Courtney Finerty

Courtney Finerty-Stelzner is an associate at Getnick Law, where she is actively involved in the firm’s whistleblower, anti-fraud litigation, and business integrity practices. Courtney represents clients in a range of matters in federal and state court, including whistleblowers in qui tam cases under the federal and New York False Claims Acts, commercial disputes, and complex anti-fraud cases. For example, she was a key member of the team that represented approximately 40 health insurers in a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, alleging that GSK knowingly manufactured drugs under conditions that violated federal manufacturing standards, which was settled in 2019. Prior to joining the firm, Courtney was a litigation associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, where she represented clients in complex commercial litigation matters and served on the Monitoring Team for the Newark Police Division, responsible for overseeing NPD’s compliance with a Consent Decree entered into with the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to that, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

• Partner

• New York, 2014
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York

• The Anti-Fraud Coalition (Chair, Young Lawyers Division Board; Member, Government Relations Committee and DEIJ Committee)
• New York State Bar Association (Chair, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Civil Prosecution Committee)