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Mary A. Inman has been involved in a range of whistleblower lawsuits, from Medicare fraud to government contract fraud, including fraud involving product defects in construction and public works projects.
Ms. Inman is one of the attorneys representing a whistleblower in a nationwide Medicare cost-reporting fraud case involving numerous hospitals that has returned $53 million to the federal government.
She also has worked extensively on qui tam lawsuits brought under state false claims laws for fraud against municipalities and state agencies. Ms. Inman was part of the legal team that won a $223 million verdict on behalf of several Los Angeles and California agencies against an electric utility for overcharging its government customers.
In a separate whistleblower case, she has taken a lead role in a qui tam lawsuit against several manufacturers that allegedly provided inferior, high-lead water supply parts to Los Angeles, San Francisco and more than 100 other California cities. Settlements in that case so far have totaled more than $20 million. She also was part of the legal team representing the city of San Francisco in a case involving bid-rigging and fraud in the government-funded “E-rate” program, which was intended to provide internet technology to schools with low-income students. That case returned $33 million to the federal government.
Ms. Inman graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1994, where she was an articles editor and an associate editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
After law school, she clerked for the Honorable D. Brock Hornby, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, and the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. She then was associated with O'Melveny & Meyers LLP in San Francisco, where her practice focused on employment, collective bargaining and False Claims Act matters.