Harold Malkin

Harold Malkin has joined Lane Powell as a Shareholder in the Firm’s Litigation Department.  Malkin has an active litigation practice and will serve as Chair of the Investigations and Regulatory Compliance Team.  Prior to joining Lane Powell, Malkin served more than 20 years at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), most recently as the Deputy Civil Chief and Chief of the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle.

Malkin has led and successfully resolved numerous multi-million dollar civil and parallel civil/criminal investigations of government program and procurement fraud under the False Claims Act and its qui tam (whistleblower) provisions.  He possesses in-depth knowledge related to Medicare and Medicaid fraud by institutional and individual providers of all types; defense procurement fraud; schemes to obtain government contracts and grants set aside for small and minority-owned businesses and other targeted recipients; and schemes to evade export/import duties.  In addition to his 15 years with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a tenure he interrupted from 2001-2007, Malkin conducted internal corporate investigations and defended individuals and companies under civil and criminal investigation by state and federal authorities as a Partner at Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo, PLLC.  He also served six years as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Fraud Section of the Civil Division of DOJ in Washington, D.C.

Malkin received his J.D. from Northwestern University of Law and his B.A., magna cum laude, in Government from Hamilton College.