On December 8, 2025, managing partner Neil Getnick was honored by the Financial Times at its Innovative Lawyers North America Awards 2025 as one of the shortlisted top ten in the individual practitioner category. The individual practitioner category recognizes “lawyers who stand out for making breakthroughs” and are “intent on legal work that will address pressing questions of all kinds.”
Neil, the only attorney in the top ten who was not a practitioner at a Big Law firm, was recognized for his “use of civil mechanisms to combat corruption and white-collar fraud.” The Financial Times took note of Getnick Law’s high profile False Claims Act cases holding “big pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer and GSK to account for pricing fraud and substandard manufacturing, as well as the firm’s representation of a whistleblower in an historic $263 million recovery from a single individual for tax fraud under the IRS Whistleblower Program.
In describing his work to the Financial Times, Neil explained that he has been dedicated to developing new ways to use the False Claims Act to unearth fraud and improve business integrity, while finding new strategies for bringing these complex and sensitive matters to successful conclusions for the firm’s clients and for the government.
Neil also highlighted his current focus on the HMRC’s strengthened tax rewards program in the United Kingdom, which was launched in November of this year. Neil, along with Getnick Law partner Margaret Finerty, has been playing a key role in advocating for, and educating the legal community about, this program after having been selected by the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime to moderate a plenary workshop panel in September 2025 on the HMRC initiative and the future of whistleblower awards in the UK and EU. After the program’s launch, Neil authored an op-ed in Reuters discussing why the “HMRC’s initiative may prove to be an important contribution to the worldwide fight against economic crime.”
