Kaitlin M. Gurney

• Led trial preparation efforts for two defamation trials in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, including selection and preparation of fact and expert witnesses and drafting jury instructions and pre-trial memoranda.
• Represented The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and philly.com owner, editors, reporters, and cartoonist in a defamation and false light invasion of privacy suit by a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice and his wife, who in the middle of discovery, voluntarily discontinued the action without the payment of money and the Supreme Court justice resigned.
• Won summary judgment on five separate grounds, including the truth of the statement, in a defamation and invasion of privacy case brought by a prominent lawyer against a Philadelphia Daily News columnist who called him a "liar" in her column.
• Successfully sought the exclusion of a plaintiff's linguistics expert in a Frye/Daubert hearing in a defamation and invasion of privacy case brought by the former head of the Philadelphia housing authority related to 250 news articles referencing him.
• Won early dismissal on preliminary objections of a defamation action brought against the Allentown Morning Call by a woman alleging she was the estranged wife of David Lee Roth.
• Pre-publication review and risk-based counseling for newspapers, websites, and magazines.
• Reviewed newsroom policies and media companies' litigation hold procedures.

White Collar Practice

• Delivered a presentation to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on behalf of a Pennsylvania-based public company that led to a formal declination to prosecute a whistleblower complaint.
• Prepared witnesses and collected and produced documents, including the supervision of large-scale e-discovery document reviews, for government investigations into pharmaceutical products, including the marketing of an anti-fungal medication, the methods of manufacturing over-the-counter products, and physician speaker events promoting a groundbreaking hepatitis drug.
• Drafted successful motions leading to the dismissal of False Claims Act cases, including actions against the parent company of a national health insurer and an apparel manufacturing software provider and its investors.
• Conducted wide-ranging discovery in a False Claims Act case against a Medicare counseling firm that led to the filing of a motion to dismiss by the government.
• Investigated allegations of corruption and abuse lodged through a public company’s hotline, reporting to auditors ahead of a public filing announcement. Conducted document review and witness interviews and drafted investigation report on a compressed timeline.
• Investigated allegations that pharmaceutical company revenues were improperly inflated ahead of a quarterly earnings call and that unnecessary stock was shipped to affiliates.
• Served as company counsel after a medical device manufacturer pled guilty to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations.
• Counseled pharmaceutical company executives and employees in Russia, Argentina, Mexico, and Israel on compliance with the FCPA in the wake of prior company violations.
• Drafted compliance and third party due diligence policies and procedures for a newly-merged company and investigated legacy subsidiaries and joint operating agreements.