Our Litigators of the Week are Kirkland & Ellis partners James Hurst and Andrew Kassof, who saved national grocery chain Albertsons from a potentially enormous False Claims Act suit.

When the duo took over defense of the long-running case 10 months ago, things looked grim. Albertsons was headed towards an FCA trial after a federal judge in the Central District of Illinois found that the grocer, which operates in-store pharmacies in 34 states, had charged the government the wrong, higher price for prescription drugs for nearly 10 years.