Whistleblower Law Collaborative Named a Best Law Firm by Best Lawyers®

November 7, 2024

Whistleblower Law Collaborative is pleased to announce that it has been named a Best Law Firm by Best Lawyers®.

Firm Recognized as a Best Law Firm

To be appointed a Best Law Firm by Best Lawyers®, a firm must have at least one attorney recognized by Best Lawyer®. For 2025, both Erica Blachman Hitchings and Suzanne Durrell earned this recognition. The peer review process identifies leaders in the profession.

Erica Blachman Hitchings joined WLC after nearly nine years at the U.S. Department of Justice. At DOJ, Erica successfully investigated, litigated, and settled a wide range of False Claims Act cases. Erica simultaneously ran two cutting-edge Medicare Advantage fraud investigations. One of these cases resulted in a $90 million recovery. In the other, the government has intervened and alleged over a billion dollars in false claims. Since joining WLC, Erica has represented clients in numerous successful matters, including cases against Zoll Medical and a record setting municipal bond fraud case.
Suzanne E. Durrell is a co-founder and managing member of the Whistleblower Law Collaborative. Prior to WLC, Ms. Durrell served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and as Deputy Chief, and then Chief of the Civil Division in the U. S. Attorney’s Office in Boston. While there, she supervised and prosecuted cases within the office’s rapidly growing qui tam and False Claims Act practice.

More Than Twenty Years Serving Whistleblowers

Whistleblower Law Collaborative is honored to receive the distinction as a Best Law Firm by Best Lawyers® after its more than twenty years representing whistleblowers. In this time, WLC has helped the government recover over $6.8 billion related to fraud. WLC’s work has also had an impact in safeguarding public health and safety, reforming or changing industry practices, and protecting whistleblowers against retaliation. WLC and its attorneys and staff have been recognized with a range of awards including Law360 HealthCare Practice Group of the Year (2022), Super Lawyers, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Top Women of Law, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s Excellence in the Law (Paralegal/Administration), and Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers.