Tuesday was an appropriate day for McKool Smith to announce that it is launching a new whistle-blower practice with the addition of two former Day Pitney partners in Washington, D.C.

That’s because Tuesday was also the twenty-fifth anniversary of the amended False Claims Act, which has helped the government recover $30 billion via fraud cases initiated by whistle-blowers. As it happens, McKool’s newest hires played their part in contributing to that recovery.