Thorp Pro Bono Attorney of the Year: Erik Zimmerman
Erik Zimmerman is a shareholder in the Research Triangle office of Robinson Bradshaw. He represents clients in a broad range of commercial litigation matters, with a focus on appeals. He has argued in the Fourth Circuit and the North Carolina appellate courts and has filed numerous briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate courts nationwide.
Erik often handles pro bono appeals. He has represented clients pro bono in the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and the North Carolina appellate courts on a wide range of matters, from landlord-tenant disputes to high-stakes constitutional cases.
Erik co-chairs Robinson Bradshaw’s Appeals Practice Group. He also serves on the North Carolina Bar Association’s Appellate Rules Committee and Appellate Practice Section Council.
Erik clerked for Chief Justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr., and for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit. Erik graduated from Stanford Law School and Harvard University.
A Cary native, Erik now lives in Chapel Hill with his wife, Danielle, and their two children, Abbie and Henry.