Berg & Androphy

Attorney Rachel L. Mcmillen Grier

Practice Areas:
Qui Tam Litigation
Civil Litigation
White Collar Defense

Admissions:
State Bar of Texas
Southern District of Texas

Current position:
Associate

Rachel joined Berg & Androphy in 2004 as a clerk. She became an associate at the firm in 2007. She has worked primarily on qui tam cases and other civil litigation, as well as white collar criminal defense. She is currently working on several qui tam suits, many still under seal, involving healthcare subjects such as off-label marketing, kickbacks, marketing the spread, and best price violations, pending in jurisdictions across the United States. Rachel assists Joel Androphy in organizing, researching, and drafting updates to his treatises, White Collar Crime and Federal False Claims Act and Qui Tam Litigation.

Before attending law school, Rachel worked as a research assistant at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center for five years. During that time, she developed a quantitative real-time PCR genetic testing assay for studying transgenic mice and human genes of interest. Rachel’s other projects included completing various research projects, including working with samples obtained from patients with Alopecia Areata and Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma, assisting in the development of cDNA microarrays and used various hybridization kits, assisting in writing manuscripts and grant proposals. While a student at University of the South, Rachel worked on a research project on modelling the anisotropic electrical properties of frog skeletal muscle with Professors Frank Hart and Nancy Berner.

‘05		JD South Texas College of Law Cum Laude Law Review, Assistant Editor
‘98		BS, Biology University of the South Tennessee Academy of Science Best Presentation Award in Physics (Spring 1988) Order of Gownsmen

Publications:
Federal Criminal White Collar Appellate Update, The Appellate Advocate, State Bar of Texas Appellate Section Update

Hart, Berner, McMillen, Modelling the anisotropic electrical properties of skeletal muscle, Phys Med Biol, 1999 Feb; 44(2).

McMillen, Duvic, Alopecia areata occurring in sisters after administration of rifampicin, J Am Acad Derm, 2001 Jan; 44(1).

Hart, Davila-Moriel, Berner, McMillen, Using dielectric spectroscopy to detect thermal hysteresis in frog muscle, J Non-Crystalline Solids, 2005 Sept: 351(2929).

Continuing Legal Education Presentations:
Prosecuting and Defending Qui Tam Cases Under the False Claims Act: What It Takes to be Successful,” sponsored by the Law Journal Press

Professional Affiliations:
Member, Houston Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association (Litigation and Healthcare Sections)