In 2023, the government and whistleblowers were party to 543 False Claims Act (FCA) settlements and judgments, the highest number of FCA settlements and judgments in a single year. As a result, collections under the FCA exceeded $2.68 billion, confirming
LegalTech New York 2013
Circuit Split on FCA Causation Deepens with Upcoming First Circuit Ruling
The First Circuit will decide the causation standard required in False Claims Act (FCA) cases predicated on the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), deepening a circuit split on the issue and potentially teeing up Supreme Court intervention.
U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton…
A Practicing E-Discovery Litigator’s Perspective on LegalTech New York 2013—Baker Hostetler’s Gil Keteltas
Of all the people LXBN TV interviewed at LegalTech New York 2013, more than 45 individuals total, we didn’t get the opportunity to speak with a practicing lawyer who focused on the conference’s most-discussed topic—eDiscovery. Today though, we finally get…
Law Firms Need to Be Aware of their Data Security Blind Spots—Stuart McClure of Cylance
Operating at the intersection of so many different parties, law firms handle massive troves of sensitive documents and data. Though, despite this fact, they aren’t the quickest to adopt more advanced technological security, and hackers know this, sometimes even perceiving…
How Corporations Are Using Technology to Manage Costs of Discovery—Daegis’ Don Ryan
ALM Rival Edge Takes Competitor Research to a Whole New Level—Phil Flora
ALM Legal Intelligence has created a product it seems almost every large law firm needs to have—because if your competitors do, and you don’t you’re in dangerous territory. As ALM Legal Intelligence Director of Sales Phil Flora explains to LXBN…
Information Governance Quickly Coming to the Forefront for Corporations—Recommind’s Nick Patience
Following his day two keynote, the Honorable Andrew J. Peck predicted that information governance would soon become a much bigger trend in the realm of discovery. Now we have a second expert thinking the same thing in Nick Patience,…
Proportionality: Why Considering Overall Value of Case is Important in Discovery—Judge Michael Baylson
No matter the venture, it’s always advantageous to keep one’s eyes on the big picture—to look past the nitty gritty details of the current challenge and on to what’s most important. That applies also to litigation and the discovery process.…
Attorneys Should Be Compensated on Efficiency, Not Hours—Seyfarth Shaw’s Carla Goldstein
So here’s the model: if you take more time to do something, you get paid more. And if you work through something in an efficient manner, with focus and careful planning, you’re paid less. In other words: a poor client…
E-Books Empower Lawyers to Publish on Specialized Subjects They Couldn’t Previously—FastCase’s Ed Walters
For nearly as long as lawyers have been around, they’ve been publishing content as a way to establish their authority on subjects. But for long time, the ability to do that was limited to the publications available—usually relatively broad in…