William L. Hurlock
Partner
Bill Hurlock is a partner with the firm and practices primarily in the area of litigation focusing on general and complex commercial litigation and healthcare. He has a wide range of experience in all aspects of litigation, arbitration, mediation and appeals. Bill has been featured in The American Lawyer Magazine and the Corporate Crime Reporter. Recently, Bill served as one of the lead attorneys in a healthcare case that resulted in a $163 million recovery on behalf of the United States. In addition, he successfully sought and obtained releases of wrongly incarcerated inmates in pro bono matters before the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
Recently, Bill secured the successful dismissal of an action by the United States Government to rescind a client’s purchase of real property from the United States Marshals Service.
Bill has successfully defended a number of corporations in class action lawsuits and several Fortune 500 companies in the diet drug, latex glove and asbestos national mass tort litigations. Before moving to New Jersey, Bill was a federal prosecutor serving as an Associate Independent Counsel for the Office of the United States Independent Counsel David M. Barrett investigating allegations concerning the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Bill served on the staff of two additional Offices of Independent Counsel and has worked for a United States Congressman and a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
Since 2002, Bill has served as an adjunct professor teaching Healthcare Law, Legal Research and Writing and writing related courses at Seton Hall Law School. He also served as an officer and barrister in the Arthur T. Vanderbilt American Inn of Court.
Bill is a member of several local and community boards. When not in court, Bill enjoys playing golf, coaching youth soccer and spending time with his family and their beagle Annabelle.
Practice Areas
- Complex Commercial Litigation
- False Claims Act
- Government Relations
- Healthcare
- Medical Malpractice
- Product Liability Litigation
- White Collar Criminal Defense
Education
- University of London, dean’s list
- American University, B.S., dean's list
- American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., cum laude
Senior Articles Editor American University International Law Review
Admitted to Practice
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- District of Columbia
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
- United States District Court, District of New Jersey
- United States District Court, District of Columbia
- United States District Court, Southern District of New York
- United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
- United States District Court, District of Connecticut
Professional Affiliations
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- Seton Hall Law School, Adjunct Professor
Honors
- Who’s Who American Law Students 1998
- Who’s Who in Law Academia
Publications/Speaking
- Detecting Waste And Abuse In Health Care Spending, Law360, NY (August 03, 2011). (PDF)
- Cut Healthcare Abuse by Stepping Up Review of Paid Claims, Pharmacy Data,N.J. Law J. Vol. 204 No. 11 (June 13, 2011). (PDF)
- Under the False Claims Act’s Public Disclosure Bar, Does the Nature of the Documents Matter? 5 ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 38 (2011). (PDF)
- American Society of Law Medicine and Ethics, Newark, New Jersey (2010).
- The Need for Health Care Paid Claims and Pharmacy Benefit Audits: What You Don’t Know May Hurt You, 65 Employee Benefit Plan Rev. 5 (2010). (PDF)
- New Jersey Legal Assisting Fundamentals, New Brunswick, New Jersey (2007).
- Revisiting the Public Disclosure Bar and Its Original Source Exception, 43 False Cl. Act and Qui Tam Q. Rev. 111 (2006).
- The Public Disclosure Bar and the Original Source Exception, 40 False Cl. Act and Qui Tam Q. Rev. 12 (2006).
- Taxpayer’s Against Fraud Education Fund, Annual Conference, Washington D.C. (2005 & 2006).
- The International Court of Justice: Effectively Providing a Long Overdue Remedy for Ending State Sponsored Genocide, 12 Am. U. J. Int’l L. & Pol’y 299 (1997).
Civic Activities
- Advisory Committee Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation
- Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Newark Presbytery
- Board St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center Annual Charity Golf Outing
- Coach Montclair United Soccer Club Boy’s Recreation League
