Protecting Healthcare Professionals and Employees

If you are under investigation or have been charged with Medicare or Medicaid fraud, or if you are concerned about healthcare fraud by your employer, you need to consult with an experienced healthcare lawyer immediately to protect your rights.  Getting expert advice early is the best way to achieve a favorable outcome.

​John Howley, Esq. is a trial lawyer with more than 30 years of experience.  He represents healthcare professionals, business owners, and employees in government investigations, civil and criminal trials, and appeals in state and federal courts including in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Howley has a reputation for exceptional success in difficult cases.  Among his significant accomplishments are:

• Defending individual clients in more than 300 Medicare and Medicaid fraud investigations with no criminal charges filed;
• Defending major pharmaceutical companies in government investigations and multi-billion-dollar patent and antitrust lawsuits;
• Winning an $80 Million settlement in an employment discrimination lawsuit;
• Helping whistleblowers earn large financial rewards and legal protections;
• Overturning death sentences in Alabama, Ohio, and Virginia.

​Mr. Howley has been awarded The Thurgood Marshall Award by the New York City Bar Association, The Gideon Champion of Justice Award by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and The Medal for Excellence in Advocacy by the American College of Trial Lawyers.  He has also been named one of New York’s SuperLawyers.

​Before forming his own law firm, Mr. Howley was a partner in one of the largest corporate litigation firms in the country.  For 20 years, he represented major pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and other healthcare companies in their most important government investigations and lawsuits.

Today, he uses all of that knowledge and experience to give individual healthcare professionals, business owners, and employees the same high-quality, aggressive legal representation.

Call John Howley, Esq. today to schedule a free and confidential consultation.

Call (212) 601-2728

Education and Training

​Mr. Howley graduated from the Northfield Mount Hermon School and studied as a Rotary Exchange Student in the Philippines before earning a B.A. degree from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

​After college, he was a registered lobbyist with the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (cIcu).  He was put in charge of the Council of Governing Boards, where he worked closely with the Council's Chairman, Peter Warren, the Chairman and CEO of Pepsico International.  Together, they recruited and organized business leaders to lobby Congress and the New York State Legislature to support higher education.

​Mr. Howley left government relations to earn a law degree, magna cum laude, from New York Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review and a member of the team that won the National Moot Court Competition.  During law school, he served as an intern to U.S. District Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy and as a research assistant to former U.S. Magistrate Judge, later U.S. District Judge, Shira A. Scheindlin.

​Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Howley served as a law clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge Roger J. Miner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

​After his federal clerkship, Mr. Howley worked as a litigation associate at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, which later merged to become Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. 

After six years, he became a partner in the firm and one of its lead trial and appellate lawyers.  Over the course of 20 years at the firm, he represented major pharmaceutical companies and other multinational corporations in their most important government investigations and multi-billion-dollar lawsuits.  He worked closely with former federal prosecutors, including with Paul Curran, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and with Jane Parver, the former Chief of the Major Crimes Unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

In 2012, Mr. Howley formed his own law firm to focus on healthcare fraud defense, whistleblower rewards, and employment litigation for healthcare professionals, business owners, and employees.

​Public Service

​Mr. Howley’s commitment to making a difference extends to his pro bono and volunteer work.  He has represented more than a dozen death row inmates in clemency petitions and habeas corpus challenges to their death sentences.  He has won all but one of those challenges, and he has convinced Governors to grant clemency twice.  He has also represented the Government of the United Kingdom as amicus curiae, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, to challenge death sentences imposed on UK nationals.

​Commenting on his unusual success rate, The New York Law Journal wrote that “The best news a death row inmate can hear is that John Howley has agreed to take his case.”

​Throughout his career, Mr. Howley has remained intimately involved with education policy.  He has served as Vice Chair of the Skidmore College Board of Trustees and Chair of its Strategic Planning Committee; as Vice Chair of the Northfield Mount Hermon School Board of Trustees and Chair of its Financial Policy Committee; as a Trustee of New York Law School; and as a Trustee of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.

​Mr. Howley has also served as a Trustee of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, as Chairman of the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce, and as a Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines.

Languages

​Mr. Howley speaks English, French, and Tagalog (Filipino).

John Howley, Esq.
​(212) 601-2728