Tony Burba’s clients are healthcare providers, life sciences companies, and healthcare tech companies striving to extend, improve, and save lives. As a former federal healthcare fraud prosecutor, Tony guides his clients through the challenges of building, maintaining, and restoring compliance, as well as defending their operations against a variety of regulators and enforcement bodies.

Tony’s clients work for their patients and customers in a highly regulated, often shifting and ever-confusing environment of regulatory, legal, and reputational risks. Clients in pursuit of this mission benefit from Tony's comprehensive approach to legal problem-solving, including tools such as obtaining favorable advisory opinions, monitoring business initiatives, conducting due diligence, and managing self-disclosures to relevant agencies.

Drawing on his significant trial experience in criminal and civil cases, Tony employs a compliance-focused approach to defending against government investigations. He conducts thorough internal investigations and pairs defense strategies with improved compliance and remediation of related compliance risks. Tony’s clients often face enforcement by a variety of state and federal agencies. He partners with them to resolve complex disputes with those agencies, including under the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark law.

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My clients' priorities are to improve, extend, and save lives. I partner with them to ensure enforcement and compliance risks don't compromise their mission."
Credentials

Education

  • University of Kentucky College of Law, J.D., 2008, Order of the Coif, member of Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Moot Court Board
  • Murray State University, B.A., political science, 2003, summa cum laude
  • Marquette University, M.A., political theory, 2005

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois
  • Kentucky
  • District of Columbia

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
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