Attorney Trent A. Howell

John W. Day is a skilled lawyer who understands the advantages to his clients of large company experience and professionalism and trust along with cost-effective approaches and individual attention. John represents customers who have actually been taken advantage of by government transgression, including whistleblower retaliation, injury or death through a law enforcement officer, unlawful arrest and governmental harassment based upon the workout of one's constitutional rights.

The Fund accepts intakes from federal government and private sector whistleblowers and testimonials cases worrying retaliation, discrimination, qui tam, and legal actions submitted under the Whistleblower Security Act (federal employees), Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Act (company employees), among various various other federal and state legislations.

When a huge healthcare insurer in New Mexico paid $18.5 million too little in taxes in 2003-4, 3 women staff members of the insurance company advance as whistleblowers. John stands for customers in Los Alamos, Taos, Raton, along with Santa Fe and the surrounding areas.

Whistleblowers seeking legal support needs to likewise examine the sources right here. Due to the difficulty of matching whistleblowers with lawyers, it is strongly recommended that all whistleblowers remain to attempt to locate an attorney while their situation is under evaluation with the Fund.

The whistleblower attorney fees might obtain 15% to 25% of the earnings of a claim if the federal government obtains included in the legal action in this way. The New Mexico Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (FATA) is a state legislation that enables residents who think violations of state law, such as federal government fraudulence, to submit qui tam" claims.

This depiction has actually largely contained filing amicus curiae (Buddy of the Court") briefs on behalf of the National Whistleblower Center on significant precedent-setting situations. The intake form and all interactions with the Fund are secured under the attorney-client privilege to the max extent allowed under legislation.

The Fund has never ever billed a charge to whistleblowers for these services. The National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund (Fund") has actually funded a Lawyer Referral Program (ARP") for whistleblowers, trying to locate economic sector attorneys to represent whistleblowers.