Eric S. Eissenstat

Eric has tried 50+ cases to verdict and has extensive experience in appellate arguments and SCOTUS filings. Eric’s litigation experience in federal and state courts include landmark, novel, and impact litigation. He uses his ability to anticipate how judges, juries, and regulators may think to obtain favorable deal-making, dispute resolution, and trial outcomes and address and resolve difficult problems. Eric has obtained numerous multi-million-dollar verdicts representing plaintiffs and numerous defense verdicts in cases seeking millions and tens of millions of dollars.

Responsible for overseeing all legal matters and managing outside counsel in his role as General Counsel for Continental, Eric knows firsthand the needs and expectations of clients. He strives to establish trusting relationships and provide servant leadership and world-class legal services in a cost-effective manner, focused on achieving excellent results and solving problems to position clients for success.

While serving as Senior Vice-President, General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer and Secretary for publicly traded Continental Resources, Eric served as a member of Executive Leadership Team and as legal and governance adviser to the Board of Directors and its Committees. He was appointed the Company’s first Chief Risk Officer, served as Chair of the Risk Oversight Committee and was responsible for the Company’s Enterprise Risk Management. Among other duties, Eric served Continental as a partner to the board, C-suite executives, and other leadership. He also served 15+ functional and business units, and was responsible for all legal, governance, compliance, and enterprise risk issues and matters.

Eric has presented 30+ keynote speeches, general counsel roundtables, presentations, panels, and other events on many areas, including cybersecurity, securities and derivative litigation, antitrust, corporate governance, corporate law, intellectual property, energy law, litigation, class actions, business torts, and trial skills.