By Ross Todd | July 31, 2019
Lawyers with the DOJ's Civil Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California are asking a San Francisco judge to dismiss a long-running lawsuit bringing claims that hundreds of millions of dollars in government funds were spent on adulterated HIV drugs.
By Daniel Sakaguchi and Monica Mucchetti Eno | July 18, 2019
This May marked the three-year anniversary of the Defend Trade Secrets Act. While the prohibitions against trade secret misappropriation created by the DTSA have been well vetted since the Act's inception, less frequently discussed is the immunity granted under the Act to certain individuals who might expose trade secrets: whistleblowers.
By Philip Berkowitz | May 8, 2019
The recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Wadler v. Bio-Rad provides a good illustration of the intersection between FCPA enforcement and whistleblower claims.
By Ross Todd | April 15, 2019
Fortinet, a network security company, reached a deal worth $545,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit. Lawyers for the whistleblower say that former DOJ lawyer and Akin Gump partner Jeffrey Wertkin tried to sell the company a copy of the complaint while it was still under seal.
By Ross Todd | February 26, 2019
In a mixed ruling, the Ninth Circuit found a problem with the jury instructions in former Bio-Rad general counsel Sanford Wadler's whistleblower trial. The court, however, upheld Wadler's win on California public policy grounds, leaving in place $5 million in punitive damages and $2.96 million in compensatory damages.
By Gina Passarella Cipriani | February 14, 2019
The National Law Journal is now accepting submissions for its prestigious Elite Trial Lawyers awards, which honor the best work being done on behalf of plaintiffs.
By Jenna Greene | January 17, 2019
Lawyers argued that The Bloom Firm's legal consulting agreement created a conflict of interest.
By Scott Flaherty | January 10, 2019
The plaintiffs firm had claimed in a federal case playing out in Los Angeles that ex-partner Reuben Guttman poached a client who won a nearly $80 million whistleblower award against the drug maker.
By Ross Todd | August 8, 2018
A federal judge in Oakland has turned back a whistleblower's request to toss an arbitration award that was based in part on the fact that the defendant's lead lawyer at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe joined JAMS while the case was pending.
By Ross Todd | April 19, 2018
Elliot Peters of Keker, Van Nest & Peters says "100 percent" of him wished he could take the doping case to trial, but that the $5 million settlement Armstrong reached "puts litigation out of his life."
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