Whistleblower Law Collaborative is pleased to announce that its attorneys Bob Thomas, Suzanne Durrell, David W. S. Lieberman, and Linda C. Severin were selected to the 2024 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list.
Super Lawyers Are Peer Nominated
Today Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, reveals its Massachusetts Super Lawyers list for 2024. The list showcases the region’s finest legal minds and is a distinction that only 5% of attorneys in Massachusetts receive. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with independent research to select the most outstanding lawyers by practice area and region.
Given the careful selection process, we are pleased that our attorneys were among those chosen as 2024 Massachusetts Super Lawyers,
Whistleblower Law Collaborative’s co-founder, Suzanne Durrell
Four WLC Attorneys are Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2024
- Suzanne Durrell is a co-founder and managing member of Whistleblower Law Collaborative. Prior to WLC, Ms. Durrell served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and as Deputy Chief, and then Chief, Civil Division, U. S. Attorney’s Office, Boston. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she supervised and prosecuted cases within the office’s burgeoning qui tam and False Claims Act unit from 1989 to 2002. She is in her 21st year of representing whistleblowers. Suzanne was chosen to be a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Woman of Law in 2022 and is American Bar Foundation fellow.
- Bob Thomas has been practicing law since 1986. For the last twenty years, Bob has been representing whistleblowers with his friend, colleague, and co-founder, Suzanne Durrell. Previously, Bob served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, focusing primarily on the prosecution of white-collar fraud matters and environmental crimes. While an AUSA, Bob earned the EPA Bronze Medal for his contribution to the prosecution of a landmark criminal Clean Water Act case. Bob has been an Adjunct Professor at Boston University School of Law since 2011.
- David W.S. Lieberman is an experienced litigator of complex fraud claims, and a former environmental crime prosecutor with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office. One of David’s victories, United States ex rel. Doe v. CleanSlate Centers, was prosecuted along with the Massachusetts Attorney General against a chain of opioid treatment centers, as well as settlements against Dermatran and Arthrex.
- Linda C. Severin was in private practice in Seattle doing white collar defense work before joining WLC. She was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and worked in-house at a Fortune 100 corporation. Linda’s recent success against BioTel and LifeWatch returned $13 million to the government for improperly billing federal health programs for mobile cardiac telemetry services. Her successes also include the 2022 landmark $234 million Mallinckrodt settlement.
Whistleblower Law Collaborative
Whistleblower Law Collaborative LLC, based in Boston, devotes its practice entirely to representing clients nationwide in bringing actions under the federal and state False Claims Acts and other whistleblower programs. Among the firm’s many successes is the governments’ $465 million settlement with Mylan.
For more information, contact Whistleblower Law Collaborative at 617.366.2800.
