#6 & #11 PA SETTLEMENTS 2014
American Lawyer Media’s Top Pennsylvania Verdicts and Settlements for 2014 reveals Sheller, P.C. in a familiar spot again in 2014. The firm has been at or near the top of the list for five of the last six years. This year the firm pulled both the #6 and #11 Top Settlements spots based on its […]
$520 MILLION SETTLEMENT
April 27, 2010: In the third record whistleblower settlement for Sheller, P.C. in fifteen months, the firm represented a whistleblower who brought forth knowledge of wrongdoing by AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca agreed to a civil settlement of $520 million for charges of off-label marketing of the powerful antipsychotic drug Seroquel. The settlement is the largest pharmaceutical civil settlement […]
HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR, CCHR
Stephen Sheller was honored as “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR). The black tie event was held at the Los Angeles Westin Bonaventure February 28, 2015. The introduction to his award: “CCHR’s first human rights award winner is a renowned attorney Stephen Sheller. His Philadelphia law firm opposes some […]
$2.2B Settlement “Leads the Pack”
The $2.2 Billion Settlement with Johnson & Johnson Leads the Pack by Lizzy McLellan, The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer reported that the largest verdict and settlement award in Pennsylvania between August 2013 and August 2014 was handled by Sheller, P.C. with a $2.2 billion settlement over healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, […]
$58.9 MILLION SETTLEMENT
The Sheller whistleblower team announced a $58.9 milllion settlement with Shire Pharmaceuticals over off-label marketing of ADHD drugs Adderall and Vyvanse in September, 2014. Court documents detailing the civil allegations and settlement were signed by Shire and unsealed by the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. A Shire executive, […]
Sheller Presents on Whistleblower Qui Tam at Bench Bar 2014
2014-09-30 Stephen Sheller presented the feature CLE “American ‘Hustle’: Whistleblowers and Prosecuting False Claims Act Cases” at the Montgomery County Bench Bar conference September 2014. Joined by former Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Trautwein, they addressed the complexity of bringing and defending False Claims Act matters by analyzing case developments including their most recent $7.3 million […]
In The New York Times: “Side Effects May Include Lawsuits”
One of the most-read articles in The New York Times regarding pharmaceutical drug product liability and whistleblower lawsuits quotes Stephen Sheller. Side Effects May Include Lawsuits BY DUFF WILSON NEW YORK – FOR decades, antipsychotic drugs were a niche product. Today, they’re the top-selling class of pharmaceuticals in America, generating annual revenue of about $14.6 billion […]
