Publications

In a written comment to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), attorney David J. Marshall, from the whistleblower law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks in Washington, DC, strongly urged OSHA to implement its proposed rule strengthening employee protections under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”).

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner David Marshall, along with law clerk Andrew Schroeder, published an article in the National Law Journal yesterday discussing the conflict between the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and whistleblower protections.  The article, entitled “The Big Chill: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Whistleblower Disclosures,” focuses on a recent decision by the [...]

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner David J. Marshall and associate Julie I. Zibulsky published a white paper for the District of Columbia Bar Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) Program entitled Recent Improvements in Protections for Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers in the Workplace: Changing Currents in Employment Law 2011: Recent Trends and Developments.  The CLE Program was held in Washington, D.C. on October [...]

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Avi Kumin published a white paper for the District of Columbia Bar Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) Program entitled Drafting Severance Agreements and Related Issues: The Employee Perspective.  The CLE Program was presented by the District of Columbia Bar Association on August 30, 2011.

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Debra S. Katz and associate Alison A. Asarnow published an article in the National Law Journal entitled “Stop the bias against the jobless.”  The article, published on August 8, 2011, encouraged Congress to pass the Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011, which would ban both employers and recruiters from refusing to consider unemployed [...]

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner David J. Marshall and associate Alison Asarnow published an article in the National Law Journal entitled “SEC whistleblowers Will Protect Investors and Earn Their Awards.”  The article, published on July 28, 2011, discussed the final rules that will govern the new SEC whistleblower‐reward initiative when the rules go into effect on August [...]

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner David J. Marshall published a white paper entitled “Doing Well by Doing the Right Thing: A Guide to the SEC Whistleblower Program and the New Rules that Can Lead to Rewards for Reporting Securities Violations.”  The paper was published on July 24, 2011.  Katz, Marshall & Banks associate Matthew Stiff and law [...]

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Avi Kumin and associate Nicole W. Sitaraman published a white paper for the 2011 National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”) Annual Convention entitled “Religious Accommodation & Discrimination in the Workplace: Common Trends in Cases involving Religious Minorities.”  The convention was held in New Orleans, Louisiana on July 1, 2011.

Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower and Other Federal Retaliation Claims Katz, Marshall & Banks partner David J. Marshall published a white paper for the 2011 National Employment Lawyers’ Association (“NELA”) Annual Convention entitled “Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower and Other Federal Retaliation Claims.”  The convention was held in New Orleans, Louisiana from June 29 to July 2, 2011.  The paper was prepared for [...]

Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Debra S. Katz and associate Michael A. Filoromo, III published an article in the National Law Journal entitled “Whistleblower Protections Restored: Sylvester v. Parexel.”  The article, published on June 10, 2011, based a discussion about trends in Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower law around the decision by the Administrative Review Board at the [...]