Corporate whistleblower protection Archives

Court Rejects “Duty Speech”/“Fraud Alert” Exception to False Claims Act Whistleblower Protection

False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblowers have enabled the federal government to recover nearly $30 billion, and in 2017 alone, qui tam cases filed by … Continued

SOX Whistleblower Lawyer Quoted About Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Case

SOX whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman is quoted in American Banker and Financial Planning in article entitled Wells Fargo ends fight with a whistleblower in fake-accounts … Continued

Whistleblower Firm Publishes Guide to Cybersecurity Whistleblowing

Guide for Cybersecurity Whistleblowers Whistleblower lawyer Dallas Hammer has published a Practitioner’s Guide to Cybersecurity Whistleblowing. The guide can be downloaded here. The guide summarizes rewards and … Continued

Whistleblower Attorney Hammer Interviewed by Bloomberg About Whistleblower Case

Whistleblower lawyer Dallas Hammer is quoted in a December 12, 2017 BNA Bloomberg article titled “Agency Deference at Play in Whistleblower Case” about the recent oral argument … Continued

Eric Bachman and Jason Zuckerman Listed as Top Whistleblower Lawyers in Washingtonian magazine

Top Whistleblower Lawyers Washingtonian magazine named Eric Bachman and Jason Zuckerman among the top whistleblower lawyers in its top lawyers’ edition. Washingtonian compiles its list … Continued

JP Morgan SOX Whistleblower Wins $1.13M at Trial

After an arduous eight year battle, including two successful appeals at the Second Circuit, former JP Morgan wealth manager Jennifer Sharkey prevailed in her Sarbanes-Oxley … Continued

Whistleblower Law Firm Calls for Stronger Protections for Cybersecurity Whistleblowers

See our post in NYU Law’s Compliance and Enforcement Blog: Effective Cybersecurity and Data Protection Legislation Should Protect Whistleblowers Whistleblower attorneys Dallas Hammer and Jason … Continued

InsideOSHAOnline Reports on Whistleblower Firm’s Efforts to Combat Gag Clauses

An article in InsideOSHAOnline.com titled Whistleblower Attorney Backs New OSHA Guidance On Settlement Reviews reports on the successful efforts of Tom Devine, Legal Director of the Government … Continued

Equifax Breach a Reminder That Cybersecurity Whistleblowers Have Protections

Equifax announced that it had suffered a breach of data belonging to as many as 143 million Americans. That’s about half the country. Worse, the breached … Continued

Corporate Whistleblower Attorney Quoted in NLJ About SOX Extraterritoriality

National Law Journal Quotes SOX Whistleblower Lawyer About SOX Extraterritoriality An article in the National Law Journal titled Labor Panel Defines Global Scope of Whistleblower Law, … Continued

Compliance Week Quotes SEC Whistleblower Attorney About Auditor Independence

SEC Whistleblower Attorney Matt Stock Quoted About Auditor Independence Compliance Week article quoted SEC whistleblower attorney Matt Stock in an article titled “Audit committees need … Continued

False Claims Act Whistleblower Provision Protects Refusal to Violate False Claims Act

False Claims Act Whistleblower Prevails on Appeal The Second Circuit’s decision in Fabula v. American Medical Response, Inc. establishes that refusal to play a role in an unlawful … Continued

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