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Jeff Bucholtz Featured Speaker at Capitol Hill Health Care Seminar

10 Oct 2011
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
WASHINGTON, October 10, 2011 – Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, a partner at King & Spalding and former acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, will be a panelist at a Capitol Hill seminar examining aggressive tactics the government frequently employs in health care industry investigations. The event will take place in the Rayburn House Office Building from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET on October 18. It is sponsored by Main Justice.

“The government's increasingly creative theories of health care fraud are raising questions about due process and the limits of criminal liability for corporations and executives,” Bucholtz said. “Our panel of industry lawyers and experts will explore what it means when prosecutors become de facto regulators of health care and pharmaceutical companies.”

Bucholtz will be joined on the panel by three other health care and pharma industry experts. They will explain hot-button topics such as exclusion, individual prosecutions, off-label marketing and the False Claims Act.

The deficit reduction supercommittee is considering ramping up the already aggressive efforts to reap billions of dollars in fines from major health care players as a new way to close the $1.5 trillion budget gap, according to Bucholtz. At the same time, recent articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post reflect growing concerns about prosecution tactics. “No industry is more impacted by these aggressive tactics than pharma and health care,” Bucholtz said.

For additional information or to RSVP for this free event, click here.

Bucholtz is a partner in the national appellate practice of King & Spalding, in Washington, D.C., and deputy leader of that office’s business litigation and antitrust practice. He rejoined the firm in 2009 after serving more than six years in leadership positions in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was responsible for overseeing the government’s use of criminal prosecution under the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act and civil enforcement under the False Claims Act.

Main Justice is an independent news organization that covers insider news about the U.S. Department of Justice, including the 94 U.S. Attorney offices around the United States.

About King & Spalding
Celebrating more than 125 years of service, King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 800 lawyers in 17 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents and is consistently recognized for the results it obtains, uncompromising commitment to quality and dedication to understanding the business and culture of its clients. More information is available at www.kslaw.com.

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