Attorney Steve W. Berman, managing partner and co-founder of Seattle-based Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, was today named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers
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A government database that has a main diet of complaints about consumer fraud is having to loosen its belt a notch these days. A record 2.1 million consumer
Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald - The federal government has negotiated a tentative settlement agreement in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing Fluor Hanford of
SFGate - Arkansas state employees who expose government waste and inefficiencies that lead to savings for the state will be entitled to a reward starting later
Gov. Mike Beebe on Friday signed into law a bill changing the state's whistleblower statute to include a reward for reporting fraud and abuse in government.
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In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, a contemporary of Albert Einstein, postulated a thought experiment in which a live cat was placed inside a box.
The long-awaited trial of BP for the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill began on Monday, with governments, businesses and individuals blaming the company for
A former Morgan Stanley broker and whistleblower has revived his case against the firm, filing suit against it in a New Jersey federal court. The lawsuit, which also names
A new paper shows just how common it was for issuers of mortgage-backed securities to misrepresent the quality of the loans backing those bonds at the height of the
The federal government once considered whistle-blowers a nuisance or worse. But over the past few years, that attitude has slowly started to change. More agencies have
Steve Berman has been ranked as one of the top lawyers in the nation in LawDragon's seventh annual LawDragon 500 guide. The list serves to recognize
A state whistleblower says construction problems on the new 520 floating bridge pose a "danger to public safety," and he's calling for a formal investigation
The Internal Revenue Service paid $125.4 million in whistleblower awards in fiscal year 2012, or about 21% of the $592.5 million it collected in previously unpaid taxes
JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay the fines to resolve allegations that it and Bear Stearns, which it acquired in 2008, misled investors about the quality of mortgage-backed
More than 4,000 former professional football players and their wives have filed a class action lawsuit against the National Football League, accusing the league of deliberately concealing
Yesterday, the Department of Justice held a listening session with representatives of the National Whistleblowers Center, American Civil Liberties Union, Government
The First District Court of Appeal yesterday reinstated portions of a suit by a former employee of San Francisco's trash company, who claims he was fired for revealing that
The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) [pdf], signed into law by President Obama on January 2, 2013, provides employees of government contractors, subcontractors
By Bruce Rolfsen - A record number of whistleblower complaints were filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in fiscal 2012, according to
By Matt Kelley - Law-abiding people who work for crooked employers often fear going public because they would likely be fired — or worse. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley
Oregon's labor chief has filed a complaint against a Portland-area construction company he says retaliated against employees working with state and federal investigators.
