🎙 Episode #048: Adam Yoffie (Pharmaceutical Industry Investigations & Litigation Counsel) + One Year of How I Lawyer

👋🏻 Greetings from Washington, D.C. and an early Merry Christmas to those who celebrate.

ONE YEAR!

Exactly one year ago today I announced the How I Lawyer Podcast and what a year it has been.

If you want to know a little bit more about how I started the podcast and where I see it going in 2022 I published some thoughts on Twitter earlier this week. You can read them here if you are curious.

I plan to publish two more episodes next week and then take some time in January to recharge before resuming a regular publication schedule in February. As always if you have comments/question/ideas for guest just respond to this e-mail.

With that, I am excited to share my conversation with my friend Adam Yoffie who is currently Senior Counsel for Litigation & Government Investigations at Bristol Myers Squibb based in Princeton, New Jersey. Before going to Bristol Myers Squibb, Adam was a trial attorney for the Health Care Fraud Strike Force at the United States Department of Justice and an Associate at Williams & Connolly, LLP in Washington DC. He started his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Anita Brody of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Judge Morton Greenberg of United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. (We also went to summer camp together 25+ years ago!)

Before law school he was a Deputy Press Secretary for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and a Fulbright Scholar in Jerusalem. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Duke University. 

In our conversation we discuss his path to health care law; the differences between practicing as a Big Law litigator, prosecutor, and now in-house counsel; how one's personal story can affect your professional path; techniques for standing out as a junior attorney; the emerging areas of pharmaceutical legal practice; and more. 

As always, if you have any questions or suggestions for the podcast you can just respond to this e-mail. And if you liked the episode and can share the podcast with a family/friend/colleague and/or leave a review on iTunes I’d appreciate it.

See you next week,

Jonah