Law firms and corporations can anticipate even more activity related to whistleblower incidents, due to a combination of corporate reporting enforcement and a rise in pandemic-era tips to government agencies.

Just ask Jane Norberg, who until recently headed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program and arrived as a partner this week at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer in Washington, D.C. She said SEC whistleblower tips surged during the pandemic, and this year there will be an escalation of investigations and enforcement activity as a result of this surge. In the past few weeks alone, the SEC has revealed it recently issued $85 million in awards to whistleblowers.