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FTLF Attorneys Named to the 2023 Best Lawyers in America® List
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP (FTLF) is proud to announce that ten attorneys have been selected to the Best Lawyers lists in the 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. FTLF attorneys recognized [...]
FTLF Attorneys Selected as 2022 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Washington, D.C. – Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP (FTLF) is proud to announce that 12 of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized on the Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers list for 2022. Three of [...]
FTLF Attorneys Selected as 2021 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Washington, DC – April 27, 2021 - Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP (FTLF) is proud to announce that 13 of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized on the 2021 Washington, DC Super Lawyers [...]
FTLF Proudly Announces Nine Attorneys Named to the 2021 Best Lawyers® in America List
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP (FTLF) is proud to announce that nine attorneys have been selected to this year’s Best Lawyers® in America List. FTLF attorneys chosen for this year’s The Best Lawyers [...]
Ninth Circuit Follows Third Circuit’s Lead on the Falsity of Clinical Judgments
Winter is coming. No, it’s not the motto of House Stark of Westeros, it’s Jane Winter—a former hospital Care Management Director turned whistleblower—and her qui tam action, plowing new ground on the falsity [...]
Fifth Circuit Affirms $30.5 Million False Claims Act Judgment Against Lab and its CEO
On Presidents’ Day, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reminded us that Lincoln’s Law still packs quite the punch. In a decision issued on Monday, the Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment [...]
Enter the Dragon: Sec. 117 Investigations into Gifts from and Contracts with Foreign Entities
Investigations into the relationships Chinese entities have with U.S. academia have grown ten-fold this year. The Department of Education recently issued letters to Harvard and Yale requesting a vast amount of information, under [...]
Tenth Circuit Says Intentionally Falsified Data is Not Material
On February 7, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the defendant hospital in a False Claims Act (“FCA”) case premised on falsified data. The case—United [...]
Will the Newly Confirmed Inspector General of the EPA Signal An Uptick in False Claims Act Enforcement for EPA Grantees and Contractors?
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a new Inspector General (IG), following an extended period of oversight by acting IGs. Sean O’Donnell was confirmed on December 19, 2019 to lead the [...]
Client Alert: NIH Proposes Agency-Wide Policy for Data Management & Sharing
National Institutes of Health (NIH) joins rank with its peers via its Data Management and Sharing Policy. This proposed policy will apply to all research that is funded or conducted in whole or [...]