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Mr. Farquhar works primarily on civil and criminal litigation, arbitration, and enforcement issues for our clients. He has handled a variety of consent decrees (both negotiations and implementation of consent decrees), criminal investigations, civil seizures, injunction actions (both those brought by FDA and those brought against FDA), difficult FDA inspections, lawsuits against competitors of clients, and criminal prosecutions and appeals. Mr. Farquhar also has been active in assisting companies in drug-pricing litigation brought by class action plaintiffs and by state Medicaid agencies. He has defended pharmaceutical and medical device companies and employees in investigations by federal prosecutors relating to anti-kickback laws and the federal False Claims Act, and has negotiated settlements and other resolutions of these investigations.
From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Farquhar served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Maryland. Prior to working as a federal prosecutor, he was a law clerk for Judge Joseph H. Young in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, then a litigation associate with the Washington, D.C. offices of Hogan & Hartson. Mr. Farquhar co-chairs the annual Enforcement Conference for the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), and has spoken on enforcement and litigation issues at numerous conferences sponsored by FDLI, the Drug Information Association, the Society of Quality Assurance, PDMA, Inc., and the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society. He authored two chapters, one on seizures, injunctions and consent decrees and one about stolen drug samples, for the FDLI publication, "How to Work with FDA."
Mr. Farquhar is a member of the Board of Directors for the Montgomery General Hospital in Olney, Maryland (a member of the MedStart system) and chair of the hospital's Quality Council.
Mr. Farquhar received his undergraduate degree in Journalism, magna cum laude, from Boston University in 1975, worked for local newspapers for five years, and then attended Yale Law School, where he received his law degree in 1983. He is admitted to practice before state and federal courts in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the Federal Circuit, the Fourth Circuit, and the Seventh Circuit. He is a permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference.
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