Eric Scott Thompson

Special Counsel

    As a member of the casualty and workers compensations departments, Eric handles matters ranging from workers compensation claims to catastrophic injury and damages claims involving product liability, construction defect, motor vehicle, and premises liability to professional liability claims involving engineers, architects, and dentists.  Eric also handles appeals before the Superior Court and Supreme Court in Delaware.  

    Throughout his twenty-year career litigating cases, Eric has also represented clients in the federal courts in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Most notably, Eric is defending a client involved in the largest medical device recall in US history.     

    When not representing clients, Eric is an active member of his local community having served on the Board of Elections for Elsmere, Delaware as its chairman as well as Mayor for the past eight years.  He teaches at Wilmington University and has spent approximately twenty-four years officiating high school football in Cecil County, Maryland and Delaware. 

    Admissions
    New Jersey
    2003
    Pennsylvania
    2003
    Delaware
    2005
    U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    2005
    U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
    2018
    Education
    Widener University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2002)
    Central Michigan University (B.A., 1996)
    Associations & memberships
    Delaware State Bar Association
    Year joined
    2025