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Former GSK in-house counsel Lauren Stevens acquitted

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2011

Earlier today, Honorable Roger W. Titus, who is the judge presiding over the Lauren Stevens trial, granted the defendant's motion for a judgment of acquittal, bringing the case to an end

Advice of counsel defense in US v. Lauren Stevens: dismissal of indictment is not necessarily good news for companies

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 25 2011

The indictment last November of former GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in-house counsel, Lauren Stevens, for purportedly obstructing a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation into whether GSK marketed Wellbutrin, an anti-depressant drug, off-label, falsifying and concealing documents, and making false statements sent shockwaves through the legal community

U.S. v. Stevens: former GSK attorney acquitted on all counts

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2011

On May 10, 2011, Judge Roger Titus of the District of Maryland dismissed the case United States v. Stevens

“The elephant in the room”: indictment of former GlaxoSmithKline in-house attorney dismissed due to prosecutors’ misstatement of advice of counsel defense to grand jurors

  • Jenner & Block
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2011

A federal district court has dismissed the indictment of a former in-house counsel at pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK"), Lauren Stevens, who was charged in November 2010 with obstruction of a proceeding, false statements, and falsifying or concealing documents, for her role in responding to a document request from the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"

Recent prison sentences demonstrate government intent to increase criminal prosecutions of liable corporate officials

  • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 5 2011

In late November, two former senior executives of Synthes Inc. were sentenced to nine months in prison and a third sentenced to five months in prison for their management roles in a company that marketed a medical device for an unauthorized use and conducted unauthorized clinical trials

D.C. Circuit decision in Friedman v. Sebelius overturns exclusions of three Purdue pharma executives

  • Sidley Austin LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 6 2012

In the pharmaceutical industry, government investigations initiated by whistleblower qui tam complaints canand often doresult in both civil and criminal charges against the company

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