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Articles
August 29, 2022
General Data Protection Regulation
August 26, 2022
The Ethical Rules Lawyers Must Abide By: The Aba Model Rules of Professional Conduct
August 26, 2022
U.S. Anti-money Laundering Whistleblower Rewards Program Article
August 25, 2022
The 120-Day Wait Period for Company Compliance Officials to Report Information to the SEC: Qualifying as a Compliance Official, Auditor, or Company Lawyer
August 25, 2022
Five of Some of the IRS’s Largest Whistleblower Rewards
August 25, 2022
SEC and CFTC Whistleblower Awards: How to Expose Securities and Commodities Fraud
August 25, 2022
The Asbestos-Mesothelioma Mass Tort
August 24, 2022
What If I Lose My Whistleblower Lawsuit or the Government Chooses Not to Intervene?
August 23, 2022
A History of Aggregate Litigation
August 23, 2022
Types of Violations Involving Equities: How SEC Pursues Action Against Lawbreakers of the Securities Exchange Act
August 23, 2022
How Do Lawyers Currently Make Use of Artificial Intelligence in Their Legal Work and How Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize the Practice of Law?
August 22, 2022
The Problem with Global Tax Havens and how Whistleblowers Can Help
August 22, 2022
Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 and the Act’s Amendment in 2012
August 22, 2022
The FDA: What It Is, How It Works, and Why You Should Care
August 22, 2022
How to Safely and Securely Blow the Whistle on Wrongdoing: Tips and Strategies for Anonymous Whistleblowing
August 21, 2022
20 Common Frauds to Be Aware Of
August 21, 2022
Whistleblowing: What It Is and Why Whistleblowers Are Important
August 21, 2022
What Are Splits in the Circuits, and How Do These Splits Affect the False Claims Act?
August 20, 2022
Whistleblowing and the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act
August 20, 2022
False Claims Act and Qui Tam: What Is It and What Does It Mean for You?
August 20, 2022
Food Fraud and Whistleblowers
August 20, 2022
The Future of Whistleblowing: An Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program?
August 20, 2022
Military Fraud – Government Contracts Fraud
August 20, 2022
Smedley Butler and the “Business Plot”: The Time a Whistleblower Saved American Democracy
August 20, 2022
The Endangered Species Act and Climate Change
August 20, 2022
History of the False Claims Act Since 1986 and Whistleblower Recoveries of Money Under the FCA
August 19, 2022
Class Actions and the Us Constitution’s Due Process Clause
August 19, 2022
Protection for Climate Change Whistleblowers
August 19, 2022
Insider Trading: What It Is and How It Violates the Law
August 19, 2022
The Pollution of Earth’s Oceans and Blowing the Whistle on Ships That Illegally Contribute to This Pollution
August 19, 2022
The U.S. Government’s Fight Against Housing and Mortgage Fraud
August 18, 2022
Examples of Wall Street Wrongdoing
August 18, 2022
Class Action Lawsuits in the USA
August 18, 2022
Kleptocracy and Foreign Public Corruption
August 18, 2022
Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Whistleblowers
August 18, 2022
The Best Way to Deal With the Negative Stuff of Being a Whistleblower: Tips for Whistleblowers
August 18, 2022
The Role of the FBI in Investigating Whistleblower Claims
August 17, 2022
CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program: Exposing Fraud in the Estimated $1 Quadrillion Derivatives Market
August 17, 2022
Environmental Whistleblower Programs
August 17, 2022
What Are Mass Arbitrations
August 17, 2022
The Problem of Businesses Bribing Corrupt Foreign Officials, the FCPA, and How Whistleblowers Can Help the SEC and DOJ Enforce the FCPA to Create a Fairer Global Economy
August 16, 2022
CFTC 101: What Is the CFTC and What Does It Do?
August 16, 2022
How to Work With Your Lawyer
August 16, 2022
How Do Money Launderers Operate?
August 16, 2022
What Is Machine Learning and How Will Lawyers Likely Rely on It in the Future?
August 16, 2022
SEC Rule 21F-17 of the Dodd-Frank Act
August 16, 2022
Environmental Whistleblower Programs: Protecting the Environment by Exposing Private Acts of Wrongdoing
August 15, 2022
Cybersecurity Fraud: How the New Cyber- Fraud Initiative Will Impact FCA Whistleblowers
August 15, 2022
Corruption in Central Asia
August 15, 2022
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in China and East Asia
August 15, 2022
Managing Mass Torts Through Multidistrict Litigation—an Overview
August 15, 2022
Jan Karski: Blowing the Whistle on the Holocaust
August 15, 2022
The Panama Papers: Exposing Mossack Fonseca and the Global Elite’s Mass Tax Evasion
August 15, 2022
The Art of Intelligence: An Overview of How Intelligence Agencies Gather Intel
August 14, 2022
Can I Lose My Job if I Blow the Whistle?
August 14, 2022
The DOJ’s COVID Fraud Enforcement Task Force and Whistleblowers
August 14, 2022
The Department of Justice’s Role in Combatting Fraud and How Whistleblowers Can Help
August 14, 2022
What Is White-Collar Crime?
August 13, 2022
Best Practices for Gathering Evidence for an Investigation (WBI Article)
August 13, 2022
Protecting Yourself When Exposing Wrongs: Anonymity and Us Whistleblower Laws
August 13, 2022
The Role of Whistleblowers in Exposing Defense Contractor Fraud
August 13, 2022
How the Universal Health Services, Inc. v. U.S. Ex Rel. Escobar Case Changed FCA Litigation
August 12, 2022
A Brief History of Five of the Largest and Most Lucrative Mass Torts
August 12, 2022
Banking Fraud: What Is It?
