North America
Most Trusted Lawyer of the Year
USA R. Scott Oswald
Committee. Mr. Oswald is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association’s Executive Compensation, Trial Advocacy, and Whistleblower Committees.
Notably, Mr. Oswald was Sheila Kalkunte's lead trial counsel in her ground-breaking Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) whistleblower retaliation claim, which remains one of the few and earliest SOX whistleblowers to have prevailed at the trial level.
Mr. Oswald has authored numerous amicus curiae briefs on discrimination and whistleblower protection issues including:
With more than three dozen trials to verdict and over $90 million recovered in judgments and settlements in employment and whistleblower claims, R. Scott Oswald has proven experience in litigating and trying whistleblower retaliation, qui tam, wrongful discharge, discrimination, FMLA, USERRA, non-compete, and wage and overtime actions in federal and state courts.
Mr. Oswald is recognized as one of the “Top Ten Employment Lawyers” in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area by Top Ten Leaders. He is an American Lawyer Magazine “Top Rated Lawyer.” Mr. Oswald has been awarded a Martindale Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review rating and is rated 10 out of 10 by Avvo,.
Mr. Oswald serves as the 2011-2013 President of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. He served as the 2011 Employee-Representative Chair of the D.C. Superior Court Whistleblower Protection Act Jury Instruction Committee and as a member of the 2010 District of Columbia Judicial and Bar Conference Planning
• Johnson v. Siemens, which argued - and the court later held - that subsidiaries of publicly traded companies are covered entities under, and therefore subject to, the Sarbanes Oxley Act’s anti-retaliation provisions
• Bonds v. Leavitt, which argued for – and the court later followed – an expansive interpretation of the term “disclosures” in the Whistleblower Protection Act to guarantee maximum protection for government whistleblowers
• Villanueva v. Core Laboratories NV, which argued for an extraterritorial application of SOX, when the protected activity includes emails to the U.S. and the decision to fire the whistleblower is made in the U.S.)
Finally, Mr. Oswald is active in efforts at the national and state level to strengthen legal protections for whistleblowers and employee and, in 2011, the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) invited Mr. Oswald to guide it in restructuring its Whistleblower Protection Program.
Firm Profile
R. Scott Oswald serves as the managing principal of The Employment Law Group® law firm (TELG), an employment litigation boutique concentrating on the representation of employees and whistleblowers. TELG champion the rights of those who suffer unlawful discrimination, injustice, inequality, and retaliation in the workplace.
R. Scott Oswald has
proven experience in litigating and trying whistleblower retaliation, qui tam, wrongful
discharge, discrimination, FMLA, USERRA,
non-compete, and wage and overtime actions in federal and state courts.
Areas of Expertise • Whistleblower Law • Employment Law • Executive Compensation
Contact: Phone: 1-888-603-0983 Email:
inquiry@employmentlawgroup.com
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Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2012
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