How to Be a Successful Qui Tam Whistleblower
Interested readers can now check out How to be a Successful Qui Tam Whistleblower at my Amazon author page where they can either purchase a hard-copy or (if you are a Kindle subscriber) you can pick up […]
Lawyers and Client Confidentiality
Lawyers and Client Confidentiality Now that some of the smoke has cleared from the Ty Cobb-John Dowd lunchtime chat at BLT I figured I would provide my two-cents on it from a legal ethics […]
Deputy Attorney General Announces New Anti-Fraud Effort for Disaster Relief Programs
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Announces Anti-Fraud Effort to Root Out Fraud on Disaster Programs The Atlantic hurricane season is nothing new, but it seems to have been particularly virulent this year (though thankfully not […]
Attorney’s Fee Awards in Virginia State Courts
Attorney’s Fee Awards in Virginia State Courts As regular readers know, in addition to handling fee-shifting cases of my own, I am often asked to serve as an expert witness in litigation over reasonable […]
Fredericksburg Hospitalist Group Pays $4.2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Case
Fredericksburg Hospitalist Group Pays $4.2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Case The United States Department of Justice and the Virginia Office of the Attorney General announced a $4.2 million settlement in a qui tam case of mine earlier […]
Virginia Supreme Court Issues Important Attorney’s Fee Opinion
Virginia Supreme Court Issues Important Attorney’s Fee Opinion The Virginia Supreme Court issued an important attorney’s fee opinion recently. The opinion, in Lambert v. Sea Oats Condominium Association, Inc., — S.E.2d. —-, 2017 WL 1378202 […]
UPDATE: THE 2017 VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL RACE WILL BE REPUBLICAN JOHN ADAMS AGAINST DEMOCRAT MARK HERRING
UPDATE: 2017 VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL RACE WILL BE REPUBLICAN JOHN ADAMS AGAINST DEMOCRAT MARK HERRING It appears that no primary will be necessary for Republicans to pick their 2017 challenger to AG Mark Herring […]
Virginia False Claims in Business Development Incentive Programs
The Roanoke Times has an article today about a lawsuit against a company that accepted a $1.4 million grant from the Commonwealth yet failed to follow through with its end of the bargain. Surprisingly, there is […]
The Virginia Attorney General Race in 2017
The Virginia Attorney General Race in 2017 The New Year will hold lots of new developments for the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Among the most important of them will be […]