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
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles, Introduction and Compliance Lessons Learned
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing’s New Safety Initiatives and Compliance Reforms
Upping Your Game: Crowd - Sourcing Risk Management Intelligence with AI
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
All Things Investigations: Navigating New DOJ Directives - Declinations, Cooperation, and Whistleblower Programs with Mike DeBernardis and Katherine Taylor
Daily Compliance News: June 16, 2025, The Golden Share Edition
Daily Compliance News: June 13, 2025. The All Boeing Edition
Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: The False Claims Act
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
FCPA Compliance Report: Revolutionizing Speak Up: Ariel D. Weindling on Enhancing Whistleblower Systems
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 53 – The AI as a Whistleblower Edition
Hospice Insights Podcast - Still Number One: Healthcare Fraud Remains Central in DOJ’s White Collar Enforcement Plan
Great Women in Compliance: From Hotline to Headline: The DOJ’s Whistleblower Awards Reboot with Mary Inman and Liz Soltan
Second Circuit holds employees get disability accommodations even if not necessary to perform their job - In Tudor v. Whitehall Central School District, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s grant of...more
On May 11, 2024, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) celebrated its eight-year anniversary. The DTSA’s enactment in 2016 marked a turning point in US trade secret protection. It gave parties seeking redress for...more
More than 500 sequentially accessed files downloaded to a personal thumb drive, and a description in a verified complaint of the purported confidential information and trade secrets implicated, were the key components of the...more
WilmerHale lawyers advise clients on every aspect of trade secret law from contracts to complex litigation. Below please find a short update on an important development in trade secret whistleblower protections in the...more
Employers often go to great lengths to protect company documents and communications concerning and discussing confidential trade secret information. But what happens when employees leave, bring a whistleblower claim, and the...more
Following Germany's initial attempt last year to implement the EU Whistleblower Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1937), aimed at ensuring harmonized and improved protection of whistleblowers throughout Europe, the Federal...more
Exchange Act Rule 21F-17, adopted in 2011 under the auspices of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, prohibits any person from taking any action to impede an individual from communicating...more
Just five years ago, on May 11, 2016, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (the “DTSA”). This important legislation created a new, federal civil cause of action for trade secret misappropriation. The DTSA...more
Courts are increasingly scrutinizing agreements that extend beyond what is necessary to protect bona fide confidential information and trade secrets. The recent decision in Hamilton v. Juul Labs, Inc., Case No....more
In the movie “Snowden,” the audience watches anxiously as Edward Snowden downloads millions of files in a matter of minutes and then walks out of an NSA facility with the thumb drive hidden in a Rubik’s cube. How much more...more
Four years have passed since Congress enacted the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) in 2016, and federal courts have developed a new body of law based on this relatively young statute. The DTSA provides a private civil cause...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
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
A trade secret is any information used in one's business that derives independent economic value from not being generally known. Unlike patents, trade secrets are protected indefinitely for as long as they remain a secret....more
BakerHostetler’s White Collar, Investigations and Securities Enforcement and Litigation team is pleased to release its 2018 Year-End Cross-Border Government Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Review, a resource for...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
In a recent Holland & Knight webinar, Partners Kara Ariail, Brandon Elledge, and Terry Elling discussed trade secrets and related issues affecting government contractors when employees are hired or leave. In case you missed...more
The following scenario is more common—and more troubling—than ever before. A high ranking employee who has signed an agreement to preserve the confidentiality of business plans, financial information, and trade secrets...more
Whistleblowers who expose breaches of European Union law will be afforded greater protection from retaliation by companies and public authorities under a draft law proposed by the European Commission in April 2018. The draft...more
The function of this client alert is to inform you that the Polish anti-bribery law is shortly expected to be thoroughly amended. The changes will, not only concern public entities, but will also have a fundamental impact on...more
We first wrote on this topic nearly a year ago. Since then, courts have had an opportunity to interpret some of the provisions of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). Indeed, since it was signed into law, more than...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first two months...more
One year after its enactment, the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) continues to be one of the most significant and closely followed developments in trade secret law. The statute provides for a federal civil cause of action for...more
Whistleblowing has been part of the U.S. legal tradition, if not since the resolution passed by the Continental Congress in 1778, at least since the adoption of the 1863 False Claims Act. With regard to the disclosure of...more
The Cost Of Keeping Things Quiet: Crackdown On Confidentiality Clauses Calls For Explicit Carve-Outs - In last February’s Employment Law Commentary, we discussed best practices for drafting separation agreements. Among...more