Month: May 2015

The Financial Times published the following letter to the editor from Erika Kelton, Phillips & Cohen partner, about the need for bonus clawbacks to help establish compliant corporate cultures. CEOs...

Colette Matzzie in Reuters, 5/27/15. That holding, said whistleblower lawyer Colette Matzzie of Phillips & Cohen, is a “tremendous victory.” It’s quite common in FCA litigation, she said, for...

Colette Matzzie in Law360.com, 5/27/15. “We’ve found that employees are going to report internally anyway, but they have the additional incentive now because of the way the SEC reward factors are...

The guiding philosophy of a number of banks in the foreign currency exchange markets seems to have been, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying,” as one Barclays executive wrote in a...

Claire Sylvia in The Guardian, 5/14/15. One of these veteran whistleblower law firms is Phillips & Cohen, founded in 1988 by John Phillips . Phillips worked closely with Congress to pass the False...

Erika Kelton in Institutional Investor, 5/12/15. Anonymity has been central to the successes that have occurred so far, according to Erika Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen in San Francisco and...

In the New York Times article, “The Medical Bill Mystery,” reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal overlooked one important point about the lack of information in medical bills: It enables unscrupulous healthcare...

In recent years, traditional financial institutions such as HSBC and BNP Paribas have been subject to multi-billion dollar fines for allegedly violating money-laundering standards. Now the US Treasury...

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White gave an important speech about whistleblowers last week, saying the SEC whistleblower program has “proven to be a game changer.” The SEC whistleblower...