Neil Issar

Neil Issar is a counsel in the Litigation Practice Group in the Dallas office of Haynes Boone.

His practice focuses on healthcare litigation, government investigations, and white collar defense, with particular expertise in fraud and abuse laws (including the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the Stark Law), navigation of regulatory and compliance issues involving the healthcare industry, and defending and pursuing antitrust claims.

Neil has represented clients under criminal or civil investigation by various government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of Inspector General, and the Texas Attorney General’s Office. He has also advised clients and written extensively on issues related to state and federal legislation enacted in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Provider Relief Fund. Overall, Neil’s experience spans both federal and state courts as well as all aspects of complex litigation proceedings, including fact and expert discovery, depositions, motion practice, hearings, trials, and appeals.

Neil is actively involved in the firm and in the community. He is a member of the Dallas Bar Association’s Health Law Section and several Dallas Bar Association committees. He was also previously an associate of the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court and a member of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Pathfinder program.

In law school, Neil worked as a research assistant and conducted independent studies on the detection and prosecution of healthcare fraud and the admissibility of statistical proof in medical reimbursement coding cases. Before law school, Neil gained experience in medical research, designing and directing various patient-centered clinical trials and health policy studies as well as publishing several papers in peer-reviewed journals.