Jeffrey D. Grant is the Founder and Principal of GrantLaw, PLLC, a New York law firm that serves as Private General Counsel to executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, family businesses, nonprofit organizations, and individuals facing significant legal, business, and reputational challenges. He advises clients through high-stakes decisions involving government investigations, business disputes, regulatory matters, governance, internal investigations, crisis management, and other situations where experienced judgment, strategic thinking, and unwavering discretion are essential.

For many clients, Jeffrey becomes the first call long before litigation begins. He helps identify risks, evaluate options, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and guide matters that extend beyond traditional legal representation. Whether serving as lead counsel or working alongside existing attorneys, accountants, communications professionals, investigators, or other advisors, his focus is always the same: helping clients protect what matters most—their businesses, reputations, relationships, and futures.

Jeffrey’s legal career spans decades of experience in corporate leadership, private practice, governance, litigation, executive counseling, and strategic advisory work. He has represented business owners, executives, professionals, nonprofit leaders, and individuals confronting some of the most challenging moments of their personal and professional lives. His clients value not only his legal experience, but also his ability to bring clarity, perspective, and practical judgment when the consequences are significant.

Jeffrey’s perspective is shaped by more than professional experience. More than two decades ago, after serving a federal prison sentence, he rebuilt his life and career and was reinstated to the practice of law by the New York Supreme Court. That journey profoundly influences the way he counsels clients today. Having personally experienced crisis, accountability, loss, recovery, and redemption, he offers an uncommon combination of legal insight, empathy, resilience, and strategic perspective that few attorneys can provide.

In 2016, Jeffrey and his wife, Lynn Springer, co-founded the White Collar Support Group, one of the largest peer-support communities for individuals and families affected by government investigations and white-collar prosecutions. Since its founding, the organization has served thousands of participants throughout the United States and internationally, becoming a respected resource for lawyers, judges, academics, mental health professionals, and individuals navigating the emotional and practical realities of investigations, prosecutions, incarceration, and reentry.

From 2016 – 2019, Jeff served as Executive Director of Family ReEntry, Inc. (Bridgeport, CT), a 100+ person criminal justice organization with offices and programs in eight Connecticut cities. Jeff is the first person in the United States formerly incarcerated for a white collar crime to be appointed Executive Director of a major criminal justice nonprofit

Jeff is also the co-founder of the Federal Expungement Initiative, a national effort dedicated to advancing opportunities for deserving individuals with federal criminal records. Through legislative advocacy, public education, and coalition-building, the Initiative seeks to expand pathways to restoration, second chances, and meaningful reintegration.

As an attorney, author, speaker, and ordained minister, Jeff has become a nationally recognized voice on leadership through adversity, white-collar crime, professional licensing, ethics, criminal justice reform, resilience, and recovery. His work reflects a deep belief that while legal problems must be solved strategically, lasting solutions often require addressing the human dimensions of crisis as well.

Today, Jeff’s practice reflects a simple philosophy: clients facing life’s most consequential decisions deserve more than legal representation. They deserve a trusted advisor who can see the broader picture, assemble the right team, ask the right questions, and provide sound judgment when the stakes are highest.

Representative Leadership & Recognition

• Founder & Principal, GrantLaw, PLLC
• Private General Counsel to executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, family businesses, and nonprofit leaders
• Co-Founder, White Collar Support Group
• Co-Founder, Federal Expungement Initiative
• Ordained Minister, Union Theological Seminary
• Nationally recognized expert, speaker, author, and advocate on white-collar crime, leadership, ethics, resilience, and criminal justice reform

Professional Associations and Memberships

Boards and Public Service

Jeff has served on numerous social justice and criminal justice boards. They include the Legal Action Center (New York, NY), Council Member – American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Co-Chair – American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Parole, Probation & Reentry Committee, (Washington, DC), Advisory Member – American Bar Association Commission on Lawyers Assistance Programs (Chicago, IL) , Co-Chair, Mayor’s Advisory Council on Reentry Affairs (Bridgeport, CT), Family ReEntry (Bridgeport, CT), Community Partners in Action (formerly the Connecticut Prison Association, Hartford, CT), and Healing Communities Network (New York, NY). He has also served on the Advisory Boards of Creative Projects Group (Los Angeles, CA) and Reentry Survivors (Bridgeport, CT).

Speaking & Professional Engagements

Jeffrey is a frequent keynote speaker, moderator, panelist, and lecturer before bar associations, law schools, universities, professional organizations, recovery communities, nonprofit organizations, and business groups throughout the United States. His presentations explore leadership during crisis, executive decision-making, government investigations, professional responsibility, resilience, redemption, and the long-term consequences of white-collar prosecutions.

His audiences have included attorneys, judges, law students, business leaders, mental health professionals, academics, clergy, and individuals seeking practical guidance during periods of profound personal and professional transition.

Publications & Media

Jeffrey has authored or been the subject of numerous articles on white-collar crime, criminal justice reform, leadership, ethics, reentry, trauma, and resilience. His insights have appeared in legal publications, professional journals, podcasts, and national media.

His personal and professional journey was prominently featured in The New Yorker in Evan Osnos’s acclaimed article, “Life After White-Collar Crime,” introducing his work to a national audience and highlighting his unique perspective on accountability, recovery, and second chances.

“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

Other national and regional publications include 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.

Representative Podcasts, Interviews & Videos

Jeff 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), White Collar Talks with Nina Marino & Joe Whitley (the American Bar Association White Collar podcast), The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber, Nightmare Success podcast with Brent Cassity, the 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.

Jeff is also editor of the important, widely-read website and blog at prisonist.org, for which he authors, edits, and curates content around national and international criminal justice advocacy/ministry issues. He also co-hosted the Criminal Justice Insider radio show and podcast with Babz Rawls Ivy, and hosted the White Collar Week podcast.

Jeff’s Personal Philosophy

Throughout his career, Jeffrey has come to believe that legal problems rarely exist in isolation. They affect businesses, families, careers, finances, health, and relationships. The most effective counsel therefore requires more than legal knowledge—it requires judgment, perspective, compassion, and the ability to help clients navigate uncertainty with confidence.

This philosophy defines Jeff Grant and GrantLaw, PLLC, and continues to guide every client relationship