Edward D. Rogers is a partner in the Litigation Department, Practice Leader of the Accounting and Professional Liability Group, and a member of the Antitrust, Commercial Litigation, and Consumer Financial Services Groups. His practice includes all areas of civil litigation, with an emphasis on representing accounting firms, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, and health care providers, as well as constitutional litigation and related advice and counseling, particularly in areas involving free speech and freedom of the press.
Mr. Rogers's professional liability practice consists of defending accounting firms against malpractice claims. His litigation practice focuses on defending banks, financial services companies, and pharmaceutical companies in consumer class actions, antitrust, and securities fraud cases. His health care practice involves compliance counseling and litigation for hospitals, False Claims Act cases, and class actions.
Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Rogers spent five years as a Congressional staff member in Washington, D.C. He served as a Legislative Assistant to Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, where he advised the Senator on mass transit and housing legislation before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, as well as on legislation in the areas of transportation and agriculture. Before that, he was a Legislative Assistant to the Northeast-Midwest Senate Coalition, where he worked on a broad variety of legislative initiatives involving economic development.
Representative Matters
- Defended accounting malpractice actions brought against Big Four accounting firms by state insurance commissioners who had taken over major insurance companies
- Defended a global pharmaceutical company in complex patent antitrust litigation alleging anticompetitive conduct to suppress generic competition by filing allegedly baseless patent infringement actions and Citizen Petitions with the FDA
- Defended a major credit card issuer in a national antitrust class action case alleging a price-fixing conspiracy and Truth in Lending Act violations involving foreign currency conversion fees
- Defended a large financial institution in class action cases in multiple federal and state courts involving credit card payment crediting practices that resulted in a favorable global settlement
- Conducted a comprehensive compliance assessment for a major urban health system with multiple facilities
- Represented a publisher of a free Philadelphia newspaper distributed on urban mass transit systems that defeated a First Amendment challenge brought by The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today
- Defended the owners of a major sports venue in Philadelphia against free speech challenges brought by groups seeking to stage demonstrations
Judicial Clerkships
Hon. Anthony J. Scirica, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit