In Berman v. Neo@Ogilvy LLC, 801 F.3d 145 (2d Cir. 2015), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule that extended the protection of the ...
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In his Corporate Litigation column, Joseph M. McLaughlin writes that the Northern District of California recently grappled with a new whistleblower protection issue: whether directors who allegedly ...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a new 'whistleblower' program that includes a Web site for people to report securities violations and apply for a financial award. The new program, ...
On September 17, 2025, in Prkic v. Sezzle, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado dismissed whistleblower retaliation claims under both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”) and the ...
Brune pointed out that an entire industry seems to have sprung up in the last couple of years to attract SEC whistleblower clients (who can obtain bounties of 10 percent to 30 percent of the sanctions ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to investigate companies for including language in their employment and separation agreements or retail client settlement agreements that ...
You certainly can’t accuse Sean McKessy, who heads the whistleblower office at the Securities and Exchange Commission, of ignoring employers’ attempts to silence would-be whistleblowers. McKessy has ...