Background
Stern, Gerald M. was born on April 5, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Gerald M. Stern
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Education
University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Science, 1958). Harvard University (Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, 1961).
Career
Worked at Phillips & Cohen. Admitted to the bar, 1961, District of Columbia. 1964, United States. Supreme Court.
Member, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, 1959-1961.
Author: The Buffalo Creek Disaster-The Story of the Survivors" Unprecedented Lawsuit," Random House, 1976. Lecturer, Health Care Fraud and Financial Institution Fraud, Harvard Law School.
Associate, 1964-1968 and Partner, 1969-1976, Arnold & Porter. Founding Partner, Rogovin, Stern & Huge, 1976-1981.
General Counsel, Executive Vice President, Secretary and Member Board of Directors, Occidential Petroleum Corporation, Los Angeles, California, 1981-1992.
Assistant Attorney General serving as Special Counsel for Financial Institute on Fraud and Health Care Fraud, United States. Department of Justice, 1993-1995. Member: The District of Columbia Bar.
American Bar Association.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Phillips & Cohen has the nation"s largest and longest standing False Claims Acting (qui tam) practice.
In 1984, John R. Phillips began working with Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Howard Berman as the Congress developed amendments to strengthen and modernize the Acting, which was first passed to fight Civil War profiteers. The effort to amend the Acting was successful and in October 1986, the new amendments were signed into law by President Reagan.
The firm has a national practice and works with a network of litigation firms throughout the country.
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Member, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, 1959-1961.
