Forum Post: Major Qui tam lawfirm states they may have conflicts of interest w representing whistleblowers against pharmaceutical companies
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 14, 2011, 12:56 p.m. EST by cynthiajeanneleemd
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Good Lord, I contacted Phillips and Cohen, a major qui tam law firm that represents whistleblowers when they are trying to out corporate malfeasance that costs the taxpayers. Their reply stated they needed the exact name of the pharmaceutical company to rule out any potential conflicts of interest. Either the message is not really from them or there should be an issue making it unsafe for a whistleblower to contact them in the first place. I am ready to picket them to ask them to fess up. The issue is the pharmaceutical interests that deliberately skew physician textbooks/journals to deliberately cause misdiagnoses to occur (to line their pockets w illicit profits). anyone willing to help and I'll go to bat to post an event in San Francisco where I am?
This posting is totally wrong and unfair. I am the attorney that communicated with Ms. Lee. Phillips & Cohen LLP doesn’t represent any pharmaceutical companies or corporations and never has, as the posting wrongly implies. We only represent whistleblowers and government entities trying to stop fraud against taxpayers and investors and recover lost funds.
The question we asked this person shows we are an ethical law firm. A conflict of interest can occur when a law firm represents two whistleblowers in different cases suing the same company. That was our concern – one that this person completely misconstrued.
Our record shows that we take on the biggest corporations and Wall Street banks and beat them: Pfizer (paid $1.8 billion to settle); HCA Inc. ($631 million); Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street banks (more than $200 million); Cephalon Inc. ($425 million); Northrop Grumman ($325 million); Quest Diagnostics ($302 million) and many more. (For a more detailed listing of the companies we have gone after successfully, see http://www.phillipsandcohen.com/Success-for-Clients/P-C-s-Successful-Whistleblower-Cases.shtml .)
We hope Ms. Cynthia Lee or the website master will remove her post as it wrongly attacks an ethical law firm, rests on a false premise and contains harmful and wrong information. Thank you.
Matthew Smith, Esq.