Gregory Y Porter

CHARLESTON, WV

MORGANTOWN, WV

WASHINGTON, DC

SPRINGFIELD, IL

Gregory Y. Porter
910 17th Street, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-463-2101
Fax: 202-463-2103
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Gregory Y. Porter

Greg is a partner at Bailey & Glasser. He has extensive experience litigating complex pension, consumer fraud, insurance sales, and RICO class actions in federal and state courts throughout the United States.

Greg has sued and represented many Fortune 500 companies in class actions under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

Greg currently represents employees in several class actions under ERISA, including claims that health insurance companies have improperly reimbursed employees for out-of-network services, large financial institutions have limited employee 401(k) plan investment options to inferior in-house mutual funds, and fiduciaries of 401(k) plans have imprudently invested employee retirement savings in employer stock. He has played a leading role in several cases that, collectively, recovered over $100 million in lost retirement savings for tens of thousands of employees. Greg has also defended companies, trustees and individuals in several landmark ERISA cases. Greg has argued ERISA appeals in the Second and Eighth United States Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as numerous dispositive motions in United States District Courts.

Greg is a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Section. He is a contributing author to the Committee's respected treatise on employee benefits law and a co-chair of the Committee's Preemption sub-committee. He is a regular speaker at the Committee's annual meeting and speaks at other conferences about employee benefits litigation.

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia, 1998
Commonwealth of Virginia, 1996

Selected Cases

In re CMS Energy ERISA Litig., 02-cv-72834 (E.D. Mich.), recovered $28 million for employees in case alleging imprudent investment in employer stock.
Sherrill v. Federal Mogul Corp., 04-cv-72949 (E.D. Mich.), recovered over $14 million for employees in case alleging imprudent investment in employer stock.
Tittle v Enron Corp., 01-cv-3913 (S.D. Tex.), represented Jeffrey Skilling, Chief Executive Officer of Enron Corp., in landmark ERISA case alleging imprudent investment of 401(k) plan savings in Enron stock.
Dupree v. The Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., No. 99-8337 (S.D. Fla.), successfully defended Prudential in trial of first impression involving claims that Prudential breached its duties by causing its own employee retirement plan to purchase investment products from Prudential.

Prior Experience

Prior to joining the firm in March 2009, Mr. Porter was a partner at McTigue & Porter, LLP.

Court Admissions

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Practice Areas

Consumer Class Actions

Litigation

Education & Honors

J.D., 1996
University of Southern California
School of Law
   Order of the Coif
   Articles Editor, Southern California Law Review
   Paralyzed Veterans of America Scholarship
   Teaching and Research Assistant

B.A., History, 1989
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
   Winning History Department Essay, 1988
   Co-Founder and Editor Five College Symposium, a Journal of International Affairs
   Intern, Office of the U.S. Senate Historian