Daniel Purdom has extensive trial and investigative experience concerning white-collar federal crimes, such as health care fraud, complex financial fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud, SEC fraud, official and police corruption, RICO, organized crime, bank embezzlement and bank fraud. He has tried dozens of criminal and commercial cases in numerous states. Mr. Purdom has briefed and argued more than 25 cases to federal and state appellate courts.

In addition to his white-collar criminal practice, Mr. Purdom has extensive trial experience involving health care fraud and abuse, Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Committee (ARDC) defense, false claim/qui tam actions, commercial litigation, employment and class action lawsuits.

Mr. Purdom has represented numerous medical providers who have been involved in federal, state and regulatory investigations of alleged health care fraud and related problems. He also handles internal investigations of employee wrongdoing involving embezzlement or internal fraud, and has helped various clients implement and monitor corporate compliance programs. Mr. Purdom has also been involved in a number of false claim/qui tam actions nationally.

In 1986, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, Mr. Purdom prosecuted what was then the largest health care fraud in the United States. He secured the dismantling of a $20 million Medicaid fraud scheme, and the conviction of more than 40 individuals, including doctors, pharmacists and others associated with the scheme. Mr. Purdom coordinated the efforts of the U.S. Postal Inspectors, the Illinois Department of Public Aid, the Illinois Department of Registration and Education, the Illinois State Police and the Internal Revenue Service, and gained valuable working knowledge of the health care billing system. During his tenure with the U.S. Attorney’s Office he tried more than 35 jury trials and briefed and argued more than 15 appeals before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Purdom has been appointed a Special Inspector General by the State of Illinois Executive Ethics Commission to conduct several high profile investigations. He was also appointed as a Special States Attorney to provide a professional ethics opinion. Mr. Purdom has continued his significant record of trial success across a wide spectrum of commercial litigation and white collar criminal cases. Among his representative trials are:

• US v. Kien: A two-week jury trial ended in not guilty for Mr. Purdom's client, the attorney/co-owner of a real estate development company, in an $11 million mortgage fraud scheme in which all 14 co-defendants either pled guilty or were found guilty.
• McGuire v. GTE: Mr. Purdom’s client was found not guilty in this Title VI and age discrimination lawsuit.
• Psharis v. Central DuPage Hospital: Mr. Purdom’s client was found not guilty in this medical malpractice death case.
• ServiceMaster v. Navistar: Mr. Purdom secured a $1 million verdict for his client in this commercial contract dispute.
• McKinney v. Coca Cola: Mr. Purdom’s client was found not guilty in this product liability trial.
• U.S. ex rel. Perales v. St. Margaret's. False Claims Act where relator was seeking $89 million. Case dismissed based on 10 summary judgment motions.  
• U.S. ex rel. Fields v. Sherman Health Systems: False Claims Act case with relator seeking $17 million. Case dismissed on our motion.
• JBS v. Village of Glen Ellyn: Mr. Purdom secured a permanent injunction for his client in this commercial land dispute.
• Harmon v. Streams: Mr. Purdom’s client was found not guilty arising out of alleged structural building defect.
• In re: Conarty: Mr. Purdom secured a finding in favor of his client in this Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) trial.
• US v. Helfand: A two-week federal court jury trial for mortgage fraud. Mr. Purdom’s client was acquitted on 14 of the 15 charges.

Mr. Purdom joined Hinshaw in July 1986. He is Partner-in-Charge of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP’s Lisle office. Mr. Purdom is the leader of the firm’s White Collar Crime Practice Group, and was formerly a member of Hinshaw’s Executive Committee.

Previously, from 1980 to 1986, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago).

Mr. Purdom graduated first in his law school class from Southern Illinois University School of Law in 1978. In addition, Mr. Purdom was the recipient of the Monroe Award for Excellence in Legal Writing and Research, and the West Award for Highest Academic Honors (1st, 2nd and 3rd years).

Mr. Purdom is a member of the Leading Lawyers Network, where he was selected by his peers as a Leading Lawyer in both White Collar Criminal Defense and Commercial Litigation. In addition, he holds the AV® Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability.

