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Lisa Noller gets results.
A trial lawyer and investigator in our Chicago office, Lisa is chair of the firm’s national Litigation Department and former chair of the firm’s Government Enforcement Defense & Investigations Practice Group and the firm’s Management Committee. She is also a member of the firm’s Health Care Litigation Team and Antitrust & Competition Practice Group.
Named to the inaugural Forbes America’s Top 200 Lawyers list and recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Investigations in 2024, Lisa has spent over 25 years investigating, litigating, and trying complex criminal and civil cases, responding to government investigations, conducting corporate internal investigations, and persuading the government not to pursue clients. “Lisa has been lauded by clients and colleagues for her subject-matter expertise, investigative prowess, tenaciousness and integrity,” noted the Forbes editor, and “she is an expert in healthcare litigation and white-collar defense.” As a member of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers since 2015, Lisa has been recognized for her trial success in over 30 civil and criminal trials in state and federal courts. She represents companies and individuals in parallel civil and criminal proceedings initiated by government agencies, and she proactively counsels clients in enforcement and other litigation matters. Lisa successfully has represented clients in many districts around the country, most often in Illinois, Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Lisa is particularly renowned for her excellence in health care litigation: Sources label her “an exceptional attorney in the area of health care.” She represents providers in helping them navigate the False Claims Act and criminal matters, including Anti-kickback Statute (AKS), PPP loans, Managed Care/Medicare Advantage issues, and antitrust defense. Lisa has served as a private mediator in an AKS dispute, and she was court- appointed as the special master for discovery in a complex tax shelter and fraud case.
Lisa is frequently sought nationally and locally to be an author, speaker, panelist, and conference organizer on topics related to False Claims Act defense, government investigations, health care antitrust matters, and white collar criminal defense, among other topics. She is a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she founded and teaches the Prosecution and Defense Clinic and is Chair of the Law School Council. She also is an adjunct professor at Northwestern Law School, where she teaches trial advocacy.
Prior to joining Foley, Lisa was an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, where she worked in both the civil and criminal divisions of the office. She was a member of the U.S. attorney’s team dedicated to the prosecution of healthcare fraud in Northern Illinois, and she has worked on numerous complex fraud cases as well as parallel investigations with other agencies, including HHS-OIG, NIH, and the SEC. Lisa served as a deputy chief in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, most recently in the Financial Crimes and Special Prosecutions Section, where she prosecuted complex federal criminal cases from investigation through appeal involving the AKS, Stark Law, public corruption, mortgage fraud, bank fraud, health care fraud, tax fraud, research grant fraud, racketeering, embezzlement, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and terrorism financing.
She earned a Director’s Award for Superior Performance for successfully trying a 100-count RICO case, and she also received the Mitch Mars Prosecutorial Excellence Award from the Chicago Crime Commission. Before joining the Criminal Division, she also worked for three years in the Civil Division, where she represented the United States in affirmative civil enforcement and health care fraud actions, including False Claims Act matters. In addition to her trial experience, Lisa also has successfully argued numerous appeals before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2014, Lisa earned a white belt certificate in Legal Lean Sigma® and project management from the Legal Lean Sigma Institute.
Lisa Noller leads Foley’s department of 400 litigators in 26 offices across the country. She is herself one of the firm’s most experienced courtroom trial attorneys, having won 35 civil and criminal trials in federal and state courts. Clients particularly rely on Lisa’s experience and success trying fraud cases, with emphasis defending False Claims Act cases, Anti-kickback statute allegations and public corruption cases. As a federal prosecutor, Lisa was the lead investigator and trial attorney in United States v. Borassi, the Seventh Circuit’s seminal AKS case. In private practice, Lisa has secured victories in fraud trials, and also helps clients avoid trials through pre-trial advocacy.
Lisa’s prosecution and defense trial victories primarily are in the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, and she teaches trial advocacy courses and the Prosecution and Defense Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.
After being elected to the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers in 2015, Lisa now serves on one of its selection committees.
