Lea Courington focuses her practice on health care, government investigations and white collar criminal defense, antitrust, and pharmaceutical matters. She defends physicians, hospitals, health care systems, other healthcare providers, and officers and directors in False Claims Act and qui tam cases and represents them in parallel criminal and civil governmental investigations and program integrity inquiries and audits arising from whistleblower complaints and allegations of Medicare and Medicaid fraud. A former Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, her experience includes both civil cases and the prosecution and defense of white collar federal criminal matters.

Ms. Courington has successfully defended physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care providers before their respective state licensing boards and has extensive experience in medical staff peer review investigations and proceedings. She prepares and negotiates clinical trial agreements. She also counsels clients on and assists clients with disclosure obligations in reimbursement, overpayment, Anti-Kickback, and Stark Law matters and assists them in structuring transactions to comply with those statutes.