Eric L. Cramer

Biography

Eric L. Cramer is the Chairman of Berger Montague, one of the oldest and most respected complex litigation law firms in the U.S., headquartered in Philadelphia with seven additional offices across the U.S. and Canada. He co-chairs the Firm’s antitrust department, and leads multiple antitrust class actions around the United States—including representing mixed martial arts fighters against the UFC; broiler chicken growers against major chicken integrator companies securing $169 million in settlements to date; the City of Asheville and health plans against HCA/Mission Hospital alleging monopolization; current and former students of seventeen elite universities charging those universities with colluding to suppress financial aid, and securing $284 million in settlements to date; Ivy League athletes alleging that the Ivy League has colluded to block athletic scholarships; and internet publishers against Google in a massive antitrust class action. Throughout his thirty-year career, he has secured settlements for his clients totaling well over $3 billion. 

Mr. Cramer has been recognized by Chambers USA for over 20 years, most recently noting that our clients find that “Eric is a top-notch lawyer.” Chambers has also noted that “He excels in economic analysis. He is a real leader;” and that he has “a great presence in court and at trial,” and is at the “[t]op of the profession; a phenomenal lawyer who is an expert on economics.” Law360 named Mr. Cramer a Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar. The Legal 500 has recognized him in their Hall of Fame, which recognizes lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work. He was identified as a “Distinguished Leader” by The Legal Intelligencer and as a “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers. Public Justice honored Mr. Cramer with their Champion of Justice award for his body of work supporting access to justice. And 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 legal industry forward. He has won the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice several times for his work in three different antitrust class actions: In re Capacitors Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Cal.), In re Broilers Antitrust Litig. (E.D. Okl.), and Castro v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc. (D.N.J.). Mr. Cramer’s work in In re Capacitors was also recognized by Public Justice in nominating that case as a finalist for its prestigious trial lawyer of the year award in 2024.

Mr. Cramer is a long-time board member and former President of Public Justice is on the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute; and is a former President of the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (COSAL).

Mr. Cramer has also written widely in the fields of class certification and antitrust law. Among other writings, Mr. Cramer has co-authored Antitrust, Class Certification, and the Politics of Procedure, 17 George Mason Law Review 4 (2010), 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).

Mr. Cramer is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School with a J.D. Mr. Cramer lives in Philadelphia; is married to a wonderful woman; has two incredible fully-grown children; and is managed by two somewhat friendly cats.