James L Griffith, Jr.

James L. Griffith, Jr. is an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer focusing on ERISA, employee benefits, insurance, and commercial litigation. He represents businesses, insurance companies, plan sponsors, plan administrators, directors, officers, executives, and professional service providers in complex class and individual actions involving ERISA, fiduciary duties, insurance coverage, civil RICO, employment, antitrust, privacy, and business disputes.. Mr. Griffith has successfully defended clients in high-stakes litigation involving substantial claimed damages, including nationwide class actions, and has secured significant dismissals and defense verdicts in ERISA, RICO, insurance, employment, and commercial matters. He has successfully argued appeals before multiple U.S. Courts of Appeal.. THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL and other national legal publications have reported his accomplishments in federal trial and appellate courts. In his commercial litigation practice, Mr. Griffith represents business owners, companies, directors, officers, executives, and professional service providers in disputes involving corporate governance, shareholder and equity-holder issues, business torts, employment and labor matters, antitrust and competition laws, professional liability, privacy and data security, and temporary restraining orders and injunctions.

Mr. Griffith also advises boards and executives on internal investigations, governance, compliance, and legal risks. His transactional work includes counseling clients on transactions implicating ERISA, multi-employer plan withdrawal liability, HIPAA, and related compliance matters, and negotiating and drafting business-to-business agreements.

Mr. Griffith is a Partner at Reger Rizzo Darnall LLP, a Philadelphia-based law firm with offices in the mid-Atlantic region.