Preti Flaherty
Timothy McCormack
April 10, 2023
Preti Flaherty hires attorney named a top 'whistleblower lawyer' by D.C. magazine
Preti Flaherty has hired an attorney that was recognized as one of Washington’s "Best Whistleblower Lawyers" by the Washingtonian magazine.
Timothy McCormack has joined the firm’s litigation practice group, working in the Portland office. He held clerkships with judges David Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and is also an accomplished mediator.
“Tim’s nearly two-decade-long record of success distinguishes him as a powerhouse,” said David Van Slyke, the firm's managing partner. “His skill and dedication exemplify the type of results-driven litigator we look for as we continue to identify ways to evolve and expand service to our clients.”
The clients McCormack has counseled through “qui tam” whistleblower actions have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars recovered for the federal government and various states nationwide. A qui tam lawsuit is brought by a whistleblower to enforce the federal False Claims Act or analogous state statutes.
The Yarmouth resident is a frequent author and speaker on health care reimbursement and coding issues, provider contracting, and commercial and government-managed care programs. He identifies fraud in the Medicare Managed Care and Medicare Advantage program involving upcoding patient diagnoses in the risk adjustment/risk scoring program.
McCormack graduated from the University of Maine School of Law and Harvard University. He was editor-in-chief of the Maine Law Review, published by students at the University of Maine School of Law.
Following law school, he served as a policy advisor for labor, agriculture, forestry and veterans’ issues for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
Preti Flaherty was founded in 1976 and has offices in Portland and Augusta; Concord, N.H.; Boston and Washington, D.C. The firm is ranked No. 4 in the 2023 Mainebiz Book of Lists, based on having 75 lawyers in Maine. Overall, it has 142 employees in Maine. The firm counsels clients in business and corporate law, energy, environmental, estate planning, health care, intellectual property, labor and employment, legislative and regulatory, litigation, municipal, real estate, technology and telecommunications.
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