Erik Johnson is a prominent attorney specializing in mass torts, class actions, and complex litigation. A creative strategist and precise legal technician, Erik excels in developing innovative litigation strategies and managing complex, multi-party disputes. He has extensive experience handling national mass tort and class action matters and plays a key role in advancing high-stakes cases from inception through resolution.
He is a two-time federal term clerk for Judge Mark A. Goldsmith and Judge David M. Lawson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, providing him with deep insight into judicial process, class-action management, and federal litigation. Erik was part of the trial team who obtained a $37.2 million jury verdict against the world’s largest cannabis company after a two-week trial arising from the sale of 50,000 pounds of product. Hello Farms Licensing MI, LLC v. GR Vending MI, LLC, No. 21-CV-10499 (E.D. Mich. Jan. 29, 2025).
Erik oversees the firm’s women detention center cases, where the focus is on representing survivors of systemic abuse exclusively in their cases against the institutions that enabled and protected their abusers. Erik further plays a central role in the firm’s most significant institutional accountability matters, including high-profile healthcare and privacy litigation. He was instrumental in the class action against Henry Ford Health Corporation, which secured a settlement exceeding $141 million on behalf of former patients of an incarcerated physician who secretly recorded individuals during sensitive medical procedures. Erik also actively contributes in the MDL Jane Doe v. Weiss et al., pending in the Eastern District of Michigan, a large-scale data breach and Title IX action arising from allegations that former University of Michigan football coach Matthew Weiss unlawfully accessed and exploited student-athletes’ private digital accounts. Representing more than 150,000 current and former female student-athletes, the litigation stands among the largest privacy-related class actions in the country.