August 12, 2022
Money Laundering and New York and London Real Estate
August 12, 2022
The Power of Whistleblowers to Improve Healthcare
August 12, 2022
How the New Anti-money Laundering Whistleblower Reward Program Works
August 11, 2022
Whistleblowing, A Potential Tool Against the Illicit Antiquities and Looted Art Trade?LLICIT ANTIQUITIES AND LOOTED ART TRADE?
August 11, 2022
Government Relators Under the False Claims Act
August 11, 2022
Customs Fraud
August 11, 2022
FIRREA: Defrauding Financial Institutions
August 11, 2022
Tax Evasion and Fraud in the Art Market – The Role of Whistleblowers
August 11, 2022
Various Ways to Improve Whistleblowing
August 11, 2022
The SEC: A Brief Guide for the Beginner
August 11, 2022
COVID-19 Fraud
August 10, 2022
Corruption in South America
August 10, 2022
Antitrust Law and Whistleblower Anti-Retaliation Protections
August 10, 2022
Cybersecurity and Whistleblowers
August 10, 2022
IRS Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2021
August 10, 2022
Private Insurance Fraud in the United States
August 10, 2022
Whistleblower Actions and Statutes of Limitations
August 10, 2022
Whistleblowing in the American Revolution
August 09, 2022
Bribery and Corruption in Business in Modern Russia
August 09, 2022
The SEC Whistleblower Reward Program and Whistleblowers
August 09, 2022
Kinds of Software Data Scientists Use and How This Can Aid in Whistleblowing6644
August 09, 2022
Vladimir Bukovsky: Blowing the Whistle on the Soviet Politicization of Psychiatry to Silence Dissidents
August 09, 2022
Cryptocurrency Fraud and Whistleblowers
August 08, 2022
Corruption in East Asia: China, North Korea, and Beyond
August 08, 2022
A Sampling of Whistleblower Reward Amounts
August 08, 2022
How the UN Works to Fight Against International Corruption
August 08, 2022
Corruption in South Asia
August 08, 2022
What You Need to Know About Protections for Government Employee Whistleblowers
August 07, 2022
Corruption in Central America
August 07, 2022
A Brief Primer on Lawsuits
August 07, 2022
The Different Approaches to Interpreting the Us Constitution and the Rise of Originalism and Textualism Since the 1980s
August 07, 2022
Money Laundering and Whistleblowing
August 07, 2022
Countries That Have Stepped up to Eliminate Corruption
August 06, 2022
Credit Suisse Leak
August 06, 2022
Corruption in Caribbean Countries and Territories
August 06, 2022
A History of Qui Tam Actions
August 06, 2022
The U.S. Government’s Fight Against Housing and Mortgage Fraud
August 06, 2022
How the First Amendment’s Free Speech Rights Protect Government Employee Whistleblowers
August 06, 2022
SEC Whistleblower Reward Program: How Whistleblowers Help Maintain the Financial Integrity of Us Securities Markets
August 06, 2022
The Largest SEC Whistleblower Reward in History: $114 Million
August 06, 2022
The European Union’s Recent Directive Protecting Whistleblowers
August 06, 2022
Whistleblowing in the UK
August 05, 2022
A Brief Introduction to the FCPA
August 05, 2022
Corruption in African Countries
August 05, 2022
How the EU’s Civil Law System Works and How Does It Differ From America’s Common Law System
August 05, 2022
The Supreme Court’s Interpretation of the False Claims Act After the 2009 Amendments
August 05, 2022
Jho Low and the Theft of Billions From Malaysia’s 1MDB: Why Whistleblowers Are Integral to Protecting the Finances of Emerging Economies
August 04, 2022
Common Law and Statutory Protections for Whistleblowers Facing Retaliation
August 04, 2022
How the Rising Cost of Healthcare Is Affecting Americans
August 04, 2022
A Brief Introduction to the False Claims Act
August 03, 2022
Commercial Satellites and DIY Whistleblowing on Hostile Countries Building Nuclear Weapons
August 03, 2022
Osha’s Whistleblower Protections
August 03, 2022
Telehealth Fraud and the Federal False Claims Act
August 03, 2022
The Consequences and Rewards of Doing What Is Right: How Some Whistleblowers Endured Great Ordeals to Do What Is Right and Blow the Whistle on Wrongdoing
August 03, 2022
A Brief History of the CIA
August 03, 2022
Whistleblowers and the False Claims Act: How Blowing the Whistle Could Lead to a Potential Reward
August 03, 2022
The Five Largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Whistleblower Cases
August 02, 2022
A Brief History of the American Legal System
August 02, 2022
Combining Multidistrict Litigation and Class Action Procedures
August 02, 2022
The Endangered Species Act: What It Is and How It Protects Animals.
August 02, 2022
Famous Whistleblowers
August 01, 2022
Combatting Human Trafficking Through the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
August 01, 2022
A Brief History of Significant Changes to the False Claims Act
August 01, 2022
Recent CFTC and SEC Actions Against Cryptocurrency-Related Fraudsters
August 01, 2022
How Lawyers Investigate a Potential Lawsuit
August 01, 2022
The Evolution of Law Firms in the United States: Where We’re Headed
August 01, 2022
The Difference Between Plaintiff and Defense Law Firms
August 01, 2022
Senator Chuck Grassley and the Modern False Claims Act
August 01, 2022
The Federal False Claims Act and Mortgage Fraud: What You Need to Know