November 4, 2024 - Press Releases

        Verrill Welcomes Attorney Annabel Rodriguez to the Firm’s Health Care & Life Sciences Group

        BOSTON, Massachusetts – Verrill is pleased to welcome Annabel Rodriguez to the firm’s Health Care and Life Sciences Group as Associate, resident in the firm’s Boston office.

        Rodriguez represents clients in all stages of litigation in federal and state courts, arbitrations and government investigations.

        Her practice focuses on government investigations, matters involving the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (“RICO”) Act, drug crimes, and public corruption offenses.

        After graduating law school, Rodriguez served first as a law clerk for Associate Justice Mary Thomas Sullivan at the Appeals Court, and then as a law clerk for the Honorable William Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

        Rodriguez received her law degree from Suffolk University Law School and her undergraduate degree from Boston University.

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