Pamela L. Johnston is a partner and trial lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, where she is chair of the firm’s Government Enforcement, Compliance & White Collar Defense Practice, a member of the Securities Enforcement & Litigation Practice, and a member of the Health Care Industry Team. Ms. Johnston focuses in the areas of white collar criminal defense, False Claims Act and whistleblower actions, securities enforcement and other governmental enforcement actions. She represents companies and individuals in parallel civil and criminal proceedings involving a variety of alleged wrongdoing, including submission of false claims, health care fraud, off-label marketing and other issues in the pharmaceutical industry, insider trading, accounting fraud, other securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, structuring, money transmitting violations, and other business crimes. She conducts internal investigations for companies. In her purely civil litigation cases, she focuses on cases that typically involve complex securities or accounting issues.
