May 14, 2014
Address Insider Trading
Last November SAC Capital Advisors became the first large Wall Street firm in twenty-five years…
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Ethical Advocate Blog
May 07, 2014
Whistleblowers and Confidentiality Agreements
Attorneys for the plaintiff in an ongoing whistleblower lawsuit (Barko v. Halliburton Company) allege Halliburton…
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April 30, 2014
Promote Hotlines During Ethics Week
Corporate Compliance & Ethics Week is a great time to reinforce the importance of ethics…
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April 23, 2014
SOX Whistleblower Protection
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the whistleblower protection granted by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act…
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April 16, 2014
Evaluating Ethics Hotlines
Most public companies and many private companies are required to implement whistleblower processes, which often…
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April 09, 2014
Hotlines Important for Nursing Facility Compliance
It has been just over one year since nursing facilities had to establish compliance and…
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April 02, 2014
Increase Ethics Hotline Reporting
Has ethics reporting stalled? The recently released 2013 National Business Ethics Survey of the U.S.…
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March 26, 2014
Whistleblower Suit and Attorney Client Privilege
The judge in an ongoing qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower suit, Barko v.…
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March 19, 2014
FAR Ethics Requirements
In advance of the Federal Acquisition Regulation’s (FAR’s) thirty-year anniversary (coming up on April 1)…
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March 12, 2014
Ethics Choices
“Every employee must take responsibility for acting with integrity, even when this means making difficult…
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March 05, 2014
Business Ethics Survey
Sixteen percent of employees who report workplace misconduct utilize an ethics hotline or helpline at…
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February 26, 2014
Successful Ethics Programs
When is an ethics program successful? An ethics program is successful when employees at all…
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