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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST: New Protections Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act
Stephen M. Kohn, Esq.
- Commodities qui tam provision
- Securities qui tam provision
- Enhancements to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Provisions barring mandatory arbitration
- Provisions that guarantee rights to federal court and jury trials
- Civil remedies under the Obstruction of Justice Act
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST: Key Provisions of The False Claims Act
David K.
Colapinto, Esq. & Stephen M. Kohn, Esq.
- Requirements
of a "claim" made against the government.
- "False record"
and "conspiracy" actions under the act.
- Unusual
schemes amounting to claims including violations of other regulations
such as
FDA Marketing requirements.
2:00 pm - 3:00
pm EST: Case Screening & Filing Procedure
Anthony C. Munter, Esq. &
Stephen M. Kohn, Esq.
- Important
questions to ask a client including: Has there been a public
disclosure? What
is a public Disclosure? Is there a government claim?
- Why
attorneys must screen for FCA case first.
- Filing
requirements to file a case under the FCA.
- Problems in
filing including: establishing "original source," and statute of
limitations
problems depending on retaliation claims.
- Seal requirements
of the FCA and advising clients on maintaining seal
3:00 pm -
3:30 pm EST: Q & A
Course
Materials:
False Claim Acts: Federal, State, and Municipal Qui
Tam Laws by Stephen M. Kohn (July 2008)*
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud? By Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse, and Luigi Zingales
Supplemental Packet on Dodd-Frank Reforms, by Stephen M. Kohn
*Registrants will be given free download code prior to seminar
For faculty information for this seminar, click here. To register for this seminar online, click here .
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