Erica's practice focuses on strategic transactions and intellectual property asset strategy, protection, licensing and commercialization. She specializes in corporate partnering, strategic alliances, data privacy and protection, technology commercialization, commercial contract negotiation, and AI-related risk allocation. Erica has served as a guest lecturer on these topics at Cornell. Erica advises AI, robotics, frontier model and automation companies on legal risk allocation, and designs practical escalation paths for high-risk negotiations in SaaS, compute and AI deals. She also counsels clients on the long-term scalability of intellectual property and data ownership models in collaboration and commercialization agreements.

Erica acts as an outsourced general counsel and strategic advisor to a wide variety of venture-backed companies in the artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, software, hosted marketplace, robotics, consumer internet, bioscience, media, healthcare, telecommunications, financial technology and entertainment technology industries. She advises these companies and leading venture capital firms on technology, intellectual property, commercial and privacy aspects of financings, mergers, acquisitions and similar deals. She also represents these companies in the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, including master services agreements, robots as a service and proprietary licensing for open sourced offering, and provides strategic counseling to venture-backed founders on collaboration frameworks between university researchers and technology companies.

Erica is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), holding the U.S. private-sector privacy certification granted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the global standard in privacy certification. Erica leverages her strong foundation in US private-sector privacy laws and regulations, and understanding of the legal requirements for the responsible transfer of sensitive personal data to/from the US, the EU and other jurisdictions, to counsel clients on risk and opportunity when handling personal data in their business transactions and product development.