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Whistleblower Law Collaborative co-founders Suzanne E. Durrell and Robert M. Thomas, Jr., joined forces in 2003 to represent whistleblowers in qui tam actions under the False Claims Act. Ms. Durrell was the former Chief of the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, where she spent twelve years supervising and prosecuting False Claims Act cases.  In recent years, the Whistleblower Law Collaborative has expanded its capacity to do this important work with the addition of Bruce C. Judge, Erica Blachman Hitchings, David W.S. Lieberman, and Linda C. Severin. These attorneys fit the mold set by co-founders Thomas and Durrell: all have prior government experience fighting fraud and share a passion for helping clients bring wrongdoers to justice.  Learn more at or call.

Valerie was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Hong Kong, and has been in the Boston area since 2004. She has been an Associate at Skylark Law & Mediation, P.C. (formerly Kelsey & Trask, P.C.) since February 2013, where she focuses on family law litigation, mediation, collaborative law and juvenile law.. Valerie received her BA in English (magna cum laude) from Wellesley College in 2008, and her JD from Boston University School of Law in 2011. Valerie was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in November 2011.. Valerie is conversant in Cantonese and Spanish, and also has a working knowledge of Mandarin.

Meredith Daniels has represented petitioners in the Vaccine Program since 2009, practicing before the Office of Special Masters, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.. Originally from the Chicago area, Meredith earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Brown University in 2007, where she was a member of the Women’s Water Polo team.  In 2010, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Suffolk University Law School.  Meredith was the vice president of Suffolk Law’s Health and Biomedical Law Society, and a member of Suffolk Law School’s Journal of Health and Biomedical Law.  Her article Special Masters in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: Placing a Heightened Burden on Vaccine Program Petitioners by Straying from Precedent and Congressional Intent, was published by Suffolk University’s Journal of Health and Biomedical Law in 2010.. Meredith is a member of the Court of Federal Claims Bar Association, the Vaccine Injured Petitioners Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice.  Additionally, she served on the Board of Governors for the Newly Admitted Lawyers Division of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association.. Meredith is admitted to the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Ingrid Martin focuses on the intersection between criminal defense and health care law where a seemingly minor infraction rapidly can escalate into career threatening license and accreditation challenges as well as exclusion from Medicare and other federal health care programs.  Her familiarity with the health care regulatory environment also enhances her ability to effectively resolve contractual and business litigation matters for her clients.. Ms. Martin routinely handles all types of federal and state government investigations faced by her clients, which include licensed health care professionals, pharmacies, medical practices, therapy providers, adult day health programs, and members of the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.  She protects clients being investigated by agencies such as the United States Department of Justice, the FDA, the DEA, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Office of the Inspector General of Health & Human Services, as well as the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, and the Division of Professional Licensure.  She guides clients through audit, licensing, and accreditation matters as well as peer review proceedings initiated by hospitals or insurance companies.   She also protects her clients’ interests in federal and state court, both at the trial level and on appeal.. After law school, Ms. Martin was selected for a two year federal clerkship with the Honorable Judge O’Toole of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.  She then served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Corruption, Fraud & Computer Crime Division.  She began private practice in 2005.

Carla M. Moynihan, partner and chair of the firm's Real Estate Department, has over 25 years of transactional experience advising clients in all aspects of their acquisition, disposition, leasing, permitting, construction, and financing projects.. Carla’s clients include owners, institutions, developers, retailers, individual investors, hospitals, hotels, state agencies, municipalities, and lenders. She represents these clients in single asset and portfolio transactions for hotel, retail, office, multi-family, or industrial uses, advising on purchase and sale agreements, joint ventures, investments, financings, development agreements, and architectural and construction contracts. Her financing experience includes advising on complex CMBS loan agreements.. In addition to her transactional practice, Carla guides clients throughout the permitting and public land approval process at federal, state, and local levels, including the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Act, the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the City of Boston Board of Appeal, the Boston Planning and Redevelopment Agency, and neighborhood architectural/landmark commissions.

