Court Reinstates Whistleblower Retaliation Claim Against JPMorgan September 13, 2016 By Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court on Monday revived a former JPMorgan Chase & Co. private banker’s whistleblower lawsuit accusing the bank...
AG Holder Seeks Tools to Prosecute Executives for White Collar Crimes September 22, 2014 By Aruna Viswanatha and Nate Raymond U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder last Wednesday called for Congress to take steps to help prosecutors build criminal cases against...
Supreme Court Justices Probe Private Company Whistleblower Protections November 12, 2013 By Lawrence Hurley U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled they may have some difficulty deciding whether employees at private firms that contract...
Supreme Court to Hear Mutual Fund Whistleblower Case May 20, 2013 By Lawrence Hurley In a case involving whistleblowers at Fidelity Investments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether mutual fund...
A Decade Later: Is Sarbanes-Oxley Working? – Analysis July 30, 2012 By Dena Aubin and Kevin Drawbaugh When Peregrine Financial collapsed earlier this month, a nagging question resurfaced. As in the implosion of Lehman Brothers, the fall...
Financial Reporting Improved Under 10-Year Old SOX Law: Survey June 6, 2012 Corporations’ internal control over financial reporting has “significantly or moderately improved” in the 10 years since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)...
New Jobs Act Does Not Reduce Management Liability April 9, 2012 By Olivia Oran Any U.S. corporate executives who think they can use the Jobs Act’s relaxed rules for public listing to cut corners...
Whistleblower Law Does Not Protect Mutual Fund Employees: Court February 5, 2012 By Terry Baynes A U.S. law protecting whistleblowers at publicly traded companies does not cover employees of mutual funds, a federal appeals court...
Whistleblowers Not Protected for Media Leaks, Federal Court Rules May 5, 2011 Whistleblower protections in a federal accounting law do not cover leaks to the media, a U.S. appeals court has ruled,...
SEC: Mid-Size Firms Should Follow Sarbanes Oxley Internal Control April 25, 2011 By Sarah N. Lynch Accountants at the U.S. securities regulator are recommending that medium-size public companies should not be exempted from a key auditing...