Agency inspector general offices investigate complaints from persons in the federal government ecosystem who complain about waste, fraud, abuse of authority; violations of law, regulations or policies; or danger to public health or safety; and, suffer some type of adverse employment action for doing so. Since the enormous Department of Defense (DoD) gets so…
Margaret Cassidy was a panelist at the ABA Business Law Section Annual Meeting CLE in Austin, TX this past September. Privileged to talk privilege at the ABA Business Law Section Annual Meeting with my friends and colleagues, Laura K. Schwalbe with Harter Secrest & Emery LLP and Angelle Smith Baugh with Covington & Burling LLP….
The Federal Government wants employees of contractors and subcontract and independent contractors to disclose to the government instances of fraud, waste, abuse of authority; violations of law, regulations or policies; or substantial and specific danger to public health or safety. Once someone makes a disclosure of this nature, laws and regulations protect them so they…
Nothing induces shell shock for both lawyers and business people like reading a federal government request for proposal or contract for the first time. There are a number of reasons for this: The RFP/contract goes on for pages, often in excess of 100 pages The RFP/contact is filled with government lingo The RFP/contract has pages…