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Buying Voice: Financial Rewards For Whistleblowing Lawyers, Nancy J. Moore, Kathleen Clark
Buying Voice: Financial Rewards For Whistleblowing Lawyers, Nancy J. Moore, Kathleen Clark
Nancy J Moore
“Buying Voice: Financial Incentives for Whistleblowing Lawyers”
Kathleen Clark and Nancy J. Moore
Abstract
The federal government relies increasingly on whistleblowers to ferret out fraud, and has awarded whistleblowers over $4 billion under the False Claims Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform and Consumer Protection Act. May lawyers ethically seek whistleblower rewards under these federal statutes? A handful of lawyers have tried to do so as FCA qui tam relators. They have not yet succeeded, but several court decisions suggest that they might be able to do so under confidentiality exceptions to state ethics law, which several courts have …
Social Media And Legal Ethics, Jonathan I. Ezor
Social Media And Legal Ethics, Jonathan I. Ezor
Jonathan I. Ezor
A presentation on the legal issues arising out of attorney use of social media services, including for electronic discovery
Collaborating With A Digital Forensics Expert: Ultimate Tag-Team Or Disastrous Duo?, Sean L. Harrington
Collaborating With A Digital Forensics Expert: Ultimate Tag-Team Or Disastrous Duo?, Sean L. Harrington
Sean L Harrington
No abstract provided.