R Scott Oswald

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Practice Areas
* Age Discrimination
* Airline Whistleblower
* Commercial Motor Carrier Whistleblower
* Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
* CPSC Whistleblower Protection
* DC Whistleblower
* Disability Discrimination
* Discrimination Law
* Employment Contract Disputes
* Employment Law & Counseling
* Environmental Whistleblower
* Executive Compensation
* False Claims Act
* Federal Employee Representation
* Family and Medical Leave Litigation
* Immigration and Nationality Representation
* Jury Service
* LGBT Discrimination
* Non Compete Litigation
* Non Payment of Wages
* Nuclear Whistleblower
* Partnership Breakups
* Public Transportation Whistleblower
* Qui Tam Protection
* Railroad Whistleblower
* Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower
* Security Clearance Representation
* Sexual Harassment / Gender Discrimination
* Stimulus Whistleblower
* Tax Fraud Whistleblower Protection
* USERRA / Veterans
* Whistleblower Retaliation
* Wrongful Discharge

R Scott Oswald
The Employment Law Group PC
888 17th St NW #900
Washington DC 20006
Tel: 202 331-2883; 888 603-0983
Fax: 202 261-2835

Mr. Oswald represents executives, many of whom have uncovered corporate or government wrongdoing, in state and federal courts and administrative tribunals. He has tried more than two dozen cases to verdict, and since 2002, has recovered nearly $20 million for his clients in judgments and settlements. His successes have been featured in several publications including The National Law Journal, BNA’s Daily Labor Report, and Employment Law360. Notably, Mr. Oswald was Sheila Kalkunte's lead trial counsel in the ground-breaking Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) whistleblower case of Kalkunte v. DVI, which remains one of the few SOX whistleblower cases in which the SOX whistleblower prevailed at the trial level.

Mr. Oswald, who is rated 10 out of 10 by Avvo, is a seasoned trial lawyer whose cases help define the boundaries of protections for federal employee whistleblowers, Drake v. USAID, SOX whistleblowers, Kalkunte, Leznik, Qui Tam whistleblowers, Glynn v. IST, Mann v. H&K, those who have been subjected to sex discrimination, Rachel Smith v. FT Data, Murtagh-Cooke v. U.S., disability discrimination, Fink v. Richmond, those who have been wrongfully terminated Miller v. Washington Workplace, McFarland v. VRSCC and those who have had their wages or benefits withheld from them. Adde v. US, Sharer v. Tandberg. Mr. Oswald has also been at the vanguard of fighting mandatory arbitration as a condition of employment. Shaffer v. ACS, Booker v. Robert Half International,

Mr. Oswald is one of the few attorneys who has prosecuted a wrongful termination in violation of Maryland public policy claim to a winning jury verdict and who has prosecuted a Maryland retaliation claim to a winning punitive damages jury verdict. In 2008, Mr. Oswald prosecuted a gender claim under the Equal Pay Act to a $466,816 verdict, Murtagh-Cooke v. U.S., and a sexual harassment claim to a $1 million emotional damages jury verdict. Sterling v. Atlantic Automotive.

Mr. Oswald, who holds a Top Secret security clearance, represents executive branch political appointees and senior executives in misconduct and security clearance suspension/revocation investigations. He lectures extensively on employment related topics, especially on executive employment rights and compensation, and was recently interviewed on a radio program about federal employee whistleblower protections. Mr. Oswald has authored numerous articles on state and federal employment law protections.

On February 12, 2009, Mr. Oswald's peers elected him to serve as the 2009/2010 President-Elect of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, the 300+ member DC/MD/VA affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association. Mr. Oswald is also a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association’s Executive Compensation and Whistleblower Committees. He has authored numerous amicus curiae briefs on discrimination and whistleblower protection issues and is active in efforts at the national and state level to strengthen legal protections for employees.

Mr. Oswald is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received his law degree from The Howard University School of Law. He is admitted to practice before the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and Florida bars, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 11th, D.C., and Fed Circuits, the United State District Courts for the District of Columbia, District of Maryland, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, Northern and Southern Districts of Florida, Northern District of Illinois, and the Western District of Tennessee.