Eric Isken began his legal career as a commercial litigation attorney and partner in the Los Angeles office of Graham & James, an international law firm. He was at the firm for 20 years and handled a wide range of commercial litigation matters in state and federal courts, arbitration and appeals. He then served in the Southern California Edison Company Law Department for 20 years as a senior attorney, power procurement (transactional) section director, assistant general counsel and chief litigation counsel. Isken handled litigation, transactional and regulatory matters for Edison. He retired from Edison in 2018 and began teaching legal writing at USC and handling a variety of pro bono matters.