Professional Experience

Mr. Libby represents business entities in complex civil litigation and criminal investigations and prosecutions. Mr. Libby, who served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles from 1989 to 1995, is an experienced trial lawyer who is uniquely positioned to advise and represent clients in litigating, through trial and appeal if necessary, complex disputes with the government and private parties.

Since joining the firm in April 1995, Mr. Libby has handled complex civil litigation, including trials and appeals involving antitrust, securities litigation, unfair competition, business torts and contractual issues for clients in the high technology, healthcare, financial services, and apparel industries.  Mr. Libby's white collar defense practice includes the representation of clients at all phases of government investigations and prosecutions, including responding to search warrants, grand jury and administrative subpoenas and civil investigative demands; representation of individuals before grand juries; pre- and post-indictment plea negotiations; and all phases of post-indictment proceedings, including motions, trials and sentencing.

Mr. Libby’s representation of clients often begins before the initiation of a government investigation or criminal or civil proceeding.  Mr. Libby is frequently called upon to assist other attorneys in the Firm in structuring transactions to comply with applicable laws.  Mr. Libby has assisted in the formulation of compliance programs, has conducted compliance training, and has undertaken internal investigations of corporate clients following allegations of misconduct.  Mr. Libby has also advised clients in making voluntary disclosures of wrongdoing to government authorities where appropriate.

Education

Yale Law School, J.D., 1984.
Article and Book Review Editor, Yale Journal of International Law, 1983-84.

Stanford University, A.B., with Honors and Distinction, 1980.  Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1979.

Representative Matters

• Represent major hospital system in a variety of criminal, civil and False Claims Act matters
• Represent third largest financial institution in Mexico in connection with money laundering prosecution and forfeiture proceeding in U.S. courts
• Represent financial institution and individual witnesses in a variety of matters arising out of 1996 campaign finance investigation
• Represent multi-state long term care providers in connection with Medicare and Medicaid fraud investigations and related corporate compliance issue
• Represent major manufacturer of personal computers in Lanham Act case brought by competing computer manufacturer and related civil False Claims Act investigation
• Represent major apparel manufacturer in False Claims Act litigation involving overseas manufacture of garments
• Represent psychotherapist in criminal and civil insider trading cases involving Lockheed-Martin Marietta merger
• Represent individual operator of hospital psychiatric programs in connection with federal criminal investigation
• Represent multi-state long term care provider in connection with allegations by “whistleblower” of wrongdoing at one of provider’s Northern California skilled nursing facilities
• Represent former hospital administrator in connection with civil litigation brought by state agency regarding hospital acquisition
• Represent individual employees of railroad in connection with state grand jury investigation of train derailment
• Represent banking clients in connection with criminal and regulatory investigations by federal and state authorities and parallel civil litigation
• Represent licensed professional healthcare providers in healthcare fraud investigations

Memberships & Activities

Admitted to practice before all state and federal trial and appellate courts in the District of Columbia and California.

Member, American Bar Association (including Litigation Section and White-Collar Crime Committee), American Health Lawyers Association, and Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Counsel, Rampart Independent Review Panel, City of Los Angeles, 2000.

Honors & Awards

U.S. Attorney General’s Special Achievement Award, August 1993.

Maynard Toll Associate Award from Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation, 1989.

Publications

"What to Do When the Government Comes Knocking," Inside Counsel, September 9, 2010. 

The New “Corporate Responsibility” Law: How It Affects Health Care,” BNA Health Law Reporter (Co-authored with Michael W. Peregrine and William W. Horton)(August 2002).

Contributing author, “Lessons for Healthcare from Enron:  A Best Practices Handbook,” American Health Lawyers Association (2002).

“’Sting Operations Run Amok’:  The Impact Of Brown v. Nationsbank On Government Tort Liability For Undercover Activity,” White Collar Crime Reporter (Andrews Publications) (April 2000).

“Third Circuit Rules That Money Laundering Sentencing Guideline Is Reserved for Laundering Conduct Connected with ‘Extensive Drug Trafficking and Serious Crime,’” White Collar Crime Reporter (Andrews Publications), Volume 13, No. 10 (November/December 1999).

“Internal Investigations and Voluntary Disclosures:  Traps for the Unwary Health Care Provider,” Seminar Paper (with David Bradford) (June 1999).

“Recent Developments in Long Term Care Law and Litigation,”  20 Whittier Law Review 325 (1998) (with Terri D. Keville, Barry S. Landsberg and Katrina L. Breuner).

“Ex Parte Contact with Current and Former Employees of an Adverse Party,” Pretrial Practice and Discovery Committee Newsletter, ABA Litigation Section, Vol I, No. 1 (July 1988).

Speaking Engagements

Speaker, "Affiliate: Pay To Play," SACRS Spring Conference, May 2010.

Speaker, "What to do When the Government Comes Knocking," Public Pension Fund Fiduciary Forum, March 2009.

Speaker, "Lessons for Healthcare from Enron: A Best Practices Teleconference," American Health Lawyers Association, August 2002.

Speaker,  "How to Deal with the New Theories of Provider Liability, or, 'It's Not Just Another Med Mal Case,'" California Society for Healthcare Attorneys, Spring Meeting, May 2002.

Instructor, False Claims Act and Government Investigations, Legal Issues in Health Care Delivery, USC School of Public Policy, March 2002.

Speaker, “What To Do When The FBI/OIG Knocks:  Preparing For, Responding To – And Surviving – Government Investigations,” The Healthcare Roundtable for Corporate Counsel, March 2000.

Speaker on Fraud and Abuse Issues, Compliance Training, Alta Healthcare, December 1999.

Speaker on Current Law Enforcement Challenges, Health Care Leaders Forum, UCLA Center for Health Services Management, October 1999.

Moderator, Panel on White Collar Practice, Firm Conference, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, May 1999.

Speaker on the False Claims Act and Long Term Care, Seventeenth Annual Health Law Symposium, Whittier Law School, April 1998.

Appeared on nationally broadcast CNBC program “Steals and Deals,” in connection with telemarketing case prosecuted as an Assistant United States Attorney, July 1996.

Speaker at MCLE program on “The Use of Private Investigators in Civil Litigation,” Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, April 1996.

Instructor, U.S. Department of Justice Securities Fraud Seminar, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1994.