Gary L. Azorsky

Gary L. Azorsky is a Partner at Cohen Milstein, and Co-chair of the Firm’s Whistleblower/False Claims Act Practice. Mr. Azorsky joined Cohen Milstein in 2012, establishing the practice. In his role, Mr. Azorsky pursues whistleblower cases under the federal and state false claims act statutes in the health care, pharmaceutical, banking, and defense contractor industries and other industries that conduct business with the government. Mr. Azorsky specializes in the complex, highly detailed process for filing and pursuing these cases. In his practice, he has helped right wrongs and recovers nearly $2.5 billion in defrauded funds for federal and state governments, including hundreds of millions of dollars for whistleblower clients.

Most recently, Mr. Azorsky served as co-lead counsel in the qui tam action against the pharmaceutical company Wyeth pending in the District of Massachusetts, in which more states joined to intervene along with the government of the United States than had ever before intervened in a qui tam action. (United States of America et al., ex rel. Lauren Kieff, v. Wyeth, No.1:03-CV-12366-DPW [D. Mass.].) The $784.6 million settlement was the seventh-largest False Claims Act recovery on record and the second-largest recovery in history involving a single class of drugs. Mr. Azorsky worked alongside Department of Justice attorneys and states Attorneys General throughout the 12-year pendency of the case.