Caitlyn Silhan
Partner | Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel
Caitlyn Silhan is a qui tam whistleblower, complex civil litigation and toxic torts trial lawyer and partner at Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel in Dallas, Texas. Admitted in Texas and California; J.D., Tulane University Law School (2011).
Meet Caitlyn
Caitlyn Silhan is a partner in the Dallas office of Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel, where she handles complex civil litigation nationwide. Her practice centers on qui tam cases under the False Claims Act, representing whistleblowers who report fraud against Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs, often alongside government attorneys.
Silhan has represented whistleblowers in a record $85.4 million settlement with a medical imaging company and its CEO and in a $25 million Medicaid fraud settlement that included a first-of-its-kind summary judgment ruling on private equity liability under the False Claims Act. She has served on the faculty of the ABA False Claims Act Mock Trial Institute and speaks on private equity liability and whistleblower practice.
She earned her law degree magna cum laude from Tulane University Law School in 2011, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, and her bachelor’s degree from Boston University. She is admitted in Texas and California. Through pro bono work with the Texas Civil Rights Project, she has worked on voting rights cases and received the group’s Kristi Couvillon Pro Bono Award in 2016.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Texas, 2011
- California, 2015
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 2018
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2026
- J.D., magna cum laude, Tulane University Law School, 2011
- B.A., Boston University, 2007
Practice Areas
- American Association for Justice (Qui Tam Litigation Group)
- Dallas Bar Association
- State Bar of Texas
- State Bar of California
- The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF)
- Super Lawyers Texas Rising Stars, 2019-2025
- Kristi Couvillon Pro Bono Award, Texas Civil Rights Project, 2016
- Order of the Coif, Tulane University, 2011
- $85.4 Million Settlement: Represented the whistleblower in a False Claims Act case against Cardiac Imaging, Inc. and its CEO over alleged physician kickbacks; described as the largest single civil settlement in the Southern District of Texas (2023).
- $25 Million Settlement: Represented a whistleblower in a Medicaid fraud case against a mental health provider and a private equity firm, winning summary judgment on private equity liability before settlement (2021).
- $11.2 Million Settlement: Represented a whistleblower in a False Claims Act case against nursing home chain SavaSeniorCare over alleged unnecessary rehab therapy billing (2021).
- $4 Million Settlement: Co-represented the whistleblower whose case led South Bay Mental Health Center and its parent companies to settle Massachusetts False Claims Act allegations (2018).
- $1.6 Million Settlement: Co-represented a whistleblower in a qui tam case over an alleged Medicare durable medical equipment telemarketing scheme (2018).
- $7 Million Verdict: Member of the trial team in a three-month Los Angeles asbestos trial for a man with mesothelioma and his wife (2016).
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