Robert S Salcido > Akin > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Akin Offices
Robert S. Strauss Tower
2001 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-1037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Robert S Salcido
Work Department
Partner; Health
Position
False Claims Act/Qui Tam Defense
Fraud & Abuse Compliance and Litigation
To learn more about Robert, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/robert-s-salcido.html
Career
Robert Salcido represents clients in FCA and qui tam litigation and provides counseling regarding the application of health care fraud and abuse laws. As lead counsel, he has successfully defended a number of FCA actions on appeal, at trial, at summary judgment and at the pleading stage.
Prior to joining Akin, Robert was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Fraud Unit from 1988 to 1993.
Robert has authored books and multiple articles, including an extensive (1050 pages) FCA treatise, titled False Claims Act & the Healthcare Industry: Counseling & Litigation (4th ed. American Health Law Ass’n 2022). Several of his publications have been cited in court decisions, regarding the FCA and health care fraud and abuse laws. Robert has lectured at over 70 national conferences on defenses to FCA actions; health care coding compliance; and FCA whistleblower litigation, including national conferences sponsored by the American Bar Association, the American Health Law Association and the Health Care Compliance Association.
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School; B.A., Claremont McKenna College, 1984
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Industry focus > Sport
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)