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The SEC’s Whistleblower program has been steadily gaining momentum. The increase in whistleblower protections and incentives to report misconduct is a real and serious risk....
By: Michael Volkov

According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, nearly one-third (32 percent) of your employees have called in sick when they're not actually sick. Perhaps just as notable, 30 percent of your employees admit that they have reported to work despite...

On November 14, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia denied motions to dismiss filed by former officers and directors of a failed federal thrift who allegedly contributed to the bank’s collapse by failing to exercise due...

Forty-four years after the initial suit was filed, two retired workers and the estates of 30 others will receive back pay and interest because they lost their jobs and seniority in a railroad merger.

The first of more than 1,500 Actos cases consolidated in a Louisiana federal court is scheduled to go on trial in January 2014. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) began MDL No. 2299 in December 2011 with 11 cases....

Microsoft Corporation has changed its performance review process to exclude stack ranking, while Yahoo! has chosen to implement the sometimes-unpopular appraisal system. Although critics have argued that the practice may inhibit employee productivity...

This is the final section of a 9 part series discussing the entire trajectory of a construction lawsuit involving claims of design errors or omissions....
By: Melissa Dewey Brumback

In this issue: - The 113th Congress - Securities and Exchange Commission - Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) - The Administration - Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC) - Miscellaneous - Excerpt from:...

Companies all over the globe are increasingly aware of the record number of corporate criminal enforcement actions brought in recent years by enforcement authorities to combat corruption, and many companies now are also well-accustomed to internal...

Believe it or not it is Thanksgiving week! Do you feel as though you have been “full steam ahead” since last Thanksgiving? Many of us have… which is, why when I read the article by Minda Zetlin, an Inc. Magazine contributor I thought she was talking...

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