Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Mr. Sprung is a partner at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, where he has worked since 1994. Mr. Sprung specializes in government fraud suits brought under the False Claims Act, representing whistleblowers serving as ""private Attorneys General.""

He has sued a variety of companies, including the Compaq Computer Corporation, which resulted in a large, multi-state settlement on behalf of computer users; contractors for the U.S. Department of Energy concerning accounting fraud at the largest nuclear clean-up site in Hanford, Washington; health care providers and pharmaceutical companies for Medicare and Medicaid fraud; and military contractors for procurement fraud

Mr. Sprung's expertise also includes prosecuting class actions for consumer fraud, employment discrimination and civil rights violations. He is extensively involved in race and gender employment discrimination class actions against The Boeing Company, and has handled class litigation arising from the use of slave and forced labor by Germany and Japan during World War II. He also worked on cases against foreign mining companies accused of destroying and contaminating indigenous people's land and committing human rights abuses.

Prior to joining Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, Mr. Sprung was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he specialized in civil fraud matters. He won the first civil suit for mail, wire and bank fraud brought in the District of Columbia, as well as the first civil suit brought by the government to punish insider trading in the mortgage-backed securities market. He served on a U.S. presidential campaign in 1988, after working at a large law firm in Washington, D.C. where he started his legal career.

Mr. Sprung is very active in the legal community. He was editor and contributing author of a leading practitioners' guide on civil legal remedies in United States courts for hate crimes. He also speaks on the False Claims Act and international human rights to various law schools, including the University of Washington law school, and various trade groups. He is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the Association of Former Assistant U.S. Attorneys.

Mr. Sprung graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1981 and received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1984. He is admitted to practice in the state of Washington and the District of Columbia, and he has appeared in numerous cases before United States district courts and courts of appeals.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Securities Law

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Securities Law

Bar Admissions

• Washington, 1994

Education

• University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 1984
  J.D.
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: With High Distinction

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