The 15th Annual Sedona Conference® on Complex Litigation: Strategic and Tactical Decision-Making in Parallel Fraud Proceedings

Hotel:
L'Auberge Del Mar

This conference will focus on strategic and tactical decision-making in parallel fraud proceedings, which have reached unprecedented levels today and are only likely to become more commonplace during a second Obama Administration. These simultaneous or successive criminal, civil, and administrative proceedings arising out of a common set of facts and commenced by multiple government agencies and private litigants present a host of new and complex decisions for even the most seasoned litigators.

In the health care area alone, the government’s beefed up fraud and enforcement efforts resulted in record-breaking recoveries totaling nearly $4.1 billion in 2011 (qui tam actions are also at a record high). With the increasing focus on holding both companies and individuals accountable for fraud following the financial meltdown, especially when government funds are at stake at a time when all eyes are on deficit reduction, the topics we will be addressing are both timely and essential for anyone practicing in this area. New investigative tools and increased funding for government enforcement efforts following the passing of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (FERA), the Affordable Care Act, and related task forces and initiatives (along with the recent Supreme Court decision addressing a putative class action alleging securities fraud in Connecticut Retirement Plans), all lead to one conclusion - now is the time to learn from the “best of class” thought leaders from a variety of perspectives about how to best handle parallel fraud proceedings – no matter which side of the V you are on.

Co-chairs, John C. Richter, King & Spalding and Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, have brought together an outstanding faculty that reads like a Who’s Who of practitioners, judges, in-house counsel, and enforcement officials in this area [See Faculty below]. They will engage participants in our unique, Sedona-style dialogue with panel discussions on such important topics as: 

• Government fraud enforcement initiatives, priorities, and actions
• Understanding the new investigative techniques
• Use of the False Claims Act by the government to recover money lost to fraud where the government is the victim
• The rise of civil qui tam lawsuits and the impact of those filings International parallel proceedings
• Practical strategies to mitigate enforcement, sanctions, and sentences
• Ethical considerations in parallel proceedings
• Advising corporations, officers, directors, and employees in the context of parallel criminal, civil, and administrative actions

We have a Group Rate at the conference hotel. Hotel reservation information will be provided to invitees upon registration. Government employees receive a $250 discount. Please contact our office at info@sedonaconference.org for a discount code if you qualify. Our financial aid policy is available upon request.

We are applying for advanced accreditation for 660 minutes of MCLE instruction, including 60 minutes of ethics instruction, to those states requested by our registrants.