Erik Lundegaard

Editor-in-Chief at Super Lawyers

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The George Foreman Interview

1 month ago | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

How one attorney helped Foreman reclaim the heavyweight championship of the world and make a mint via a home-shopping product Super Lawyers online-exclusive By Erik Lundegaard on March 25, 2025 I had the privilege of interviewing George Foreman for a cover feature on entertainment attorney Henry Holmes for the 2005 edition of Southern California Super Lawyers magazine. Foreman, generous with his time and stories, was Holmes’ client on many fronts. Holmes negotiated sitcom deals for him,...
The French Dispatch

1 month ago | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

Between helping startups and advising Fortune 500s, Senami Houndete Craft teaches at Alliance Française Published in 2025 San Diego Super Lawyers magazine By Erik Lundegaard on March 13, 2025 Senami Houndete Craft has a thing for west coasts. Her father was from Benin in West Africa, she grew up in Vendée on the west coast of France, and she now lives and practices in San Diego. “The far west is always very attractive to me—with the freedom and the pioneer aspect of things,” she says with a...
… All the Bobbles

2 months ago | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

John Scheerer wears his Dodgers fandom on his bookshelves Published in 2025 Southern California Super Lawyers magazine By Erik Lundegaard on February 18, 2025 In a well-manicured cemetery near LAX, two men get out of their cars and greet one another. It’s obvious they’re strangers, and it’s equally obvious a deal is going down. Two packages, each the size of half a shoebox, are exchanged, and then the men bid farewell and return to their cars and drive off. A drug deal? Whistleblower...
The Case of Shohei’s Translator

2 months ago | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

Michael Freedman repped the man who nearly sank the Dodgers season Published in 2025 Southern California Super Lawyers magazine By Erik Lundegaard on February 18, 2025 Michael Freedman became a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers at exactly the wrong time—the year after a hobbled Kirk Gibson hit a shocking walkoff home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, which the underdog Dodgers would win in five games. “I just missed that,” he says. “And then it was decades before they made it back to the...
New York's Times

Oct 21, 2024 | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

At Herrick Feinstein, the past is present Published in 2024 New York Metro Super Lawyers magazine By Erik Lundegaard on October 22, 2024 Several years ago, real estate attorney Belinda Schwartz was walking a client and his grandchildren through the offices at Herrick Feinstein in Midtown, showing them the collection of historical New York City artifacts the firm has curated since the late 1970s. Standing before an IRT ticket box from 1904, one of the grandchildren asked Schwartz the obvious:...
The Case of the Russian Ph.D.

Sep 12, 2024 | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

Todd Clement on why he and his partner intake every single case Published in 2024 Texas Super Lawyers magazine By Erik Lundegaard on September 13, 2024 The two lawyers in our firm personally intake clients. Either myself or my partner intakes every single case. Because you never know. Years ago, I got a phone call from a young man with a thick Russian accent. He told me that he and his dog were walking in a crosswalk when they were hit by a drunk driver. His dog was killed and the man’s leg...
All The World Is Waiting for You

Jan 8, 2024 | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

What Wonder Woman represents to immigration attorney Heather Poole and her clients Published in 2024 Southern California Super Lawyers magazine By Erik Lundegaard on January 9, 2024 The client in her office was a young, gay man from Thailand whose husband, a U.S. citizen, refused to sponsor him for a green card; he wanted to hold that over him. This was a spouse who was not just controlling but abusive. “The young man comes into my office and tells me about this,” remembers Heather L. Poole,...
Son of a Son of a Rabbi

Jan 8, 2024 | superlawyers.com | Erik Lundegaard

Why Harry Nelson chose law over the family business; how it still infuses his practice Published in 2024 Southern California Super Lawyers magazine By Erik Lundegaard on January 9, 2024 When Harry Nelson graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1994, the family joke was, “So when are you going to start rabbinical school?” Nelson, a health care law practitioner at Nelson Hardiman, comes from a long line of not only rabbis, but rabbis who first studied law. “My grandfather...