecuting many securities fraud class actions. He was a member of the plaintiffs' trial team in In re Apple Computer Sec. Litig., No. C 84-20198(A)-JW (N.D. Cal.). Since the early 1990s, his practice has focused primarily on appellate matters in cases that have produced dozens of published precedents. See, e.g., In re WorldCom Sec. Litig. (Cal. Pub. Employees' Ret. Sys. v. Caboto-Gruppo Intesa, BCI), Case No. 05-6967-CV, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 17797 (2d Cir. 2007); Sanford v. MemberWorks, Inc., 483 F.3d 956 (9th Cir. 2007); Sanchez v. County of San Diego, 464 F.3d 916 (9th Cir. 2006), rehearing denied, 483 F.3d 965 (9th Cir. 2007); In re Daou Sys., Inc., Sec. Litig. (Sparling v. Daou), 411 F.3d 1006 (9th Cir. 2005); Ill. Mun. Ret. Fund v. CitiGroup, Inc., 391 F.3d 844 (7th Cir. 2004); Deutsch v. Turner Corp., 324 F.3d 692 (9th Cir. 2003); Lone Star Ladies Inv. Club v. Schlotzsky's Inc., 238 F.3d 363 (5th Cir. 2001); Hertzberg v. Dignity Partners, Inc., 191 F.3d 1076 (9th Cir. 1999); Warshaw v. Xoma Corp., 74 F.3d 955 (9th Cir. 1996); Fecht v. Price Co., 70 F.3d 1078 (9th Cir. 1995); and Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 7 Cal. 4th 1057 (1994).
Mr. Isaacson's publications include: What's Brewing in Dura v. Broudo? A Review of the Supreme Court's Opinion and Its Import for Securities-Fraud Litigation, (co-authored with Patrick J. Coughlin and Joseph D. Daley), 37 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 1 (2005); Pleading Scienter Under Section 21D(b)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: Motive, Opportunity, Recklessness and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (co-authored with William S. Lerach), 33 San Diego Law Review 893 (1996); Securities Class Actions in the United States (co-authored with Patrick J. Coughlin), Litigation Issues in the Distribution of Securities: An International Perspective 399 (Kluwer International/International Bar Association, 1997); Pleading Standards Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The Central District of California's Chantal Decision (co-authored with Alan Schulman & Jennifer Wells), Class Action & Derivative Suits, Summer 1996, at 14; Commencing Litigation Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (co-authored with Patrick J. Coughlin), Securities Litigation 1996 9-22 (Practising Law Institute 1996); The Flag Burning Issue: A Legal Analysis and Comment, 23 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 535 (1990).
Mr. Isaacson has served as a cooperating attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial counties. He also received awards for pro bono work from the California State Bar and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program. He has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of a variety of organizations, including the Social Justice Committee and Board of Trustees of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego.
Since January 2004, Mr. Isaacson has served as a member of the Board of Directors - and since March 2005 as Board President - of the San Diego Foundation for Change, an organization dedicated to funding and supporting community-led efforts to promote social equality, economic justice and environmental sustainability. Its grantees have included groups as diverse as Activist San Diego, the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and the San Diego Audubon Society.
Mr. Isaacson has been a member of the California Bar since 1985. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits, and before all federal district courts in the State of California.
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