Nationwide Trial Practice
Berg & Androphy has practiced in courts from New York to California, primarily in large-scale commercial cases. Our results are a point of pride with us.
Nationwide Qui Tam Practice
The prestigious law firm of Berg & Androphy has participated in qui tam litigation throughout the country. The law firm maintains its principal office in Houston, Texas, and offices in Washington, D.C., Denver, Colorado, New York, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by appointment only.
Our History
Our track record is a point of pride with us. Over the past four decades, our lawyers have tried virtually every kind of civil and criminal case, obtaining an excellent verdict or settlement in virtually every matter we have handled.
On the civil side, we have represented Fortune 100 and 500 corporations, their board members and executives, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in everything from ordinary contract disputes to bet-the-company litigation. Our firm has a significant nationwide qui tam practice, representing whistleblowers inside corporations that have exposed fraud against the federal and state governments.
On the criminal side, our early practice in state court cases evolved over the years into representation of individuals and corporations in federal court accused of white collar crimes.
In The News
Major news organizations have covered our cases for years, and increasingly, have sought our senior partners' opinions on current legal issues about commercial, qui tam and white collar cases. David Berg and Joel Androphy have appeared on almost all of major network and cable news networks, including ABC, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC and Bloomberg and have been interviewed by such periodicals as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine and Time On-line. In addition, Joel is the legal analyst for ABC Houston and was recently recognized as the Best Civil Attorney in the Houston Press' 2009 Best of Houston® publication. David has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America in nine practice areas, putting him among the top 100 lawyers in the publication, based on the number of trial specialties: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, Antitrust Litigation, Patent Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, Securities Litigation, Defendants Personal Injury and Plaintiffs Personal Injury.
Publications
Since 1980, David Berg has published more than a hundred legal and political essays and articles in periodicals such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and the Houston Chronicle. He frequently demonstrates trial skills for such organizations as the Corporate Counsel Institute, the American Bar Association, the Litigation Section of the ABA, and the Association of General Counsel and was recently named one of the Best Lawyers in America in nine trial specialties. His book, THE TRIAL LAWYER: WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN (ABA 2003), is frequently the #1 bestseller on litigation on Amazon.com.
Joel Androphy has published dozens of articles and has participated in more than eighty seminars, lecturing most recently on qui tam litigation for such organizations as the Food and Drug Law Institute and on white collar crime for the American Corporate Counsel Association. He has written several books, White Collar Crime (Thompson/West 2011), one of the leading works on the subject, and more recently, another treatise, entitled the Federal False Claims Act and Qui Tam Litigation (Law Journal Press 2010).
