Erica E. Flores

Associate

Erica E. Flores is an associate in Morgan Lewis’s Labor and Employment Practice. Ms. Flores focuses her practice primarily on employee benefits litigation, representing employers, employee benefit plans and benefit plan fiduciaries in ERISA breach of fiduciary duty, prohibited transaction and other statutory claims brought by plan participants and beneficiaries, including 401(k) excessive fee and imprudent investment claims, and claims for retirement, disability and life insurance benefits. She also represents employers in single-plaintiff and class action discrimination, harassment and retaliation litigation, wage and hour litigation, and non-competition litigation before state and federal courts. In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Flores regularly advises clients on a variety of day-to-day employment issues, including decisions regarding adverse employment actions and litigation avoidance.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Flores was an associate in the litigation practice of a prominent international law firm and served as a judicial clerk to former Justice Russell M. Nigro of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Flores earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, where she was a recipient of the James Wilson Fellowship in Public Governance and a member of the Inn of Court.  She also served as a production editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and as a judicial intern to Judge Glynnis D. Hill of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas.  She earned her B.S. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001.

Ms. Flores is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey and before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the First, Third, and Tenth Circuits; the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.