Alan Dial is a partner in the Litigation & Antitrust Practice Group in King & Spalding’s Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Dial’s practice focuses primarily on complex civil litigation, white collar criminal litigation, and internal investigations. His experience includes litigating criminal and civil cases at the trial and appellate levels, as well as defending individuals and companies in prosecutions and investigations by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, multiple divisions of the Department of Justice, FDA, SEC, OFHEO, and Congress. Mr. Dial currently is the Deputy Hiring Partner for the Washington, D.C., office.
Mr. Dial’s litigation experience covers a wide variety of subject matters, such as pharmaceutical, medical device and healthcare criminal and civil investigations, including False Claim Act litigation, and matters related to tax and accounting fraud, and criminal antitrust violations.
Mr. Dial left King & Spalding from 1998-2004 to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney in Atlanta and San Diego. As an AUSA, he tried and prosecuted various criminal cases involving corporate fraud, tax evasion, investment fraud, counterfeiting, money laundering and violent crimes. He had a distinguished career as a prosecutor, winning convictions in all of his felony jury trials, including several lengthy, complex and high profile federal prosecutions. He also represented the United States in oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, served as lead counsel for the FBI anti-money laundering initiative and lectured on behalf of the Department of Justice to various foreign law enforcement officials on investigating and prosecuting financial crime cases.
Mr. Dial received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1988, where he also earned All-Star honors as a member of the football team and received the Paul Wellman Award for All-Around Excellence. Upon graduation, he went on to play professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Mr. Dial subsequently attended Howard University School of Law, earning his law degree and graduating at the top of his class in 1993. Mr. Dial served as a member of the Howard Law Journal and was elected executive articles editor.
Mr. Dial is admitted to practice in Illinois, the District of Columbia, and Georgia. He is also admitted to practice in various federal courts, including the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the District of Columbia and the Northern District of Illinois.
Representative Experience
- Represented a large pharmaceutical company in a three-week jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in a case alleging antitrust violations.
- Represented two corporate employees in a federal investigation into the accounting practices of a Fortune 100 mortgage-finance company.
- Represented a large pharmaceutical company against a criminal indictment filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, for the Western District of North Carolina, in which the government alleged various cGMP violations.
- Represented a variety of drug and medical device companies, as well as individual employees, officers, consultants and medical professionals, in criminal and civil litigation by multiple U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Department of Justice, HHS-OIG, qui tam Relators, and State Attorneys General regarding alleged off-label promotion, consumer fraud, and other marketing and development activities.
- Ongoing involvement in multiple government investigations.