Eric Lockridge enjoys helping clients solve problems that arise in their businesses. His practice includes business litigation, bankruptcy and business reorganization, commercial collections, and assisting clients with business transactions. He has tried commercial and tort cases to verdict in Louisiana and Texas, and has successfully defended judgments on appeal. Eric currently focuses on lender work-out agreements, bankruptcy-related litigation, negotiation and dispute resolution, and complex commercial cases for Kean Miller’s construction, energy, and financial sector clients. Eric also works with Kean Miller’s intellectual property team to litigate patent, trademark, and copyright claims.
Eric advises corporate clients, lenders, and distressed-asset investors in asset acquisitions and sales, financing, corporate structures, document-retention programs, and insurance-related issues. Eric practiced law in Texas for six years before joining Kean Miller in 2005, and continues to represent clients in litigation and bankruptcy matters in Texas.
Eric earned his B.A. in Political Science from Emory University in 1995. He earned his J.D., with honors, from The University of Texas School of Law in 1999. In law school, Eric was an advocate on UT Law's National Mock Trial Team and served as an associate editor for the Texas Review of Law and Politics.
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Intellectual Property
- Banking Litigation
- Louisiana
- Texas
- 5th Circuit
- United States District Court & Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Colorado
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
- United States District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
- United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
- English
- Partner
- Kean Miller LLP
- - Current
- Attorney
- Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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- Attorney
- Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer & Kern
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- The University of Texas School of Law
- J.D. | Law
- Honors: with honors
- Activities: Member of the National Mock Trial Team and served as associate editor for the Texas Review of Law and Politics.
- Emory University
- B.A. | Political Science
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member
- Current
- Louisiana Bar Foundation
- Fellow
- Current
- Texas State Bar
- Member
- Current
- Baton Rouge Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- Louisiana State Bar
- Member
- Current
- Lenders and Developers Need to Understand How Louisiana’s Private Works Act Applies to Their Projects
- Louisiana Law Blog
- Louisiana’s Business Judgment Rule Protects Corporate Officers From Being Second Guessed, Unlike California’s Corporate Law
- Louisiana Law Blog
- Recent United States Supreme Court Decision Tackles Question of What Happens When Bankruptcy Meets Intellectual Property
- Louisiana Law Blog
- “Artificially Impaired” Creditors Can Vote on Chapter 11 Plans in the Fifth Circuit
- Louisiana Law Blog
- When the Tenant or Landlord Files Bankruptcy and Ethics in Landlord-Tenant Law, Louisiana Landlord-Tenant Law CLE
- Sterling Educational Services
- 2010
- Protecting your Company from Financial Risks in Troubled Times, Outside Insights for In-House Counsel CLE
- December 2011
- Document Retention and Related Electronic Discovery Issues, Outside Insights for In-House Counsel CLE
- December 2012
- Top 10-ish Differences Between Louisiana and Texas Law: Contracts & Torts, Outside Insights for In-House Counsel CLE
- December 2012