by admin | Jan 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
I handle Atlanta car accident cases, and so I wanted to know more about what the figures are for the traffic in Atlanta. Anyone who has lived in Atlanta even fleetingly knows that traffic in Atlanta is everywhere, and it can be grim. Unfortunately, the more traffic...
by admin | Jan 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Justice Department has released the False Claims Act statistics for fiscal year 2012. In that year, DOJ recovered 4.9 billion dollars in cases trying to recoup the money stolen from the Government by fraud. By far the largest amount of the money was recovered from...
by admin | Jan 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
My name is Lee Wallace and I am a car accident lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia. I have written several blog entries about the fact that car accidents in the metro Atlanta area have increased, but surprisingly, the death rate from auto wrecks has decreased. Today I want to...
by admin | Jan 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
On Thursday CNN published my iReport, which asks: Who violated a court order to leak the Lance Armstrong story? It’s a head scratcher for me. As I said in my first blog entry on the Armstrong whistleblower case, the case was under seal when someone talked to the...
by admin | Jan 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
CNN just posted my iReport about the Lance Armstrong whistleblower lawsuit. It looks like somebody violated a court order to leak the lawsuit to the press before it was unsealed. Who did it? And why? If you have read or heard the news in the last week, you can’t...
by admin | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Each year a large percentage of the people killed in Atlanta car accidents are pedestrians. In 2009, for example, Atlanta had 45 traffic deaths and 13 of those deaths were of pedestrians. In looking at the details behind the numbers, however, I noticed something that...
by admin | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Department of Justice announced that in fiscal year 2012, the government recovered $4.9 billion that had been lost due to fraud against the federal government. Relators — the folks I represent as a whistleblower’s attorney — brought cases that...
by admin | Jan 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
For this entry in my whistleblower lawyer blog, I want to discuss a settlement that the Government announced just before Christmas. The Department of Justice announced a whopper of a settlement — $70,000,000 — with hardware distributor W.W. Grainger....
by admin | Jan 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Does the False Claims Act really matter? As a False Claims Act lawyer who represents whistleblowers, I have seen the Act work firsthand. But on December 4th, the Department of Justice released figures that prove the point. According to the Justice Department, during...
by admin | Jan 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Tragedy struck Georgia three times in four days, as four Georgians have been killed in three separate fatal car accidents in the past week. Two children were killed and several others were injured in a tractor-trailer wreck in Chatsworth, Georgia. One man was killed...
