Eric Lundt's practice focuses on individual high-exposure cases and managing mass tort dockets, with particular experience in matters involving toxic torts, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and products liability. He also has extensive appellate experience.
Eric has obtained numerous defense verdicts and summary judgments in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases on behalf of several Fortune 500 companies. He has represented pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, a major oil company, heavy equipment and automobile manufacturers, a camping equipment manufacturer, several national supermarket chains, and a major tobacco company.
Prior to joining Jones Day in 2022, Eric obtained a defense verdict in a multimillion dollar wrongful death negligent security case for a major oil company; obtained two defense verdicts for a pharmaceutical company in high-profile personal injury cases involving claims for punitive damages; achieved numerous summary judgments and voluntary dismissals with prejudice for medical device manufacturers in product liability actions throughout Florida; and achieved numerous summary judgments and dismissals with prejudice for clients involved in asbestos litigation.
Eric is currently involved in Jones Day's defense of smoking and health lawsuits brought against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
- University of Miami (J.D. 1990; B.B.A. cum laude 1987)
- Florida; District of Columbia; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; and U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida
- Law Clerk to Judge Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr., Florida Third District Court of Appeal (1990-1992)