Graham R. Cronogue

Graham Cronogue is a litigator who represents companies in their most complex civil and cross-border disputes. He guides clients through high‑stakes disputes from pre‑suit strategy through dispositive motions, hearings, trial, and resolution in the United States and across various international arbitral forums. Graham has won favorable verdicts in contract disputes, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty cases, trust litigation, and agency disputes, including cases under the Administrative Procedure Act, debarment matters, and False Claims Act litigation. He approaches each matter with a practical mindset, focused on aligning legal strategy with the client’s broader business objectives.

Graham serves as lead or senior litigation counsel in complex domestic and cross-border disputes. He has prevailed in multiple federal and state trial courts (including the District of Columbia), secured appellate wins in the D.C. Court of Appeals, the D.C. Circuit, the New York Court of Appeals, the Second Circuit, and the Ninth Circuit, and won arbitration hearings before the ICC, ICDR, JAMS, and AAA. Graham also coordinates global litigation strategy and advises clients in connection with parallel litigation in foreign courts, including proceedings in Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy. 

His recent engagements include defending an international investment firm against a large-scale fraud and bad faith and fair dealing case; representing a global electronics company in a breach of contract claim brought by its joint venture partner; prosecuting counterclaims on behalf of a global construction company in breach of contract arbitration involving a billion-dollar project; representing an ultra-high net worth family in a trust dispute spanning several jurisdictions in the United States and around the world; and defending a foreign technology company against Section 337 exclusion proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Graham began his career as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He received a J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where he graduated magna cum laude. He received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated with distinction. 

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