| Featuring William D. Chapman & Steven H. Cohen, Hosted by Steve Murphy. | | Print | |
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| Friday, 30 January 2009 17:00 | |||
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William D. Chapman
Steven H. Cohen
Executive Producer
William’s professional experience as a civil litigation attorney has been exclusively as a business litigation attorney and injury attorney. He has spent his entire career as an orange county attorney in the preparation and trial of cases involving product liability, construction defect, civil rights, unfair business practices, fraud and general liability litigation. For specific examples of his successes as an orange county attorney, please click on one of the links on the lower left hand of this page. William D. Chapman is the International Chair of the BYU Management Society, a non-profit business group affiliated with the BYU Marriott School, Provo, Utah. Mr. Chapman has served as Chair of the Orange County and Rancho Santa Margarita chapters and currently serves as the Southern California Regional Chair. Mr. Chapman is active in the Orange County Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, having served as a member of its Board Of Directors. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. He served a two-year full-time mission for his church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Monterrey, Mexico. In addition to a busy law practice, Mr. Chapman has served in the community as AYSO soccer coach for approximately 6 years, three years as a Scoutmaster and taught early-morning religion classes for six years.
Steven H. Cohen is a nationally acclaimed attorney who has been practicing law in Chicago for more than 25 years and representing whistleblowers in qui tam cases since 1995. In this interview, he discusses this exciting field of law and other information concerning whistleblowers. In 2001, Steven founded the Cohen Law Group, where he has dedicated his practice to representing whistleblower clients in qui tam cases brought under federal and state false claims laws. Steven has investigated and prosecuted dozens of sealed and unsealed qui tam cases on behalf of physicians, nurses, compliance officers, billing coordinators, sales representatives, managers and senior company officers in cases spanning the spectrum of health care and other government programs fraud and abuse. He has hands-on expertise with both the federal False Claims Act and state whistleblower/qui tam laws. Through his extensive qui tam practice, Steven has developed close working relationships with U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, and prosecutors in United States Attorneys Offices and States’ Attorneys General Offices throughout the country.
In 2000, Steven was retained by Dean Steinke to investigate Merck & Co., Inc.’s (“Merck”) marketing practices in connection with their most popular drugs including Zocor® and Vioxx®. That investigation led to the filing of the two cases, United States ex rel Steinke v. Merck and Nevada ex rel Steinke v. Merck. Steven was co-lead counsel for the relator during the course of the eight- year investigation conducted by the federal Government and the States’ Medicaid Fraud Unit team. In the Nevada action, Steven worked with the Nevada Attorney General and his co-counsel to obtain a landmark ruling interpreting the federal Medicaid Rebate Act’s Best Price provisions. As a result of the closely coordinated work of federal and state prosecutors and relator’s counsel, Merck agreed to pay $400 million to the federal Government and the states to settle the allegations in these cases. Steven is also an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern Law School in Chicago where he teaches clinical trial advocacy and serves on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). He also speaks about fraud and abuse issues to industry and professional groups.
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William D. Chapman 714-550-7720Smith, Chapman & Campbell
http://www.smithchapman.com/attorneys/william-d-chapman-civil-litigation-attorney
Steven H. Cohen 312-327-8800
Cohen Law Group, PC
http://www.whistlebloweraction.com/steve_cohen.html
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STEVE MURPHY
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