Global Practice Counsel Luis Moreno Ocampo, together with United States District Court Judge Mark Wolf, will deliver the Opening Remarks at the sixth annual Harvard Law & International Development Society (“LIDS”) Symposium to be held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA, on February 20, 2015. This year’s symposium is entitled: “Combatting Grand Corruption: Is…
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Luis Moreno-Ocampo Teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Global Practice Counsel Luis Moreno-Ocampo is currently co-teaching “The Politics of International Law: The International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council” at the Harvard Kennedy School. As the former first Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Moreno-Ocampo brings unique insight to the exploration of the origins, functioning and effectiveness of the International Criminal Court, as well as its interactions with the UN Security Council. Among…
Luis Moreno Ocampo to be Keynote Speaker, International Anti-Corruption Day
Global Practice Counsel Luis Moreno Ocampo will serve as the Distinguished Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker for the first generation of graduates of the International Anti-Corruption Academy’s (IACA) Master in Anti-Corruption Studies. The graduation ceremony will take place on International Anti-Corruption Day, December 9, 2014. IACA is an inter-governmental agency initiated by the United…
Luis Moreno Ocampo Tells WSJ: “The US Will Pay For Integrity”
Interviewed by the Wall Street Journal’s Risk and Compliance Journal, Global Practice Counsel Luis Moreno Ocampo said that US whistleblower laws can be used not just by individuals but by companies to control the fraudulent and corrupt conduct of competitors. Reflecting on his career as a prosecutor fighting corruption in Argentina and then as the…
Lesley Ann Skillen to Speak at ABA Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law Conference
Ms. Skillen has accepted an invitation from the American Bar Association to participate on a Plenary Session Panel at next year’s Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law Conference to be held from March 4-7, 2015, at the Disney Yacht Club, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The session is “Whistleblowers, Compliance and Criminal and Civil Liability for Health Care Fraud: Emerging…
Neil V. Getnick Quoted in Crain’s New York Business
Managing Partner Neil V. Getnick was recently quoted in a Crain’s New York Business article discussing the increasingly important role of the whistleblower in the government’s fight against financial fraud. In the piece, “It’s the Season of the Snitch – Big Payouts and Changes in Law Have Whistleblowers Singing to Authorities,” Mr. Getnick speaks to…
Luis Moreno Ocampo to Speak at International Bar Association Conference in Tokyo This Week
Global Practice Counsel Luis Moreno Ocampo will take part in a panel of globally distinguished speakers at the International Bar Association 2014 Conference in Tokyo this week. The IBA Conference is the largest gathering of international lawyers annually, with speakers including former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, former Vice President Al Gore,…
Luis Moreno Ocampo to Deliver Keynote Address at International Law Meeting
Luis Moreno Ocampo, Global Practice Counsel at Getnick & Getnick, is scheduled to speak about international fraud and compliance matters as the keynote speaker at the Fall meeting of the American Bar Association Section of International Law in Buenos Aires on October 24th. Getnick & Getnick, one of the nation’s leading whistleblower law firms, aims…
Neil V. Getnick Featured in FierceHealthPayer.com
Managing Partner Neil V. Getnick was featured prominently in the recent FireceHealthPayer.com article, “Whistleblowers Gain Power in Government Anti-fraud Efforts.” The piece, recounting the growing power of whistleblowers to expose fraud and support government anti-fraud efforts, highlighted and drew significantly from Mr. Getnick’s Live Science op-ed, “U.S. Whistleblower Cases Soar in Health and Pharma.”
Lesley Ann Skillen Interviewed by The Street on Female Whistleblowers
Ms. Skillen told The Street, a financial news and services website headquartered in Wall Street, New York, that successful women in corporate America typically are highly competent and passionate about their work, and when they see something going wrong they become very focused on fixing it. She said that is what motivated her client Cheryl Eckard,…