Melanie Yates

LOS ANGELES, CA – A federal district court judge has rejected a motion by JM Eagle Co. Inc. to dismiss a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by Phillips & Cohen that alleges JM Eagle sold certain...

WASHINGTON, DC – Phillips & Cohen represented the whistleblower in the False Claims Act case discussed below against American Systems Corp., Anixter International Inc. and Corning Cable Systems...

Colette Matzzie in Legal Times, 2/22/13. “The United States invests considerable resources in the investigation of cases, interviewing witnesses and reviewing documents, to consider the validity of...

Erika Kelton in Corporate Crime Reporter, 2/5/13. Kelton a pro at bringing whistleblower cases. She has a couple of billion-dollar-plus False Claims Act qui tam cases under her belt . . . . But a significant...

Peter Chatfield in The Washington Post, 1/17/13. False Claims Act whistleblower suits, which date from the Civil War era, are a mechanism for encouraging someone with information about fraud against the...

WASHINGTON, DC – Colette G. Matzzie, a partner with Phillips & Cohen LLP, was named to Lawdragon’s list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” for 2012, the magazine announced...

The Wall Street Journal published the following letter to the editor written by Phillips & Cohen partner Erika A. Kelton in response to an op-ed that criticized the prosecution of a doctor who was...

WASHINGTON, DC – Amgen Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government and numerous states a total of $762 million to settle 10 whistleblower lawsuits, including one brought by Phillips & Cohen,...

WASHINGTON, DC – Whistleblower attorney Mary Louise Cohen, a founding partner of Phillips & Cohen LLP, has been selected for the “Best Lawyers” of Washington, DC, and Baltimore list...

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The healthcare fraud case, brought by Phillips & Cohen, that Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. settled today with the government for $95 million was due in large...