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J. Gerard Stranch IV

Founding and Managing Member

J. Gerard Stranch IV, Founding and Managing Member - Stranch, Jennings & Garvey, PLLC

Phone

615.254.8801

Location

The Freedom Center
223 Rosa L. Parks Avenue
Suite 200
Nashville, TN 37203

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
  • Data Breaches
  • Wage and Hour Disputes
  • Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification
  • Personal Injury
  • Trucking Wrecks

Education

  • Vanderbilt University Law School (J.D., 2003)
  • Emory University (B.A., 2000)

Bar Admissions

  • Tennessee
  • U.S. District Court Western District of Tennessee
  • U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee
  • U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. District Court District of Colorado

Professional Honors & Activities

Awards

  • Super Lawyers MidSouth Rising Star
  • Top 40 Under 40, National Trial Lawyers Association

Memberships 

  • Public Justice 
  • Nashville Bar Association
  • Tennessee Bar Association
  • American Association for Justice
  • Tennessee Association for Justice 
  • Lawyer’s Coordinating Committee of the AFLCIO
  • General Counsel Tennessee AFL-CIO and Federal Appointment, Coordinator
  • General Counsel Tennessee Democratic Party
  • National Trial Lawyer
  • Board of Directors, Cumberland River Compact
  • Class Action Trial Lawyers Association, Board Member
  • Board of Governor’s Tennessee Association for Justice

Presentations

  • Mr. Stranch regularly speaks at conferences on issues ranging from in-depth reviews of specific cases to developments in the law, including in mass torts, class actions and voting rights.
  • Mr. Stranch is one of the founding members of the Cambridge Forum on Plaintiff’s Mass Tort Litigation and regularly presents at the forum. 

    Languages

    • English
    • German

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      Our Founding Members

      J. Gerard Stranch IV

      J. Gerard Stranch IV

      James G. Stranch III

      James G. Stranch III

      R. Jan Jennings

      R. Jan Jennings

      Hon. John (Jack) Garvey

      Hon. John (Jack) Garvey

      Michael G. Stewart

      Michael G. Stewart