Teaching and Continuing Legal Education
Before you call a lawyer, you may want to know what that lawyer has taught other lawyers. John Howley has taught continuing legal education courses for practicing lawyers, through the New York City Bar Association and Lawline. His subjects include whistleblower cases, healthcare fraud under the False Claims Act, and how lawyers handle evidence a client brings in.
What Has John Howley Taught for the New York City Bar Association?
John Howley was Program Chair of Whistleblowers on Wall Street: Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Developments 2016, held on September 14, 2016. The faculty were Ira Lee Sorkin of Mintz & Gold LLP and John Vagelatos, Chief of Affirmative Civil Enforcement at the United States Attorney’s Office. The program brought together lawyers with experience representing whistleblowers, defendants and the government.
He was also an instructor in the City Bar’s annual Post-Conviction Capital Defense Training Program from 2012 to 2016. His course was Habeas Corpus and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.
Which Lawline Courses Has John Howley Taught?
John Howley has taught these courses for Lawline, an online provider of continuing legal education for lawyers. Each date is the one Lawline gives for the course.
His résumé also lists a Lawline course titled False Claims Act: Enforcement Trends in Healthcare Fraud. Lawline’s pages for the five courses above say they are no longer available for credit.
Ethical Issues in Whistleblower Litigation, February 23, 2013
Whistleblowers and Traitors: Snowden, Manning, and the Rule of Law, September 19, 2013
Stealing Evidence: Ethically Representing Clients Who Record Conversations, Take Documents, and Copy Files, March 29, 2014
Whistleblowers on Wall Street: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program, July 2, 2014
The Happy Lawyer: Applying Business and Ethical Fundamentals, February 22, 2015
What Should You Do With Evidence You Already Have?
Do not start downloading company data. Preserve what you already lawfully possess, identify where other evidence sits, and leave it there for a lawyer to analyze and advise on.
One of John Howley’s Lawline courses looked at this question from the lawyer’s side. It covered the ethics rules for lawyers whose clients bring in recordings, documents or files.
In 2026, John Howley wrote about a New York State Bar Association ethics opinion. The opinion concerns lawyers whose clients want to use deception to gather evidence for a False Claims Act case.
Preserve the evidence you already have, but speak with an employment lawyer before copying, downloading, or removing confidential company records.
What Doesn't John Howley's Teaching Record Mean?
Teaching a subject is not a prediction about any case.
It does not mean we take every kind of case he has taught about. Course content is general professional education for lawyers, not a view on your own situation.
John Howley has taught about the Dodd-Frank program, but we don’t take SEC, IRS, commodities (CFTC) or anti-money-laundering whistleblower reward cases. His capital defense teaching is not part of our practice either. Nor are his death penalty lectures at Skidmore College or his 2007 panel at New York Law School.
Medical abuse cases and professional license defense are not part of our practice. If we don’t take your kind of case, we will say so and try to point you to a lawyer who does.
We represent individuals, never employers, in sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation cases across New York, and in healthcare fraud reward cases in federal courts anywhere in the United States.
Are You a Lawyer With a Matter You Can't Take On?
You can talk to us about a referral or a co-counsel arrangement. We take referrals in sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation matters in New York, and in healthcare fraud reward matters.
Talk to The Howley Law Firm
If you are dealing with harassment, retaliation or healthcare fraud at work, you can tell us what happened in your own words.
There are strict time limits, and acting early protects your rights.
Your first conversation is a free, confidential consultation with a lawyer at the firm, not an intake person. We take most cases on a contingency fee and advance the costs. In those cases, there is no fee unless there is a recovery.