Jay Dewald is a trial lawyer with more than 25 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).

He is the firm's Head of Healthcare Investigations for the United States. In 2010, Jay was selected as the Northern District of Texas' Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator 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 US Attorney's Office, the Department of Justice's Fraud Section, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Texas Attorney General's Office's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.