Whistleblower Law Insights

Almost a decade has passed since the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law, creating whistleblower programs at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and by most...

A major whistleblower law went into effect in Australia this week, offering important, enhanced whistleblower protections against job retaliation. But the Australian law lacks a critical component of successful...

In an alarming and outrageous case involving information misappropriated from the very body that oversees it, accounting giant KPMG admitted earlier this month to using that information to alter clients’...

Congress has passed a key bipartisan IRS reform bill with important improvements to the IRS whistleblower program that needs only President Trump’s signature to become law. UPDATE: President Trump signed...

A recent Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower reward marks the first time the agency has issued an award to a whistleblower who reported alleged corporate misconduct to the whistleblower’s...

The House Financial Services Committee last week approved a bill that would extend the anti-retaliation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act to whistleblowers who suffer retaliation before they report possible...

Whistleblower awards by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission now total more than $88.5 million, with the news of a CFTC whistleblower award of $1.5 million this week. The recent CFTC whistleblower...

Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton makes a strong case for clawbacks in her latest article for Forbes.com, in which she analyzes the decision by car-rental giant Hertz to sue former executives for...

Congress is considering improvements to the IRS whistleblower program as part of bipartisan legislation that would make important changes to the Internal Revenue Service. The Taxpayer First Act of 2019,...

The Supreme Court will resolve in the Cochise case differing lower court opinions about the statute of limitations in qui tam cases when the government does not join the whistleblower lawsuit.