Melanie Yates

Chartwells settled a whistleblower lawsuit involving management of school meal programs in Washington, DC, for $19.4 million in June 2015. Below are the whistleblower complaint, settlement agreement, other...

Article by Erika A. Kelton and Stephen S. Hasegawa published in The Wall Street Journal, 4/14/15. “For more than 25 years we have seen companies make overblown claims of trade secrets and business...

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, April 9, 2015 – A South Carolina doctor, represented by Phillips & Cohen, who had ethical concerns about blood testing labs paying physicians extra fees allegedly to get...

WASHINGTON, DC, April 8, 2015 – Whistleblower attorneys Mary Louise Cohen, Erika A. Kelton and Colette Matzzie, partners at Phillips & Cohen LLP, were named to Lawdragon’s list of “500...

Article by Erika Kelton published on Forbes.com, 4/2/15. “The Securities and Exchange Commission scored a major win on behalf of whistleblowers this week in an enforcement action against engineering...

TAMPA, FLORIDA, March 18, 2015 – Gilbane Building Co. has agreed to pay the government $1.1 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by Phillips & Cohen LLP that claimed a company it had...

Peter Budetti in Law360.com, 3/16/15. The Obama administration’s former “anti-fraud czar” for Medicare and Medicaid has joined whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen LLP, adding insider savvy...

WASHINGTON, DC, March 13, 2015 – Bruce A. Cohen, former chief counsel and staff director for the US Senate Judiciary Committee, is joining whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen LLP as Of Counsel....

WASHINGTON, DC, March 11, 2015 – Dr. Peter P. Budetti, a former Deputy Administrator with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has joined Phillips & Cohen LLP as Of Counsel. Known as the...

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, March 3, 2015 – The National Law Journal has recognized the work of Phillips & Cohen LLP by selecting the whistleblower law firm for its prestigious “Plaintiffs’...