Michael E. Clark
Duane Morris LLPExperienced litigator, part-time academic, and author. Listed by SuperLawyers and Best Lawyers, among other ranking services. Past Chair of ABA Health Law Section and Past Chair of White Collar Crimes Committee in ABA Business Law Section. Experience includes 100+ cases as lead trial counsel, numerous appeals, and teaching trial skills to lawyers and students as an Adjunct Professor of Law and a faculty instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. As an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center I've taught Trial Advocacy, Food & Drug Law, and Antitrust & Health Law. As an Adjunct Professor for the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida, I've taught pharmaceutical fraud and abuse to Masters level pharmacy students. I hold LL.M. degrees (Tax and Health Law) and since the late 1980s, have been Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. I have spoken nationally (and internationally), and have written about issues in antitrust, compliance and governance, cybersecurity, health law, pharmaceutical law, securities law (including the FCPA), and white collar defense. I developed and serve as Editor-in-Chief of an annually-supplemented pharmaceutical and medical law treatise (BNA, second ed. 2015), have written several book chapters, and have had dozens of articles published. I'm also a trained arbitrator in health law and have been retained as an expert witness in health law cases.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Health Care Law
- White Collar Crime
- Gov & Administrative Law
- Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
- Commercial Litigation
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Appropriate retainers are required for all new clients.
- Texas
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- 5th Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Special Counsel
- Duane Morris LLP
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- I am part of Duane Morris' Trial Practice and Healthcare Practice Groups where, in addition to business litigation, I handle matters involving health care law and white collar defense in such areas as securities and financial fraud, corporate compliance and governance, and corporate internal investigations.
- Partner
- Hamel Bowers & Clark LLP
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- Partner
- Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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- I worked in the firm's white collar and health law practice groups, where I handled a variety of civil and white collar defense matters
- Chief, Criminal Division & Assistant U.S. Attorney
- U.S. Attorney's Offfice, Southern District of Texas
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- During my last four years as a federal prosecutor, I was the Chief of the Criminal Division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas, and managed around 50 federal prosecutors, maintained an active caseload, and regularly met with senior federal enforcement agency contacts to coordinate case development and priorities. Before being selected for this position, I served as a chief of the Financial Fraud Division during the Savings & Loan Crisis period. Before that, I served as a prosecutor handling a wide variety of federal cases and tried many cases.
- Assistant District Attorney
- Galveston County District Attorney's Office
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- In this position, I moved through the ranks from being a misdemeanor prosecutor, to being the Chief of the Family Law Section, and then being a felony prosecutor -- during which time I tried dozens of cases and handled an extensive number of appeals. I also was cross-designated as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney near the end of my tenure in this position, which led me to seek employment with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
- University of Houston - Main Campus
- LL.M | (Health Law)
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- University of Houston - Main Campus
- LL.M | Taxation
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- South Texas College of Law
- J.D | Law
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- University of Texas - Arlington
- B.A | English
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- Healthcare Lawyer of the Year, 2019
- Corporate LiveWire Global Awards
- Healthcare Lawyer of the Year, 2018
- Corporate LiveWire Global Awards
- Texas SuperLawyers 2018
- Superlawyers
- Best Lawyers (Health Law)
- Best Lawyers
- Texas Super Lawyers 2017
- Superlawyers
- University of Houston Law Center, Criminal Justice Institute
- Advisory Board
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- ABA Section of Health Law
- Past Chair
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- ABA Section of Health Law
- Member, Governing Council
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- ABA Section of Health Law
- Vice Chair
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- ABA Section of Health Law
- Secretary and Co-chair of Executive Publishing Committee
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- ABA Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight
- Member
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- Activities: I was selected to this ABA-wide position by the President of the ABA
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- ABA Section of Criminal Justice
- Cochair, South Texas Region, White Collar Crimes Committee
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- ABA Section of Business Law
- Chair, White Collar Crimes Committee
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- Insights Into the SEC's Whistleblower Program
- The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation
- Internal Investigations and Other Tools
- The Practical Litigator (ALI-ABA)
- SEC adopts final rules on Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program
- Journal of Investment Compliance
- The Dodd-Frank Act's Bounty Hunter Provisions
- The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation
- WHAT IS A “FOREIGN OFFICIAL”?: VAGUE TERM COMPLICATES CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT COMPLIANCE
- Washington Legal Foundation
- A Fraud and Abuse Primer, ACI's 2nd Digestive Health Center Management and Development Conference, Houston, TX
- ACI
- Post-Escobar Fraud and Abuse Standards of Proof: Is a Liability Tidal Wave Coming, Emerging Issues Conference, New Orleans
- ABA Section of Health Law
- Anatomy of an Investigation, Physician Legal Issues Conference, Chicago
- ABA Section of Health Law
- Counterclaims in Qui Tam Cases: Emerging Strategies and Ethical Considerations, webinar
- ABA Section of Health Law
- Expert Testimony in Health Care Trials, Vail
- National CLE Conference
- Criminal Law
- Texas Board Of Legal Specialization
- Criminal Trial Advocate
- National Board of Trial Advocacy
- Website
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