James P. Carroll, Jr. is Of Counsel to the firm. He focuses on Federal False Claims Act (FCA), health care, antitrust, securities and consumer fraud litigation. Mr. Carroll has been affiliated with the firm
since 2015. Before joining Keller Grover, Mr. Carroll was a member of Kirby McInerney LLP in New York City, where, in addition to the same practice focus, he helped establish and run satellite offices in San Francisco and Austin.

Notable cases in which Mr. Carroll has been significantly involved include:

• Representation, as lead counsel, of the relator whistleblowers in United States ex rel Krahling and Wlochowski v. Merck & Co., an FCA case concerning allegations that Merck defrauded the government for more than a decade in an ongoing scheme to sell the government a mumps vaccine that is mislabeled, misbranded, adulterated, and falsely certified as having an efficacy rate that is significantly higher than it actually is. This litigation was originally filed on 2010 and is ongoing.
• Representation, as lead counsel, of the States of Iowa as well as the City of New York and 43 New York counties in connection with In re: Pharmaceutical Industry Average Wholesale Price Litigation; City
  of New York v. Abbott Laboratories, a consolidated Medicaid fraud action in the Eastern District of Massachusetts that resulted in recovery of over $225 million for plaintiffs.
• Representation as co‐lead counsel of a class of Minnesota consumers in connection with Gordon v. Microsoft Inc., a Minnesota State civil antitrust case which settled for $175 million after nearly two months of trial
• Representation, as one of the firms (including predecessor to Keller Grover) with primary responsibility for the case, of a class of retailers in In re Visa Check/MasterMoney Antitrust Litigation, an antitrust case which resulted in a settlement of over $3 billion for the class as well as injunctive relief that helped reshape the landscape of the national payments industry.

Mr. Carroll received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law (1994) and his Bachelor of Art in History from Duke University (1988). Mr. Carroll is admitted to the Colorado State Bar and the United States District Court for Colorado. Mr. Carroll practices exclusively in Federal Court nationwide.

From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Carroll served as General Counsel & Director of U.S. Operations for Emerging Technologies, ET AB, a venture capital firm based in Stockholm, Sweden, and for TwoByFour Software AB, an application management software company where he served as General Counsel, Head of Business Development & Director of U.S. Operations