Jeff Newman is a highly successful trial lawyer who has handled scores of complex litigation cases to jury verdict. He holds some of the highest jury awards in Massachusetts and his whistleblower cases have resulted in successful recoveries for the government and his clients. These including one against a pharmaceutical company that sold diabetes medications to patients without doctor’s orders which resulted in a $35 million settlement (See section called “Previous Cases”). Jeff and his staff are now handling numerous Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases, military contract cases, foreign bribe cases, securities fraud cases, foreign bribe cases and bank fraud cases.
The Hallmark of Jeff’s work is his detailed, thorough investigation legal analysis and trial preparation. Before focusing his career on representing whistleblowers nation-wide, Jeff was co-lead counsel for the victims of sexual abuse against the Boston Archdiocese resulting in a settlement of $85 million and in 2011 won a $6.7 million judgment in a wrongful death action. He has authored several books and articles and when he was a news reporter, interviewed Charles Manson in the Vacaville Prison and Gary Gilmore’s girlfriend Nicole Barrett in Provo Utah before Gilmore was executed. For his work in Utah, Jeff was mentioned in Norman Mailer’s Executioner’s Song. In addition, Jeff was formerly a professional photographer covering the Afghanistan war with the Soviet Union, has developed post apocalyptic video games and is working on a non-fiction book about the developing role of whistleblowers in America. Jeff holds a J.D. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Suffolk University and authors a blog on societal trends at www.FutureVigil.com . His daily legal blog can be seen on this site.
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