Jury Awards Former Bio-Rad Counsel $11M in Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Case
A California jury has awarded former Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. General Counsel Sanford Wadler $11M in his Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower retaliation lawsuit. Approximately $3M of the award is for back...
View ArticleSEC Whistleblower Program: Exposing Insider Trading
SEC’s Increased Focus on Insider Trading On March 23, 2017, a New York federal judge granted a temporary asset freeze against the assets of a Hong Kong private equity investor, Shaohua “Michael” Yin,...
View ArticleWhistleblower Firm Publishes Practice Note About Federal Government...
NDAA Whistleblower Protection Law Washington D.C. whistleblower firm Zuckerman Law, published a Practice Note in Practical Law, a Thomson Reuters publication, titled Whistleblower Protections Under the...
View ArticleAnnual Report Reveals SEC Whistleblower Program’s Bright Future: Hundreds of...
The 2017 Annual Report of the SEC Office of the Whistleblower reveals that the program is extraordinarily successful in enabling the SEC to protect investors and halt ongoing fraud. In particular,...
View ArticleUBS Whistleblower Prevails at Trial in SOX Whistleblower Case
More than five years after filing a SOX whistleblower retaliation case, UBS whistleblower Trevor Murray prevailed at trial. The jury awarded Murray $653,000 in back pay and $250,000 in compensatory...
View ArticleWhistleblower Firm Publishes Guide to Cybersecurity Whistleblowing
Guide for Cybersecurity Whistleblowers Whistleblower lawyer Dallas Hammer has published a Practitioner’s Guide to Cybersecurity Whistleblowing. The guide can be downloaded here. The guide summarizes...
View ArticlePennsylvania Supreme Court Affirms $1.6M Award of Non-economic Damages in...
In a unanimous opinion in Bailets v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed an award of $1.6 million in non-economic damages in a whistleblower retaliation case and...
View ArticleConsumer Financial Protection Whistleblower Prevails at DOL
On February 6, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor ordered Hermitage Club Realty LLC (Hermitage), a real estate company based in Vermont, to provide relief to a former employee who was fired for blowing...
View ArticleSOX Whistleblower Law Firm Contributes to ABA L&E FLSL Update of SOX...
Whistleblower law firm Zuckerman Law is a contributing author to the 2019 American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law Committee on Federal Labor Standards Legislation annual update...
View ArticleJury Awards Track Inspector Whistleblower $1.05M in Damages
On February 19th, a Colorado jury awarded Brandon Fresquez $1,050,000 in damages in his FRSA whistleblower retaliation claim against BNSF Railway Company. The verdict form reveals that the jury...
View ArticleWhistleblower Lawyer Zuckerman Will Speak on ABA Panel About Whistleblower...
Whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman will speak at the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee 2019 Mid-Winter Meeting on a panel titled “Identifying...
View ArticleDOL Judge Awards Airline Pilot $500,000 in Compensatory Damages in AIR21...
In a decision finding that Delta violated the anti-retaliation provision of the AIR21 whistleblower protection law, Judge Morris awarded pilot Karlene Petit $500,000 in compensatory damages for...
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