S&c Critical Insights

In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Annie Ostrager, Co-Head of S&C’s Employment Law Group, Litigation Partner Kamil Shields and Litigation Associate Sabrina Solow, discuss a range of whistleblowing developments. They touch on the recent downward trend in SEC whistleblowing enforcement and contrast that against the opposite trend under other programs, in part driven by a growing focus on whistleblowers as a potential means of pursuing investigative priorities. A preview of the conversation can be found in the Q+A below. Sabrina: Kamil, can you start us off with brief background? Kamil: In the U.S., there are a variety of avenues for a whistleblower to consider.  For example, the SEC, Federal Reserve, CFTC, and a provision of the False Claims Act have long provided an avenue for whistleblowers to come forward. More recently, DOJ Criminal and DOJ Antitrust have developed respective whistleblowing programs. Sabrina: We’ve been seeing an incredible amount of coverage on whistleblowing cases, regime