Brad Hubbard of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP worked on obtaining a reversal of a $663 million judgment in a False Claims Act case, earning him a spot among the appellate practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

His most significant case:
Hubbard represented Trinity Industries Inc. as the Fifth Circuit in September 2017 overturned the judgment against the highway guardrail manufacturer in a False Claims Act case, determining that the federal government's decision to keep buying the company's allegedly defective products undermined its case.

The Fifth Circuit found that even after hearing all the evidence in the case by Joshua Harman, a whistleblower and sometime Trinity competitor, and becoming aware of the jury's verdict, the government continued to use Trinity's guardrails to line America's highways.

That fact, U.S. Circuit Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham wrote in the panel's decision, undermined Harman's allegation that a change to Trinity's ET-Plus guardrail system that it allegedly kept secret had been material to the Federal Highway Administration's decision to purchase it.

"It was a really great day for us and for our client when the Fifth Circuit agreed that Trinity's former competitor's disagreement with the federal government was not the stuff of fraud," Hubbard said.

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