Introduction
Davis Wright Tremaine helps individuals and
companies respond to government investigations and defend against
criminal prosecutions throughout the country, principally in the following
contexts:
- Federal and state criminal prosecutions.
- Grand jury investigations or government
investigative demands, subpoenas and search warrants.
- Qui tam and other civil litigation or
administrative proceedings involving allegations of fraud, abuse,
or excessive reimbursement by both governmental and private plaintiffs.
- Corporate compliance audits and programs.
Anchored by former federal prosecutors
with extensive criminal trial experience, and complemented by several
additional lawyers with relevant expertise, the group handles complex
matters involving environmental, fisheries and maritime law, government
contracts and procurement fraud, antitrust, food and drug, health
care, federal program fraud and RICO matters. We offer advice and
counsel when clients are confronted by government agents serving
search warrants or demanding immediate access to information and
documents by subpoena, as well as when facing ongoing investigations
by a variety of federal agencies and their Inspectors General. Our
lawyers are also experienced in qui tam cases in several industries
and are intimately familiar with the False Claims Act.
Using our experience in both civil and criminal
litigation, we have represented a number of clients in "parallel
proceedings" in criminal, civil and administrative forums. We have
negotiated "global" dispositions of several such matters involving
multiple governmental agencies.
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