April 19, 2022
The former counsel for an Advance Biohealing Inc. whistleblower can claim $6.13 million in fees from his settlement, despite their former client claiming they hid one attorney's dire health and allowed a disbarred attorney to work on the case, a Florida federal judge ruled Tuesday.
December 09, 2021
A third Florida federal district court judge has recused himself from a biotech whistleblower case, saying he once worked as a defense attorney for a former Shire and Advanced BioHealing Inc. employee whose previous company is the subject of the whistleblower complaint.
November 30, 2021
A Florida magistrate judge recommended Monday that the former counsel of a whistleblower, who helped reach a $350 million settlement with biotech company Shire, be awarded more than $6 million in the fight over attorney fees related to the settlement.
February 22, 2021
An attorney representing the former counsel for a whistleblower who helped secure a $350 million settlement with biotech company Shire told a Florida federal court Monday that it lacks authority to allow a law firm lender to intervene in a fees dispute and expressed distrust of the lender's intentions.
February 04, 2021
Law firm lender Counsel Financial Services asked a Florida federal judge Wednesday for permission to intervene in a dispute over divvying up attorney fees from a $350 million whistleblower settlement with biotech company Shire, alleging the law firm Barry A. Cohen PA should be forced to direct any fees it receives to pay back a $43.8 million line of credit.
January 15, 2020
The attorneys who used to represent a whistleblower failed Tuesday to get a Florida federal judge to disqualify the whistleblower's new attorneys in their fight over a cut of the attorney fee award in a $350 million deal with biotech company Shire Pharmaceuticals PLC.
April 09, 2019
The former lawyers of a whistleblower who helped reach a $350 million settlement with biotech company Shire over its marketing of a skin product have asked a Florida federal court to disqualify two attorneys and their firm for allegedly using stolen confidential emails to cut the former counsel out of a fee award.
November 21, 2017
A Florida federal judge signed off Monday on the U.S. Department of Justice's apportionment plans for payouts from a $350 million False Claims Act settlement with biotech company Shire, with two of six whistleblower suits getting more than 95 percent of the proceeds, which must still be tabulated.