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Halunen Has Negotiated Hundreds of Six and Seven-Figure Severances and Settlements for C-Suite Executives

Fearless in representing C-Suite executives against large corporations across the nation and in Minnesota, Halunen has achieved numerous six and seven-figure severances and settlements for his clients. He is particularly adept at helping executives and managers use their sometimes-unrecognized power to obtain significantly enhanced severance terms, which better position them for success in moving forward in their careers.

Halunen’s Firm Successfully Resolves 90-95% of Its Cases

Halunen’s decades of success bode well for his employee and whistleblower clients who have experienced discrimination, retaliation, or other illegal treatment in the workplace. He continues to be outraged by what has happened to his clients and vigorously fights for them. Clay is proud of his Firm’s track record in achieving positive results for the vast majority of its clients.

Halunen tackles billion-dollar fraud against the Government

Clayton is currently acting as co-lead counsel, along with nationally renowned trial lawyer Mark Lanier, in a substantial government fraud case against drug-maker Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. The False Claims Act lawsuit alleges fraud relating to the sale of its drug Tamiflu to the United States government for stockpiling during the nation’s influenza pandemic preparations in the mid-2000s. The suit asserts that U.S. taxpayers were bilked over $1.5 billion by the company for a drug that did not provide any pandemic benefits such as protecting against complications, hospitalizations, and transmission.

Widely respected for his success, Halunen was featured in the CBS television series “Whistleblower” for this landmark representation of whistleblower Heidi Weber in the case against Globe University. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious honors and awards acknowledging his professional acumen and advocacy. In 2018, as a recipient of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Business of Pride Award, Halunen was recognized for his leadership within the LGBT and business communities. He was named one of the Attorneys of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer in 2014 and 2017 and has been selected to the Minnesota Super Lawyers list consistently since 2003.

Halunen played a pivotal role with a team of attorneys who successfully represented James Friedlander in a whistleblower case heard by the Minnesota Supreme Court. The case clarified Minnesota legislative policy that a “good faith” report essentially must be truthful, creating a clearer path for whistleblowers to make their claims, while holding employers accountable for illegal conduct and preventing them from relying on technicalities to escape liability

Halunen has also held leadership positions in numerous prominent nationwide class action cases. He has litigated class actions in such areas as employee misclassification, defective products, product mislabeling, and consumer fraud.