David Laigaie

David Laigaie focuses his practice on white collar and criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, health care litigation, and complex civil litigation. He handles a variety of white collar criminal cases including health care fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, export violations, pharmaceutical marketing fraud, municipal corruption, defense procurement fraud, and public finance fraud.

Representative Experience

• Represented local elected official in successfully defending against a quo warranto action seeking to oust the official from office based on alleged violations of the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act.
• Represented Eastern Block émigré in collecting millions owed by a multi-national businessman who conducted business in Switzerland, France, Ukraine, the Middle East and various Caribbean countries.
• Conducted a corporate investigation for high technology manufacturer to determine whether the company, and or its employees or agents, violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• Represented clients in anti-trust investigations concerning the manufacturer of potato chips and the sale of municipal tax liens.
• Represented senior executives from several pharmaceutical and medical device companies whose marketing practices were under investigation.
• Represented the principal of a corporation under investigation for insider trading.
• Represented elected officials and candidates for elective office accused of violating the City of Philadelphia Campaign Finance Laws.
• Represented a 350-doctor faculty practice plan in conducting an internal investigation into allegations of wrongdoing and assessing potential voluntary self-disclosure obligations.
• Represented a former director of a now-bankrupt specialty finance company whose rapid descent into bankruptcy spawned a United State Attorney’s Office investigation, an SEC investigation, a shareholder derivative suit, a suit by bondholders, and a suit by a consortium of lenders and a suit by the committee of unsecured creditors.
• Represented a national emergency department staffing company (that is subsidiary of a multi-national health care and transportation company) in defending a Federal False Claims Act suit that was filed in Chicago and a commercial dispute filed in New Jersey.
• Represented a stockbroker accused of participating in a “pump and dump” scheme to market worthless securities.

Professional & Community Activities

• Board Member, Pennsylvania Diversity Law Group
• Editorial Board, BNA Health Care Fraud Report
• Hearing Committee Member, Disciplinary Board, The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Speeches & Presentations

• Panel Moderator PBI - A Day on Health Law - The False Claim Act Update - PPACA's Impact on the FCA and Health Care Fraud Enforcement (October 19, 2010)
• Straight Talk About the Risks Facing Directors & Officers - PBI Workers Compensation CLE (September 21, 2010)
• PBI - Healthcare Report Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Fraud & Abuse and Transparency Related Amendments - David Laigaie/ M. Gallant (May 26, 2010)
• Appealing Medicare Overpayments (RAC Audits) - D. Laigaie/ M. Wachlin
• Presented 16th Annual Health Law Institute - PBI - False Claims Act Year in Review (MArch 11, 2010)
• Presented "Fraud and Abuse, Enforcement and Transparency" for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Health Reform Legislation on May 26, 2010.
• Presented "Appealing Medicare Overpayments (RAC Audits)" for the 16th Annual Health Law Institute of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on March 12, 2010
• Panel Moderator on “A Day on Health Care Law, False Claims Act Half-Year In Review” for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in October 2009
• Panel Moderator on “False Claim Act Amendments: Implications for the Health Care Community, Bureau of National Affairs” in Washington, D.C. on July 15, 2009
• Presented on “19th Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud” for the American Bar Association in Phoenix, Arizona on May 13, 2009
• Presented “False Claims Act Review” for the 15th Annual Health Law Institute of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on March 2009
• Presented “False Claims Act Roundup” for the Health Care Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association on January 22, 2009
• Presented “False Claims Act Amendments: Implications for the Healthcare Community (Procedural Provisions)” 2009 View Presentation
• Panel Moderator on “False Claims Act Update” for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on October 28, 2008
• Presented “False Claims Act Review” for the 14th Annual Health Law Institute of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in April 2008
• Presented “False Claims Act Update for the 13th Annual Health Law Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Institute March 13-14, 2007 View Presentation
• Presented “False Claims Act Half Year in Review, A Day on Health Care law”  for Pennsylvania Bar Institute on October 11 2006 View Presentation 
• Presented “False Claims Act Year in Review” for the 12th Annual Health Law Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Institute March 15, 2006 View Presentation

• David Laigaie Is Appointed to the Board of Public Citizens for Children and Youth

• White Collar Legal Update: Will Recent Supreme Court Sentencing Decisions Help Or Hurt Antitrust Defendants?
• White Collar Legal Update: Increased Criticism of Deferred Prosecution and Non-Prosecution Agreements

• Panel Discussion on the Impact of the Affordable Care Act with Senator Spector
• David M. Laigaie Directs Panel Discussion at Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Health Law Seminar