George D. Ruttinger
Overview
When clients, whether domestic or international, face bet-the-company disputes in U.S. courts or international arbitration forums, they rely on the steady hand and deep litigation experience of George Ruttinger. The National Law Journal named George to its list of "ADR Champions," who were described as demonstrating "a deep passion and perseverance in pursuit of their mission, having achieved remarkable successes along the way."
Career & Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1973
- University of Michigan, B.A., with high distinction and honors, Phi Beta Kappa, 1970
- California
- District of Columbia
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
George is one of the city’s top contracts lawyers with a track record of obtaining summary judgments in some of the most heralded defense industry-related lawsuits.
— Washingtonian magazine
George's Insights
Firm News | 10.25.24
Emergency Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Hundreds of Housing Assistance Terminations
Washington, D.C. – October 25, 2024: Children's Law Center, The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and three prominent D.C. law firms filed a class action lawsuit this week with the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, requesting emergency relief for over 800 D.C. families facing an inevitable loss of housing due to the District's unlawful mass terminations in the rapid re-housing program.
Firm News | 2 min read | 05.30.24
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee Honors George Ruttinger For Public Service Work
Firm News | 2 min read | 11.23.21
Firm News | 1 min read | 07.20.21
Crowell & Moring Named to Global Arbitration Review’s 2021 “GAR 100” List
Representative Matters
- Representing a Russian national in a $100 million UNCITRAL arbitration against the State of Kuwait. (Lazareva v. Kuwait)
- Representing American manufacturer in a NAFTA dispute with Central American nation before the International Centre for Resolution of Investment Disputes.
- Represented a software developer in the arbitration of claims against a D.C.-based transportation agency arising from the termination of a contract to design, build, and operate an electronic fare payment system (2019).
- Represented Kuwaiti-led consortium in an arbitration hearing before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Cairo against an Egyptian port authority involving claims arising out of the termination of a contract to build, operate, and transfer (BOT) a new container shipping terminal on the Mediterranean (2018). In 2020, the ICC issued its award ruling that the termination was unlawful, denying the port authority’s $500 million counterclaim, and awarding our client nearly $500 million in damages and interest.
- Represented the same consortium in an ICC hearing in Paris on claims by a manufacturer seeking compensation for equipment ordered but never delivered to the container shipping terminal (2017).
- Represented an American mining company in an investment treaty arbitration against the Republic of El Salvador based on the unlawful deprivation of a valuable gold mining concession. (Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador, ICSID Case No. ARB/09/12).
- Represented an American manufacturer of products for the nuclear industry in an arbitration convened by the International Chamber of Commerce in London to resolve disputes with an Australian firm relating to its sale of intellectual property to a client under an asset purchase agreement and the alleged breach of its covenant not to compete (2011).
- Represented a small, woman-owned business in a classified appeal of termination for a default decision, resulting in converting the termination to one for convenience of the government and in the payment to the contractor of substantial performance and termination costs (2010).
- Represented an airport authority in defending an action to enjoin the leasing of restaurant space at Reagan National Airport based on alleged violations of statutory requirements for competition; defeated a motion for preliminary injunction, resulting in the plaintiff’s dismissal of action five days before the start of a new restaurant lease. (Legal Sea Foods v. Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, Case No. 1:09cv711 AJT (2009)).
- Represented a Chinese firm in an arbitration hearing convened by the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in which a European company asserted claims against our client under a technology licensing agreement (2008).
- Obtained dismissal of a qui tam False Claims Act action for failure to prosecute after disqualifying the relator’s counsel for reviewing the client’s improperly obtained privileged documents. (Peoples ex rel. U.S. v. Eagle-Picher Indus., Inc. (W.D. Mo. 2003)).
- Represented a major transportation corporation in an international arbitration with a Dutch port operator regarding the alleged breach of a long-term contract for use of a deep-sea container handling terminal in Rotterdam. (Europe Container Terminus B.V. v. Sea-Land Serv., Inc., NAI Arbitration No. 2541).
