Legal Articles & Presentations

May 11, 2020

Congress Must Create a Coronavirus Victims Compensation Fund

November 22, 2019

Defense Contractor Misconduct and Government Procurement Fraud Take Center Stage in the Government’s Civil and Criminal Prosecutions

August 29, 2012 HG.org

Indiana False Claims and Whistleblower Protection Act

August 29, 2012 HG.org

Georgia Taxpayer Protection False Claims Act

August 10, 2012 HG.org

Illinois Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act

July 20, 2012 HG.org

Hawaii False Claims Act for False Claims to the State

July 20, 2012 HG.org

Georgia False Medicaid Claims Act

July 20, 2012 HG.org

Delaware False Claims and Reporting Act

July 20, 2012 HG.org

Connecticut False Claims Act

July 20, 2012 HG.org

Colorado Medical Assistance Act

January 31, 2012 HG.org

The Intersection of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: What All Practitioners, Whistleblowers, Defendants, and Corporations Need to Know

January 3, 2012 HG.org

Prevailing Wage Laws and the False Claims Act

January 3, 2012 HG.org

Defense Contractor Fraud

December 8, 2011 HG.org

Gathering Evidence in Qui Tam Actions

December 8, 2011 HG.org

District of Columbia Procurement Reform Amendment Act

December 8, 2011 HG.org

New York City False Claims Act

September 22, 2011 HG.org

Florida False Claims Act

September 22, 2011 HG.org

California False Claims Act

June 8, 2011 HG.org

Survey of Damages in False Claims Act Retaliation Cases

June 8, 2011 HG.org

Survey of Penalties and Damages in False Claims Act Cases

June 2, 2011 HG.org

False Claims Act Penalties

June 1, 2011

False Claims Act Damages in Antikickback and Self-Referral Cases

May 25, 2011 HG.org

False Claims Act Damages

December 1, 2010 Maritime Advocate

12 Step Guide For Successfully Handling Criminal Maritime Cases

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October 19, 2010 HG.org

Pharmaceutical Best Price Obligations and the False Claims Act

October 19, 2010 HG.org

Fraudulent Medical Billing and the False Claims Act

October 19, 2010 HG.org

Best Value and the False Claims Act

October 18, 2010 HG.org

Defective Medical Devices and the False Claims Act

October 18, 2010 HG.org

Government Procurement Fraud and the False Claims Act

May 1, 2010 Westchester NY Guardian

Honest Doctors Do Not Fear The Aggressive Pursuit of Health Care Fraud

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April 1, 2008 Forbes

The Government’s Dirty Laundry: How Prosecutors Use Money Laundering Laws to Threaten Prison Time, Impose Fat Penalties, and Extract Pleas

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March 1, 2008 The Houston Chronicle

Texas Democrats Can Send a Message of Sanity Today

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February 1, 2008 The Houston Chronicle

Road to Redemption for Clintons: Embrace Obama

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June 1, 2007 70 Texas Bar Journal No. 6

21 Rules Every Corporate Executive Should Know

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January 1, 2007 70 Texas Bar Journal No. 1

The Enron Finale: Justice Or Retribution

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September 1, 2005 Script Magazine

The Perils of Off-Label Marketing

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July 1, 2005 Texas Lawyer Executive Legal Adviser

The Modern-Day Government Informant: Corporations

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June 12, 2005 The Houston Chronicle

Please Note, Your Wild Rhetoric is Not Helping

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January 2, 2005 20 Texas Lawyer No. 44

The Modern-Day Government Informant: Corporations

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January 1, 2005 42 Houston Lawyer 18

Federal Qui Tam: The Government’s Watchdog

January 1, 2005 36 False Claims Act & Qui Tam Quarterly Review 63

Whistleblower and Federal Qui Tam Litigation – Suing the Corporation for Fraud

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January 30, 2004 45 S. Tex. L. Rev. 23

Whistleblower and Federal Qui Tam Litigation – Suing the Corporation for Fraud

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October 1, 2003 The American Lawyer

Trade Secrets of the Silver Bullet

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October 1, 2003 19 Texas Lawyer 33

The Boutique Competitive Advantage

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January 1, 2003 66 Texas Bar Journal No. 1

White Collar Crime Update

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February 1, 2002 65 Texas Bar Journal No. 2

Bringing Rogues to Justice: The Qui Tam Provisions of the False Claims Act

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July 1, 2000 38 The Houston Lawyer No. 1

Criminal Prosecutions of Trade Secret Theft: The Emergence of the Economic Espionage Act

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January 1, 2000 The Journal of The Section of Litigation, American Bar Association

