WASHINGTON, DC: The DC Trial Lawyers Association (DCTLA), the organization representing plaintiff’s trial lawyers in the DC, Virgina and Maryland metropolitan area, has named Traci Lee Buschner, one of the nation’s leading whistleblower lawyers, as its new President. Ms. Buschner will serve a one year term.
Ms. Buschner (Tbuschner@GBBlegal.com) is the managing partner of Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC (GBBlegal.com), one of the nation’s leading law firms representing whistleblowers under the Federal False Claims Act, and before the SEC and IRS whistleblower offices. The firm’s lawyers have recovered over $6 billion on behalf of whistleblowers bringing suits on behalf of the United States government and state governments.
In addition to its whistleblower practice, the firm maintains a complex-high impact litigation practice including civil rights cases. Among its successes, the firm secured a consent order requiring the South Carolina prison system to test and treat 22,000 inmates for Hepatitis C.
“We are at a point in our nation’s history where the rule of law and the rights of the voiceless are under siege.” said Ms. Buschner. “I see our role at DCTLA, and my role as president, as protecting the process and substance in our laws that give rights to individual of discrimination, injury and corporate malfeasance.” Ms. Buschner is a national faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation . She has contributed to a book by NITA, on remote trial advocacy. Amazon.com: Remote Advocacy: A Guide to Survive and Thrive (NITA) eBook : National Institute of Trial Advocacy: Kindle Store. She is co-author of a forthcoming treatise n the False Claims Act.
Ms. Buschner is available for interviews and to comment on current issues. Email her at Tbuschner@GBBlegal.com or phone: 202-800-3001.
