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SEC, CFTC and OSHA Officials Offer Candid Insights into Whistleblower...
On June 28, 2017, three prominent whistleblower law regulators spoke at PLI’s Corporate Whistleblowing in 2017, which was co-chaired by Orrick partners Mike Delikat and Renee Phillips. With the...
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CEO’s Whistleblower Claims “Rest On Feet Of Clay”: Seventh Circuit Affirms...
Earlier this month, the Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of a CEO’s whistleblower retaliation claims in a decision that should provide corporate defendants ammunition to fight SOX and Dodd-Frank...
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Can You Hear The Whistle Now? SEC Proposes New Rule Amendments To Bolster the...
On June 28, the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) voted to propose amendments to its whistleblower program. As SEC Chair Jay Clayton explained, the proposed changes would...
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The SEC Ends the Summer with Another Bountiful Award of over $54 Million to...
On September 6, the SEC issued awards totaling more than $54 million to two whistleblowers who provided critical information and continued assistance to the agency in an enforcement action. This large...
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Employers: What FINRA’s Cryptocurrency Complaint Signifies For You
Last week, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) filed its first disciplinary action involving cryptocurrencies, conforming with its stated 2018 goal of monitoring and supervising the...
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The Whistle Keeps Blowing: SEC Whistleblower Office Releases Its 2019 Annual...
The SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower (“OWB”) released its Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report (the “Report”) to Congress on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program on November 15, 2019. The Report analyzes...
View ArticleRules of the Road: New CFTC Regulations Expand Whistleblower Bounty Program
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), published updated regulations Monday to bring its whistleblower bounty efforts more in line with the SEC’s. The rules were proposed last August and...
View ArticleWill the Whistle Be Silenced? Dismantling Dodd-Frank
When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November, he vowed to “dismantle” the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”). In its place, Trump...
View ArticleWhistleblower’s Ability to Breach Confidentiality Agreement – Do the Ends...
It is common for employers to require employees whose job duties require access to confidential, sensitive, and/or proprietary information to sign confidentiality and/or non-disclosure agreements as a...
View ArticleCircuit Split on Whistleblower Protections Widens: Ninth Circuit Follows...
On March 8, 2017, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Somers v. Digital Realty Trust Inc. that further widened a circuit split on the issue of whether the anti-retaliation...
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