Tom Cramer maintains a steadfast focus on each of his clients. Tom believes strongly in effective attorney/client collaboration in order to obtain positive results. For both litigation matters and severance negotiation, Tom collaborates with his clients to find the best paths forward. He prides himself on staying abreast of legal issues and decisions for all types of employment concerns, as the law changes so rapidly. He is assertive, but always respectful with opposing counsel. You can rest assured that Tom has your back.
Tom knows that the complexities of litigation should not diminish a client’s ability to understand all the issues. His approach includes a high level of collaboration and continual communications between attorney and client. This approach cuts through the clutter, enabling him to clearly move forward and achieve positive results for his clients. He also is compassionate and caring in his communications with those he represents, understanding they need to put their trust in him to right the wrongs they feel they have endured.
Tom’s empathy and concern for his clients began well before he became a lawyer. From teaching English in Peru to serving as a mentor to children of U.S. Marines in Okinawa, Japan, Tom has shared his sensitivity and warmth with hundreds. A natural protector, Tom seeks justice for his clients with great resolve.
Phillip F. Cramer
Tom Cramer has held a variety of jobs from a peanut vendor at Wrigley Field to a firefighter at Yosemite National Park. He has learned how to value a good day’s work, and his legal career continues this tradition.
He is a member of the Trial Bar of the Northern District of Illinois, the Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Father of two, Tom is the head coach for his son’s AYSO soccer team and loves building his players’ confidence. He is an excellent carpenter and takes great care of his Ryobi tools. He, too, like Amy, has a passion for the Chicago Bulls. He loves watching Demar DeRozan take impossible shots and hopes to see them get better throughout the year.Eric L. Cramer is Chairman of Berger Montague and Co-Chair of its antitrust department. He has a national pra¬ctice in the field of complex litigation, primarily in the area of antitrust class actions. He is currently co-lead counsel in multiple significant antitrust class actions across the country in a variety of industries and is responsible for winning numerous significant settlements for his clients totaling well over $3 billion. Most recently, he has focused on representing workers claiming that anticompetitive practices have suppressed their pay, including cases on behalf of mixed-martial-arts fighters, healthcare and luxury retail workers, and chicken growers. Further, in late 2021, Mr. Cramer served as one of the main trial counsel in an antitrust class action relating to an alleged international cartel of capacitors’ suppliers, which was tried to a jury and settled after nearly three weeks of trial.
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In 2020, Law360 named Mr. Cramer a Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar, and Who’s Who Legal identified him as a Global Elite Thought Leader, stating that he “comes recommended by peers as a top name for antitrust class action proceedings.” In 2019, The National Law Journal awarded Mr. Cramer the Keith Givens Visionary Award, which was developed to honor an outstanding trial lawyer who has moved the industry forward through his or her work within the legal industry ecosystem, demonstrating excellence in all aspects of work from client advocacy to peer education and mentoring. In 2018, he was named Philadelphia antitrust “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers, and in 2017, he won the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice for his work in
, No. 11-cv-07178 (D.N.J.). In that case, Mr. Cramer represented a national class of physicians challenging Sanofi Pasteur with anticompetitive conduct in the market for meningitis vaccines, resulting in a settlement of more than $60 million for the class. He has also been identified as a top tier antitrust lawyer by Chambers & Partners in Pennsylvania and nationally. In 2020, Chambers & Partners observed that Mr. Cramer is “a fantastic lawyer…He has real trial experience and is very capable and super smart.” He has been highlighted annually since 2011 by The Legal 500 as one of the country’s top lawyers in the field of complex antitrust litigation and repeatedly deemed one of the “Best Lawyers in America, ” including for 2021.
Mr. Cramer is also a frequent speaker at antitrust and litigation related conferences and a leader of multiple non-profit advocacy groups. He is a past President of the Board of Directors of Public Justice, a national public interest advocacy group and law firm; a former Vice President of the Board of Directors of the American Antitrust Institute; a past President of COSAL (Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws), a leading industry group; and a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Consumer Antitrust Studies of the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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, 17 George Mason Law Review 4 (2010), the latter of which was cited by both the First Circuit in In re Nexium Antitrust Litig., 777 F.3d 9, 27 (1st Cir. 2015), and the Third Circuit in Behrend v. Comcast Corp., 655 F.3d 182, 200, n.10 (3d Cir. 2011), rev’d on other grounds, 133 S. Ct. 1426 (2013). He has also co-written a number of other pieces, including:
, published in the ABA’s Antitrust Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Fall 2011); a Chapter of American Antitrust Institute’s Private International Enforcement Handbook (2010), entitled “Who May Pursue a Private Claim?;” and a chapter of the American Bar Association’s Pharmaceutical Industry Handbook (July 2009), entitled “Assessing Market Power in the Prescription Pharmaceutical Industry.”
Mr. Cramer is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University (1989), where he earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. in 1993.
Mark T. Cramer
[C]ounsel…for direct plaintiffs have done an outstanding job here representing the class, and I thought your briefing was always very on point. I thought the presentation of the very contentious issues on the class action motion was very well done, it was very well briefed, it was well argued.
This is a substantial recovery that has the deterrent effect that class actions are supposed to have, and I think it was done because we had really good Plaintiffs’ lawyers in this case who were running it.Phil enjoys problem solving and creative thinking. He specializes in plaintiff’s recovery cases, particularly in the field of antitrust, where he assists corporate claimants obtaining recoveries, which have exceeded $1 billion. Phil is in his third decade of representing corporate clients who have suffered antitrust injury after beginning his career as a trial attorney in the Honors Program of the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.
Another particularly rewarding area of his practice is representing clients in high profile civil rights cases, having brought cases to vindicate immigrant rights, women’s rights, voting rights, privacy rights, prisoner rights, death penalty relief, transgender rights, and marriage equality. For these efforts, he has received the Tennessee Bar Association’s Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award and the ACLU-TN Benjamin Pressnell Award. Phil also teaches a class in civil rights litigation as an adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School.
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After law school, Phil served as law clerk to the Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. A former Rhodes Scholar finalist, Mr. Cramer is the author of three books, including a recent book recounting journeys within both his church and the Supreme Court in the fight for marriage equality, The Fight for Marriage: Church Conflicts and Courtroom Contests.
Phil and his spouse are the proud parents of three daughters. When not spending time with his family or volunteering in his church and community, Phil enjoys traveling, biking, pickleball, and woodworking.
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Phil is an excellent lawyer and deserving of Martindale’s highest rating. It has been my pleasure to work with him on my antitrust matters, and I look forward to our next case.
Phillip is an excellent attorney. He well represents his clients’ interests and does so in a manner in an honest and forthright manner.
Mr. Cramer has always exhibited the highest quality legal expertise in the various areas of the law in which his guidance and legal skills have been required.
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I have recently had a case against Phillip Cramer and can attest that he is an excellent attorney, very professional and knowledgeable. Mr. Cramer is a well-respected member of the Bar.
Phil Cramer is an excellent lawyer who worked
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