Aaron Chait

Aaron S. Chait Counsel

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A former civil False Claims Act prosecutor, Aaron’s practice is focused on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on healthcare litigation. Aaron represents and advises clients throughout the country in a variety of matters involving the False Claims Act, payor-provider disputes, restrictive covenants, shareholder and partnership disputes, and contract disputes. Aaron’s clients include health systems, hospitals, private equity firms, physician practices, management service organizations, and ambulatory surgery centers.

Before joining McGuireWoods, Aaron served as an assistant attorney general in the Special Litigation Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, where he investigated and litigated dozens of cases involving the federal False Claims Act, Illinois False Claims Act, and the Illinois Insurance Claims Fraud Prevention Act (Illinois’ private insurance whistleblower statute), principally involving healthcare fraud. His practice spanned a wide range of affirmative and high-profile defensive litigation and investigations, including spearheading a half-dozen consumer fraud enforcement actions in the energy industry and investigating child sexual abuse within the Illinois Catholic church. An experienced federal investigator, Aaron led hundreds of civil rights investigations as an enforcement attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. Aaron began his career as an associate at two international AmLaw 50 firms.

Aaron is a former adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law from 2020-2022, where he taught legal writing.

Aaron is also committed to pro bono. Earlier in his career, before entering public service, he was counsel for same-sex couples seeking the right to marry in Illinois (Lazaro v. Orr).

At Columbia Law School, Aaron was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, articles editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and judicial extern for the Honorable Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.