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Federal False Claims Act and Qui Tam Litigation
By Joel Androphy
(Law Journal Press 2006)

Goals of This Treatise
This treatise will assist the plaintiff’s bar in communicating with the client, and in investigating, filing, and litigating qui tam actions. Plaintiff’s counsel needs information that will guide him through the factual and legal intricacies of pursuing a FCA case, and an objective view of how the case will be handled in the particular venue.

The treatise will also assist the defense bar in preventing, anticipating, and responding appropriately to qui tam filings. Defendants face not only civil litigation, but also criminal consequences for their conduct. The parallel nature of these proceedings mandate specialized expertise.

Finally, this treatise will provide guidance to all parties in developing a beneficial relationship with all departments of Government. Sometimes this issue is the most complex. The Federal Government has its own distinctive agenda about the case in general, the settlement process, and the role of each party. This is even more confusing and conflicting when the states have interests and want to protect their rights.

These differing agendas will substantially affect how the various parties interact. This is where most other “authoritative” works fall short. They view the FCA through a single lens and ignore how the statutes and judicial opinions affect all the players. This treatise remedies these deficiencies.

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White Collar Crime
By Joel Androphy
(Thomson/West 2006)

White Collar Crime is the most complete and comprehensive discussion of federal white collar crime ever assembled. Newly updated and released as a 4 volume set with over 950 forms on CD ROM, WCC 2d covers substantive laws, legal procedures, and evidentiary issues in 51 chapters.

There is also a chapter discussing false claims and the federal qui tam laws in “White Collar Crime”: Civil and Criminal Practice Treatise.”

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Articles

• “The Perils of Off-Label Marketing, Scrip Magazine, September 2005
• “Whistleblower and Federal Qui Tam Litigation - Suing the Corporation for Fraud,” 36 False Claims Act & Qui Tam Quarterly Review 63, 2005
• “Federal Qui Tam: The Government’s Watchdog,” 42 Houston Lawyer 18, January / February 2005
• “Whistleblower and Federal Qui Tam Litigation - Suing the Corporation for Fraud” (PDF) 45 S. Tex. L. Rev. 23, 2004
• “Bringing Rogues to Justice: The Qui Tam Provisions of the False Claims Act” (PDF), 65 Texas Bar Journal No. 2, February 2002
• There is also a chapter discussing false claims and the federal qui tam laws in “White Collar Crime: Civil and Criminal Practice Treatise,” 4 volumes with forms on CD ROM (West Group, 2004), authored by Joel M. Androphy.
• Keeping up with Sentencing Under the New Federal Guidelines (PDF)
  By Joel M. Androphy - Gone are the days when your five-year old could determine the range of punishment for one of your criminal clients.

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