Erica Sollazzo Payne is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Ms. Payne clerked for the Honorable Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Ms. Payne earned her J.D., with pro bono distinction, from Stanford Law School in 2017.  While in law school, she served as managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and testified before the United States Copyright Office through the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic.  Ms. Payne graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from Princeton University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior.

She is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.