Eric Tirschwell

Under Eric’s leadership, the team has won major victories in cases against firearms manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in courts across the country, including securing multiple multi-million-dollar settlements for Everytown Law clients. The team has also successfully helped defend many state and local gun safety laws against Second Amendment and preemption challenges.

Eric is a seasoned courtroom attorney with decades of experience in front of judges and juries in federal and state courts. His prior litigation experience includes five years handling criminal cases and jury trials as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York (including gun crimes, stock fraud, and international drug trafficking) and litigating complex civil, criminal, and constitutional matters for over a decade as a litigation partner and co-Chair of the White Collar Crime and Government Investigations Group at the Kramer Levin law firm in New York City.

Eric has published on a range of topics from the Second Amendment to criminal justice reform, including co-authoring a textbook, law review articles and op/eds. He served as national Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Practitioners Advisory Group, on the Federal Bar Council’s Public Service Committee, on the board of The Fund for Modern Courts, and as a member of the Citizens Crime Commission’s Lawyers Council. Eric is a recipient of the Department of Justice Director’s Award, the New York Law Journal’s Lawyers Who Lead by Example Award, and Her Justice’s Commitment to Justice Award. He taught as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and as a visiting lecturer at NYU Law School. He is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School and Amherst College and served as a law clerk to United States District Judge David Kenyon in Los Angeles.

Office

• New York

Education

• Amherst College, B.A.
• Harvard Law School, J.D., honors

Bar Admissions

• New York

Court Admissions

• United States District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuits and for the District of Columbia
• United States Supreme Court

Publications

• Eric Tirschwell and Mark Frassetto, What the 2020 Supreme Court Term Means for US Gun Laws, Commentary, Law.com (July 20, 2020).
• Eric Tirschwell and Mary B. McCord, Bump Stocks Threaten Public Safety and National Security, Opinon, Lawfare (February 22, 2019).
• Eric Tirschwell, If we want gun safety in America, Brett Kavanaugh will not help us, Opinion, The Hill (August 23, 2018).
• Eric Tirschwell and Mark Frassetto, 10 years after Heller: Fiery gun rights rhetoric, but courts back Second Amendment limits, Opinion, USA Today (June 25, 2018).
• Eric Tirschwell, The NRA vs. The Constitution, Opinion, Wall Street Journal (May 20, 2018).
• Eric Tirschwell and Alla Lefkowitz, Prohibiting Guns at Public Demonstrations: Debunking First and Second Amendment Myths after Charlottesville, UCLA Law Review – Discourse (April 5, 2018). 
• Eric Tirshwell and Alla Lefkowitz, McAuliffe’s prohibition on guns at RVA’s Lee monument is constitutional, Opinion, Richmond-Time Dispatch (Dec. 9, 2017).