Zuckerman Law represents whistleblowers nationwide in whistleblower rewards and whistleblower retaliation matters.

An experienced SEC whistleblower attorney can help maximize the likelihood of recovering an SEC whistleblower award. See our article How the Best SEC Whistleblower Law Firms Advocate for SEC Whistleblowers.  Our firm has secured multi-million dollar SEC whistleblower awards for our clients and our clients’ SEC whistleblower tips have helped the SEC halt more than $1 billion in fraudulent investment schemes.

Contact us today to find out the strategies that we have successfully employed to secure SEC whistleblower awards for our whistleblower clients.

Since the inception of the SEC Whistleblower Program, the SEC has paid whistleblowers more than $1.3 billion.  Under the SEC Whistleblower Program, the SEC is authorized to pay awards of 10 to 30 percent of collected monetary sanctions for original information about any violation of the federal securities laws, including:

• Accounting fraud;
• Investment and securities fraud;
• Insider trading;
• Foreign bribery and other FCPA violations;
• EB-5 investment fraud;
• Manipulation of a security’s price or volume;
• Fraudulent securities offerings and Ponzi schemes;
• Hedge fund fraud;
• Unregistered securities offerings;
• Investment adviser fraud;
• Broker-dealer anti-money laundering program violations;
• False or misleading statements about a company or investment;
• Inadequate internal controls;
• Deceptive non-GAAP financial measures; and
• Violations of auditor independence rules.

If you have information that you would like to report to the SEC, contact an experienced SEC whistleblower attorney at Zuckerman Law for a free, confidential consultation by calling 202-930-5901 or 202-262-8959.

 

 

U.S. News and Best Lawyers® have named Zuckerman Law a Tier 1 firm in Litigation – Labor and Employment in the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 2022 edition “Best Law Firms.”

Click here to read reviews from clients that we have represented in whistleblower rewards and whistleblower retaliation matters.

Described by the National Law Journal as a “leading whistleblower attorney,” founding Principal Jason Zuckerman has established precedent under a wide range of whistleblower protection laws and obtained substantial compensation for his clients and recoveries for the government in whistleblower rewards and whistleblower retaliation cases.

Three of the cases he worked on are featured in Tom Mueller’s seminal book about whistleblowing Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud and Dan Maldea’s Corruption in U.S. Higher Education: The Stories of Whistleblowers.  The False Claims Act qui tam cases that Zuckerman has worked on in conjunction with other attorneys have resulted in recoveries in excess of $100 million, and he has secured settlements above $1 million in ten SOX whistleblower retaliation matters.

In 2019, the National Law Review awarded Zuckerman its “Go-To Thought Leadership Award” for his analysis of developments in whistleblower law, and Washingtonian magazine has named two of our attorneys to its list of Top Whistleblower Attorneys.

Recently the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners published a profile of Matt Stock’s success fighting fraud:

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SOX Whistleblower Lawyer’s Guide to SOX Whistleblower Protection Law

Zuckerman Law has released a guide to the SOX whistleblower protection law: Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Protection: Robust Protection for Corporate Whistleblowers.  The guide summarizes SOX whistleblower protections and offers concrete tips for corporate whistleblowers based on lessons learned during years of litigating SOX whistleblower cases.

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