Eric J. Konopka

Eric Konopka is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, and currently serves as a member of the firm’s Diversity Leadership Committee.

Mr. Konopka received his JD from Columbia Law School, where he received the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize for highest academic honors in all three years, served as a managing editor of the Columbia Law Review, and was a finalist in the Harlan Fiske Stone Honors Moot Court Competition. Before joining Latham & Watkins, he clerked for Judge Raymond Kethledge of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Justice Leondra Kruger of the Supreme Court of California, and Judge Carlos Bea of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Konopka worked in investment banking and private equity. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Management Science.