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Why We Win

We’re America’s most experienced and successful whistleblower lawyers, working to protect our clients and help stop the fraud and wrongdoing they expose. We stand out for our record, our expertise and our amazing attorneys.

Phillips & Cohen lawyers exclusively represent whistleblowers in cases brought under federal and state whistleblower reward programs. We are the only law firm that has won whistleblower rewards under three separate government programs.

We Stand Out for Our Work on Whistleblower Cases in Four Ways:

Our Record

Our Attorneys

Our Expertise

Our Process

Our Record

We have brought successful whistleblower cases against some of the nation's largest corporations, including GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer Inc., Northrop Grumman, General Electric, Quest Diagnostics, Hewlett-Packard Co., HCA Inc. and Goldman Sachs.

$13 Billion

Our whistleblower cases have recovered over $12.8 billion for government entities and defrauded investors – a record of success that far exceeds that of any other law firm.

$1.1 Billion

We have won over $1.1 billion in rewards for our whistleblower clients. No other law firm has secured more financial awards for their whistleblower clients.

$3 Billion

Our whistleblower case led to the largest healthcare fraud settlement ever, $3 billion.

17 Dodd-Frank awards

The most SEC and CFTC whistleblower awards won for clients by any law firm.

14 years

Recognized in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America” every year since 2007.

Our Attorneys

Qui tam, SEC, CFTC, IRS—few other law firms can match our attorneys’ range in federal and state whistleblower reward programs. Phillips & Cohen’s lawyers have been pioneers in applying the False Claims Act to recovering funds in such diverse areas as medical lab testing, municipal bond sales and foreign military aid.

John R. Phillips

Mary Louise Cohen

Erika A. Kelton

Peter Wilson Chatfield

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All Attorneys

Our Expertise

The longest-standing whistleblower practice under government reward programs.

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Our practice is devoted exclusively to representing whistleblowers.

Phillips & Cohen continues to focus only on helping whistleblowers stop fraud and get a reward. Many law firms that represent whistleblowers also represent corporations or do other types of legal work.

2 .

We have more than 30 years of experience fighting on behalf of whistleblowers.

We accepted our first “qui tam” whistleblower case in 1987, just months after the False Claims Act was modernized, and have represented only whistleblowers in qui tam, SEC, CFTC and IRS cases since.

3 .

One of our partners is the former head of the SEC whistleblower office.

No one knows the SEC whistleblower program better than Sean McKessy, a Phillips & Cohen partner who was Chief of the SEC Office of the Whistleblower for the first five years of the program.

4 .

We have substantial experience with healthcare fraud cases involving pharma companies, hospitals, medical device companies, medical labs, physician practice groups and other healthcare providers.

Our attorneys have decades of experience with whistleblower cases involving healthcare fraud, including two that resulted in the largest healthcare fraud settlements ever: GlaxoSmithKline ($3 billion) and Pfizer Inc. ($2.3 billion). Our roster includes two former federal prosecutors who focused on healthcare fraud cases.

5 .

We know how Wall Street and the financial services industry work.

We represent whistleblower clients in the financial industry around the world, from traders to CFOs to others in the executive suite. We have won four SEC whistleblower awards for clients, including one of the largest, individual SEC whistleblower awards so far.

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We know how to hold corporations, healthcare providers and financial firms accountable.

We see the big picture as well as the small details. For instance, we were pioneers in using the False Claims Act to recover funds in such diverse areas as medical lab testing, municipal bond sales and foreign military aid.

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We have long-established and close working relationships with the Department of Justice, the SEC and the CFTC.

Our lengthy experience with whistleblower cases gives us valuable insights that benefit our clients. Enforcement officials tend to pay attention to our whistleblower submissions because they know the high quality of our work.

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A founding partner was a driving force behind Congress's efforts to modernize the False Claims Act in 1986 to make it the government's most effective weapon to fight fraud.

John Phillips proposed to Congress that it modernize a Civil War law to provide whistleblowers with incentives and authority to stop defense contractor fraud and other types of fraud against the government.

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One partner is the author of a leading legal reference book that is used by courts and lawyers in “qui tam” cases.

The False Claims Act: Fraud Against the Government by Claire M. Sylvia has been an invaluable resource for practitioners in the qui tam field since it was first published in 2004 and through its current update.

Our Process

We believe in our clients. Based on our decades of experience working with the government on whistleblower cases, we know that our efforts make a crucial difference in whether a whistleblower case is successful and how large our client's reward is.

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Why We Win

We Stand Out for Our Work on Whistleblower Cases in Four Ways:

Our Record

Our Attorneys

Our Expertise

Our Process