Boston Criminal Defense lawyer, Brad Bailey, a Massachusetts native white collar, sex, drugs & violent crimes (including homicide) attorney, graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1980. He received his J.D. in 1983 from the University of Virginia, one of America’s premier (top 10) law schools. He began his legal career working for the New York County (Manhattan) D.A. as an Assistant District Attorney in the Nation’s largest and busiest D.A.’s Office. While there, he prosecuted serious street level felonies, including armed robberies, burglaries, attempted murders, felony weapons charges and felonious assaults. He achieved a conviction rate of 94% and handled thousands of cases during his tenure. From there, he returned home to Massachusetts and joined the Middlesex County D.A.’s Office, where he continued his career as an Assistant District Attorney. A senior Trial Attorney assigned to both the Cambridge and Lowell regions, Brad prosecuted some of the most serious cases in the D.A.’s Office including murders, rapes, attempted murders, armed robberies, child sexual assaults, and cocaine and heroin trafficking. In a mere 22 months, he tried 26 felony cases to verdict in the Superior Court (an Office record at the time). Losing only twice, Brad achieved an overall conviction rate of over 92%. Brad moved on from the Middlesex D.A.’s Office to the prestigious United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, where he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston, first with the Organized Crime Strike Force and later with the Drug Task Force (OCDEFT). While in the Strike Force, Brad directly participated in the prosecution of a number of members and factions of the Patriaca Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (LCN) including reputed Underboss Charles Quintina, Capos Biagio DiGiacomo and Sonny-Boy Rizzo, and Soldiers Spucky Spagnuolo, Vincent “Dee Dee” Giachinni, Pryce Quintana and Freddy Chiampa. He also authored and oversaw numerous court authorized wire-taps. When in the Drug Task Force, Brad prosecuted numerous local, regional, national and international drug conspiracies, principally involving Colombian and Dominican distribution cells and Syrian and Lebanese drug traffickers. Also the co-lead prosecutor in a case involving the then largest marijuana smuggling ring in New England history, Brad never lost a trial as a federal prosecutor and achieved the Office’s highest ranking: “Outstanding Prosecutor.”. Brad went on to serve as Sheriff of Middlesex County for two years from 1995-1996. In that role, he was responsible for the daily care, housing and transportation of close to 2,000 inmates and detainees at correctional facilities in Cambridge, Framingham and Billerica and oversaw a staff of more than 750 county employees. He was also responsible for courthouse security and the service of civil process throughout Middlesex County. While Sheriff, he was honored as one of the 1996 “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders” by the Greater Boston Jaycees.. Brad returned to the private sector in 1998 and has concentrated since then in high-end state and federal criminal defense involving all types of crimes and charges.  He has defended some of the highest profile cases in Massachusetts, as well as throughout the New England Region and elsewhere in the U.S. He routinely defends clients in cases alleging: murder, rape, robbery, home invasion, larceny, theft/embezzlement, white collar offenses, fraud, public corruption, narcotics distribution/trafficking, arson, racketeering, child sexual assault, child pornography, felony assault, DUI, and all other types of federal crimes and charges.. A longtime member of the select CJA panel (approved by the U.S. District Court to represent indigent clients in federal court) as well as a member of the select CPCS murder list (for indigent murder clients), Brad is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, and also licensed full-time to practice in the District of Massachusetts (federal), the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (federal), as well as in all state courts, at all levels, in both Massachusetts and New York.  Despite being based in Boston, because of his national reputation, in addition to handling numerous cases in New Hampshire and Connecticut on a pro hac vice basis, Brad has also been admitted pro hac vice in federal or state courts in ME, CA, AZ, MD, WI, VA and NJ and has extensive appellate experience having filed and/or argued cases in the Federal 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, Supreme Judicial Court, and Massachusetts Court of Appeals. He also appears before regulatory agencies including the SEC and the NASD, as well.. A regular guest analyst on local radio and television stations, Brad now provides exclusive television commentary for FOX television’s Boston affiliate regarding cases of local, regional, and national importance.  A repeat Massachusetts Super Lawyer, including this year (2014), Brad has also been recognized as a New England Super Lawyer.  He received top ratings from Martindale Hubbell (“AV”) and AVVO (“Superb”) and was voted a National Top 100 Trial Lawyer.. A former Harvard Football Player, with four adult children, all of whom were accomplished high school athletes, three of whom also participated in varsity sports at the inter-collegiate level, Brad is well-versed in MIAA rules and regulations, as well as governing codes of discipline of high school and collegiate athletics. He remains active in his local community.

Attorney in Office of General Counsel of MA Department of Conservation and Recreation. Policy development through regulations drafting and permitting processes. Provide legal review and comments on legislation that affects agency. OGC liaison to Operations staff. Strategize re new initiatives and their implementation across the agency.Specialties:environmental law; contract law; writing; systems organization

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Government attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.