Understanding Anti-Whistleblower Protocols for Companies

Steven S. Goldschmidt is counsel in the New York office of Ropes & Gray and a member of the firm’s Government Enforcement and Securities Enforcement practice groups. Steven concentrates his practice on white-collar criminal defense and enforcement actions involving federal and state regulators and administrative agencies. He has in recent years focused on whistleblower issues, including the dynamic regulatory environment and its impact on investigations, compliance practices and the related litigation environment.

Steven has extensive experience representing corporate and individual clients in matters involving health care fraud and abuse, securities fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, anti-kickback violations, off-label marketing practices, antitrust abuse, and in response to Congressional investigations and federal and state regulatory inquiries. He has led numerous internal investigations for clients in the financial services, healthcare, insurance, entertainment, legal, retail products and other industries.

Jonathan S. Sack has extensive experience litigating complex civil and criminal cases. He represents individuals and companies in federal and state criminal, civil and regulatory matters and conducts internal investigations. Jon served for nearly thirteen years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he handled significant prosecutions in the areas of securities and financial institution fraud, RICO violations, export control offenses, money laundering and drug trafficking. While Chief of the Criminal Division there, he oversaw investigations and prosecutions conducted by more than one hundred Criminal Division Assistant U.S. Attorneys in all areas of federal criminal law. Jon is a co-author of the “White Collar Crime” column in the New York Law Journal and is a regular contributor to The Insider Blog on Forbes.com. He has been recommended by the Legal 500 United States 2012 as a leading Lawyer in White Collar Criminal Defense.

STUART M. GERSON is a Member of the Firm in the Litigation and Health Care & Life Sciences Practices in the firm’s Washington, DC and New York offices. He concentrates on the defense of complex civil and criminal fraud cases, antitrust and securities cases, and class action litigation generally. Mr. Gerson has successfully tried many complex cases before judges and juries, and also has led many internal corporate investigations.

Much of Mr. Gerson’s practice is centered on representing companies involved in the health care industry, including insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers and managed care providers.

Mr. Gerson was Acting Attorney General of the United States at the beginning of the Clinton Administration. And, as head of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice from 1989 to 1993, Mr. Gerson served as the federal government’s chief litigator in all major matters.