How should an in-house lawyer’s employment rights and duties be balanced with the ethics and fiduciary obligations of confidentiality? In Kidwell v. Sybaritic (Minn. June 24, 2010) the plurality ...
The railroad whistleblower ruling lowers the burden of proof for workers, expanding protections and strengthening retaliation claims nationwide.
Former Ethics Panel Lawyer Will Appeal Dismissal of Whistleblower Suit A Fulton County judge has dismissed a whistleblower suit filed by a former lawyer for the Georgia ethics commission, saying that ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A former Metro government employee claims in a whistleblower lawsuit filed Wednesday that she was fired after reporting suspected ethics violations by Mayor Craig Greenberg's ...
We’ve talked before about how speak-up culture is on the rise; 6,000 more anonymous hotline reports were filed in 2023 than 2022, according to the respondent of Mitratech’s 2024 State of Ethics ...
As a longtime employee of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Sharon Feldman understood that if she saw something unethical at work, she should say something. In late 2018, Feldman, who was at the ...
In the tech world, the name Theranos creates a direct synapse with scandal and fraud. Once a Silicon Valley darling, the biotech company, which focused on blood tests, was exposed for its fraudulent ...
One of the corporate whistleblowers responsible for uncovering the $3.8 billion WorldCom fraud in 2002 spoke to Colorado Mesa University students and community members on Wednesday about the ...
The ethics committee for Formula 1's governing body has cleared Mohammed Ben Sulayem in a pair of whistleblower complaints that alleged the FIA president twice interfered in competition last year. The ...
The longest serving member of the Louisiana Board of Ethics said Gov. Jeff Landry and lawmakers are starting to dismantle ethics enforcement with recently passed laws. (Julie O'Donoghue/Louisiana ...