The relator knows what happened. We find what proves it.
Investigations built for the seal, the disclosure statement and the intervention decision.
Relator's counsel reach us with a client who saw something and a complaint that has to survive Rule 9(b), the public-disclosure bar and a government that intervenes in a minority of cases. We corroborate the relator from the outside, find the witnesses who will talk, and put what we find into a form the Civil Division can act on.
We have worked more than 300 complex matters in pharma, biotech, healthcare, technology and energy, most of them for plaintiffs' counsel in federal court. The schemes repeat across industries, and so do the records that expose them. We came to this work from investigative journalism and have never needed a badge to get someone talking.
Six things we do before and after the seal.
Pre-filing corroboration
A relator's story is the start, not the case. We test it against claims data, contracts, SEC and CMS filings, FDA records, state licensing and litigation history, and tell you which parts the record supports, which it contradicts, and which only a document inside the company can settle.
Public disclosure and original source
Whether the allegations were already in the news, a hearing, an audit, a prior docket or a government report is the first question a defendant will ask. We build the timeline of what was public and when, with the exhibits, so the original-source argument is counsel's to make on a record rather than a hope.
Witnesses who will talk
The former billing manager, the sales rep who kept the spreadsheet, the compliance officer who was overruled. We find them, approach them lawfully, and come away with accurate statements and a source who will take the next call. No contact with represented parties, no pretext, nothing you will have to explain at a hearing.
The disclosure statement and the government's decision
The Department intervenes where the evidence is already organised. We work the seal period the way an AUSA would want it worked: corroboration by category, a witness list with what each can say, damages inputs from the data, and a chronology the trial attorney can read in an hour.
Industry pattern work
Speaker fees that are kickbacks, upcoding and unbundling, off-label promotion, substandard parts certified as conforming, grant money spent elsewhere. After 300 matters across pharma, healthcare, tech and energy, we know which records each scheme leaves behind and where the weak point usually is.
Can the defendant pay, and who else is liable
Treble damages mean little against a shell. We map the corporate family, the successors, the private-equity owner, the insurance, and the assets that would answer a judgment, using the same tracing we do for judgment creditors. If the money has moved, you learn that before the settlement conference, not after.
What relator's counsel ask first.
The complex litigation page sets out how we work securities, antitrust and qui tam matters for plaintiffs' counsel, with the industries covered.
The case is under seal. Can you work it without compromising the seal?
Yes. We take instructions from counsel, work under privilege and the work-product doctrine, and never disclose that an action exists. Records research reveals nothing. Interviews are framed around the conduct, not the case, and we agree in advance what cannot be asked. Where the government has its own investigators on it, we coordinate through you rather than around them.
We need to know whether this was publicly disclosed. How fast can you tell us?
A first pass takes days: news archives, congressional and agency reports, OIG audits, prior qui tam and securities dockets, enforcement press releases and the company's own filings, each dated and quoted. Whether the relator qualifies as an original source is your judgment; what we give you is the timeline and the exhibits it rests on.
Will former employees actually talk to you?
More often than you would expect. People who watched something wrong happen usually want to say so to someone who already understands it. We say who we are and who we work for, we do not record without consent, and we document the statement the same day. Those who decline are noted, not pressed.
Do you work retaliation claims as well?
Yes. A section 3730(h) claim turns on what the employer knew and when, and on the sequence of complaints, performance reviews and the termination. We run workplace investigations for a living, so the chronology, the comparators and the witnesses are familiar ground.
How do you charge, and how do we start?
Hourly, against a budget we agree for each phase, starting with a scoping memo that says what can be corroborated from outside the company and what cannot. Send the industry, the scheme in a paragraph, and where you are in the process. We will tell you within days whether the record is likely to support the relator.
Have a relator with a story that needs proving?
Tell us the industry, the scheme and where you are in the process. We will tell you what can be corroborated from the outside, what it will take, and what it will cost.
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