Jacob L. Hirsch
Jacob Hirsch is a law clerk in the Labor & Employment Law Department, and assists his clients in a wide range of labor and employment matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Jacob interned at the Lawyers Alliance for New York, where he contributed to various business transactions carried out on behalf of nonprofit clients across the New York metropolitan area.
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On June 3, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a defendant-employer’s motion for summary judgment on SOX and Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claims, finding that the alleged whistleblowing did not involve fraud related to a public company. Tellez v. OTG Interactive, LLC, No. 15-cv-8984. Background Defendants operate restaurants and … Continue Reading
On November 15, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published its statutorily mandated fiscal year report to Congress covering the agency’s whistleblower program. The report, which covers the period from October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018, was prepared by the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower (“OWB”) to summarize its whistleblower bounty program, … Continue Reading
