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New York Law Journal

NJ Previews What May Lie Ahead for NY Employers Under the State's Amended Whistleblower Law

With its recent amendment, New York's law now matches—and in some ways, exceeds—the longstanding protections of New Jersey's CEPA.
8 minute read

Law.com

Compliance Hot Spots: Meet DOJ's New Top Crypto Cop + False Claims Act Year-in-Review + New Firms Back Meta in FTC Suit

Eun Young Choi, the leader of DOJ's new cryptocurrency enforcement team, was at the vanguard of cybercrime prosecutions while working in the Southern District of New York
11 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Supreme Court Weighs Nuances of 'Adverse Action' That Starts the Clock in Whistleblower Litigation

"This is a weird case," said Supreme Court of Georgia Justice Nels S. D. Peterson. "It's a little backwards."
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

False Claims Act Liability for Cyber Breaches: Limiting the Risk

The U.S. Department of Justice is using the False Claims Act to turn up the heat on companies who fail to report they've been hacked. "Now is the time for organizations to develop strategies to ensure cybersecurity compliance and manage and mitigate False Claims Act risks related to inevitable shortfalls in cybersecurity," writes Laura K. Schwalbe.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Game-Changing Expansion of New York Whistleblower Protection: Will Your Company Be Ready When This Whistle Blows?

Arguably, amended New York Labor Law §740 is now the broadest and most powerful whistleblower protection law in the United States.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

One Year Later: Addressing Whistleblower Risks Under the AMLA

A discussion of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA), including background, key distinctions between it and the SEC's whistleblower program, and tips on how to prepare for whistleblower risks arising under the Act.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Kruger Leads Unanimous Court on Standard for Rejecting Whistleblower Retaliation Claims

The unanimous decision was the first authored by Associate Justice Leondra Kruger since she become a potential frontrunner to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Stoel Rives Partner Among Biden's Latest Batch of US Attorney Picks

S. Lane Tucker, an Alaska-based partner at Stoel Rives since 2010, was nominated to be U.S. attorney in Alaska.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Will the Apparent Rise in False Claims Act Actions Target Private Equity?

With the explosion of PE investment in the health care and life sciences industries and with what's happening at the DOJ and in Congress regarding corporate fraud enforcement, we expect the increase in new FCA matters will continue into 2022 at breakneck speed and a portion of that will focus on PE.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Narrow High Court Decision Finds Whistleblower Payments Are Subject to Pa. Taxes

The whistleblower, Fox Chapel resident Edward O'Donnell, had received over $34 million in 2014 as a qui tam payment for a federal False Claims Act action he brought against the financial institute where he worked.
3 minute read

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