Jerome A. Murphy

He is a leader of the firm's Antitrust Recovery Practice and has successfully represented several groups of Fortune 100 companies in federal litigation and arbitration brought to recover damages from antitrust cartels. In coordination with competition lawyers in the firm's international offices, Jerry has also assisted multinational clients seeking global recoveries from worldwide price-fixing cartels, including bringing one of the first follow-on private damages actions in Europe before the United Kingdom's Competition Appeal Tribunal and litigation in the Netherlands.

Jerry's corporate plaintiff practice includes more than just filing lawsuits. He regularly counsels clients regarding sophisticated alternatives to the class action approach, often achieving recoveries through negotiation, arbitration, and litigation well in excess of class recoveries. These alternatives maximize recovery based on a balanced and tailored approach that demonstrates resolve and commitment to results, while at the same time maintaining important commercial relationships with actual or potential suppliers. In fact, Jerry and his team have been able to turn most recoveries into "win-win" situations for his clients and their key suppliers.

He regularly handles matters at both the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts throughout the country. Jerry regularly represents clients in federal multi-district litigation and has served as national coordinating counsel for clients involved in multi-state proceedings. He has represented clients in a wide variety of subject-matter areas, including a large equipment manufacturer in welding fume litigation, a Class I railroad in employee environmental claims, an auto manufacturer in multistate product liability class actions, a manufacturer in an antitrust price-fixing case, and a medical device manufacturer in product liability litigation. He has also represented clients before arbitration panels and in other ADR proceedings, including the first international antitrust arbitration in Japan.

Jerry is a member and former chair of the firm's Contingency Review Committee and is a member of the Finance Committee.  He has long been active in developing lawyer training for the firm, including training specific to the firm’s litigators. Along with other firm partners, he created and runs the firm's preeminent Trial Excellence Academy, which runs annually and includes mock trials in D.C. federal court. 

Jerry is also a long-standing member of the firm's Public Service Committee and maintains an active pro bono docket. He is the outside general counsel of the Equal Rights Center and a Trustee of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Jerry joined Crowell & Moring in 1998. A 1985 graduate of Georgetown University, Jerry received his law degree in 1992 from the University of Maryland, where he graduated with honors and was executive editor of the Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. He attended law school while on active duty under the Army's Funded Legal Education Program. Prior to joining the firm, Jerry served on active duty in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps as senior trial counsel and senior trial defense counsel. In the JAG Corps, Jerry tried dozens of cases to verdict as both prosecutor and defense counsel. He served as lead counsel in cases ranging from premeditated murder to complex fraud, and defended senior officers, cases involving classified programs, and high-profile cases.