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The U.S. Department of Justice (the "DOJ") recently settled whistleblower False Claims Act ("FCA") allegations against The University of Miami ("UMiami") for $22 million...

Last year was not a great year for False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries by the Department of Justice (DOJ) overall, and in health care particularly: $2.207 billion in total FCA recoveries...

Reversing a lower court decision, the D.C. Circuit recently concluded – for a second time – that certain internal audit documents are protected from disclosure by the attorney-client communication and work production privileges.

On January 22, 2016, the FAR Council promulgated proposed regulations that prohibit contractors and subcontractors from contractually barring their employees and subcontractors from reporting fraud, waste, or abuse...

President Trump's recent veto and the subsequent override aside, the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 6395) (NDAA), while designed to affect our national defense, will also have significant...

This afternoon, as anticipated, President Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act into law, wrapping up a lengthy bipartisan effort to bring trade secrets under federal system law.

On April 4, 2016, the Senate unanimously passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act, bringing a federal civil remedy for trade secret misappropriation one step closer to becoming law.

On May 11, 2016, President Barack Obama officially signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA") into law with broad bipartisan support from the House and Senate.

A California appeals court recently allowed a nurse educator's retaliation lawsuit against her former employer to go forward.

On November 8, 2016, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision in U.S. ex rel. Saldivar v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc...

On March 6, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. must produce to a qui tam relator 89 documents relating to internal investigations conducted by the Company.

On February 27, a federal jury in Minnesota returned a verdict finding that Precision Lens and its co-founder, Paul Ehlen (together, Defendants), violated the Anti-Kickback Statute...

Last week, with the backing of CalPrivacy, California Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo introduced bill AB2021 (The Whistleblower Protection and Privacy Act), which would make California the first jurisdiction in the United States to create a whistleblower incentive and protection program specifically tailored to privacy law violations.

The Department of Justice is sending a clear message to corporate America: the rules of engagement on enforcement have changed. For companies operating in the advertising and data privacy space — where regulatory scrutiny from the FTC, state attorneys general, and now the DOJ increasingly overlaps — these developments demand immediate attention.

The director of the IRS Whistleblower Office (the Office) released the Office's first multi-year operating plan outlining its guiding principles, strategic priorities, achievements, and efforts to advance the program

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco began Day Two of the ABA's White Collar Crime Conference with a bang by unveiling a new DOJ whistleblower pilot program.

At the SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute, I was in the packed auditorium for Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri's remarks on the key changes...