Erica Crowl

Senior Auditor

ecrowl@alangray.com

+1 (312) 550-6129

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About

Erica Dew Crowl partners with clients to optimize legal spend in complex, high-stakes matters through strategic litigation management and comprehensive legal fee audits. She goes beyond standard billing guideline compliance, delivering insights and actionable strategies to achieve better outcomes. Erica’s services encompass all aspects of legal spend management. These include evaluating and selecting legal service providers, establishing benchmarks and custom analytics, ensuring compliance with corporate and carrier billing guidelines, negotiating and implementing alternative fee arrangements, and controlling e-discovery costs. Erica has extensive experience in various types of litigation, including pharmaceutical, class action, mass tort and commercial contract matters. She is licensed in Illinois and Kansas and is a Certified Litigation Management Professional.

Expertise

  • Alternative Fee 
  • Arrangements
  • Antitrust Claims
  • Asbestos Claims 
  • Class Actions
  • Claims Investigations 
  • Commercial Contract 
  • Construction Defect 
  • Defense Cost Audits 
  • Environmental Claims
  • General Liability Claims 
  • Intellectual Property Claims
  • Legal Invoice Auditing 
  • Legal Malpractice/Attorney Fraud
  • Litigation Management 
  • Mass Tort
  • Medical Malpractice Claims 
  • Pharmaceutical Liability
  • Personal Injury Claims 
  • Prevailing Parties
  • Qui Tam
  • RICO Claims
  • Shareholder Derivate Actions
  • Statutory Fee Shifting
  • Toxic Tort

Functional

Professional Experience

Alan Gray LLC

Mari Henry Leigh & Associates / Leigh-galese

Cozen O’Connor / Legal Fee Solutions

Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & Pearson LLP

Education

University of Kansas Law School - JD

University of Minnesota - BA

Claims and Litigation Management Alliance - Certified Litigation Management Professional (CLMP) 

Professional Designations

Member, Chicago Bar Association

Member, Illinois Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Fellow, Claims and Litigation Management Alliance

Publications