Edward T. Kang
Managing Member, Kang Haggerty LLC
Managing member. Tries cases, including jury trials.
Edward T. Kang is the managing member of Kang Haggerty LLC and represents whistleblowers in False Claims Act matters. He holds an AV Preeminent rating and is recognized in Chambers USA. Unlike many litigators, he regularly tries cases to verdict, which shapes how the firm approaches qui tam matters the government declines.
Edward T. Kang is the managing member of Kang Haggerty LLC. He was admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 2001, in New York in 2008, and to the United States Supreme Court in 2010. He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, is recognized in Chambers USA for the Philadelphia region, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America.
What distinguishes his practice, in his own description, is that he tries cases. Many litigation attorneys never or rarely take a matter to court. Edward regularly does, including jury trials, and that matters more in qui tam work than it might appear. A False Claims Act defendant negotiating with counsel who has never tried a case is negotiating from a different position than one facing counsel who will.
That posture is what allows the firm to carry declined cases. When the Department of Justice does not intervene, the relator and counsel fund and litigate the matter themselves. Edward, with Kandis Kovalsky and Ross Wolfe, obtained a 9 million dollar settlement in exactly that situation, against private equity firm Belhealth Investment Partners, its principals, and its pharmacy portfolio companies, over off-label dispensing of a fentanyl product billed to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE.
His broader litigation practice is built on the same theories that recur in fraud cases: business torts including fraud and tortious interference, civil RICO, breach of fiduciary duty, and securities fraud. He has written repeatedly in The Legal Intelligencer on the False Claims Act and on civil RICO, and is a certified panel member of the American Arbitration Association for commercial litigation.
He is a member of the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, the organization devoted to advancing whistleblower interests and fighting fraud against the government. He practices in English and Korean.
Where the practice concentrates
- Holding executives and individuals liable, not only the corporate defendant
- Civil RICO alongside False Claims Act theories
- Trying cases rather than settling on the courthouse steps
Whistleblower matters
$2 million False Claims Act settlement with Recovery Centers of America
$9 million settlement in a non-intervened fentanyl qui tam case
Whistleblower suit against Harvard University over NIH grant administration
Education
- J.D., Villanova University School of Law, 2001
- B.A. in Management, Temple University, 1992
Admitted to practice
- Pennsylvania, 2001
- New Jersey, 2001
- New York, 2008
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2010
Honors and recognition
- AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell, 2015 to present
- Chambers USA, Philadelphia, 2025 to present
- Best Lawyers in America, Philadelphia, Litigation - Construction, 2026
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, 2018 to present
- AAA Arbitrator for Commercial Disputes
Professional memberships
- Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund
- American Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Full firm biography: Edward T. Kang at Kang Haggerty LLC
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