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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 …
What About The Majority? Considering The Legal Research Practices Of Solo And Small Firm Attorneys, Joseph D. Lawson
What About The Majority? Considering The Legal Research Practices Of Solo And Small Firm Attorneys, Joseph D. Lawson
AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers
Solo and small firm practitioners account for the majority of attorneys practicing in the United States. However, they are regularly underrepresented in studies of attorneys’ research practices, which tend to focus on attorneys in larger practice settings. This article reports the results of a local survey in which more than 80 percent of respondents fell into this forgotten demographic. Comparison of the local study with a recent national survey demonstrates that greater consideration of smaller firms could lead to a different understanding of fee-based online resource usage among the demographic, which may have widespread implications for public and academic law …
Lawyers As Whistleblowers Under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, Barry R. Temkin, Ben Moskovitz
Lawyers As Whistleblowers Under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, Barry R. Temkin, Ben Moskovitz
Barry R. Temkin
Section 922 of Dodd-Frank added new section 21F to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, creating a whistleblower bounty program under which individuals who voluntarily provide original information leading to successful Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions may receive bounty payments based on penalties assessed against respondents. The general rule is that whistleblowers who voluntarily furnish original information to the SEC or CFTC that results in a successful prosecution netting monetary penalties in excess of $1 million are entitled, with some exceptions, to bounties of ten percent to thirty percent of the amount recovered in the government enforcement actions. Lawyers, …
Ignore The Man Behind The Curtain: On The Government Speech Doctrine And What It Licenses, Mark Strasser
Ignore The Man Behind The Curtain: On The Government Speech Doctrine And What It Licenses, Mark Strasser
Mark Strasser
While federal and state governments have long been communicating to various audiences in multiple ways in a variety of contexts, the United States Supreme Court has only recently invoked the government speech doctrine to protect certain state acts and policies from First Amendment challenge. The contours of the doctrine are rather fuzzy—there are no clear criteria by which to determine when the government is speaking or what, if anything, the government must be saying in order for the doctrine’s protections to be invoked. This lack of clarity has caused great confusion in the lower courts—judges seem not to know how …
The Tort Of Betrayal Of Trust, Caroline Forell, Anna Sortun
The Tort Of Betrayal Of Trust, Caroline Forell, Anna Sortun
Caroline A Forell
Fiduciary betrayal is a serious harm. When the fiduciary is a doctor or a lawyer, and the entrustor is a patient or client, this harm frequently goes unremedied. Betrayals arise out of disloyalty and conflicts of interest where the lawyer or doctor puts his or her interest above that of his or her client or patient. It causes dignitary harm that is different from the harm flowing from negligent malpractice. Nevertheless, courts, concerned with overdeterrence, have for the most part refused to allow a separate claim for betrayal. In this Article, we suggest that betrayal deserves a remedy and propose …
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder
Nancy Levit
This article draws on research into the science of happiness and asks a series of interrelated questions: Whether law schools can make law students happier? Whether making happier law students will translate into making them happier lawyers, and the accompanying question of whether making law students happier would create better lawyers? After covering the limitations of genetic determinants of happiness and happiness set-points, the article addresses those qualities that happiness research indicates are paramount in creating satisfaction: control, connections, creative challenge (or flow), and comparisons (preferably downward). Those qualities are then applied to legal education, while addressing the larger philosophical …
Does Being A Repeat Player Make A Difference? The Impact Of Attorney Experience And 'Case Picking' On The Outcome Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, Ralph Peeples, Catherine Harris, Thomas Metzloff
Does Being A Repeat Player Make A Difference? The Impact Of Attorney Experience And 'Case Picking' On The Outcome Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, Ralph Peeples, Catherine Harris, Thomas Metzloff
Ralph Peeples
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