Eric Del Pozo

Eric Del Pozo is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Appellate practices, helping clients across industries navigate their most pressing legal issues, at every stage of the dispute-resolution process.

A deeply experienced advocate, Eric has argued close to fifty appeals in federal and state court and has briefed more than one hundred appeals overall. These appeals frequently have involved precedent-setting questions on topics such as federal jurisdiction and preemption, subpoena enforcement, agency power, class-action standards, telecommunications, healthcare reimbursement, insurer insolvency, coastal management, business and consumer fraud, false arrest, free speech, due process, and defamation per se. Eric has also prepared colleagues for oral argument in hundreds of cases, at every level of the federal and state judicial systems.

Before joining Shipman, Eric served for six years as an Assistant Solicitor General for New York State, primarily litigating appeals on behalf of the State and its officers and agencies—with many of these matters at the forefront of law and public policy. For example, he defended New York’s concealed-carry licensing law in the U.S. Supreme Court in NYSRPA v. Bruen; represented the State Attorney General in responding to an unprecedented Congressional subpoena; secured the affirmance of a nine-figure civil enforcement award against a global shipping company for violating federal and state statutes protecting the public health; and successfully defended orders compelling the former President of the United States to sit for a civil investigative deposition, holding him in contempt of court for disobeying document requests, and appointing an independent monitor to oversee his business. In each of 2017 and 2022, Eric received the Louis J. Lefkowitz Award, given annually by New York’s Solicitor General, for outstanding individual performance.

In addition, Eric spent several years as an appellate prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. There, he secured affirmances of numerous felony convictions, and he co‑wrote a memorandum recommending dismissal of a decades-old murder indictment, thus freeing the defendant from custody, based on questions raised about the underlying evidence.

Eric draws on his expertise analyzing the strength of legal claims and defenses when conducting independent investigations, handling matters at the trial level, and helping others to preserve arguments for review. While in the public sector, Eric often participated in high-level decisions about whether to pursue specific causes of action or appeals. And in private practice, he has helped companies facing governmental inquiries to avoid or narrow contemplated enforcement action.

Eric continually looks for opportunities to help Shipman vindicate the broader public interest, including through pro bono work. In the past, he represented a leading civil rights organization as amicus curiae in support of a petition for certiorari, prompting a unanimous summary reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court of the lower court’s grant of qualified immunity. More recently, on behalf of a nationwide organization of elected prosecutors, he led a team that filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of laws disarming domestic abusers who are subject to judicially imposed restraining orders.

Eric graduated from Dartmouth College and then, summa cum laude and first in his class, from St. John’s University School of Law. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.