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Massive Settlement Coming In For-Profit College Fraud Case

Edit Huffington Post 15 Nov 2015
The settlement, which may be announced as soon as Monday, is likely to require Education Management to pay roughly $100 million -- less than 1 percent of the federal student aid the U.S ... 21 news release. The chain has denied wrongdoing ... Eric Havian, a lawyer who has represented whistleblowers, said it was "extraordinarily rare" for companies accused of violating the False Claims Act to admit wrongdoing in civil lawsuits.  ... ....

Five facts about ‘They Fly Through the Air’ and Sam Wheeler ’17 (Bates College)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Nov 2015
(Source. Bates College). Samuel Wheeler '17 of Skowhegan, Maine, shown during his 2015 summer internship with the Bates Dance Festival. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College) ... Here are five things to know about Wheeler and the production.. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... Nick Muccio '16, of Concord, N.H.; Claire Sullivan '19 of Montville, N.J.; Tricia Crimmins '19 of Chicago; Becca Havian '19 of Piedmont, Calif.; and Michael Driscal '19 of Cleveland ... 4 ... 5 ... (noodl....

16 Constantine Cannon Attorneys Named to Super Lawyers Magazine

Edit PR Newswire 29 Oct 2015
NEW YORK, Oct ... The Super Lawyers rating service distinguishes lawyers at the top 5 percent (top 2.5 percent for Rising Stars) of their location, considering both professional achievement and peer recognition by practice area ... W ... Havian, a partner and co-founder of Constantine Cannon's San Francisco office, represents whistleblowers under qui tam law and the False Claims Act. Havian was named to the Northern California Super Lawyers list....

GM will pay $900 million over ignition switch scandal

Edit Dayton Daily News 17 Sep 2015
General Motors agreed to pay $900 million to fend off criminal prosecution over the deadly ignition-switch scandal, striking a deal that brought criticism down on the Justice Department for not bringing charges against individual employees ... But she added ... It must change." ... Eric Havian, a former federal prosecutor in San Francisco who now represents whistleblowers, said it can be extraordinarily difficult to prosecute employees ... ___ ... ....

GM will $900M to settle criminal case over ignition switches

Edit Sun Sentinel 17 Sep 2015
General Motors agreed to pay $900 million to fend off criminal prosecution over the deadly ignition-switch scandal, striking a deal that brought criticism down on the Justice Department for not bringing charges against individual employees ... criminal investigation ... See more videos ... Eric Havian, a former federal prosecutor in San Francisco who now represents whistleblowers, said it can be extraordinarily difficult to prosecute employees ... ....

Slideshow: 26 student moments from Orientation and AESOP to Convocation, classes, and sports (Bates College) ...

Edit Public Technologies 11 Sep 2015
(Source. Bates College) Slideshow. 26 student moments from Orientation and AESOP to Convocation, classes, and sports . News . Bates College. By Jay Burns. Published on September 11, 2015 Slideshow ... 31 ... Sept ... Sept ... Digging in for samples here are Becca Havian of Piedmont, Calif.; Sara Hollenberg of Stamford, Conn.; Amanda Sobotka of York, Maine; Anissa Garza of Waukegan, Ill., Jon Sheehan of Tyngsborough, Mass.; and Ross Ackerman of Houston....

Five Additional Whistleblower Lawyers Join Constantine Cannon's Expanding Whistleblower Practice, One of the Nation's Largest and Most Experienced

Edit PR Newswire 28 Jul 2015
This team -- all formerly with Phillips & Cohen -- joins the firm's recent whistleblower lawyer additions of Eric Havian, Wayne Lamprey and Anne Hartman, who earlier this year joined the firm to open its San Francisco office ... Ms. Inman and Mr. McCormack have joined the firm as Partners, Ms. Moore as Of Counsel, and Ms. Knobler and Mr ... Ms ... Eric Havian remarked on his former colleagues who have decided to rejoin him at Constantine Cannon....

Groups Add to Evidence in "Whistleblower" Tax Fraud Claim Against ALEC (Common Cause)

Edit noodls 13 May 2015
(Source. Common Cause) Many Corporate Members Admit Joining ALEC to Advance Legislation Benefitting Them, Despite Group's Claim That It Doesn't Lobby ... Several of those companies no longer are part of ALEC ... "ALEC tried to outsource some of its more obvious lobbying to the Jeffersonian Project, an entity that ALEC controls," said Eric Havian, an attorney representing Common Cause on the submission ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Prominent whistle-blower lawyer takes aim at Silicon Valley

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 21 Apr 2015
Armed with new federal laws (plus an old one) and a track record as one of the country’s best whistle-blower lawyers, Havian has his sights set on tech, an industry that has long enjoyed a relatively squeaky-clean reputation when it comes to corruption ... attorney in San Francisco from 1987 to 1994, Havian eventually chose a private career in whistle-blower cases....

Constantine Cannon Opens San Francisco Office With Three New Lawyers Joining The Firm's Growing Whistleblower Practice Eric Havian, former California Lawyer "Attorney of the Year," joins from Phillips & Cohen, along with Wayne T. Lamprey and Anne Hayes Hartman of Goodin, MacBride, Squeri, Day, & Lamprey

Edit PR Newswire 18 Mar 2015
NEW YORK, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In a further expansion of its rapidly growing Whistleblower Practice, Constantine Cannon announced the opening of an office in San Francisco, and that well-known Bay Area qui tam whistleblower lawyers Eric Havian, Wayne T ... Havian, a partner of the San Francisco office of prominent whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen, is a former Assistant U.S ... Havian ... Havian received his J.D....

Judge Narrows JM Eagle Verdict To Five Plaintiffs, Dealing Blow To Whistleblower Case

Edit Forbes 29 Jan 2015
He apparently thought the plaintiff lawyers, led by Eric Havian of Phillips & Cohen, were going to present a false certification case in which they’d have to present some evidence that their clients had purchased defective pipe. Instead, Havian shifted among legal theories, eventually convincing the jury,– with the help of documents JM Eagle ......

Sanford Heisler Kimpel Settles Office Depot Whistleblower Case For $68.5 Million Estate of Relator David Sherwin and Some 1,000 California Public Agencies Share Award

Edit PR Newswire 15 Jan 2015
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A whistleblower's estate and more than 1,000 California public agencies will share a $68.5 million settlement in a false claims act case () that was filed in 2009 and recently approved by Judge Kevin C ... He was represented at the time by Altomease R ... Havian, Stephen Hasegawa and Ned Arens of Phillips & Cohen LLP, San Francisco, Mark Kleiman of the Law Offices of Mark A ... Ms ...   ... ....

Whistleblower's efforts help thousands of California cities and schools recover $68.5 million from Office Depot

Edit PR Newswire 14 Jan 2015
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 1,000 cities, counties, school districts and other government entities in California – including Los Angeles and Santa Clara County – will share in a $68.5 million settlement paid by Office Depot for allegedly overcharging them for office supplies ... Havian, a whistleblower attorney in Phillips & Cohen's San Francisco office ... The largest shares will go to ... ....
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