Russell Hayman is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Los Angeles office.
Prior to joining the Firm, Russell served for more than 10 years as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and as a senior official of the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. Russell is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried over 20 federal cases to verdict, including a number of extraordinarily complex and lengthy jury trials. As a federal prosecutor, he tried the first espionage case ever brought by the United States against an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (U.S. v. Richard W. Miller).
Russell’s areas of experience include compliance programs, corporate internal investigations, voluntary disclosures, grand jury investigations, pretrial motions practice, jury and court trials, and criminal and civil appellate practice. He has handled a wide variety of matters involving health care fraud and abuse issues, including Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement matters, qui tam litigation, alleged violations of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and matters arising under the Stark Law. Russell has represented a large number of health care providers under active criminal and civil investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the HHS Office of the Inspector General. His clients include providers of pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices as well as hospital, home health, hospice and SNF services.
Russell is a member of the Criminal Law Section of the American Bar Association, the Criminal Law Section of the California Bar Association, the American Health Lawyer’s Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is the co-author of The Healthcare Executive’s Guide to Fraud and Abuse Issues (1998), and A Guide to Complying With the Stark Physicians Self-Referral Law (2004) (Atlantic Information Services). Russell is recognized by the 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA as one of the leading lawyers in his field. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 United States.
From 1983 to 1990, Russell was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and served as a Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division (1986-1990), United States Attorney’s Office, Los Angeles, California.
Education
- Yale Law School, J.D., 1982
- Duke University, B.A., 1979