- Obtained the dismissal of a False Claims Act suit brought against a client’s former subsidiary. (US ex. rel Bumgardner v. Datatape, Inc., No. 99-682-A (E.D. Va. 1999)).
- Represented an aerospace company in a suit to enjoin its competitor’s use of misappropriated trade secrets, resulting in a permanent injunction and the award of attorneys’ fees. (Raytheon Co. v. GTE Gov’t Sys. Corp., No. 96-5983 A (Super. Ct., Mass. 1997)).
- Defended a manufacturer of medical supplies against price fixing conspiracy suits in federal and state courts (In re Medical X-Ray Antitrust Litig., No. 93-5904 (E.D.N.Y. 1997)).
- In a federal court subcontracting dispute, represented a prime contractor in defending against a $300 million contract claim arising out of the termination of a subcontract for testing of F-18 avionics; settled claims for zero dollars after seven weeks of the jury trial. (AAI Corp. v. Harris Corp., No. 85-3021 (D. Md. 1989)).
- Represented a construction contractor in an alternative dispute resolution proceeding to resolve a $55 million differing site conditions claim arising out of the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway for the Corps of Engineers. (Tenn Tom Constructors (ENGBCA 1986)).
George's Insights
Firm News | 10.25.24
Emergency Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Hundreds of Housing Assistance Terminations
Washington, D.C. – October 25, 2024: Children's Law Center, The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and three prominent D.C. law firms filed a class action lawsuit this week with the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, requesting emergency relief for over 800 D.C. families facing an inevitable loss of housing due to the District's unlawful mass terminations in the rapid re-housing program.
Firm News | 2 min read | 05.30.24
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee Honors George Ruttinger For Public Service Work
Firm News | 2 min read | 11.23.21
Firm News | 1 min read | 07.20.21
Crowell & Moring Named to Global Arbitration Review’s 2021 “GAR 100” List
Insights
International Investment Law and Arbitration: 2014 in Review
|09.28.16
Chapter in Andrea Bjorklund, ed., Columbia Yearbook On International Investment Law & Policy 2014-2015, Oxford University Press
Using Experts in Arbitration – Chapter 31 – AAA Handbook on Arbitration Practice – Second Edition
|12.31.15
AAA Handbook on Arbitration Practice – Second Edition
'Going Concern' as a Limiting Factor on Damages in Investor-State Arbitrations
|05.01.15
The Journal of Damages in International Arbitration, Vol. 2, No. 1, Juris Publishing
How to Take Advantage of International Investment Agreements to Open Markets and Protect Investments
|09.24.12
Law360
Domestic Arbitration
|10.01.10
Chapter 8 of Litigation Management, published by American Lawyer Media's Law Journal Press
Using Experts in Arbitration
|08.01.10
Chapter 20: American Arbitration Association Handbook on Arbitration Practice
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04.01.07
American Arbitration Association's Dispute Resolution Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1
Big Risks, Big Rewards in Government Contracts: Dancing With the World's Biggest Customer
|08.01.05
Executive Counsel
Washington Litigation Departments of the Year: Crowell & Moring General Civil Litigation
|06.24.13
National Law Journal
George's Insights
Firm News | 10.25.24
Emergency Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Hundreds of Housing Assistance Terminations
Washington, D.C. – October 25, 2024: Children's Law Center, The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and three prominent D.C. law firms filed a class action lawsuit this week with the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, requesting emergency relief for over 800 D.C. families facing an inevitable loss of housing due to the District's unlawful mass terminations in the rapid re-housing program.
Firm News | 2 min read | 05.30.24
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee Honors George Ruttinger For Public Service Work
Firm News | 2 min read | 11.23.21
Firm News | 1 min read | 07.20.21
Crowell & Moring Named to Global Arbitration Review’s 2021 “GAR 100” List
