Eric R. Havian
(San Francisco)

Eric R. Havian has extensive experience in representing whistleblowers in defense contractor fraud cases and other types of qui tam lawsuits.

Mr. Havian also has worked with numerous local governments, including the County of Los Angeles and the City of San Francisco, to pursue state False Claims Act cases against companies for defrauding them.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences on the False Claims Act and qui tam lawsuits. He also has published articles about whistleblowing and government contract fraud as well as how the False Claims Act applies to fraud in the environmental field.

Mr. Havian graduated cum laude in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where he won the Ames Moot Court Competition.

He was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco from 1987 through 1994 and was the lead prosecutor for defense procurement fraud cases. During his tenure, Mr. Havian prosecuted numerous multi-million dollar cases of fraud against the federal government.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Havian was a litigation associate at the San Francisco office of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, where he practiced complex litigation.

Mr. Havian has taught courses on fraud at Stanford Law School and at the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall). He has been a guest lecturer at Hastings College of the Law and has taught various seminars to assistant U.S. attorneys at the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C. He is a former co-chair of the American Bar Association Health Law Litigation Committee.