False Claims Act

False Claims Act

Heidi Wendel | Jones Day

Editor: Please tell our readers about the kind of work you do in Jones Day’s New York office. Wendel: I am a litigator, working predominantly on False Claims Act cases. Ninety percent of my practice for the past ten or so years has been False Claims Act work both federal and state. I...

Department of Justice (DOJ)

Lori L. Pines, Gaspard Curioni, Nadya Salcedo | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

A hotly contested discovery dispute in United States ex rel. Barko v. Halliburton Co., a False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam action, has recently grabbed the headlines. In early March, a federal district judge in the District of Columbia ordered the production of documents that were created in the...

False Claims Act

Lori L. Pines, Kevin F. Meade | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Governments at all levels are increasingly turning to federal and state false claims act statutes in an attempt to combat fraud against the government and to address the record deficits they are running. At the same time, legislatures have been steadily broadening the scope of what constitutes a...