SEC whistleblower law requires original information about securities violations. Generic complaints don't qualify.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order in August denying a whistleblower award to an individual who provided the agency with evidence that a defendant in a previously filed ...

Jane Norberg and Joseph Ashman joined Ogletree Deakins as shareholders, the firm announced Tuesday. Norberg joined as a Washington, DC shareholder and co-chair of the firm’s whistleblower and ...

This year has seen a record percentage of whistleblower claim denials by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[1] This rising trend of award denials is a departure from the SEC’s previous track ...

Until just over a month ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission had been relatively sparing in its awards this year under the SEC Whistleblower Program, leading many to question whether its ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a new 'whistleblower' program that includes a Web site for people to report securities violations and apply for a financial award. The new program, ...

Julia M. Jordan of Sullivan & Cromwell writes: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 2016 Annual Report on its Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program reflects that 2016 was historic for the program, ...

Companies have learned, some the hard way, that even standard confidentiality or separation agreements can violate whistleblower protections if they lack explicit carve-outs for reporting to ...

Former President Donald Trump's media company fired an executive Thursday after he shared internal documents from a Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower complaint with The Washington Post ...

A pro-whistleblower coalition is pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission to clarify the protections afforded to employees who raise concerns about suspected wrongdoing in their workplaces. The ...