Jack L. Gruenstein

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Special Counsel; Chair, White Collar Crime Practice Group

  Firm Name

  Vaira & Riley, P.C.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Significant Representative Matters: United States v. Rooney - Successfully defended an AFSCME District Council Vice President accused of embezzlement from a union hospital in a multiple-defendant, six-week trial resulting in the only acquittal in the case.
  State v. Grossberg, a Delaware case involving the death of an infant.
  Bass v. County of Wayne, et. al. - In this malicious prosecution/civil rights case in Detroit, Michigan, was part of the trial team that obtained the then highest damages award to date awarded by a Michigan jury.
  Wright v. PHA - A jury verdict was obtained in a reverse-discrimination civil rights suit on behalf of an employee of the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
  Commonwealth v. Eric Grier - represented a defendant accused of first degree murder
  conspiracy to murder
  whose death sentence was reversed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court because of an improper instruction on accomplice liability for the crime of first degree murder. As a result of the reversal, the proper st
  ard of accomplice liability for first degree murder was clarified.
  Successfully represented a physician during an investigation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
  committees of the United States Senate
  the United States House of Representatives, into the administering of prostate cancer radiation therapy at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center.
  Successfully represented a physician in a civil investigation by the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  the Food
  Drug Administration into the off-label use of a drug manufactured
  marketed by a major pharmaceutical house.
  Represented an orthopedic surgeon who was a witness in a criminal investigation conducted by the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania into the use of synthetic bone cement alleged to have caused significant medical injuries to patients.
  Represented an orthopedic surgeon who was a witness in a criminal investigation conducted by the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey into the payment of kickbacks in return for the use of certain types of orthopedic appliances.
  Published Works: Third Circuit Criminal H
  book - 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, Winter 2016
  Government Disclosure Obligations in Criminal Cases, The Legal Intelligencer, White Collar Crime Supplement, May 5, 2015
  Corporate Bylaws May Provide Unintended Support For Employees, New Jersey Law Journal, March 10, 2014
  Moratorium on Death: A Paradigm for Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Lawyer, Winter, 2003