J. Gerard Stranch IV

Founding and Managing Member

Gerard Stranch is the managing member at Stranch, Jennings & Garvey, PLLC (SJ&G). A third-generation trial lawyer, he leads the firm’s class action and mass tort practice groups. His additional areas of practice include bank fees, data breaches, wage and hour disputes, worker adjustment and retraining notification, personal injury and trucking wrecks. 

Mr. Stranch has served as lead or co-lead counsel for the firm in numerous cases, including:

• lead trial attorney in the Sullivan Baby Doe case (originally filed as Staubus v. Purdue) against U.S. opioid producers Endo Health Solutions Inc. and Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., resulting in a $35 million settlement agreement, the largest per capita settlement achieved by any prosecution with Endo to date;
• personally appointed to the steering committee of the In re: Volkswagen “Clean Diesel” Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, resulting in approximately $17 billion in settlements, the largest consumer auto settlement and one of the largest settlements in any matter ever;
• the executive committee In Dahl v. Bain Capital Partners (anti-trust), resulting in a $590.5 million settlement;
• personally appointed to the steering committee In re: New England Compounding Pharmacy, Inc., resulting in more than $230 million in settlements; and
• appointed as co-lead counsel In re: Alpha Corp. Securities litigation, resulting in a $161 million recovery for the class.

A 2000 graduate of Emory University, Mr. Stranch received his J.D. in 2003 from Vanderbilt University Law School, where he teaches as an adjunct professor about the practice of civil litigation. He led the opioid litigation team in the Sullivan Baby Doe suit, for which the team won the 2022 Tennessee Trial Lawyer of the Year award. Mr. Stranch has been listed as one of the Top 40 Under 40 by the National Trial Lawyers Association and as a Mid-South Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine.

Mr. Stranch lives on the farm on which he was raised, which is located 20 minutes outside of Nashville. He enjoys watching his two sons explore the farm like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, like he did as a child.

Practice Areas

• Class Action
• Mass Tort
• Bank Fees
• Privacy Litigation
• Wage and Hour Disputes
• Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification
• Personal Injury
• Trucking Wrecks

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