Managing Whistlelbowers
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 23, 2025
Daily Compliance News: August 21, 2025, The Fabricated Evidence Edition
Adventure in Compliance: The Novels - The Valley of Fear, Whistleblowers and Corporate Compliance
Creativity and Compliance: Reinventing Compliance with Creativity: The Acteon I-Care Code
Moving Beyond the Usual Helpline Data
Podcast - Bring Out the Bad Stuff
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels - The Valley of Fear, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Episode 381 -- NAVEX's 2025 Annual Hotline Report
Compliance Tip of the Day: AI, Whistleblowing and a Culture of Speak Up
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 56 – The Grasshopper Edition
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
Everything Compliance: Episode 157, The Q2 2025 Great Women in Compliance Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 55 – The From Worse to Worser Edition
Daily Compliance News: July 18, 2025, The Don’t Alter Docs Edition
Blowing the Whistle: What Employers Should Know About DEI & the False Claims Act
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
FCPA Compliance Report: Stay the Course: Ellen Lafferty on Navigating Anti-Corruption Compliance in 2025
Explore how evolving whistleblower expectations and regulatory comparisons are reshaping internal reporting systems. Join legal and compliance experts for a 45-minute session on what today’s programs need to stay competitive...more
In wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the California legislature saw fit to add Section 2207 to the California Corporations Code. The statute threatens corporations with a $1 million civil penalty if they have actual knowledge...more
It’s a very busy time for compliance professionals overseeing businesses operating in India, reports Arpinder Singh, India & Emerging Markets Leader at EY Forensic & Integrity Services. There are a dizzying number of new...more
Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this month that it obtained over $3 billion in settlements and judgments from civil fraud and false claims cases during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019 (FY 2019). Of this...more
Compound Ingredient Supplier to Pay Over $22 Million to Resolve Allegations Brought Under Qui Tam Provisions of FCA - On November 7, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Fagron Holding USA LLC (Fagron) had...more
On May 23, 2019, the New Jersey District Court in Kunal Shah v. Meditab Software, Inc. refused to dismiss the retaliation claim of a software company’s former Chief Executive Officer, even though he notified the company of...more
Not-for-Profit Corporation Law (“NPCL”) § 715-b, enacted as part of the New York Nonprofit Revitalization Act, requires New York not-for-profit corporations with 20 or more employees and annual revenue in excess of $1 million...more
Welcome to the fifth issue of Securities and Corporate Governance Litigation Quarterly, Seyfarth’s quarterly publication of the Securities & Financial Litigation Group focusing on decisions or other items of interest for...more
As of July 1 of this year, Spain becomes the latest in a string of nations with a corporate compliance defense. Article 33 of Spain’s criminal code will provide an exemption from corporate criminal liability where the company...more
The public comments on the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)’s proposed whistleblower program (Program) evidence considerable concern that the Program could undermine issuers’ internal reporting and compliance programs,...more
• Fourth Circuit Applies Two-Year Statute of Limitations to SOX Whistleblower Claim and Confirms Availability of Emotional Distress Damages • SDNY Holds That SOX Protects Employee From Retaliation for Activity Engaged...more
On March 2, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awarded a whistleblower at least $475,000 for providing original, high-quality information that led to a successful SEC enforcement action. The whistleblower is a...more
On Monday, March 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will award between $475,000 and $575,000 to a corporate officer who reported “high quality, original information” about a securities fraud....more
On March 2, 2015, the SEC announced a whistleblower bounty award of between $475,000 and $575,000, its 15th under the Dodd-Frank whistleblower program. While the SEC’s order is scant on detail, it does disclose that the award...more
On March 2, 2015, the SEC announced an expected award of $475,000 to $575,000 to a former company officer “who reported original, high-quality information about a securities fraud that resulted in an SEC enforcement action...more
Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced “a whistleblower award payout between $475,000 and $575,000 to a former company officer who reported original, high-quality information about a securities fraud that...more
In this episode I take a deep dive into the recent concluded Avon FCPA enforcement action. ...more
I am back from my holiday break and am looking forward to many good ideas for blogs in the coming year. However before we get to 2015, I have to finish out some matters from 2014. Today I continue my look at the Avon Foreign...more
It is finally done. The long awaited Avon Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action is on the books. I would say what a long, strange trip it has been but that does not really seem to capture everything that...more
Ed. Note-today we have a guest post from KC Royals fan and Stinson Leonard Street partner Russ Berland. As a Kansas City Royals fan, I would like to use this opportunity to congratulate the Royals on a great season...more
In a trio of speeches given at separate events on September 17, 2014, Department of Justice (“DOJ”) officials announced new initiatives and points of emphasis in the Government’s ongoing efforts to hold corporations and...more