October 12, 2012

By Richard D. Alaniz

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002, whistleblowers enjoy wide-ranging protections for reporting wrongdoing at their companies. Until now, those protections have mostly applied to employees at publicly traded companies. But following a recent ruling by the US Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) - in Spinner v. David Landau and Associates - accounting firms that do work for public companies may be far more vulnerable to whistleblowing claims under SOX.

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