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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument in a case that will decide if disclosures to the media can be protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The oral argument will be on Friday, April 15, 2011, at...

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2. The famous quote conveys the idea that if you want to maintain power by suppressing the people, then lawyers are...

In April 2009, the Department of Justice (DOJ) served a subpoena on New York Times reporter James Risen. DOJ wants to know his source for a story he published in his book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration....

NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn was Christiane Brown's guest on The Solution Zone. We encourage you to listen to the archived show.

U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock issued an order yesterday that applies a ban on arbitration agreements retroactively. Congress enacted the ban as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  Section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act...

In a major victory for employees with any kind of discrimination or retaliation claim, the Supreme Court yesterday held that employers are liable when a supervisor is motivated by an illegal motive, then acts within the scope of authority on...

Kohn said the most important step in cases where ordinary citizens step forward to reveal fraud is "who you blow the whistle to and what you say."

Kohn began his talk by explaining his reasoning behind writing a handbook that would lay out the rules in a language much easier for whistleblowers and the public to understand. Representing whistleblowers for 27 years, although enriching, has sometimes been...

NWC Executive Director, Stephen Kohn will be on Radio Or Not at 10:30am EST today discussing his new book The Whistleblower's Handbook. You can listen live by clicking here.

Perhaps the most amazing part of Kohn's book is saved for the very end, the back cover to be exact. The Whistleblower's Handbook is being marketed as a layman's guide to exposing workplace wrongdoing. It does precisely what it sets...