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New SFO Director Sets Tone for Tenure

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Motivated by a “visceral reaction” to large-scale economic crime, Nick Ephgrave lays out vision for a bolder, more pragmatic, and more proactive agency. Whistleblowers, dawn raids, and cross-agency collaboration are all...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Event] 11th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute - March 20th - 22nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands

In-person is back! Join us in Amsterdam for the 2023 European Compliance & Ethics Institute! Strengthen your compliance and ethics program by attending our 11th annual European Compliance and Ethics Institute, 20-22 March...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 7th - 9th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CST

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Event] Encouraging, Managing, and Integrating Employee Reporting - November 10th, 8:25 am - 5:30 pm CST

Do you have questions about how to create a safe, productive space for employees to voice compliance and ethics concerns? Join us November 10, 2022, for a one-day virtual, interactive conference to receive guidance and...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Event] Encouraging, Managing, and Integrating Employee Reporting - July 20th, 8:25 am - 5:30 pm CDT

Encouraging, Managing, and Integrating Employee Reporting - Do you have questions about how to create a safe, productive space for employees to voice compliance and ethics concerns? Join us July 20, 2022, for a one-day...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Event] 10th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute - March 22nd - 23rd, 11:00 am - 5:30 pm CET

Join SCCE virtually for the 10th Annual ECEI - Can't attend the conference in-person? The European Compliance & Ethics Institute, 22-23 March 2022, allows you to hear from today’s compliance and ethics leaders on the...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Event] 10th Annual European Compliance & Ethics Institute - March 14th - 16th, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Join SCCE in Amsterdam for the 10th Annual ECEI - Want to learn more about the challenges facing the European and global compliance and ethics community? Join us for the 10th Annual European Compliance & Ethics...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Conference] Encouraging, Managing, and Integrating Employee Reporting - December 1st, 8:25 am - 5:30 pm CST

Do you have questions about how to create a safe, productive space for employees to voice compliance and ethics concerns? Join us December 1, 2021, for a one-day virtual, interactive conference to receive guidance and...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Why the Board of Directors Need an Investigation Protocol

Many companies have an investigation protocol in place when a potential compliance or other legal issue arises. However, many Boards of Directors do not have the same rigor when it comes to an investigation, which should be...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Event] 2020 Virtual European Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - October 2nd, 12:30 pm - 5:20 pm CEST

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Virtual Event] 2020 Virtual Asia Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - August 14th, 8:55 am - 1:20 pm SGT

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Webinar] Best Practices and Tactics for Conducting an Internal Investigation in the COVID-19 Era - June 24th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm...

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As the global economy struggles and companies continue to adapt to disruptions, organizations are facing an increased likelihood of whistleblower claims, bad behavior and market-facing allegations that require an internal...more

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics...

[Event] 2020 Virtual Chicago Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - May 1st, Chicago, IL

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

Troutman Pepper

How Safe Is That Harbor? The Impact of the Defend Trade Secrets Act's Whistleblower Immunity Provision on a Trade Secret Owner's...

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Imagine that your company has just commenced an internal compliance investigation in response to an allegation that the company is violating various federal laws. The next day, a longtime employee with access to the company’s...more

Proskauer - Whistleblower Defense

Eastern District of Pennsylvania Grants Summary Judgment on SOX Claim

On July 18, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a defendant-employer’s motion for summary judgment on a SOX whistleblower retaliation claim, holding that the Plaintiff did not have...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Going Rogue: Circumventing Your Company’s Internal Investigation Process to Identify a Whistleblower Will Cost You

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The CEO of Barclays risks losing his 1.6 million-dollar bonus for launching his own personal investigation to identify the company whistleblower who wrote two anonymous letters about his colleague to the Barclays’s Board of...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Are Lawyers' Notes Privileged? - Lawyers' Interview Notes Created in Internal Investigation Ordered to Be Disclosed in U.K....

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A recent English decision on privilege has cast doubt on the legal protection provided to lawyers' work product when assisting corporate clients with internal investigations. In The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Review of Recent Whistleblower Developments

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SEC Awards Bounty to Whistleblower, But Offsets Award for a Judgment Against the Whistleblower - The extent to which the SEC would reward whistleblowers, who themselves engaged in wrongdoing, has been the subject of...more

Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation

3rd Circuit Affirms Dismissal in Long-Running Weist SOX Whistleblower Case

On February 2, 2016, the Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the SOX whistleblower retaliation claim in the closely watched case of Weist v. Tyco Electronics Corp., No. 15-2034. We have posted on key events during the...more

Brooks Pierce

Three Thoughts about the SEC’s First “Pretaliation” Case

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I was on a flight last Wednesday when the SEC released the first of what whistleblower chief Sean McKessy has dubbed “pretaliation” cases against KBR, Inc. When I landed I had several emails from colleagues, asking, “Did you...more

NAVEX

Do Your Confidentiality and Employment Agreements Violate SEC Whistleblower Protection Rules?

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As the SEC takes aim at whistleblower “pretaliation” (attempts to muzzle whistleblowers via confidentiality and other employment agreements—overt or otherwise) ethics and compliance officers need to take practical steps to...more

The Volkov Law Group

There Is No Bark to the Barko Case

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I always enjoy listening to the legal “doomsayers” who love to propound hysterical claims in an effort to gain attention. It reminds me of little children screaming for attention. Unfortunately, in the case of lawyers...more

Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation

Federal Court Ruling Raises Questions About Privileged Nature Of Certain Internal Investigations

On March 6, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (“KBR”) must produce to a qui tam relator 89 documents relating to internal investigations...more

Snell & Wilmer

Beware the False Claims Act, Whistleblowers, and the Importance of Internal Investigations

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Companies that do business with the federal government must be cognizant of potential liability under the False Claims Act. Civil litigation may be inevitable at times as a result of occasional business disputes with...more

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