Schwartz, Michael H.

Emily Schulman is a partner in the firm's Litigation/Controversy and Securities Departments. She is a member of the Investigations and Criminal Litigation and Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice Groups, specializing in internal and governmental investigations and white collar defense. She is also a member of the Pharmaceutical and Health Care Group.

Practice

For more than a decade, Ms. Schulman served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the US Attorney's Office in Massachusetts, investigating and prosecuting economic and white-collar fraud, money laundering and tax violations, and political and public corruption cases. She has extensive experience representing companies, boards of directors and their committees, and individuals in internal investigations, criminal litigation, government enforcement actions, and federal and state grand jury investigations involving allegations of health care fraud, false claims, economic fraud and securities violations.

Ms. Schulman has extensive trial and appellate experience in white-collar matters. She has briefed and argued dozens of cases before the United States Courts of Appeals, and has tried more than 20 jury trials in the United States District Courts.

Highlights

• Represented pharmaceutical company in two multi-year parallel civil and criminal investigations focusing on off-label marketing and Anti-kickback allegations;
• Conducted internal investigation for pharmaceutical company focusing on Anti-kickback allegations;
• Represented pharmaceutical company in criminal investigation pertaining to payments to healthcare professionals;
• Coordinated pharmaceutical company’s response to Senate inquiry into payments to healthcare professionals; 
• Represented medical products manufacturer in securities fraud class action, securing denial of class certification and dismissal of case;
• Represented hedge fund Founder and Lead Portfolio manager in SEC insider-trading investigation, securing dismissal of case;
• Represented hedge fund Founder and Lead Portfolio manager in parallel federal civil and criminal insider trading investigation;
• Represented financial software company in securities fraud class action, securing denial of class certification and dismissal of case;
• Conducted internal investigation for Board of Directors of financial institution focusing on internal audit and economic modeling functions;
• Represented Special Committee of communications technology company in SEC fraud investigation and administrative delisting proceedings, securing dismissal of case and administrative proceedings;
• Represent S&P 500 technology company in parallel federal civil and criminal fraud investigation;
• Represented former Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of semi-conductor manufacturing company in SEC fraud investigation, securing dismissal of case.

Professional Activities

Ms. Schulman served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Villanova University School of Law, where she taught courses on criminal law, criminal procedure and white-collar crime. She has been appointed Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School beginning in Fall 2010. She has conducted trainings nationally and internationally on criminal investigatory and enforcement matters and developments in healthcare law.