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Richard Drubel is a partner in the firm's Hanover,
NH office. His main practice areas include False Claims Act cases,
business litigation, antitrust,
securities fraud, consumer litigation, environmental litigation
and class actions.
Since becoming a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
in 1998, Mr. Drubel has served as lead counsel in a number of
complex class actions. He was lead counsel with David Boies in
a major antitrust class action against Christie's and Sotheby's
auction houses that resulted in a $512 million settlement in
2001. He also represented the plaintiffs in a RICO case against
a global pharmaceutical company that resulted in a $30 million
settlement for the plaintiffs. Mr. Drubel is currently co-lead
counsel in class actions against several drug companies for antitrust
violations arising out of blocking generic entry and against
major insurers for violations of ERISA and RICO in connection
with their healthcare coverage. He has successfully represented
opt-out plaintiffs in a tort case arising out of radiation experiments
on hospital patients in Ohio. Mr. Drubel also has extensive defense
experience. In 1999, he defended a leading technology corporation
on fraud charges and is currently representing defendants in
antitrust and securities fraud lawsuits. Mr. Drubel is currently
co-counsel with Mr. Stone on a number of the firm's pending False
Claims Act cases.
From 1988-1998, Mr. Drubel was a partner in the law firm of Susman
Godfrey LLP in Houston, where he specialized in commercial litigation,
including class actions. While at Susman Godfrey, Mr. Drubel
tried to jury verdict a $72 million securities fraud class action
which the National Law Journal called one of the most significant
verdicts of 1989. He started his legal career as
Special Assistant to the General Counsel, United States Department
of
Energy and
also served as Special Assistant to John Temple Lang, Legal Services
of the Commission of the European Communities, Antitrust Division.
Mr. Drubel received his B.A. from the University of Michigan
in 1973. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of
Michigan Law School in 1977, where he was Order of the Coif and
editor of the Michigan Law Review 1976-1977. Mr. Drubel received
his LL.M. cum laude in 1978 from the Free University of Brussels.
He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis F. Oberdorfer,
United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, from
1978-1979.
Mr. Drubel co-authored "Toward a General Theory of Double Jeopardy,"
The Supreme Court Review, 1978. He is admitted to practice in
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