Norton Rose Fulbright's Head of Healthcare Investigations for the United States, Jay Dewald is a trial lawyer with more than 20 years of experience and over 100 jury trials in federal and state court. His practice is focused on white collar criminal defense, crisis management, internal investigations, and government investigations of whistleblower claims (including Qui Tam lawsuits pursuant to the federal False Claims Act).
As a former management-level federal prosecutor, Jay has extensive experience handling federal grand jury investigations and significant capabilities in the areas of healthcare fraud, securities fraud, organized crime, money laundering and corruption. Jay was selected as the Northern District of Texas' Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator in 2010 where he led the roll out of Dallas' Medicare Fraud Strike Force, also known as the Healthcare Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT)—a partnership between the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Department of Justice's Fraud Section, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Texas Attorney General's Office's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. While he was with the Department of Justice, Jay's cases often involved high-profile matters and cutting edge issues in money laundering, cyber-crime, and electronic evidence.