Lifflander & Reich is a New York City litigation boutique that concentrates plaintiff representation in key practice areas:
- qui tam whistleblower actions, federal and state, under False Claims Acts
- medical malpractice; and
- serious injuries
- consumer protection
Lifflander & Reich litigators have extensive trial experience in state and federal courts and negotiating skills developed over decades to help bring our clients' cases to satisfactory conclusions. Many clients have retained our senior partners literally for decades. We're honored to receive referrals from clients as well as those whose job it is to carefully select effective counsel.
Lifflander & Reich litigators combine their knowledge of the law and medicine. We also rely on an extensive support staff network including highly skilled investigators, physicians and other health care providers.
For qui tam whistleblowers with original knowledge of False Claims Act violations in health care, IRS, defense contracting, pharmaceutical and other government fraud, Lifflander & Reich represents realtors (in legal terms a qui tam whistleblower is a "relator") by carefully investigating their allegations, initiating appropriate claims and working with the government.
In September 2008, named partner Richard I. Reich's five-year representation of a qui tam whistleblower became public when Staten Island University Hospital agreed to America's largest single health care institution fraud civil settlement, approximately $89 million covering three separate matters.
Reich developed an absolutely novel approach that Lifflander & Reich employed to obtain $25 million of the Staten Island University Hospital settlement for the government. As a result, Reich's client, the widow of a man who received cancer treatment before his death, received approximately $3.75 million for filing the whistleblower action.
Lifflander & Reich's highly selective defense practice areas include:
- Tort
- Product Liability
- Employment Discrimination
- Commercial Litigation