He also has arbitrated before the American Arbitration Association’s Centre for International Dispute Resolution. Most recently, Eric was lead trial counsel in a three-week jury trial in Minnesota Federal District Court in which he obtained a multi-million dollar verdict in December 2011 on behalf of American Bank of St. Paul and 25 participant banks. American Bank’s claims arose from TD Bank’s complicity in an extensive fraud perpetrated by disgraced Orlando businessman and boy-band promoter Louis J. Pearlman.