The right of New York lawyers to sue their law firm or company employer for wrongful dismissal as a whistleblower has been quite limited—until now.
Last week, in Lawson v. FMR LLC,1 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of granting broad whistleblower rights, under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, to lawyers, accountants, investment advisers—and indeed, any other individual who is employed by a third party to provide services to a publicly traded company.
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