Government & Public Entity Representation

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The Costs of Corporate Misconduct Shouldn't Land on Your Budget.

When contaminated water, inflated drug prices, or deceptive business practices drain public dollars, your entity may have the legal authority to recover those funds. We help you determine whether it does.

Ged Lawyers advises and represents governmental and public entities — cities, counties, school districts, water authorities, hospital districts, and state agencies — in complex litigation against the corporations whose conduct shifted costs onto the public.

No obligation. We work with your existing counsel, not around them.

Your Budget Absorbed Someone Else’s Liability

Every year, public entities quietly pay for damage they didn’t cause:

Remediation you didn’t create.

Treatment systems, well closures, monitoring programs, and cleanup costs for contamination that originated somewhere else.

Prices you were never told were inflated.

Pharmaceutical spend, benefit-plan costs, and procurement expenses shaped by pricing practices your purchasing department had no way to see.

Services you had to expand.

Emergency response, public health programs, counseling staff, and community services stretched by harms that traced back to corporate decisions.

Those dollars came out of roads, schools, staffing, and reserves. In many cases, the law provides a route to recover them.

Is Your Entity Affected?

You may have a claim worth evaluating if your entity has:

Detected PFAS, TCE, or other contaminants in a public water supply, or received a regulatory notice about them
Paid for environmental testing, filtration, remediation, or alternative water sources
Funded a health plan, pharmacy benefit, or public insurance program
Purchased products or services that were later the subject of pricing, fraud, or antitrust allegations
Experienced rising public health, emergency response, or student support costs tied to a specific product or industry
Been approached about joining existing litigation and needs an independent read on whether it serves your community

Not sure which of these applies? That's exactly what a preliminary evaluation is for.

What we handle

Where We Represent Public Entities

Environmental Contamination & Public Water

PFAS and AFFF contamination, groundwater and drinking water impacts, toxic exposure, natural resource damage, and the remediation and monitoring costs public entities are left holding.

Pharmaceutical Pricing & Public Health Spending

Litigation involving drug pricing practices, pharmacy benefit manager conduct, and other practices affecting government-sponsored health plans, public hospitals, and self-funded entity programs.

Consumer Protection & Corporate Misconduct

Unfair, deceptive, and fraudulent business practices affecting residents, public programs, and the entities that serve them — including claims available under applicable state consumer protection laws.

Mass Torts & Large-Scale Community Harm

Products and conduct that injured large numbers of residents and imposed institutional costs on public hospitals, schools, first responders, and social services.

Antitrust & Market Manipulation

Price fixing, bid rigging, coordinated conduct, and market restrictions that raised what your entity paid for goods, services, or construction.

Public Fund Recovery

Identifying and pursuing money lost to overcharges, improper billing, deceptive pricing, and misconduct across your entity’s contracts and expenditures.

Environmental Contamination & Public Water

PFAS and AFFF contamination, groundwater and drinking water impacts, toxic exposure, natural resource damage, and the remediation and monitoring costs public entities are left holding.

Pharmaceutical Pricing & Public Health Spending

Our legal team prepares and prosecutes Independent Dispute Resolution cases under NSA in Florida through structured filings, documentation, and a disciplined strategy aligned with the no-surprise act of arbitration procedures.

Consumer Protection & Corporate Misconduct

Mass Torts & Large-Scale Community Harm

Products and conduct that injured large numbers of residents and imposed institutional costs on public hospitals, schools, first responders, and social services.

Antitrust & Market Manipulation

Price fixing, bid rigging, coordinated conduct, and market restrictions that raised what your entity paid for goods, services, or construction.

Public Fund Recovery

Identifying and pursuing money lost to overcharges, improper billing, deceptive pricing, and misconduct across your entity’s contracts and expenditures.

How a Government Matter Actually Works

Initial intake — no commitment.

We listen to what your entity is seeing: costs, notices, complaints, budget pressure. If there’s nothing there, we tell you.

Independent evaluation.

We review purchasing records, claims data, testing results, contracts, and public expenditures to determine whether identifiable losses exist and who may be responsible.

A clear path forward.

When appropriate, we present a clear path forward addressing potential claims, likely defendants, anticipated timelines, and participation requirements.

Authorization and engagement.

We work within your procurement rules, conflicts requirements, and approval process. Nothing moves without proper authorization.

Prosecution of the claim.

Investigation, expert development, discovery, document review, negotiation, trial, and appeal — with reporting your officials can rely on and share.

Recovery and accountability.

We pursue available financial, equitable, and injunctive remedies consistent with the entity’s authority and objectives.

Built for the Way Public Entities Have to Work

Your staff has a day job.

Our team works to reduce the administrative burden by coordinating record collection, data analysis, and document review with designated entity personnel.

Your decisions are public.

Every recommendation is documented in language that holds up in a public meeting, a records request, and a budget hearing.

Your legal team stays in charge.

We supplement your city attorney, county attorney, or general counsel. We don’t replace them.

Scale when it’s needed.

Technology-assisted document review, damages modeling, and economic, scientific, and medical experts — with co-counsel relationships when a matter calls for additional resources.

Answers, not pitches.

If your entity’s strongest option is to do nothing, or to join existing litigation rather than file separately, we’ll say so.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does an evaluation cost?

The availability and scope of any complimentary preliminary evaluation will be confirmed during the initial consultation. Fee arrangements for representation are set out in a written engagement agreement approved by your entity.

Will this create work for our staff?

Our team works to reduce the administrative burden by coordinating record collection, data analysis, and document review with designated entity personnel.

We've already been contacted about joining a larger case. Should we?

Maybe — and that’s worth an independent look. Participation terms, fee structures, and whether your entity’s specific losses are adequately represented all vary. We’ll give you a straight read.

Does Litigation put us in conflict with the state or federal government?

Public entity claims often proceed alongside state and federal actions. We evaluate coordination issues before anything is filed.

How long do these matters take?

Complex public entity litigation is typically measured in years, not months. We’ll give you a realistic range for your specific matter rather than an optimistic one.

Is there a deadline?

Yes. Statutes of limitation, claim notice requirements, and settlement participation deadlines all apply and vary by claim type and jurisdiction. Delay can foreclose options.

Find Out What Your Entity May Be Owed

Government attorneys, elected officials, agency directors, and authorized representatives can request a preliminary consultation with our government practice team.

Request a Preliminary Consultation

844-941-2569 government@gedlawyers.com

We handle inquiries in accordance with applicable confidentiality, ethics, and public-records requirements.

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. The information on this page is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship. Government representation is subject to applicable procurement requirements, conflicts review, professional conduct rules, required approvals, and execution of an authorized engagement agreement. References to government-related experience do not imply that any governmental entity recommends or endorses Ged Lawyers.

Government & Public Entity Representation