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E-Mail: gjarvis@gelaw.com  

Mr. Jarvis is a partner of Grant & Eisenhofer focusing on securities litigation for institutional investors. He had a major role in the Oxford Health Plans Securities Litigation and the DaimlerChrysler Securities Litigation, both of which were among the top ten securities settlements in U.S. history at the time they were resolved.  Mr. Jarvis also has been involved in a number of actions before the Delaware Chancery Court, including a Delaware appraisal case that resulted in a favorable decision for the firm's client after trial.  At the present time, he has primary responsibility for a number of cases in which Grant & Eisenhofer clients have opted-out of class actions, and also has a lead role in class actions pending against Tyco, Alstom and Sprint.

Mr. Jarvis graduated from Cornell University in 1980 with a B.A. in Government and Economics, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1984.  Until 1986, he served as a staff attorney with the Federal Communications Commission, participating in the development of new regulatory policies for the telecommunications industry.  He then became an associate in the Washington office of Rogers & Wells, principally devoted to complex commercial litigation in the fields of antitrust and trade regulations, insurance, intellectual property, contracts and defamation issues, as well in counseling corporate clients in diverse industries on general legal and regulatory compliance matters. Mr. Jarvis previously was associated with a prominent Philadelphia litigation boutique and had first-chair assignments in cases commenced under the Pennsylvania Whistle Blower Act and in major antitrust, First Amendment, civil rights, and complex commercial litigation, including several successful arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit.  

Mr. Jarvis recently co-authored "Securities Fraud, Stock Price Valuation, and Loss Causation: Toward a Corporate Finance-Based Theory of Loss Causation," Business Lawyer, August 2004 (co-authored with Jay Eisenhofer and James R. Banko).

Bar Admissions:

• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the District of Delaware
• United States District Court for the District of Arizona
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Federal Claims
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

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