June 05, 2015
Food services contractor Chartwells pays $19.4M to settle whistleblower case involving DC school meal programs
WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2015 – Chartwells has settled a whistleblower lawsuit, brought by Phillips & Cohen, involving management of school meal programs in Washington, DC, by paying the District...
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May 29, 2015
CEOs would pay attention to bonus clawbacks – Letter to the Editor
The Financial Times published the following letter to the editor from Erika Kelton, Phillips & Cohen partner, about the need for bonus clawbacks to help establish compliant corporate cultures. CEOs...
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May 27, 2015
“Whistleblowers dodge disaster in Supreme Court’s KBR decision.”
Colette Matzzie in Reuters, 5/27/15. That holding, said whistleblower lawyer Colette Matzzie of Phillips & Cohen, is a “tremendous victory.” It’s quite common in FCA litigation, she said, for...
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“5 Things GCs Need to Know About Whistleblowers.”
Colette Matzzie in Law360.com, 5/27/15. “We’ve found that employees are going to report internally anyway, but they have the additional incentive now because of the way the SEC reward factors are...
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May 14, 2015
“How do you make millions by doing good? Become a whistleblower.”
Claire Sylvia in The Guardian, 5/14/15. One of these veteran whistleblower law firms is Phillips & Cohen, founded in 1988 by John Phillips . Phillips worked closely with Congress to pass the False...
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May 12, 2015
“Arrest of U.K Trader Puts a Spotlight on Whistle-Blowers.”
Erika Kelton in Institutional Investor, 5/12/15. Anonymity has been central to the successes that have occurred so far, according to Erika Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen in San Francisco and...
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April 14, 2015
“Confidentiality Agreements Must Not Protect Crimes.”
Article by Erika A. Kelton and Stephen S. Hasegawa published in The Wall Street Journal, 4/14/15. “For more than 25 years we have seen companies make overblown claims of trade secrets and business...
April 09, 2015
HDL and Singulex testing labs pay $48.5M to settle whistleblower cases alleging kickbacks
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, April 9, 2015 – A South Carolina doctor, represented by Phillips & Cohen, who had ethical concerns about blood testing labs paying physicians extra fees allegedly to get...
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April 08, 2015
Phillips & Cohen partners named to “500 Leading Lawyers in America” list
WASHINGTON, DC, April 8, 2015 – Whistleblower attorneys Mary Louise Cohen, Erika A. Kelton and Colette Matzzie, partners at Phillips & Cohen LLP, were named to Lawdragon’s list of “500...
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April 02, 2015
“SEC Hits Back At KBR And Other Corporate Bullies Who Threaten Whistleblowers.”
Article by Erika Kelton published on Forbes.com, 4/2/15. “The Securities and Exchange Commission scored a major win on behalf of whistleblowers this week in an enforcement action against engineering...