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Goodwin Offices
1900 N Street NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20036
United States
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Ilene Albala
Position
Partner
Career
Ilene Albala is a partner in Goodwin’s Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Healthcare practices based in Washington, DC. She is a member of the firm’s Healthcare Government Enforcement and False Claims Act Defense group. Previously, she served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where she was lead counsel for the federal government in False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam litigation. Ilene’s FCA investigations at the US Attorney’s Office focused exclusively on the healthcare and life sciences sectors, including medical device manufacturers, hospital systems, compounding pharmacies, clinical laboratories, diagnostic testing facilities, skilled nursing homes, behavioral health providers, hospice providers, physician practices, home health providers, and private equity investors in healthcare companies. She specializes in False Claims Act defense, complex litigation involving the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law, and internal investigations involving healthcare.
Education
JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School 2010 / Masters of Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine 2010 / BA, University of Chicago (with honors) 2007
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Healthcare > Service providers
Goodwin houses a broad team known for its varied specialism, which spans contentious healthcare fraud work, and pharmacy and healthtech acquisitions. David Cappillo and Chris Wilson jointly lead the team from Boston, while William Jackson leads from Washington DC. Capillo is particularly active within the healthcare tech space, representing both tech and health companies, Wilson handles the full spectrum of issues which arise at the intersection between healthcare and private equity law, and Jackson is a seasoned litigator who often acts in major commercial cases. Miranda Hooker in Boston and Ilene Albala in Washington DC are key figures within the team known for their vast experience in FCA, AKS, and HIPAA investigations, and both women’s health initiatives and qui tam cases respectively. Philadelphia’s John Jones is noted for his expertise in private equity within healthcare, often advising health systems, and both private equity and venture capital firms. In the New York office, Roger Cohen utilizes his deep knowledge of tech to assist investors and health service clients with M&A and healthcare delivery issues.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation