Jeff Grant, Esq. Saved My White Collar Case

Testimonial by a Client and White Collar Support Group Member

A normal morning turned into a nightmare.

A sudden thundering boom shattered the front door and my world. One moment I was a respected businessman; the next, I was facing white- collar charges and the terrifying prospect of a long sentence and crippling financial penalties. Shame, fear, and uncertainty overwhelmed me and clouded my judgment.

I hired highly respected and reputable white collar attorneys, but my concerns soon arose. Their recommendations felt like they wanted me to fold even before we started. They wanted me to immediately agree to give the government millions of dollars, virtually every penny my wife and I had in the bank.

Questions swirled around my head, I couldn’t sleep. Were we conceding too much? Did I have a choice? My primary goal was to minimize the financial penalties as I assumed I would have little chance to ever again earn a living even close to the one I had lost. And, I wanted to prioritize this goal while still reducing my potential incarceration time. This appeared to be a strange and foreign concept to my lawyers as they hammered at me to just throw in the towel.

My wife found an article in The New Yorker about the White Collar Support Group and its co-founder, lawyer Jeff Grant. The group provided much needed emotional support and understanding, and its members shared their practical experience of navigating the white collar justice system.

Jeff truly turned things around for me. His deep understanding of the legal system and unwavering compassion were a godsend. I added him to my defense team as co- counsel, and hired him as my Private General Counsel, to provide strategy, business experience and fill in all the gaps my criminal defense attorneys knew little, or nothing, about.

He expertly knew how to make my defense lawyers comfortable that he was not there to replace them, but to collaborate, and add valuable experience and guidance to achieve a better outcome.

Jeff meticulously analyzed the case, particularly the financial aspects. His experience and insight gained from helping hundreds of white collar defendants, and decades serving as General Counsel to successful businesses, quickly made all the difference.

Jeff was able to look at my case in a client-centered way. He understood that I needed a lawyer, and a friend, who would put my me and my family first. He delivered in a big way. He offered us valuable alternatives on reducing sentencing points, restitution, taxation, and avoiding forfeiture, and became the go-to guy for all of our business and real estate interests.The impact was immediate. Jeff developed a creative strategy that combined restitution and forfeiture in a way that reduced my overall sentencing points.

My plea agreement was far better than I ever imagined achievable — a significantly reduced sentence, a manageable restitution payment, and no forfeiture.

Beyond his legal expertise, Jeff prepared me mentally and emotionally for the challenges ahead. He was always there providing encouragement and empathy. His unwavering support throughout this ordeal will never be forgotten.

If you find yourself facing similar legal, business and family turmoil and need someone who can fight for the best possible outcome, don’t hesitate to contact Jeff Grant.

— Anonymous Client, California

About Jeffrey D. Grant, Esq. & GrantLaw, PLLC

Jeff Grant is the real deal… I can’t imagine there is a lawyer in this country more qualified to help high-stakes clients navigate complex legal and business challenges. — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker

GrantLaw, PLLC offers comprehensive private general counsel services for executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals managing complex legal, financial, and personal matters. Whether clients are proactively structuring their affairs to expand and/or mitigate risk, involved in high-stakes situations, responding to regulatory inquiries, or seeking to rebuild after past legal difficulties, we provide discreet, strategic guidance to help them move forward with confidence.

We assist clients in making and executing critical business, financial, and family decisions, ensuring they have the best possible foundation for long-term success. Our work often involves risk assessment, compliance strategies, crisis management, and reputation preservation. When necessary, we also provide guidance on pardons, expungement, and clemency.

We practice in New York and on authorized federal matters, and frequently collaborate and serve as co-counsel with local counsel, criminal defense lawyers and other professionals throughout the country. In criminal prosecution settings. we help clients navigate these issues with an eye toward the best possible outcomes in areas such as charging decisions, sentencing, restitution, and forfeiture.

To deliver holistic support, we believe that experts should be brought into the process as early as possible. To this end, we assemble, manage, coordinate and collaborate with a network of trusted professionals, including criminal defense attorneys, tax attorneys, bankruptcy lawyers, family lawyers, civil litigators, estate and trust lawyers, accountants, private investigators, fraud examiners, mitigation specialists, medical doctors and psychiatrists, forensic psychologists, drug and alcohol interventionists, prison consultants, white collar peer and support resources, and more.

And, of course, we are honored to serve clients who seek our strategic counsel outside of crisis situations, providing trusted, long-term legal guidance tailored to their evolving needs.

Jeff is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, and in the Federal District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Social Impact Entertainment Society.

Jeff has authored, been the subject of, or been prominently mentioned in many national and regional publications. They include The New Yorker, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law,, Wells Street with CNBC’s Jane Wells, Reuters, American Bar Association Criminal Justice Magazine, Business Insider, Forbes, Philadelphia Inquirer, Vanity Fair, Greenwich Magazine, Law360, Inc., The Huffington Post, Absolute Return/HedgeFund Intelligence, Institutional Investor, CFO Dive, New York Magazine, Corporate Crime Reporter, Fairfield County Business Journal, Nonprofit Quarterly, Greenwich Country Capitalist, and many others.

He has been featured or interviewed on many radio shows, televisions segments and podcasts. They include the Rich Roll Podcast, Locked In with Ian Bick, PRETEND podcast with Javier Leiva, Inside True Crime with Matt Cox, The JustPod (the American Bar Association criminal justice podcast), The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber, Nightmare Success podcast with Brent Cassity, Newsy, Presumption of Innocence podcast with Matt Adams, Business Talk with Jim Campbell, the Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR, The Lawyer Millionaire podcast, the Fraud Stories podcast, the Taxgirl Podcast, Landmark Recovery Radio, Clara CFO podcast with Hanna Smolinski, and Founders Focus podcast with Scott Case, among many others. Full bio here.

Jeffrey D. Grant, Esq., GrantLaw, PLLC

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