The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win

October 1, 1999 Business Law and Litigation Series, 15 Texas Lawyer No. 32

Beware of Trade Secret Thieves

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March 1, 1999 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

NOTE: Liberty of Expression in Ireland and the Need for a Constitutional Law of Defamation

General Corporate Criminal Liability

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February 1, 1997 Texas Bar Journal Vol. 60, No. 2

General Corporate Criminal Liability

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January 1, 1997

Federal Contempt of Court

June 2, 1996 Litigation Magazine

Timing in Cross-Examination

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July 1, 1995 33 Houston Lawyer No. 1

Health Care Fraud

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January 1, 1995

Informers In Civil Cases: Keeping the Snitch a Secret

December 1, 1994

Crimes and Campaign Contributions

June 10, 1994 The Houston Chronicle

Houston to Detractors from N.Y.: Drop Dead

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March 1, 1994 Litigation Magazine

Secrets of Cross Examination

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January 1, 1994 The Journal of The Section of Litigation, American Bar Association

Secrets of Cross-Examination

Is Lawsuit Abuse a Problem

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February 10, 1993 Los Angeles Times

In Defense of Trial Lawyers—and Juries

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January 1, 1992 The Houston Post

My Favorite Teachers

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January 1, 1992 29 Houston Lawyer No. 4

Environmental Crimes

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January 1, 1991 28 Houston Lawyer No. 4

Immunity

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September 1, 1990 Litigation Magazine

Blind Cross Examination

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July 8, 1990 The Houston Chronicle

Summit Won’t Fix What Ails U.S.

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July 1, 1990 28 Houston Lawyer No. 1

Money Laundering: The Money Laundering Crimes Act

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June 1, 1990 53 Texas Bar Journal No. 6

Avoiding Criminal Exposure While Seeking Bankruptcy Relief

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May 1, 1990 27 The Houston Lawyer No. 6

Money Laundering – Part One: The Bank Secrecy Act

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January 1, 1990 27 Houston Lawyer No. 4

Changes in Bank Fraud Statutes

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January 1, 1990 The Journal of The Section of Litigation, American Bar Association

Blind Cross-Examination

Mitigating Criminal Exposure in the Bankruptcy Court

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August 9, 1989

Keeping Up With Changes in Bank Fraud Statutes

January 22, 1989 The Houston Post

What Dr. King is Still Teaching Us

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January 1, 1989

Challenging Federal Grand Jury Investigations: What to Do With What is Left

November 22, 1988 The Houston Post

All the Hearts That Never Will Mend

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November 13, 1988 The Houston Post

Too Much Democracy

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September 1, 1988 26 The Houston Lawyer No. 2

Imprisonment for Debit: Civil Debt Collection in the Criminal Courts

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August 1, 1988

Procedures Before Appellate Courts: A Comparative Overview of the Fifth Circuit and Texas Courts of Appeal

July 14, 1988 The Houston Post

Southern Baptists’ Stance on AIDS Goes Too Far

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July 14, 1988 The Houston Post

Something Special Happened in Houston

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June 19, 1988 The Houston Post

Fathers, Sons, and Hidden Feelings

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May 15, 1988 The Houston Post

The Frenzy in Friendswood: What About Probable Cause

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April 23, 1988 The Houston Post

The Play’s the Thing, but not at SJC

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April 10, 1988 The Houston Post

The Devils Made Me Do It

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April 10, 1988 The Houston Post

Edgar Speakes, Charlie McRegan

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March 6, 1988 The Houston Post

We Must Set Economic House in Order

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March 5, 1988 The Houston Post

Market Crash Was Not a Coincidence

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March 1, 1988 25 The Houston Lawyer No. 5

The Criminal Cloud Over S.E.C. Investigations

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February 6, 1988 The Houston Post

Lawyers are Better than That

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January 17, 1988 The Houston Post

Censorship Decision is Dangerous

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January 8, 1988 The Houston Post

Why Cuomo is Still Best Bet

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January 1, 1988 25 The Houston Lawyer

Keeping up with Sentencing Under the New Federal Guidelines

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January 1, 1988 State Bar Appellate Advocate Quarterly

Federal Criminal Appellate Update

December 30, 1987 The Houston Post

Mr. McLuhan, Where are You When we Really Need You?

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December 2, 1987 The Houston Post

Paul Always Had a Theory

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December 1, 1987 Litigation Magazine

Preparing Witnesses

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November 2, 1987 The Texas Lawyer

Racism and Justice: The Brandly Case

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October 17, 1987 The Houston Post

The New Hite Report: Lite Research

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