BRUNSWICK, MAINE, Sept. 27, 2011 -- Mary A. Inman, a partner at Phillips & Cohen LLP, spoke today at Bowdoin College about her experience as a lawyer representing whistleblowers as part of a semi-annual lecture series sponsored by the college.
Inman's lecture - "Blowing the Whistle on Fraud: Representing Whistleblowers in Fraud Cases brought under Federal and State Whistleblower Reward Programs and the new Whistleblower Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act" - was presented by Bowdoin's Office of Stewardship Programs.
The Office of Stewardship Programs presents one Bowdoin Breakfast lecture each semester, featuring a talk by a prominent Bowdoin alumnus, faculty or staff member, or Maine leader.
Inman graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin in 1990 and later graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
After law school, she clerked for the Honorable D. Brock Hornby, U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, and the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. She then was associated with O'Melveny & Meyers LLP in San Francisco, before joining Phillips & Cohen.
Phillips & Cohen is the nation's most experienced and most successful law firm representing whistleblowers. The firm's "qui tam" (whistleblower) lawsuits involving fraud against the government have returned more than $7 billion to the U.S. Treasury. The law firm also represents whistleblowers in cases brought under the Internal Revenue Service, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission whistleblower reward programs. For more information, contact Phillips & Cohen.