Since 2005, Mr. Purdom has been named annually to the Super Lawyer list in the area of Criminal Defense: White Collar by Illinois Super Lawyers magazine.

From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Purdom was a law clerk for Chief U.S. District Court Judge James L. Foreman of the Southern District of Illinois.

Mr. Purdom was the recipient of several awards from the United States Department of Justice, including the Chief Postal Inspector’s Special Award, which is presented each year to one prosecutor in the nation. He is also the recipient of the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award and also their Special Commendation Award.

Mr. Purdom is a member of the DuPage County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Purdom has spoken extensively on issues related to health care fraud, white-collar crime, attorney discipline, corporate compliance and internal corporate investigations. He was an instructor in the area of health care fraud at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and has also been an instructor and lecturer for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy at Northwestern and Loyola Universities, the Department of Justice Advocacy Institute and the DuPage Bar Association Trial Advocacy Program.

His presentations include:

• “Healthcare Fraud: Health Reform’s Expansion of Provider Risk and Best Practices to Minimize Exposure in Government Actions,” Hinshaw’s Annual Healthcare Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2011.
• “Beyond the Fraud Triangle: Tales of Audacity, Denial, Ego and Obstruction,” Illinois CPA Society Fraud Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 2011.
• "Anti-Fraud Statutes Within Health Care Reform," Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers Executive Team, Evergreen Park, Illinois, March 2011.
• “Anti-Fraud Statutes Within Health Care Reform,” Hinshaw’s 2010 Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2010.
• “Self-Disclosure,” Hinshaw’s 2009 Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2009.
• “Self-Reporting,” Hinshaw’s 2008 Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2008.
• “The False Claims Act,” DuPage County Bar Association, Health Care Law Committee meeting, Wheaton, Illinois, February 2008.
• “Conflicts in Representing Buyers/Sellers,” DuPage County Bar Association Real Estate Seminar, Wheaton, Illinois, April 2007.
• “Compliance and Self-Disclosure,” Hinshaw’s 2006 Health Care Conference, “Current Issues Affecting Health System and Hospital Boards and Management,” Chicago, Illinois, September 2006.
• “The False Claims Act and Other Whistleblower Statutes Which May Put You Out of Business,” Illinois Health Care Association, 56th Annual Convention, Springfield, Illinois, September 2006.
• “Responding to Subpoenas and Search Warrants in the Post-Enron Days,” Hinshaw’s “2006 Insurance Services Symposium: Creative Management of Claims and Coverage Disputes in a High-Risk Environment,” Chicago, Illinois, February 2006.
• Faculty Presenter, American Bar Association’s Health Care Fraud & Abuse seminar in San Francisco in May 2002 and in Las Vegas in 2003.
• Faculty Presenter, "Health Care Fraud,” Health Care Fraud Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987.

Mr. Purdom has written numerous articles, treatises and other works on issues in his areas of practice focus. Examples of his published works include:

• “Recent amendments significantly enhance the power and reach of the false claims act,” Westlaw Journal Health Care Fraud, Volume 16, Issue 10, April 2011; Thomson Reuters News & Insight, March 2011; and Bar Briefs, February 2011.
• “Dealing with an ARDC Letter of Complaint: What Do I Do Now?” DuPage Bar Journal, April 2006.
• "Practical Considerations in Responding to Subpoenas and Search Warrants," The Corporate Lawyer, a publication of the Illinois State Bar Association, July 2003.
• “Conducting Internal Corporate Criminal Investigations,” DuPage County Bar Association Brief Online, Volume 9, May 1997.
• “The Basics of White Collar Criminal Defense,” DuPage Bar Journal, December 1991.
• U.S. Department of Justice Manual on Prosecution of Healthcare Fraud (contributing author).
• “The Illinois Forfeiture Statute: A Critical Analysis,” Southern Illinois Law Journal, 1977.

Mr. Purdom is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Xilin Association, a non-profit organization in Naperville, Illinois committed to serving the Asian population’s needs in the greater Chicagoland area.

He was a coach for Glen Ellyn baseball, and multiple sports programs of the Glen Ellyn Park District, and was a long- time board member and past president of the Glenbard West High School Booster organization and a board member of the Glenbard West Youth Center organization.