Bio

Gary Brucker is a partner in the San Diego office of Lewis Brisbois and co-chair of the Government Investigations & White Collar Criminal Defense Practice. Whether you are seeking corporate counsel or an experienced trial lawyer, Gary will vigorously yet tactically and efficiently protect your rights. He has experience handling a wide range of complex commercial, white collar, and employment matters. His depth and breadth of practice allows him to serve as outside general counsel to many of his clients. Gary’s commercial practice focuses on complex business and real estate disputes and transactions. His experience includes corporate counseling and litigation regarding commercial transactions; sponsorship, dealership, and licensing agreements; business torts; trade secrets; trademarks; false advertising; civil antitrust, Business & Professions Code § 17200, and the Cartwright Act; commercial leases; and nuisances. Gary’s white collar practice focuses on all manners of fraud, financial crimes, conspiracy, antitrust, the False Claims Act, public corruption, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, RICO, and environmental crimes. His experience includes compliance counseling, representing business and individuals confronted with governmental investigations, defending white collar criminal prosecutions, and crisis management. His representative engagements have involved the US DOJ, SEC, FTC, DOC, DCIS, NCIS, IRS, California DOC, California FTB, California AGO, and local District Attorney’s Offices. Related to Gary’s commercial and white collar practices, his employment practice focuses on employee misconduct, such as bribery, self-dealing, theft of trade secrets, breaches of employment agreements, and employee raiding. His experience includes counseling on the creation of policies and procedures designed to deter employee misconduct, conducting internal investigations into allegations of misconduct, counseling on employee discipline, prosecuting claims against wrongdoers, defending claims brought by wrongdoers and whistleblowers, and managing public relations efforts during times of crisis. Education:University of Michigan Law School Juris Doctor, cum laude, 2005, University of California at San Diego Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 2002.