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Top 10 Tips for Drafting Whistleblower Compliant Arrangements

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Background - Under Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Congress expanded protections for whistleblowers reporting possible violations of federal securities laws to the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Balancing Act: Sharing Information From an Internal Investigation Without Waiving Privilege

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A whistleblower has triggered a race against time: An internal inquiry, directed by the audit committee and overseen by external counsel, has been launched in response to allegations that revenue was recorded without proper...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Insider Threat Investigations: Considerations for Employers to Effectively Manage the Threat

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“Insider threats” can come in various forms — fraud, embezzlement, theft of confidential information, failures to follow policy, and more. Employers regularly face threats to their businesses, but when the threat comes from...more

Genova Burns LLC

“Burn Files” and Employee Self-Help: Effective Policies Protect Documents Wrongfully Taken by Former Employee

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A New Jersey appellate court recently upheld the disqualification of a former employee’s attorneys in a whistleblower claim against his former employer, because the employee had improperly taken documents containing...more

Fisher Phillips

Healthcare Employers, Beware: HIPAA Whistleblowers Could Be (Legally) Leaking Protected Health Information

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In this day and age, healthcare employers are quite familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects the disclosure of patients’ confidential health information. After all, in the...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Ex-General Counsel Dodged Privilege Claims Before $14.5 Million Verdict

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In our last post, we detailed how Sanford Wadler, the former general counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories, won a $14.5 million verdict against Bio-Rad. Before Wadler could get to a jury, however, he had to surmount a...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Revenge of the Whistle-blower: Possible Consequences of Compliance Failures

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In a company with a robust compliance culture, potential whistleblowers can express their concerns without fear of retribution. By contrast, the penalty for a culture that silences whistleblowers just got steeper. Companies...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Aveta And The Use Of Confidential Info In FCA Cases

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In a recent case in the District of Puerto Rico, United States ex rel. Valdez v. Aveta Inc., et al., No. 15-cv-01140-CCC (D.P.R.), the former president of Puerto Rican-based managed health care provider Aveta Inc., Jose...more

JAMS

Whistleblower Cases are Custom Tailored for ADR

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Various state and federal statutes exist to protect and compensate employees whose employers retaliate against them after they disclose certain fraudulent practices to the employers or government agencies. These are known as...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Influential Appeals Court Rejects Attempt by Former In-House Counsel to Use Privileged Information Against Company in...

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The pool of potential qui tam relators may have just shrunk a little, based on a recent decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that has put the ability of in-house lawyers to become qui tam relators into serious...more

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