
Department profile
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Chambers Review
Expert investigations and criminal defense practice with proven credentials in defending enforcement actions against corporates and individuals. Benefits from the wider firm's formidable pool of resources, including a number of high-profile former government lawyers with extensive experience in bet-the-company disputes.
Work Highlights
- Represented Carolina Liquid Chemistries in a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging it overbilled Medicare and Medicaid by claiming that its urine drug test machines were capable of performing high-complexity quantitative drug testing, which is reimbursed at higher amounts by Medicare and Medicaid, when instead the machines could perform only basic qualitative testing.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The firm is responsive and attentive, and has unparalleled experience and expertise in white-collar criminal defense."
"The firm is responsive and attentive, and has unparalleled experience and expertise in white-collar criminal defense."
Notable Practitioners

Walter Brown is a widely respected white-collar practitioner. He focuses his practice on the representation of high-level executives in sensitive investigations and regulatory matters.
"Walt is a brilliant attorney and strategist who is deeply respected for his investigation and trial skills. He is also a pleasure to work with."

Melinda Haag specializes in representing individuals on diverse mandates in litigation, investigations and enforcement actions.
"She's a great trial lawyer. I like to bring her the thorniest cases - she was a prosecutor so she'll take five minutes to say what we need to do and nothing will faze her. She's definitely cool, calm and collected."

Joshua Hill offers strong capabilities in antitrust, False Claims Act and securities matters and routinely advises clients on government investigations.
"Josh is very good at the overall strategy of a matter, I think he is very good at seeing the wood for trees. He's very even-tempered, calm and not easily ruffled."

Randy Luskey has considerable experience conducting internal investigation and advising corporate clients on governmental investigations and DOJ enforcement matters, as well as handling False Claims Act disputes.
"He is very smart, very detail-oriented and very creative in how he approaches new problems. He gets up to speed on new issues he doesn't know about very quickly, we deeply respect him."
Ranked Lawyers at
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
California



