Associate

Erica Fauser joined Burford Perry in 2021 after practicing complex civil litigation for several years. She continues to focus her practice on trial work, including business litigation and oil, gas, and energy litigation. Erica has also worked with clients in cases involving insurance defense, labor & employment, mass torts, antitrust, products liability, real estate, probate, family law, corporate immigration, and business transactions.

Licensed to practice law in both Texas and Illinois as well as multiple federal courts, her complex litigation experience has included managing over 300 property and casualty insurance claims arising out of a natural disaster, managing a product liability docket of over 1,700 cases, and managing a large real estate litigation docket of landlord tenant disputes in the fourth largest city in the country.

Erica graduated from University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science in 2012, magna cum laude. She received the Arete Award from the Honors College for scholarship, leadership, and service. She earned her law degree from University of Illinois College of Law in 2016, cum laude.  During law school, Erica served as a Competitor and Editor-in-Chief of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court International Competition Team and the National Moot Court Competition Team.

She is a member of the Houston Bar Association, Houston Young Lawyers Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Association of Women Attorneys Houston, Willem C. Vis Moot Court Alumni Association, The Downtown Group, and the State Bar of Texas.

Employment History

• November 2021 to present
  Burford Perry LLP
  Associate Attorney

• February 2019 to September 2021
  McDowell Hetherington LLP
  Associate Attorney

• September 2017 to February 2019
  Johnson Law Group
  Attorney

• January 2017 to June 2017
  Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP
  Law Clerk

• July 2015 to August 2015
  Sedgwick LLP
  Summer Associate

Education

University of Illinois College of Law, Juris Doctorate, cum laude, 2016

• Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court, Competitor and Editor-in-Chief
• The Frederick Douglass & Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition, Competitor and Editor
• Black Law Students’ Association, President
• International Law Society, President

University of Houston, Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science, magna cum laude and University Honors, 2012

• Graduated in the top 15%
• Arete Award
• Honors Ambassadors, Vice President
• Model Arab League, Chair and Accredited Delegate
• Phronesis Fellows Society
• Honors Student Governing Board, Treasurer

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 2017
• Illinois, 2018
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of Texas

Professional Affiliations

• State Bar of Texas
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Houston Young Lawyers Association
• Houston Bar Association
• Willem C. Vis Moot Court Alumni Association
• The Downtown Group (Houston)
• Association of Women Attorneys Houston

Publications

• A Glimpse of the Laws Protecting Investments in Cyprus and Egypt, Egypt Oil and Gas Magazine, November 1, 2017.
• US Withdrawal From The Paris Agreement: The Legal Implications (Or Lack Thereof) On The Energy Industry, Egypt Oil and Gas Magazine, July 1, 2017.

Languages

• Spanish
• Elementary Arabic (Egyptian Dialect)