Attorney-Client Privilege, False Claims Act

Kinetic Moves To Disqualify Counsel In False Claims Act Qui Tam Action For Improper Use Of Contractor’s Privileged Documents

by Connie Bertram, Amy Blackwood | Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation on 5/6/2013

Arguing that relators’ counsel has retained and used, without authority, more than 800 of its attorney-client privileged and work product documents, Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (“KCI”) has asked the District Court for the Central...more

Retaliation and Whistleblower Claims by In-House Counsel

by Jeanne Barber, Edward Ellis, Linda Jackson, Earl (Chip) M. Jones III, Gregory Keating, Allan King, Patricia Martin, Amy Mendenhall, Roberta Ruiz | Littler on 4/1/2013

In This Issue: - Whistleblower protections and in-House Counsel - Sarbanes-oxley - The Dodd-Frank Act - The False Claims Act - Common Law Wrongful Discharge Claims - The Ethical...more

Sending the Privilege Away: Attorney-Client E-Mails in the Corporate Setting

by Amy Garrigues, Bryan Rohm, Mark A. Rush, Joseph Valenti | K&L Gates LLP on 1/8/2013

In a pending False Claims Act (“FCA”) case involving allegations of noncompliance with the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn, the United States District Court for the Middle District of...more

Recent Federal False Claims Act Decision Undermines Attorney-Client Privilege over Certain In-House Counsel Emails

by Mary C. Pennisi, Marvin G. Pickholz | Duane Morris LLP on 12/11/2012

A federal magistrate judge's recent decision in United States ex rel. Baklid-Kunz v. Halifax Hospital Medical Center, a Civil False Claims Act (“FCA”) case pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District...more

False Claims Act Case Limits Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel

by Jeffrey B. Coopersmith, Robert G. Homchick, Kent B. Thurber | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 11/30/2012

Health care organizations should take careful note of a recent decision from a Florida federal district court that sharply limited the defendant hospital’s ability to shield what it considered to be attorney-client...more

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Attorney-Client Privilege › False Claims Act

Kinetic Moves To Disqualify Counsel In False Claims Act Qui Tam Action For Improper Use Of Contractor’s Privileged Documents

Retaliation and Whistleblower Claims by In-House Counsel

Sending the Privilege Away: Attorney-Client E-Mails in the Corporate Setting

Recent Federal False Claims Act Decision Undermines Attorney-Client Privilege over Certain In-House Counsel Emails

False Claims Act Case Limits Attorney-Client Privilege for In-House Counsel

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