About Our Qui Tam Attorneys
For thirty years, Baron & Budd has protected individuals and governmental entities from corporate wrongdoing in a variety of settings. The firm, which exclusively represents plaintiffs, currently has over 50 lawyers in offices in Dallas, Austin, Baton Rouge and Beverly Hills. The firm’s Qui Tam Litigation Section represents whistleblowers who stand up to end corporate fraud against federal and state governments.
Pat O’Connell, who heads the Qui Tam section, is well known nationally for his work leading the Texas Attorney General's Civil Medicaid Fraud Section to recover, on behalf of taxpayers, money stolen from Medicaid by hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical manufacturers and others. Pat used the Texas False Claim Act, known as the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act, to build a powerful coalition of individual Qui Tam whistleblowers, the counsel representing them and the dedicated attorneys in the Texas Attorney General's office under his leadership. Together, the united forces worked time and again to expose and put a stop to the rampant fraud engaged in by the health care industry. (Read more in Pat’s biography)
Jan Soifer, who has joined Pat in the Qui Tam section, has more than 25 years of trial experience, a focus on federal and state Qui Tam litigation and a history of successfully litigating on behalf of taxpayers, consumers, nonprofit and governmental entities to protect them from the effects of fraud. Jan formerly served as the Texas Attorney General's Chief of the Charitable Trusts Section and Deputy Chief of the Consumer Protection Division. She also served as co-counsel for the whistleblower, Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., in multiple pending lawsuits brought by Ven-A-Care under the federal False Claim Act, Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act and other state statutes. This litigation, known as the “AWP” or drug-pricing litigation, has been joined by the United States and the States of Texas, California and Florida, as well as others, against some of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the country. (Read more in Jan's biography)
