Overview
Mr. Gryskiewicz is an all-around litigator with experience representing companies and individuals in federal and state trial and appellate courts. He has litigated class actions, contract, tort, employment, federal statutory cases, and international disputes. He has also conducted internal investigations involving the False Claims Act and in connection with federal agency proceedings. His appellate work covers many of these same areas.
Experience
- In addition to Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss, Mr. Gryskiewicz has worked as an attorney for two other national firms
- Law clerk to the Honorable Robert G. Doumar on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Legal intern to Judge Emmett Sullivan on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Prior to law school, Mr. Gryskiewicz worked as an international development consultant
Representative Matters
- Won unanimous reversal from New York state appellate court, resulting in the dismissal of suit on personal jurisdiction grounds
- Won dismissal of California suit based on corporate governance doctrines and statute of limitations
- Won dismissal of contract, employment, and tort claims in federal court on subject-matter jurisdiction grounds
- Secured unanimous reversal in Ninth Circuit for relator in qui tam suit
- Represented foreign persons seeking discovery in U.S. courts
- Represented foreign liquidators in connection with Chapter 15 bankruptcy proceedings
- Represented foreign entity relating to CFIUS proceedings
- Represented criminal defendant in federal trial
- Defended several pharmaceutical clients in a multi-defendant state false claims act matter at the trial and appellate levels, resulting in the dismissal of many of the causes of action
- Conducted internal investigations for pharmaceutical manufacturers related to False Claims Act and Stark Law compliance
- Won dismissal of False Claims Act charges related to the financial crisis of 2008
- Defended nation-wide class action involving federal telecommunications and state unjust enrichment law
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Received temporary restraining order for employer in confidentiality and non-compete action against former employee
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Defended individual and company in SEC proceedings
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Defended adoption agency in suit over confidentiality of adoptions
Publications & Events
U.S. government surveillance has repeatedly been in the news, highlighting the larger U.S. surveillance system of foreigners and the incidental gathering of Americans’ communications. The U.S. government’s surveillance capabilities and long-standing policies have sparked concern and reaction from the European Union (“EU”), and now, in response to a European court ruling, European partners are reaching out to their U.S. counterparts asking to amend existing contracts to strengthen or install protections concerning European data. How U.S. entities respond to such requests can determine whether their commercial relationships continue uninterrupted and potentially give them a leg up against the competition.
October 2021In the dying days of his administration, President Trump has moved to smash the civil service. Through Executive Order 13957 (“EO 13957” or the “EO”), the President aims to carve out an entire new class of civil servants, sheering them from long-standing federal protections designed to create a professional, apolitical federal workforce. Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss is investigating the scope of the Executive Order and possible remedies available to affected civil servants.
December 11, 2020- “The Semi-Retirement of Senior Supreme Court Justices: Examining their Service on the Courts of Appeals”Seton Hall Circuit Review, Volume XI Number 2, 11 SETON HALL CIR. REV. 285 (2015)
- Co-author, "Facts Matter in Non-Compete Agreements - Even as to Choice of Law and Venue"Legal Alert, August 1, 2017
- Co-author, "Oral Arguments Set for Major False Claims Act Case Pending Before Supreme Court"AHLA Weekly, April 8, 2016
- “Williams v. Rhodes: How One Candidate, One State, One Week, and One Justice Shaped Ballot Access Law”Journal of LAw & Politics, 28 JL & POL 185, 2015
- "Grand Bazaar"Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire, 233 (Garbor Agoston & Bruce Masters eds.), 2009
In the News
In a recent wide-sweeping decision, Twitter v. Taamneh, the United States Supreme Court dramatically reshaped liability under the 2016 Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (“JASTA”), which imposes secondary, civil liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act (“ATA”) on persons who aid and abet or conspire to commit acts of international terrorism.
May 25, 2023The United States Supreme Court concluded in ZF Automotive US, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd. that federal district courts cannot order discovery for use in a private foreign arbitration via 18 U.S.C. § 1782—a statute that permits litigants to seek discovery in federal court for “use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal.” The unanimous decision narrows a useful discovery tool by prohibiting parties in or contemplating private, foreign arbitration from obtaining discovery through federal courts for use in that arbitration.
June 14, 2022The U.S. government’s surveillance capabilities and long-standing policies have sparked concern and reaction from the European Union (“EU”), and now, in response to a European court ruling, European partners are reaching out to their U.S. counterparts asking to amend existing contracts to strengthen or install protections concerning European data. How U.S. entities respond to such requests can determine whether their commercial relationships continue uninterrupted and potentially give them a leg up against the competition.
October 2021
Practice Areas
Education
- University of Virginia (J.D/M.A. 2013)
- Georgetown University (B.A. 2008)
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- U.S. District Courts for the District of Columbia and the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit