Morgan Lewis’s healthcare litigation attorneys work with clients to help them meet the unprecedented challenges in the current business and law enforcement environment.
Healthcare providers, including drug and device manufacturers, often find themselves in high-stakes litigation involving disputes with customers, suppliers, joint venturers, and competitors; antitrust challenges; and civil and criminal governmental investigations.
Our nationally recognized Healthcare Litigation Practice brings together the trial skills, healthcare industry experience, and substantive legal knowledge needed to handle lawsuits and investigations involving the healthcare industry.
Extraordinary Resources
In meeting the needs of our healthcare clients, we draw upon Morgan Lewis’s extraordinary resources for handling disputes involving complex transactions and sophisticated regulatory, reimbursement, antitrust, and compliance issues.
In particular, we are able to provide our clients with distinctive litigation capabilities because we draw upon the talents of Morgan Lewis’s extensive practices, including:
- Antitrust—one of the largest and most diversified antitrust practices in the world
- FDA/Healthcare Regulation—composed of lawyers and scientists with advanced degrees in areas such as pharmacology, cellular and molecular biology, chemistry, and human nutrition
- Intellectual Property—a team whose diverse technical backgrounds include immunology, genetic engineering, protein chemistry, and antibiotics
- Corporate Investigations and White Collar—a team that includes a former U.S. Attorney, a former head of the Justice Department’s Enron Task Force, 10 former assistant U.S. Attorneys and former assistant district attorneys.
Active Preparation and Defense
Governmental agencies and prosecutors have targeted the healthcare industry for increased regulatory and law enforcement scrutiny, and an increasing number of “whistleblower” cases are being initiated by employees.
Our Corporate Investigations and White Collar Practice, which includes former federal and state prosecutors, routinely conducts internal investigations and assists companies in responding to allegations of wrongdoing.
Defending in governmental investigations under the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Act, HIPAA, and other statutes, we have many times been successful in convincing the government to decline prosecutions.
We have successfully represented a wide range of clients, including:
- Managed-care companies
- Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies
- Device manufacturers
- Hospitals
- Long-term care facilities
- Pharmacies
- Physicians
- Other healthcare providers and their employees
We also regularly litigate qui tam cases under the False Claims Act, in which private individuals bring claims on behalf of the government.