DC Employment Lawyer Jason Zuckerman Chairing CLE About Whistleblower Retaliation Claims

DC whistleblower lawyer Jason Zuckerman will be chairing a DC Bar CLE titled “Recent Developments in Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and False Claims Act Whistleblower Retaliation and Litigation” on July 15, 2014.  The CLE features leading practitioners:

• Lynne Bernabei, Bernabei & Wachtel PLLC
• Connie Bertram, Proskauer
• Adam Carter, The Employment Law Group PC
• Nancy Delogu, Littler Mendelson PC
• Megan Guenther, US Department of Labor
• David Marshall, Katz Marshall & Banks LLP
• Daniel P Westman, Morrison & Foerster LLP
• Jason Zuckerman, Law Office of Jason M Zuckerman PLLC (Course Chair)

This class will focus on hot topics in Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Dodd-Frank, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and False Claims Act whistle-blower retaliation claims, including:

• The impact of the Supreme Court’s Lawson v Fidelity decision on the scope of SOX coverage;
• Whether internal disclosures are protected under Dodd-Frank;
• The Labor Department’s Administration Review Board and federal court decisions on the scope of protected conduct under SOX;
• The use of “purloined” documents to prove retaliation claims;
• Trends in OSHA enforcement of whistleblower protection laws;
• Recent decisions construing the 2009 amendments to the False Claims Act;
• Extraterritorial application of SOX and Dodd-Frank;
• Important distinctions in the remedies and causation standards of each of these statutes; and
• Implementation of the 2013 NDAA contractor whistleblower protection provisions.