Bill Hurlock

Areas Of Practice

• False Claims Act, including qui tam
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Mass Tort
  • Product Liability

Education

• J.D., Law, cum laude, American University, Washington College of Law
  • B.S., Political Science and Justice, Dean’s List, American University
  • University of London, Dean’s List

Admitted To Practice

• New Jersey
  • New York
  • Pennsylvania
  • District of Columbia
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh, Third, and Fourth Circuits
  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  • United States District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York
  • United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
  • United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications

Making Counsel Independent: The Independent Counsel Act

Cochise Consultancy v. U.S. ex rel. Hunt (Decision May 13, 2019)

Cochise Consultancy v. U.S., ex rel. Hunt, Subscriptlaw (March 2019).

If You See Something: Report Something!, Sobol & Co. Newsletter (June 19, 2018).

The Third-Party Payers/Withholders: They Have a License to Steal and They Use It, Skinmed (Oct. 1, 2017).

Learning About the “Learned Intermediary” Doctrine and Its Application to Certain Product Liability Cases, Sobol & Co. Newsletter (June 26, 2017).

To Cross the Delaware: When is a New Jersey Corporate Client Subject to the Jurisdiction of a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court?, Sobol & Co. Newsletter (July 15, 2016).

Has the Third Circuit Effectively Eliminated the Original Source Exception to the Federal False Claims Act’s Public Disclosure Bar?, Sobol & Co. Newsletter (Aug. 24, 2015).

How Group Paid and Pharmacy Benefit Data Can Address Wasteful and Abusive Healthcare Practices, Sobol & Co. Newsletter (Sept. 19, 2014).

Under the False Claims Act’s Public Disclosure Bar, Does the Nature of the Documents Matter? 5 ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 38 (2011).

The Need for Healthcare Audits: What You Don’t Know May Hurt You, 65 Emp. Benefit Plan. Rev. 5 (2010).

Revisiting the Public Disclosure Bar and Its Original Source Exception, 43 False Cl. Act and Qui Tam Q. Rev. 111 (2006).

Bill Hurlock, the East Coast Managing Partner of Mueller Law’s New Jersey and New York offices, is a trial attorney specializing in litigating False Claims Act (qui tam), product liability, commercial litigation and mass tort cases. Hurlock is experienced in all aspects of litigation, arbitration, mediation and appeals. In addition, he represents clients in class action and national mass tort multi-district cases.

He served as the lead attorney in several health care False Claims Act cases that have resulted in significant recoveries on the United States’ behalf and represents individual relators as part of these lawsuits. He also successfully obtained releases of wrongly incarcerated inmates in pro bono matters.

While in Washington, D.C., Hurlock served on the staffs of three offices of independent counsel: David M. Barret, investigating allegations concerning the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, where he served as a federal prosecutor; James C. McKay, investigating allegations concerning the United States Attorney General; and Donald C. Smaltz, investigating allegations concerning the United States Secretary of Agriculture. He also worked for a United States Congressman and a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons. From 2002 to 2013, Hurlock served as an adjunct professor teaching health care.