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Notable legal work:

for analysis of legal trends in employment and whistleblower law. In the past year, media outlets have quoted or interviewed TELG attorneys in more than 50 articles and news stories.

In addition, our attorneys have written legal commentary and analysis published in Westlaw Journal on Employment, The Employment Law Strategist, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal.

Attorneys at The Employment Law Group® law firm write frequently about cutting edge legal issues affecting whistleblowers and employees in general, including authoring the Whistleblower Law Blog that is featured on law.com. The Employment Law Group® law firm attorneys have published notable articles in 2010 and 2011 in West Publishing, Thomson Reuters, BNA, Law360, and The National Law Journal among others. These works include:

• Health Care Law Expands False Claims Act Liability Under Anti-Kickback Statute

• The Eighth Circuit Differentiates Between Political Discrimination and Retaliation

• More Protection for Whistleblowers, Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board 2011 Year in Review

• New Laws Expand Workers’ Rights

• The Supreme Court Finds Religion, A Look at Hosanna-Tabor

• Recent Developments in Qui Tam Litigation” The Rocket Docket News

The Employment Law Group® law firm’s cases have helped establish the vanguard of employment and whistleblower law.

For instance, in Stone v. Instrumentation Laboratory Co., TELG established precedent in a case before the Fourth Circuit, which held that Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblowers have a right to de novo review in federal court at any time after a case has been pending before the DOL for 180 days and be- fore a final judgment.

In Inman v. Klockner-Pentaplast, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s granting of a motion for summary judgment after TELG argued that a company’s efforts to create a younger image constituted age discrimination under the ADEA

In Smith v. Duke Energy, TELG successfully obtained a favorable decision from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (ARB) allowing the case of a nuclear power plant whistleblower to proceed to trial. This decision was significant for affirming that when an employer admits taking adverse action against an employee because of the employee’s protected activity, it is sufficient to demonstrate causation without further analysis.

In the past year, our attorneys filed amicus curiae briefs in support of broad protections for whistleblowers in cases such as Johnson v. Siemens Building Tech., Inc. – where the ARB held that favorable amendments clarify The Sarbanes Oxley Act - and Villanueva v. Core Labs. NV – where we argued that whistleblowers overseas should be covered under The Sarbanes Oxley Act.

Areas of Expertise • Whistleblower Law

• Employment Law • Executive Compensation

In the past year, our attorneys filed amicus curiae briefs in

support of broad protections for whistleblowers in cases

such as Johnson v. Siemens Building Tech., Inc. – where

the ARB held that favorable amendments clarify The Sarbanes Oxley Act - and

Villanueva v. Core Labs. NV – where we argued that whistleblowers overseas

should be covered under The Sarbanes Oxley Act.

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