Gregory Y. Porter

Mr. Porter has extensive experience litigating complex pension, consumer fraud, insurance sales, and RICO class actions in federal and state courts throughout the United States. 

Since joining the McTigue & Porter LLP, Mr. Porter has represented pension plan participants in several complex ERISA actions, including In re CMS Energy ERISA Litigation, 02-cv-72834 (GCS) (E.D. Mich.) and Sherrill v. Federal Mogul Programs Retirement Plan Committee, 04-cv-72949-AC (E.D. Mich.).

Prior to joining the McTigue & Porter LLP, Mr. Porter practiced at the Washington, D.C., office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, a premier class action and ERISA litigation defense firm.  Mr. Porter’s practice at O’Melveny consisted primarily of representing Fortune 500 companies in complex employee benefits class actions under ERISA and in other complex class actions.  He has represented defendants in several cases alleging that the pension plan fiduciaries breached their duties of loyalty and prudence to the plan with respect to the plan’s investments in employer stock, including:  Koch v. Dwyer, No. 98-CV-5519 (RPP) (S.D.N.Y.); Tittle v. Enron, No. 01-CV-3913 (MH) (S.D. Tex.); Rankin v. Rots, No. 02-CV-71045 (AC) (E.D. Mich); Blyler v. Agee, No. CV 97-332 (BLW) (D. Ida.).  Other representative ERISA cases include Kifafi v. Hilton Hotels Retirement Plan, No. 98-1517 (D.D.C.), a case involving benefit-accruals and alleged back-loading in a defined benefit plan, and Dupree v. The Prudential Ins. Co. Of Am., Inc., No. 99-8337 (S.D. Fla.), a case involving allegations that the plan sponsor charged the plan excessive fees for managing plan assets.

Mr. Porter has also worked on other complex class actions.  Mr. Porter represented The Prudential Insurance Company of America in In re The Prudential Insurance Company of America Sales Practices Litig., No. 95-CV-4704 (D.N.J.), one of the most complex insurances sales class actions ever litigated in United States Courts.  He represented Humana Inc. in In re Managed Care Litig., MDL 1334-MD (S.D. Fla.), a complex RICO class action pitting America’s physicians against several large health insurance companies.

Mr. Porter is a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, speaks at the committee’s annual meeting, and contributes to the annual supplement to the committee’s respected treatise, Employee Benefits Law.  Mr. Porter is a 1996 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School, where he was an editor of the Southern California Law Review and received the Order of the Coif.  Mr. Porter was raised in Berkeley, California, and Amherst, Massachusetts.