Joel M. Androphy Joel M. Androphy is a partner in Berg & Androphy in Houston, Texas. He has extensive involvement in prosecuting national qui tam litigation cases. He served as lead whistleblower's counsel in a qui tam settlement with King Pharmaceuticals that netted the government and whistleblower about $119 million, and with Pfizer that netted the government and the whistleblower about $46 million, both involving best price and Medicaid fraud issues. As lead counsel and without government intervention, he also settled a case with Rotech Healthcare involving Medicare billings for durable medical equipment. He also settled a military case involving the alteration of expiration data on food products sent to American troops in the Middle East. The settlement netted the client and government about $13.
2 million. He recently represented one of the nine whistleblowers in the record setting Eli Lilly qui tam civil lawsuit, an off-label Medicaid fraud marketing case, that netted the government and all whistleblowers about $750 million in civil fines and an additional $600 million in criminal fines for the government. Androphy is also lead counsel in numerous pending national qui tam cases and tax law prosecutions. Androphy also has extensive involvement defending white-collar cases across the country including securities fraud, foreign corrupt practices, health care fraud, environmental crimes, government procurement, and public corruption. A former adjunct law school professor in white collar crime at University of Houston Law Center and South Texas College of Law, Androphy has written more than sixty articles in numerous legal journals, and lectured across the country in over eighty seminars. He is also the author of a six-volume treatise, White Collar Crime, a practice guide for both civil and criminal lawyers. Mr. Androphy began his career as a law clerk to The Honorable Norman W.
Black, late Chief Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas. He has served as the President of the Houston Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, an officer and director of the Houston Bar Association, and editor of the Texas Bar Journal and the Houston Lawyer legal magazine. Mr. Androphy has received two presidents awards for his service to the Houston Bar Association, including pro bono work, and has served on federal judicial Merit Selection Committees. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline. He is listed in the publication Best Lawyers in America, and has been selected as a super lawyer by Texas Monthly (the top 100 lawyers in Texas) and a top lawyer by Houston Magazine. In September 2009, the Houston Press named Androphy the Best Civil Attorney in the 2009 Best of Houston® publication. Mr.
Androphys cases have appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, The National Law Journal, and other major news publications. He is the legal commentator for ABC-Houston, and a frequent commentator for MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg News.