Manatt Adds Prominent Healthcare Litigator Robert Fabrikant in Washington
WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 5, 2009 – Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, the national law and consulting firm, announced today that Robert Fabrikant has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Division, the Healthcare and White Collar Practice Groups. Fabrikant comes to Manatt from Sidley Austin, LLP, where he had been chair of the firm’s national healthcare practice. He is based in Manatt’s Washington, D.C. office.
Fabrikant is an accomplished litigator whose practice focuses on civil and criminal litigation in the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on fraud and abuse, False Claims Act, compliance and antitrust issues. He is a nationally recognized expert, speaker and author on white collar and whistleblower issues relating to healthcare. Over 20 years ago, he founded the American Bar Association subcommittees dealing with those practice areas. His clients include for-profit and not-for-profit healthcare delivery systems, pharmaceutical companies, acute care and psychiatric hospitals, managed care physician groups, durable medical equipment suppliers, nursing homes, individual physicians and trade associations.
"Bob Fabrikant has a proven track record in ‘bet the company’ trial and investigations work for large health providers, plans and other companies,” said Chad S. Hummel, chair of Manatt’s Litigation Division. “This is a major area of focus for our firm in every office, so we are thrilled that Bob would bring his special talents to Manatt."
William S. Bernstein, chair of Manatt’s Healthcare Division, said, "The addition of Bob Fabrikant fits perfectly with Manatt's national health practice. Health compliance-related investigations and litigation, including antitrust, will remain intense subject areas for federal and state regulators, as well as for private litigants. If anything, we expect the health industry enforcement environment to intensify near and long term. Bob will be an invaluable resource for Manatt's and Bob's health provider and plan clients nationwide."
“I am honored to become a partner in the law firm which has the premier healthcare practice in the country,” Fabrikant said of joining Manatt. “I am excited to make this move.”
William T. Quicksilver, Manatt’s chief executive officer and managing partner, noted that Fabrikant’s addition “enhances both our national litigation capabilities and the expertise of our Healthcare Practice Group, one of our core industry sectors. Robert has a long history as a leader in healthcare litigation and we are pleased to welcome him to the firm.”
Fabrikant was the senior law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Counsel to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, and a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Howard University School of Law, and at the Transnational Law and Business University in Seoul, Korea. He was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Southern California Law School, and a lecturer in law at the University of Singapore Law School.
Fabrikant is a co-author of Health Care Fraud: Enforcement and Compliance, an annually updated treatise published by Law Journal Press. Most recently, he published In the Shadow of the False Claims Act: 'Outsourcing' the Investigation by Government Counsel to Relator Counsel During the Seal Period, 83 N.D. L. Rev. 837 (2007); and Emancipation and the Proclamation: Of Contrabands, Congress and Lincoln, 49 HOW. L.J. 313 (2006).
Fabrikant earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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