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In today’s competitive business environment, trade secrets have emerged as some of an organization’s most prized assets. They are the hidden formulas, proprietary processes, and specialized know-how that give companies their...more
Yesterday's post again discussed whether the Securities and Exchange Commission exceeded its authority in adopting Rule 21F-17(a), which provides...more
Confidentiality clauses in employment contracts typically aim to protect an employer’s confidential information, but there are limitations on the extent to which they can restrict whistleblowing activities....more
Background - Under Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Congress expanded protections for whistleblowers reporting possible violations of federal securities laws to the...more
DE Shaw, a prominent financial services firm, recently settled a retaliation case with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a staggering $10 million. It was settled via an Administrative Order. This settlement...more
Very soon, a long-awaited amendment to the Czech Act on the Protection of Competition will become law, implementing (after a long delay) the requirements of what is known as the ECN+ Directive (an EU directive designed to...more
Yes, in some cases, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. In Halet v Luxembourg, the Court overturned an employee whistleblower’s criminal conviction for confidentiality leaks to the press, concluding that the...more
What: On June 22, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled charges against The Brink's Company (Brinks) for requiring employees to sign confidentiality agreements that prohibited disclosure of any financial...more
On March 31, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of California entered partial summary judgment in Erhart v. BofI Holding, Inc., a prominent, long-running whistleblower lawsuit under the...more
“The immunity provision of the Defend Trade Secrets Act creates serious risk for companies: A whistleblower could expose a company to civil and criminal penalties stemming from the company’s alleged misconduct and...more
Whistleblowers perform an essential public service in keeping companies and government honest. Unfortunately, in revealing misconduct or illegal acts, they also put themselves at risk of retaliation for the role they play....more
On April 23, Kramer Levin reported on the European Parliament’s approved proposal for the adoption of a whistleblower protection directive. On Oct. 7, the Directive on protection of persons reporting breaches of Union law...more
Earlier in 2019, the European Parliament adopted a new EU Whistleblower Directive. To better understand these new rules and their implications we sat down for a discussion with Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor at...more
Imagine that your company has just commenced an internal compliance investigation in response to an allegation that the company is violating various federal laws. The next day, a longtime employee with access to the company’s...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently awarded $3 million to joint whistleblowers despite concluding that the whistleblowers did not satisfy the technical eligibility requirements for receiving an award. See...more
Continuing our annual tradition, we have compiled our top developments and headlines for 2018-2019 in trade secret, non-compete, and computer fraud law....more
You probably already know that the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) makes available to employers a number of significant remedies, but what you may not know is that several of those remedies are contingent on employers...more
A Ninth Circuit panel consisting of Judges A. Wallace Tashima, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, and Paul J. Watford recently heard oral argument in Anheuser-Busch Companies v. Clark, 17-15591, concerning the denial of a former...more
A unique feature of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA)—the federal statute opening federal courthouse doors to civil claims for trade secret misappropriation—is that it gives immunity from civil or criminal liability to...more
The Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently granted immunity under the whistleblower provision of the Defend Trade Secret Act in what appears to be the first decision of its kind under the new federal trade secret statute....more
Continuing our annual tradition, we present the top developments and headlines for 2017 and what we expect in 2018 in trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law....more
In this day and age, healthcare employers are quite familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects the disclosure of patients’ confidential health information. After all, in the...more
It is common for employers to require employees whose job duties require access to confidential, sensitive, and/or proprietary information to sign confidentiality and/or non-disclosure agreements as a condition of employment....more
President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) during his last year in office. Most notably, the DTSA creates a private federal civil cause of action for misappropriation of trade secrets. If that...more
In a company with a robust compliance culture, potential whistleblowers can express their concerns without fear of retribution. By contrast, the penalty for a culture that silences whistleblowers just got steeper. Companies...more