Billy Joe McLain

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ABOUT BILLY JOE MCLAIN

Billy Joe McLain is a former federal prosecutor and experienced first-chair trial lawyer whose practice is focused on trials, civil litigation, white-collar defense, and internal investigations. Mr. McLain represents companies and individuals as the plaintiff, the defendant, and during government investigations in a wide range of matters involving mass torts, oil and gas, the False Claims Act, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, artificial intelligence, and federal criminal fraud and securities statutes.Billy Joe spent nearly a decade in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Central and Southern Districts of California, where he prosecuted some of those districts’ most complex matters and served as the associate U.S. attorney and member of the senior leadership team in the Central District, the largest U.S. Attorney’s Office in the country.As an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central and Southern Districts of California, Mr. McLain successfully prosecuted 10 felony jury trials to verdict and led some of those districts’ most complex prosecutions, ranging from fraud schemes to federal murders. His last two trials at the U.S. Attorney’s Office resulted in the conviction of a doctor involved in one of the largest hospital bribery schemes in California history and a gangster who murdered a civilian in front of his home. Mr. McLain was also a member of the trial team that successfully prosecuted the largest foreign-national campaign-finance-fraud case in the history of the Southern District of California.In addition to his trial work, Billy Joe prosecuted several defendants involved in one of the largest hospital bribery schemes in California history, conducted an investigation into a defense contractor for overbilling the government that resulted in the contractor agreeing to pay $30 million to settle criminal fraud and civil False Claims Act investigations, prosecuted a school official who embezzled over $16 million from a school district serving underprivileged children, and prosecuted a real estate developer who paid bribes to a local politician.While serving as the associate U.S. attorney, Mr. McLain implemented DOJ priorities across the Central District of California, managed attorneys working on those priorities and legal issues arising from them, and collaborated extensively with DOJ and Department of Homeland Security leadership. He also served as the capital case coordinator, where he supervised the Central District’s capital case evaluation process.Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.