Laura McLane > McDermott Will & Emery LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
McDermott Will & Emery LLP Offices
28 STATE STREET
BOSTON, MA 02109-1775
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Laura McLane
Work Department
White Collar & Securities
Position
Laura McLane heads the Boston Litigation Practice Group and is a nationally renowned False Claims Act (FCA) litigator in healthcare and life sciences enforcement matters. For more than 20 years, Laura has represented clients in healthcare, securities and other government investigations and litigation. Clients call Laura “an exquisite lawyer, very smart and incisive” (Chambers USA).
A significant part of Laura’s practice is devoted to representing healthcare and other companies, including private equity firms, in government investigations and qui tam litigation based on the FCA and related statutes, including the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law. Laura represents clients in FCA cases pending in federal district courts throughout the country, as well as in federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. Laura has extensively litigated the myriad issues that typically arise in FCA cases, including representing her client in the landmark Escobar case in the Supreme Court. She routinely advises clients concerning all aspects of parallel civil and criminal investigations relating to Medicare and Medicaid billing and other government contracting issues, including negotiating with the government and managing clients’ responses to civil investigative demands and large-scale investigative subpoenas. Clients state that Laura is “fantastic, . . . efficient and able to pull in knowledgeable resources right to the issue” (Legal 500 US). Laura also conducts internal investigations for clients and works with them on a day-to-day basis to help enhance their internal FCA compliance processes and programs.
Laura represents individual and corporate clients in securities fraud investigations and civil enforcement actions brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at both the trial and appellate levels. For example, she tried a multi-week case before the SEC’s Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and won, defeating the SEC’s Division of Enforcement in connection with a litany of securities fraud charges arising from the sub-prime mortgage crisis. When the Commission later reversed the ALJ’s decision, Laura appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which vacated the Commission and exonerated her client. Laura has also achieved successful pre-litigation results for clients in SEC investigations, including convincing the SEC to decline to pursue charges as a result of the Wells process.
Laura also represents clients in complex business disputes and products liability actions, and she routinely defends other law firms in professional liability matters.
Finally, Laura has substantial pro bono experience at the federal level, representing clients from start to finish in connection with a variety of criminal charges.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
McDermott Will & Emery LLP assists a diversity of clients across an assortment of industries, including healthcare, financial services, education, private equity, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and energy. The practice routinely assists in civil and criminal government investigations and litigation, as well as a spectrum of FCPA and anti-corruption investigations. Steven Scholes in Chicago regularly represents clients before the SEC, state securities regulators, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and numerous stocks, options, and futures exchanges. Laure McLane in Boston advises on parallel civil and criminal investigations pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid billing in addition to government contracts. Los Angeles-based Russell Hayman represents health care providers, pharma and biotech companies in criminal and civil fraud cases. Also in LA, Gordon Greenberg is renowned for his money laundering expertise and has great experience assisting businesses in crime investigations and trials.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Fintech
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Government > Government contracts