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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your April To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 4/2/2024

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

Wells Fargo’s Woes Continue — A Rotten Culture that Continues to Stink

The Volkov Law Group on 8/10/2022

It is hard to write yet another posting about Wells Fargo’s misconduct. Wells Fargo’s troubles continue unabated. I am not exaggerating — I promise. Every few months, we hear about another problem, another enforcement...more

Protected Activity or Terminable Misconduct? — Government Contractor Update

Polsinelli on 10/25/2019

It has become almost routine for employees pursuing whistleblower and other employment-related claims against their employer to engage in "self-help discovery," using their access to files and databases to collect and gather,...more

Ninth Circuit Holds That Statutes Do Not Constitute “Rules or Regulations of the SEC” for Purposes of Sarbanes-Oxley Act...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/5/2019

In Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., No. 17-16193, 2019 WL 924827 (9th Cir. Feb. 26, 2019), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that statutes, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act...more

Ninth Circuit Narrowly Construes Scope of Protected Activity for Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Claim

Polsinelli on 3/4/2019

In Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit adopted a limited, plain meaning construction of the types of reports that are protected by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s (SOX) whistleblower...more

Red Notice Newsletter - July 2018

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/1/2018

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - DOJ Extends FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy to Misconduct in Mergers and Acquisitions - On July 25, 2018, in a speech to the Ninth Global Forum on Anti-Corruption Compliance in High Risk...more

Third Circuit Revives In-House Attorney’s Whistleblower Claim

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense on 4/19/2017

On April 12, 2017, the Third Circuit partially revived a former in-house attorney’s whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against his previous employer. Danon v. Vanguard Group, Inc., No. 16-cv-2881....more

Aggressive Remediation: Embraer and JP Morgan

The Volkov Law Group on 11/30/2016

There is no question that the Justice Department has raised compliance program expectations in a number of areas. Whatever you may think about the efficacy or fairness of the FCPA Pilot Program, the Justice Department has...more

This Cold Bud Is For You: SEC Sanctions Anheuser-Busch for “Chilling” Employee from Communicating with SEC

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 9/30/2016

On September 28, 2016, the SEC announced that Anheuser-Busch agreed to pay $6 million to settle charges of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Dodd-Frank whistleblower violations. The SEC’s order stated that AB InBev violated...more

Anheuser-Busch InBev and Lessons in Joint Venture FCPA Compliance

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/30/2016

Just in time for National Beveridge Day comes the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI), where the company paid $6 million to settle charges that it violated the FCPA and...more

Match Made in Heaven: Compliance and Human Resources

The Volkov Law Group on 9/29/2016

The corporate compliance function is only as successful as its partnerships with key internal constituencies. Depending on the company and the personnel involved, compliance has to establish and maintain effective working...more

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