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Erin L. Williamson

Associate
Delaware

Erin Williamson is a Litigation associate who focuses her practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and restructuring matters. Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, she worked at a premier Delaware law firm, where she represented debtors, creditors, landlords, and other parties in complex chapter 11 proceedings and out-of-court restructuring matters. She also researched and drafted pleadings such as petitions, first-day motions, applications for retention, and bidding and solicitation procedures in this role. Erin has represented clients in chapter 11 proceedings spanning a diverse range of industries, including retail, biotechnology, health care, agriculture, and solar energy.

Erin has also assisted with discovery negotiations, trial preparation, and settlement negotiations, represented receivers in Delaware Chancery Court actions, and litigated pro bono cases in the Delaware Family Court and Justice of the Peace Court.

While attending law school, Erin earned a concentration in intellectual property and gained additional experience through legal internships with the Entertainment Software Association, The Copyright Alliance, and the Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice.

Professional Highlights

Pro Bono Experience

Erin maintains a healthy pro bono practice representing litigants in the Delaware Family Court and Justice of the Peace Court.

Judicial Clerkships

Hon. Charles E. Butler, Delaware Superior Court, 2022-2023

Professional Activities

American Bankruptcy Institute

Delaware Bankruptcy Inn of Court

Delaware State Bar Association

Publications

Co-author, "Navigating Security Interests in Retail Merchandise," TMA Journal of Corporate Renewal, April 2024

Author, "How to Get Rich Without Even Trying: The Music Modernization Act Gives Publishers an Advantage to Unfairly Profit From the Work of Independent Songwriters," AIPLA Quarterly Journal, Winter 2022

Credentials 

Education

George Washington University Law School (J.D. 2022)
Notes Editor, AIPLA Quarterly Journal
Moot Court Board
Student Intellectual Property Association
Corporate and Business Law Society
Recipient, Pro Bono Achievement Award
Recipient, 1st Place Paper, Marcus B. Finnegan Prize Competition, for papers of publishable quality which make a significant contribution to the theory and practice of intellectual property law
Recipient, 3rd Best Brief, Van Vleck Constitutional Moot Court Competition

Drexel University (B.S., cum laude, 2018)

Admissions

Delaware

Pennsylvania

District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware