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  • Monday, June 18 | 3:35-4:50 PM


    Level: Intermediate

    Recommended Prerequisite: A basic understanding of internal reporting and compliance systems

    Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics

    This session will examine how the whistleblower provisions in Dodd-Frank have created a dynamic “new normal” and curbed the serial wrongdoing on Wall Street. Based on the presenter’s experience, you will learn best practices for establishing and monitoring whistleblowing and compliance systems.

    You Will Learn How To:

    • Determine the ways a culture of integrity helps prevent possible violations of the law
    • Identify common pitfalls and best practices for dealing with whistleblowers
    • Recognize why employees in the know might remain silent, even when investors and the general public are harmed
    • Examine the rise of corporate whistleblowers since Dodd-Frank and their transformational impact on law enforcement and corporate conduct
    • Recognize what to do if your organization is hit with a front-page corporate scandal
    Myron Marlin
    Myron Marlin

    Senior Managing Director, Strategic Communications, FTI Consulting

    Myron Marlin is a Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment at FTI Consulting, and is based in Washington, D.C. He also is part of the segment’s Financial Communications and Public Affairs practices.

    Marlin brings to FTI Consulting more than 20 years of communications experience handling crisis and issues management; financial transactions; government and regulatory affairs; high-stakes litigation; and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He also has significant experience working across the commercial, financial and public sectors.

    Prior to FTI Consulting, Marlin served for nearly five years as director of communications at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), under chairs, Mary Jo White, Elisse B. Walter and Mary L. Schapiro. While there, he coordinated communications strategy on a range of significant issues, including the agency’s landmark policy of seeking admissions in certain enforcement cases, and major rulemaking stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act. He also served as a key communications adviser to the SEC chair, and counseled senior officials through congressional testimony, media interviews and other speaking engagements.

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    Jordan Thomas, Esq.

    Partner, Labaton Sucharow

    Jordan A. Thomas concentrates his practice on investigating and prosecuting securities fraud on behalf of whistleblowers and institutional clients. As Chair of the Firm's Whistleblower Representation practice, Thomas protects and advocates for whistleblowers throughout the world who have information about possible violations of the federal securities laws. A longtime public servant and seasoned trial lawyer, Thomas joined Labaton Sucharow from the Securities and Exchange Commission where he served as an Assistant Director and previously as an Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the Division of Enforcement.

  • Myron Marlin
    Myron Marlin

    Senior Managing Director, Strategic Communications, FTI Consulting

    Myron Marlin is a Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment at FTI Consulting, and is based in Washington, D.C. He also is part of the segment’s Financial Communications and Public Affairs practices.

    Marlin brings to FTI Consulting more than 20 years of communications experience handling crisis and issues management; financial transactions; government and regulatory affairs; high-stakes litigation; and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He also has significant experience working across the commercial, financial and public sectors.

    Prior to FTI Consulting, Marlin served for nearly five years as director of communications at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), under chairs, Mary Jo White, Elisse B. Walter and Mary L. Schapiro. While there, he coordinated communications strategy on a range of significant issues, including the agency’s landmark policy of seeking admissions in certain enforcement cases, and major rulemaking stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act. He also served as a key communications adviser to the SEC chair, and counseled senior officials through congressional testimony, media interviews and other speaking engagements.

  • jthomas headshot
    Jordan Thomas, Esq.

    Partner, Labaton Sucharow

    Jordan A. Thomas concentrates his practice on investigating and prosecuting securities fraud on behalf of whistleblowers and institutional clients. As Chair of the Firm's Whistleblower Representation practice, Thomas protects and advocates for whistleblowers throughout the world who have information about possible violations of the federal securities laws. A longtime public servant and seasoned trial lawyer, Thomas joined Labaton Sucharow from the Securities and Exchange Commission where he served as an Assistant Director and previously as an Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the Division of Enforcement.

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