About Us

QUALITY LEGAL SERVICES

For more than seven years, members of our team have been working almost exclusively in litigating pharmaceutical contracts and pricing cases on behalf of public-sector clients.

We have served as lead counsel for more than a dozen states in disputes and investigations involving the largest pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical companies in the United States and have achieved significant successes on behalf of those clients.

Also, as lead counsel, our firm after litigation negotiated a twenty-two-state, $1.25 billion settlement with the nation’s largest provider of Medicaid managed care services. The settlement resolves allegations of overbilling and misreporting by the defendant’s wholly-owned PBM subsidiary. To our knowledge, the settlement is the largest of its kind in U.S. history, and of perhaps greater significance, the first to require as one of its provision’s full disclosures of the prices that are paid to each of the participants in the drug supply chain for drugs dispensed to Medicaid recipients.

The pharmaceutical industry and its pricing chain are among the most difficult for American business segments to penetrate.

There exist no other legal team in the United States with the level of experience representing state governments in complex matters involving pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical pricing.

OUR PRACTICE AREAS

Collegiate NIL

The partners at Liston & Deas are leaders in the new legal sphere of Name, Image, and Likeness (“NIL”) for…
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Commercial & Consumer Fraud

In today’s economy, where goods and services are sold to thousands of consumers on a mass-marketing basis, fraud is unfortunately…
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Contract & Commercial Litigation

Liston & Deas is primarily a litigation firm. Our attorneys have years of experience in civil litigation in all types…
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Healthcare Policy & Litigation

Since 2017, a primary focus for our firm has been working with state governments to analyze state spending on pharmaceuticals…
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MEET OUR ATTORNEYS

We believe that our job as lawyers is to listen to our clients, learn all we can about their problems, and then help them solve those problems in the best way possible. It is that opportunity – the chance to make a measurable difference in the quality of our clients’ lives – that motivates us to do what we do and to demand excellence of ourselves. Our clients deserve nothing less.