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Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations - North Carolina

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What the Team is Known For

Brooks, Pierce, McLendon Humphrey & Leonard is a leading firm in high-stakes white-collar criminal litigation. The firm is equally adept in representing individuals and companies, with experience assisting with complex government and internal investigations. Its expertise spans False Claims Act, bribery and antitrust-related cases. The team acts for clients in the healthcare and energy sectors, among others.

Work Highlights

  • Brooks Pierce represented Insect Shield LLC in response to a federal investigation and False Claims Act lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Justice into potential allegations of improprieties in the quality-control process to ensure equipment meets specifications before being shipped for use by military personnel.

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Notable Practitioners

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Kearns Davis
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Kearns Davis
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Kearns Davis is noted for his broad base of white-collar litigation expertise, with experience handling False Claims Act, bribery and antitrust related cases. He has handled matters involving the DOJ, FBI and other agencies.

Kearns Davis provides excellent, highly experienced, and well-measured legal counsel relative to navigating highly complex and often ambiguous situations.

Kearns is one of the best criminal defense attorneys in North Carolina. He's smart and hardworking.

He is a little bit of a chameleon, he can adjust to be the lawyer you need him to be depending on the situation. He is a very good communicator with a lot of trust and confidence with prosecutors.

Shana L. Fulton
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Shana L. Fulton
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Shana Fulton is a widely renowned white-collar litigator recognized for her experience assisting businesses and individuals in a wide array of government and internal investigations.

She is incredibly talented, hardworking, and has a good reputation in the area.

Shana is fantastic, has been doing this a long time and is very skilled. She has become a prominent figure in the white-collar space.

Shana is a former AUSA so knows the lay of land and the players in North Carolina very well. She is very capable, smart and very quick at understanding what are very complicated areas of law.

Shana is so focused, when she has the case she is bringing the A game.

She is a natural born leader and a confident lawyer, whose confidence is well earned. She is a seasoned lawyer with broad experience in civil and criminal law.

Daniel D. Adams
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Daniel D. Adams
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Daniel Adams is a go-to litigator for individuals and corporates facing complex government investigations, including those alleging bribery and antitrust violations. He has experience assisting clients in the healthcare and energy sectors, among others.

He gets the impact of the issues we're facing and is willing to make an argument.

He works really well in a joint defense capacity. He can handle high-profile cases. He's fantastic.

I would highly recommend Daniel.

Daniel Adams is a skilled practitioner who is highly capable of analyzing and dissecting remarkably complex and non-intuitive fact patterns, and providing practical and commercially attuned guidance.

Daniel is an incredible lawyer whose written work product is really terrific. He comes up with creative legal issues and addresses them brilliantly. His heart is in his work.

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Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

Kearns Davis
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Kearns Davis
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Shana L. Fulton
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Shana L. Fulton
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Daniel D. Adams
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Daniel D. Adams
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