William H. Jordan

• Representing the country’s largest health care insurance company and pharmacy benefit manager in civil litigation, arbitrations, and congressional, DOJ, and state government investigations.
• Successfully obtained declinations and victories for clients in False Claims Act investigations in every federal circuit and over 25 states.
• Represented the nation's largest publicly traded hospital chain in civil and criminal investigations throughout the country involving health care fraud matters. Negotiated favorable settlement of many investigations and obtained judicial dismissal of one matter involving allegedly unauthorized medical procedures.
• Represented New Orleans hospitals in criminal investigations and congressional hearings related to their response to Hurricane Katrina, including allegations that patients were euthanized in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
• Defended a national telecommunications company in multiple class actions alleging that it had impermissibly revealed confidential customer information to government through the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program.
• Represented an individual in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing related to alleged firing of U.S. Attorneys and political hiring at Department of Justice.
• Conducted numerous internal investigations related to alleged government fraud, FCPA issues, and antitrust matters.
• Served as outside global ethics and compliance counsel to world's second largest chemical company.

Bill Jordan concentrates his practice on business litigation, government and internal investigations, False Claims Act cases, and corporate ethics and compliance matters for health care and technology companies. Bill co-chairs the firm’s 400-lawyer global litigation area as well as the Health Care Industry Team. He represents all participants in the health care industry—managed care companies, hospitals and health systems, pharmaceutical and life science companies, health IT and telehealth companies, long-term and post-acute care providers, labs, and ancillary service providers—in state, federal, and congressional investigations; litigation, arbitrations, and class actions; and compliance matters. Bill has represented companies or individuals in litigation and investigations in every judicial circuit and over 30 states. For five years, Bill served as an independent compliance monitor for a large multinational pharmaceutical company as part of its corporate integrity agreement with the HHS-OIG.

Bill returned to Alston & Bird following his service in senior roles in the DOJ’s Civil Division and the Associate Attorney General’s office, where he supervised litigation and investigations across the country. Since returning, he has represented the State of Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court in Texas’ challenge to the 2020 election results and in a pro bono capacity, represented one of the main witnesses in the House January 6th Committee’s investigation into the attack on the Capitol.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• District of Columbia

Education

• Emory University (J.D., 1995)
• Rhodes College (B.A., 1992)

Memberships