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Thus, until the Second Circuit and other Circuit courts weighs in on this issue, the answer of whether internal reporting is protected under Dodd-Frank may hinge largely upon which district judge is assigned the case.

On June 3, 2014, the SEC issued an order that awarded two whistleblowers $437,500 each pursuant to Rule 21F of the Securities Exchange Act.

Comments made by Kara N. Brockmeyer, the Securities Exchange Commission’s chief of the Foreign Corruption Practices Act unit, and Charles E. Duross, deputy chief of the Department of Justice’s FCPA unit, at the recent International Conference on the FCPA suggest that both agencies are increasing their scrutiny of possible FCPA violations for the next year.

On November 23, 2021, the SEC issued an award of $400,000 to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided the SEC with original information that assisted the agency in bringing a successful...

In this partner spotlight, John McKnight, Partner and Whistleblower & Qui Tam Practice Group Co-Chair at Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, sits down with firm Chairman David Sanford to trace his journey...

Mintz Levin’s Health Care Enforcement Defense Practice, on the whistleblower’s role in health care fraud enforcement and strategies for avoiding qui tam suits.

Playboy Enterprises is suing its former defense counsel Sheppard Mullin after being hit with a $6 million jury verdict in a SOX whistleblower case, the highest jury award in a SOX case to date.

OSHA's San Francisco region, which includes California, Nevada, and Arizona, launched a new pilot program on August 1, 2016 that would allow complainants, under certain circumstances...

In an article published by the New York Times yesterday, Lloyd Chinn, Co-head of Proskauer’s Whistleblower & Retaliation Group, commented on the recent efforts of some companies to strengthen their whistleblower compliance programs.

The introduction of the Whistleblower Augmented Reward and Non-Retaliation Act of 2016 aims to strengthen whistleblower protections under both SOX and Dodd-Frank.

The plaintiff filed suit against UBS under the whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002...

All three whistleblowers have chosen to remain anonymous.

The SEC awarded almost $2.5 million to a whistleblower from a domestic government agency for reporting the "improper conduct" of a company.

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission's 2013 Annual Report to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, the agency awarded four whistleblowers a total of $14,831,965.64 during the fiscal year.

In its 2018 annual report to Congress, the SEC reported that it received the largest number of whistleblower tips and paid the most in rewards in program history.

The episode explores what it takes to speak truth to power, and what happens when the systems designed to prevent corruption instead work to suppress it.

The proposed rules also include elements to improve the efficiency of the whistleblower claims review process and clarify the requirements for anti-retaliation protection under the whistleblower statute.

The United States Supreme Court agreed to review whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower protections apply to employees of a public company's contractor or subcontractor.