Name: Joseph P. Griffith, Jr.
Item: Joseph P. Griffith, Jr.
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Joseph P. Griffith, Jr. is a federal False Claims Act, White Collar Criminal Defense, Health Care Litigation, and Catastrophic Personal Injury attorney located in Charleston, South Carolina. Joe has handled numerous federal False Claims Act cases involving ambulance companies, bank holding companies, defense contractors, dentists, dialysis clinics, emergent care clinics, government contractors and grantees, home health providers, hospice companies, hospitals, laboratories, medical equipment suppliers, medical marketing companies, nursing homes, pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies and physicians. Past and present clients include a number of publicly traded and private corporations, and/or their CEOs, COOs and CFOs, who have been subjected to a variety of white collar and/or qui tam investigations, litigation and/or prosecutions.

Joe is currently the chairman of the Qui Tam Whistleblower-False Claims Act Section of the Federal Bar Association of South Carolina. Joe’s white collar defense practice focuses on securities fraud, antitrust crimes, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, campaign finance crimes, commercial bribery, computer fraud, criminal tax fraud, customs crimes, defense procurement fraud, environmental crimes, gambling, health care fraud, insurance fraud, and public corruption crimes. Joe has extensive experience in federal grand jury investigations and corporate internal investigations, has represented numerous plaintiffs with catastrophic injuries, and has tried numerous federal court cases. Joe was an Assistant United States Attorney in the South Carolina district for about 14 years, prosecuting numerous white collar crimes.

Joe is a graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A. 1979) and University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D. 1982). He is the founding member of Joe Griffith Law Firm, LLC, has received an AV rating from Martindale- Hubbell^® and a Superb rating from AVVO^®, is a member of the Bar Register of Pre-eminent Lawyers^®, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum^®, the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum^®, and has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America^® and as a South Carolina Super Lawyer^®. Joe has co-authored two books published by the South Carolina Bar Association: Health Care Fraud and Collateral Consequences, Second Edition (2011) and Federal and State Securities Enforcement (2008), and has made multiple CLE presentations involving white collar criminal defense and federal whistleblower cases under the federal false claims act. For more details on Joe’s practice, or to contact him, visit www.joegriffith.com.

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