National Healthcare Law

Internal Investigations

Nelson Mullins’s Internal Investigations and Special Litigation Practice Group is dedicated to dealing with serious allegations of civil or criminal wrongdoing or regulatory noncompliance, and preventing worst-case scenarios from escalating. The Firm’s attorneys practicing in this area and in related areas of specialty bring to bear the highest ethical standards, significant resources available for immediate deployment, and broad experience in the increasingly important field of internal investigations.

A snapshot of the Firm’s experience in this area includes the following:

Internal investigation matters are often high-profile, high-stakes events. Clients depend on a rapid response to remedy urgent problems. The Firm’s attorneys evaluate promptly, but carefully, client needs, devise a team strategy best suited to those needs, and bring the matter to an efficient and proper resolution.

Nelson Mullins is known as one of the nation’s premier civil litigation law firms, specializing in trying major lawsuits including those relating to business practices, labor and employment, environmental matters, products liability, and class actions. Accordingly, Nelson Mullins has courtroom experience that is difficult to match.

The Firm’s Internal Investigations and Special Litigation Practice Group draws from experience gained from not only defending corporations and board members in civil litigation over allegations of fraudulent and other wrongful conduct, but also from directing criminal prosecutions, leading government inquiries, defending public figures, and managing highly sensitive information. The Group’s members include a former Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, former Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, and former Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. The Firm’s attorneys have worked at all levels of federal, state, and local government, whether as general counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury or county solicitor. They have also held corporate positions such as chief executive officer and general counsel of publicly traded companies. Nelson Mullins has a thorough grasp of investigatory and prosecutorial processes and the consequences of the findings that may arise from such inquiries.

Nelson Mullins’s Internal Investigations and Special Litigation attorneys have experience with a broad array of matters, including internal review of litigation department practices, alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, alleged violations of the Trading with the Enemy Act, theft of proprietary information, FDA compliance, SEC compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, bid-rigging, and insider trading. In addition, the Firm conducts compliance reviews for financial institutions and reviews for possible violations of export control and trade boycott violations.

Often, the need for an internal investigation necessitates an immediate response that requires many different resources. Nelson Mullins has served as national counsel for numerous clients in litigation that required the gathering and analysis of huge amounts of documents and data, and the interviewing of witnesses from plants and corporate headquarters scattered across the nation and, in some cases, other countries. In order to serve in this role effectively, the Firm maintains sufficient resources at all times to respond to urgent client needs at any location.

Further, members of the Internal Investigations and Special Litigation Practice Group have organized and put into place teams of attorneys, investigators, and paralegals to gather, review, and analyze significant amounts of information in a timely and focused manner. Nelson Mullins maximizes the use of thoughtful project management techniques and the latest available technology to provide the most expedited and efficient response to client needs when a complicated situation arises suddenly.

In short, Nelson Mullins has the people who have led difficult and sensitive investigations of both a civil and criminal nature; it has the expertise in a broad range of substantive areas to supplement the management of an internal investigation; and it has the broad array of mobile resources and technology to respond quickly and efficiently to pressing client needs.