Getnick & Getnick LLP partner Lesley Ann Skillen will address board members of healthcare organizations at the Health Care Compliance Association’s Audit & Compliance Committee Conference to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, February 29-March 1, 2016. Ms Skillen will join other experts on a panel entitled: “Whistleblower Case Study: Managing the Risk in Healthcare Organizations.”
Posts Categorized: Getnick Now
Prof. Neil V. Getnick Teaches Cornell Whistleblower Class
Getnick & Getnick LLP Managing Partner and Adjunct Professor Neil V. Getnick is again teaching whistleblower law at Cornell University this Spring along with Dean Stuart Schwab. The course analyzes how the law furthers business integrity by protecting whistleblowers through a variety of state and federal laws. The course delves into affirmative civil enforcement pursuant…
Neil V. Getnick Presents Senator Charles Grassley With “Honest Abe” Award
At the 2015 Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund annual conference, TAFEF Chairman Neil V. Getnick presented Senator Charles Grassley with the “Honest Abe” Integrity in Government Award for the Senator’s extraordinary work to protect taxpayers from fraud against the government. Inscribed on the award: “Senator Chuck Grassley — the father of the modern False Claims…
Lesley Ann Skillen to Address National Health Care Compliance Conference
Partner Lesley Ann Skillen will speak on the topic of “Whistleblowers: How to Make Them Friends Not Foes of Your Compliance Efforts” at the Health Care Compliance Association’s Healthcare Lawyers Enforcement Compliance Institute, October 25–28, 2015, in Washington DC. Ms. Skillen will discuss why employees become qui tam whistleblowers when employers mishandle their internal compliance…
ABA Adopts Standards for Corporate Monitors
In August 2015, the American Bar Association House of Delegates approved the ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Monitors, a set of best-practice standards for those providing oversight services to organizations, including external compliance officers or Independent Private Sector Inspectors General (IPSIGs). The standards address such things as how a monitor is selected, the scope of…
Luis Moreno-Ocampo Delivers Keynote Address at 2015 Ethisphere Latin American Ethics Summit
Global Practice Counsel Luis Moreno-Ocampo delivered a keynote address at the 2015 Ethisphere Latin American Ethics Summit. Mr. Ocampo’s address — “Latin America Corruption Landscape and Global Trends: What Can We Learn from Petrobas, FIFA, and Siemens Cases?” — offered his perspective on the anti-corruption landscape and enforcement activity across Latin America, focusing on some…
Neil V. Getnick to Present “Whistleblowers: A Primer” to The Training Arm of the National Association of Attorneys General
Managing Partner Neil V. Getnick will present “Whistleblowers: A Primer” to the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute, the training and research arm of the National Association of Attorneys General. Mr. Getnick’s presentation will provide practical information regarding how to encourage reporting of corruption and how to recruit whistleblowers, as well as how to…
Luis Moreno-Ocampo to Moderate Opening Session of the Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide
Global Practice Counsel Luis Moreno-Ocampo is the Moderator of the Opening Session of the Global Forum Against the Crime of Genocide, being held in Yerevan, Armenia. Participating in the Forum will be 600 individuals from more than 50 countries. Issues to be discussed during the Forum include the prevention of crimes against humanity, consequences of…
Neil V. Getnick Quoted in The Legal Intelligencer
Managing Partner Neil V. Getnick was recently quoted in The Legal Intelligencer discussing competition among United States Attorneys’ Offices for False Claims Act cases. In the piece, “EDPA Seeing Stiff Competition for Whistleblower Litigation,” Mr. Getnick identifies the prominence of the Southern District of New York under U.S. Attorney Preet Bahrara (“[T]he big sea change…
Neil V. Getnick on Panel of Experts Discussing Qui Tam Litigation
Managing Partner Neil V. Getnick will join a panel of experts on March 18, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia for a high-level discussion of qui tam whistleblower litigation. The panel (“Trends and Practical Issues in Pursuing and Defending Federal and State Qui Tam Cases Other Than Health Care Fraud”) is part of the 2015 Whistleblower Law…