Whether corporate misconduct results in environmental contamination, damage, or loss of natural resources, or markets products in a misleading way that harms consumers and wastes taxpayer dollars, our team fights to restore those funds to the governmental entities entrusted with responsibly managing them. A win not only holds the company accountable for its past actions but serves as a powerful deterrent moving forward, while ensuring that public funds can be put to beneficial uses.
Our team has decades of experience working in federal, state and local government offices. Many of us have dedicated our professional lives to purpose-driven public interest work and service. We understand public entities’ concerns and constraints, not least of which are limited staffing and budgetary resources, and we are skilled at navigating complex government processes in order to get things done. As partners we never overstep, understanding our public entity partner’s need to retain ultimate control over strategy, media statements and other important aspects of any case.
What we See on the Horizon
Regulatory Uncertainty an Overarching Driver of Issues for State and Local Governments
- Federal government activity growing increasingly volatile and unpredictable
- Deregulation or a withdrawal of funding for enforcement activity—creates a void that state and local governments must step up and fill to protect the public
Market Uncertainty Also a Factor
- Trends in the private markets involving a host of products sold through commercial channels to both consumers and governmental entities themselves
In addition to fraudulent marketing and advertising, anti-competitive or conspiratorial conduct – driving up prices and driving public revenues down.
The Reason Plaintiffs Hire Us
G&E takes a sophisticated, systematic approach when investigating and representing public entity clients in a wide variety of litigation matters, including:
- Environmental Litigation (representing states, municipalities, and other public entities injured by the misconduct of industrial polluters, the energy and extraction industry, chemical manufacturers and suppliers, and those who facilitate their unlawful practices)
- Federal and State False Claims Act (representing whistleblowers who initiate litigation on behalf of federal or state governments)
- Consumer Protection (representing Attorneys General and local government consumer protection agencies for injuries caused by the fraudulent misrepresentation of consumer goods and services, dangerous products with undisclosed hazards, or the intentional distribution of products designed to addict, from pharmaceuticals to tobacco to digital platforms).
Attorneys General and other state and local public entities are the last – or now, perhaps, only – line of defense against corporate threats to public health and safety. We are honored to lend our ranks and significant resources to increase their capacity as they take on these national or multinational, often incredibly well-financed corporate behemoths and bad actors.
