Jeffrey Grubman, Esq. is a veteran ADR professional who has served as a mediator in over 2,000 cases in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in a wide variety of complex cases, including class actions and high impact, multi-party matters. Mr. Grubman works tirelessly to settle every case he mediates, employing a variety of creative settlement techniques.
Mr. Grubman has had the privilege of mediating many employment actions, including whistle blower, FLSA (collective wage and hour claims), ERISA disability benefits, discrimination, harassment, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank claims, non-compete, non-solicitation, wrongful termination, defamation, termination of pension benefits, tortious interference and other employment-related torts, trade secret claims, promissory note claims and disputes among partners in the employment context. Although Mr. Grubman's experience covers a broad range of industries, he has extensive experience involving the financial services industry.
Mr. Grubman regularly lectures and publishes articles on a local and national level regarding timely ADR issues, including continuing legal education presentations to law firms. Before he became a full time neutral, Mr. Grubman was a litigator with Manatt Phelps & Phillips and Morgan Lewis & Bockius. He subsequently became a partner in two boutique South Florida law firms.
Representative Matters
- Mediated 8 figure defamation and national origin discrimination claim brought by senior executive against large banking institution
- Successfully navigated parties through pre-suit mediation of Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd Frank whistleblower claim by CEO of joint venture owned by two Fortune 100 companies
- Mediated gender, age and national origin discrimination claim against large financial services company
- Mediated a seven figure Florida Whistleblower claim pre-suit by former Chief Operating Officer and President of a subsidiary against multi-national company
- Mediated claim against large securities broker dealer for long term incentive plan benefits based upon whether the former employer was disabled
- Mediated ERISA claim related to denial of spousal life insurance benefits
- Mediated age and national origin discrimination, harassment, disability discrimination and retaliation claim against county, including Family and Medical Leave Act and ADA and ADEA claims
- Mediated numerous collective and class FLSA overtime claims
- Mediated Florida Whistleblower/Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower and ADA/ADEA/FMLA claim initiated by former employee against Fortune 500 company
- Mediated many employment claims involving the securities industry, including promissory note claims, defamation, wrongful termination, breach of contract claims among partners, discrimination and improper termination of pension benefits
- Mediated breach of non-compete and non-solicitation agreement between magazine and its former director of sales
- Mediated dispute between subsidiary of international financial services company and its former president who started competing business for breach of non-compete and non-solicitation agreement and counterclaims for defamation and tortious interference
- Mediated Florida whistleblower/Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower and ADA/ADEA/FMLA claim initiated by former employee against Fortune 500 company
- Mediated worker’s compensation retaliation claim