15 Jan 2026
Erik M. Silber Joins Dykema in Los Angeles as Senior Counsel
"Erik M. Silber joins Dykema's Los Angeles office as Senior Counsel, working in Commercial Litigation, White Collar and Government Investigations, and Appellate and Critical Motions, with a focus on data privacy, cybersecurity and IP."
Silber joins Dykema from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, where he served for more than two decades as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. At the time he left the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he was one of nine section leaders in the Criminal or National Security Division, serving as Chief of the Post Conviction and Special Litigation Section. He previously served as a Deputy Chief—and regular Acting Chief—of the Office’s training section (the General Crimes Section), where he taught new prosecutors.
Over the course of his tenure with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Silber developed a national reputation for handling complex, high‑stakes matters involving white collar crime, public corruption, environmental enforcement, cybercrime, elections law, intellectual property, and data privacy. His experience includes supervising and trying felony cases, leading major fraud and corruption prosecutions, advising on charging, sentencing, and enforcement policy at the Department of Justice level, trying approximately half a dozen federal cases as solo or lead counsel, and directly supervising more than 40 federal trials.
Silber has also been detailed to national policy roles. He served as Senior Counsel for the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy, where he focused on emerging technology issues including cybersecurity, privacy, and intellectual property, served as a DOJ representative to the White House on privacy, co‑led a DOJ‑wide initiative to update guidance for computer‑hacking and intellectual property crime enforcement, and co‑led a DOJ team addressing sentencing policy before the United States Sentencing Commission. On loan to the White House, he assisted in crafting the joint strategic plan to combat intellectual property infringement and helped develop the White House’s intellectual property enforcement legislative priorities.
An accomplished appellate advocate, Silber has argued 36 cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, including before an en banc panel, and has supervised the briefing of hundreds of federal appeals. His notable appellate work includes securing reversal of the dismissal of an indictment involving illegal contributions to a presidential candidate; that matter led to his joining the faculty for the elections crime course at DOJ’s National Advocacy Center and serving as co‑District Elections Officer for the Central District of California for multiple federal elections.
Silber received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and an A.B., with honors, in Economics and Political Science‑Public Service from the University of California, Davis. He is an Executive Committee member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Section and the Los Angeles Criminal Justice Inn of Court, a member of the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and a recent past Chair of the Litigation Section of the California Lawyers Association. He has also served as an adjunct professor of criminal procedure at the USC Gould School of Law and as a recurring guest lecturer on white‑collar crime and appellate advocacy at Loyola Law School.