Geoffrey Jonathan Moul
Murray Murphy Moul + Basil LLP
Contingency fee based litigation and class action attorney with over 25 years of experience. Geoff counsel client and their lawyers on complex disputes. He has argued in jury and bench trials, administrative hearings and arbitrations, and has helped clients earn the following victories:
+ What was then the largest consumer class-action settlement in Franklin County.
+ $600 million securities-fraud settlement that was the largest in the four-state region of Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Murray Murphy Moul + Basil LLP is a member of the Ohio Attorney General’s securities litigation panel and which has advised Ohio’s pension funds under the administrations of five different Ohio Attorneys General. The firm was most recently successful in helping secure one of the largest insider trading settlements in history, representing Ohio STRS in the $250 million settlement of the case of Basile, et al. v. Valeant Pharmaceutical International, Inc., et al. (C.D. Cal. 2018).
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
- Securities Law
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- General Civil
- Contingent Fees
- Ohio
- English: Spoken, Written
- Partner
- Murray Murphy Moul + Basil LLP
- - Current
- Class action, commercial litigation, complex litigation, partnership breakups, close corporation disputes, telemarketing fraud.
- Associate
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
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- Class action and environmental defense.
- Law Clerk
- United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
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- Law clerk to Joseph P. Kinneary, United States District Court Judge.
- Ohio State University - Columbus
- J.D. (1994) | Law
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- Top 10% of class.
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Ohio State Bar
- Member
- Current
- Columbus Bar Association
- Member of the Certified Grievance Committee
- - Current
- Class action and Complex Litigation Update, MMM+B Annual Update, Columbus, OH
- MMM+B
- Website
- Partner