About Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.

G&E is one of the nation’s foremost complex litigation boutiques.  With a focus on prosecuting fraud, economic torts and class actions, G&E has recovered over $12 billion dollars for its clients in the last five years, and has repeatedly been named on of the nation’s “Top Ten Plaintiff’s Firms” by the National Law Journal.  In 2008, RiskMetrics Group cited G&E for winning the highest average investor recovery in securities class actions of any law firm in the U.S. 

With offices in Delaware, New York, and Washington, DC, the firm’s resources encompass more than 150 staff members including lawyers, analysts, researchers, and investigators.  Firm attorneys include former federal and state prosecutors along with former large firm litigators and in-house counsel.

G&E serves as corporate governance and securities counsel to some of the nation’s largest state and municipal retirement systems.  The firm has been lead counsel in many of the largest securities class action recoveries in U.S. history, including a $3 billion recovery against Tyco International.  G&E’s multi-hundred million dollar recoveries against companies such as General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, and Royal Dutch Shell exemplify the firm’s ability to successfully litigate against the largest corporations in the world.

Reuben A. Guttman
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Mr. Guttman's practice involves complex litigation and class actions. He has represented clients in claims brought under the Federal False Claims Act, the Price Anderson Act, Department of Energy (DOE) statutes and regulations, the WARN Act, RICO, and various employment discrimination, labor and environmental statutes. He has also litigated claims involving fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, antitrust, business interference, and other common law torts.

Mr. Guttman has published in the areas of the False Claims Act, labor, and environmental law. He is the co-author, with Ann Lugbill, of "The False Claims Act: Holding Employers Accountable for Workplace Rights," Employee Rights Quarterly (Aspen, Autumn 2000). This article describes how the False Claims Act can be a tool in the arsenal to use against government contractor employers who fail to abide by the labor, environmental, and other provisions of government contract requirements.

Mr. Guttman has appeared on ABC National News and CNN, and has been quoted in major publications, including the Wall Street Journal and national wire services.

Mr. Guttman is a founding member of the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA) Qui Tam Litigation Committee and was a featured speaker on the False Claims Act at the ATLA July 2001 national conference in Montreal, Canada. He is also an active participant in the AFL-CIO's Lawyers Coordinating Committee (LCC).

Mr. Guttman is also an author and editor of scholarly works. He has served a consulting editor for Warren, Gorham & Lamont (New York, NY), and Technomics Publishing (Basil, Switzerland, Lancaster, PA). He is also a chapter author and Advisory Board Member for Environmental Management in Healthcare Facilities a treatise published by the W.B. Saunders Company (1998). He has the following publications to his credit:

• "The False Claims Act: Holding Employers Accountable for Workplace Rights," Employee Rights Quarterly (Aspen, Autumn 2000) (with Reuben A. Guttman).
• Co-Author, "The Asbestos Model: Labor and Citizen Groups and a Multipronged Approach to Regulatory Change," in Conflict Resolution and Public Policy (edited by Miriam K. Mills, Greenwood Press 1990).
• "At Issue: Should Congress Pass Legislation that would Extend the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act to All Public and Commercial Buildings," Congressional Quarterly Editorial Research Reports, Volume I, No. 9, 1990;
• "EPA Dialogue May Result in Rules for Commercial Buildings," 2 National Journal of Asbestos and Buildings Litigation (November 13, 1990);
• "The Dormant Commerce Clause and Interstate Transportation of Waste," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Resource Management and Technology, June, 1993; and "Supreme Court Upholds Preemptive Powers of OSH Act," Medical Waste, Volume I, No. 4, January, 1993.

In addition to his writings, Mr. Guttman has testified on environmental issues before committees of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, and in 1992 advised President-elect Clinton's transition team on labor policy. He has been an invited speaker on privatization and procurement issues at conferences sponsored by the United States Department of Energy (Oakland, California, 1997; Denver, Colorado, 1995). He was also invited to speak on employment discrimination by the Houston Regional Office of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) at its Fall, 1997 Technical Conference in Beaumont, Texas. He has also served as a speaker on employment class actions at a 1999 client labor and employment law seminar in Dallas, Texas sponsored by Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. He has guest lectured at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University. He has served as a Moot Court Judge at the Georgetown and Catholic University Schools of Law.

Mr. Guttman is admitted to practice law in Georgia (1985), the District of Columbia (1988), Pennsylvania (1991), and New Jersey (1991). He is a member of the bars for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third, Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, as well as the District of Columbia. He is a member of the bars of the United States District Courts for the District of Columbia, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Western District of Michigan, and Northern District of Georgia.  Mr. Guttman graduated from the University of Rochester (B.A. 1981) and the Emory University School of Law (J.D. 1985).