
Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP
United States
Arbitrators

Grant Phelan
- Phone215.569.2096
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Work Department
Commercial Disputes; Litigation
Position
Grant is a co-chair of the Litigation Department. He is a national business litigator with broad experience in both federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels. He has also represented clients in alternative dispute resolution forums and has been asked to serve as both an arbitrator and mediator on numerous occasions. Grant has authored numerous articles and has frequently been asked to lecture on a wide variety of topics.
His practice involves litigating a full range of business and commercial matters across the country, including contract disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, real estate disputes, securities fraud, government investigations, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, insurance coverage and employment disputes. In the past five years, Grant has been lead counsel in 33 different states. Clients praise Grant for his steady and discerning counsel citing the calm and insightful guidance he provides to allow them to achieve successful outcomes in their business and legal dealings.
Grant is frequently asked to handle complex, high-exposure litigation for his clients and serves as national ligation counsel for a number of market-leading businesses.
Grant serves as a board member to the Law Firm Alliance, a strategic international alliance of law firms established in 2000, to provide legal clients greater access to high-quality and cost-effective legal services around the globe. The LFA includes more than 50 firms and 2,500 attorneys throughout North America, South America, Europe and Africa. In 2024, Grant was elected Chair-Elect of the Board of Directors of the Law Firm Alliance.
Education
Delaware School of Law, J.D., cum laude
College of William and Mary, B.B.A. (Finance)
Personal
Outside the office, Grant serves as chair of the Board of Directors of Youth Development United, a 501(c)(3) providing mentoring, nutrition education and career discovery opportunities to children from underserved communities, and Chester-Upland Youth Soccer/Soccer For Success, a 501(C)3 providing leadership skills to children in underserved communities through access to the “beautiful game.” Grant previously was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Art-Reach, a 501(c)(3) located in Philadelphia that creates, advocates for and expands accessible opportunities in the arts for physically, mentally and economically challenged individuals. He has been recognized as one of the region’s individuals who provide the leadership, connections and action that hold the community together when he was named a 101 Top Connector by Leadership Philadelphia. Grant served two terms as President for the College of William and Mary’s Alumni Association in Philadelphia and he was previously nominated to the MS Leadership Class for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Delaware Valley Chapter.