Ty Howard is a partner in the White Collar Crime Defense and Health Care groups. He has over a decade’s experience handling internal and government investigations and complex white-collar cases, both in private practice and as a federal and state prosecutor. His current practice focuses on internal investigations, corporate compliance, and qui tam and white collar defense, with an emphasis on healthcare and finance-related matters.
Since joining the firm from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, Ty has represented numerous clients facing government scrutiny at all phases of civil and criminal investigation. He regularly handles False Claims Act matters involving healthcare and other entities. He also advises individual and corporate clients on an array of compliance issues. Ty has represented clients in civil and criminal matters before the Department of Justice, various U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Health and Human Services, and many other state and federal regulatory agencies. His clients include physicians, physician groups, home health agencies, pharmacies, and other healthcare providers, as well as banks, brokers, and various financial companies and professionals.
Ty Howard is a partner in the White Collar Crime Defense and Health Care groups. He has over a decade’s experience handling internal and government investigations and complex white-collar cases, both in private practice and as a federal and state prosecutor. His current practice focuses on internal investigations, corporate compliance, and qui tam and white collar defense, with an emphasis on healthcare and finance-related matters.
Since joining the firm from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee, Ty has represented numerous clients facing government scrutiny at all phases of civil and criminal investigation. He regularly handles False Claims Act matters involving healthcare and other entities. He also advises individual and corporate clients on an array of compliance issues. Ty has represented clients in civil and criminal matters before the Department of Justice, various U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Health and Human Services, and many other state and federal regulatory agencies. His clients include physicians, physician groups, home health agencies, pharmacies, and other healthcare providers, as well as banks, brokers, and various financial companies and professionals.
While in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ty was a member of the White Collar Crimes Division, where he led investigations and prosecutions of some of Tennessee’s largest fraud cases. He was lead counsel for the United States in multiple jury trials and argued successfully before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals several times. He has worked closely with agents and civil regulators at, among others, the Department of Health and Human Services, IRS, SEC, Department of Labor, Secret Service, FBI, and similar state agencies. He also served as the office’s District Election Officer for several years, overseeing voting issues and complaints involving election fraud and voter integrity.
Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ty worked in Philadelphia as an attorney at two major law firms and as a state prosecutor. In private practice, first at Dechert and more recently at Morgan Lewis, Ty focused on complex civil litigation, white-collar defense, and corporate investigations. For example, at Morgan Lewis, Ty was a lead associate on an ERISA class action involving allegations of malfeasance by a large health-insurance company and on a highly publicized corporate scandal involving one of the world’s biggest computer companies. He also worked on several other internal corporate investigations and counseled clients facing potential civil and criminal charges by DOJ and the SEC.
As a state prosecutor, Ty was an Assistant District Attorney in Chester County, Pennsylvania – a large jurisdiction just outside the city of Philadelphia. While an ADA, Ty distinguished himself as an aggressive prosecutor and successfully prosecuted numerous major cases involving fraud, financial crimes, embezzlement, and cybercrime, as well as various violent and drug-related crimes.
Ty began his legal career as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge J. Curtis Joyner in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before his legal career, he worked in several public-policy positions, including in the government relations department of the Penn Health System where he focused on healthcare policy and in the U.S. Senate as a legislative aide. He continues to speak and write regularly on various white-collar-crime issues and related policy matters.