Kelly J. Shivery is an Advanced Certified Paralegal who assists the firm’s attorneys in the representation of individuals in whistleblower matters brought under federal and state False Claims Acts, the SEC and IRS Whistleblower Programs, and other laws. Ms. Shivery holds an Advanced Paralegal Certification in both Alternative Dispute Resolution and E-Discovery. She is a former Senior Arbitration Administrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Following her departure from FINRA, Ms. Shivery relocated to Honolulu, Hawaii where she assisted the former attorney general of the State of Hawaii in the representation of individuals in FINRA arbitrations, as well as in employment and commercial litigation matters.
Upon her return to Florida in 2011, Ms. Shivery began working in the area of whistleblower law at McCabe Rabin, P.A., under the tutelage of now Magistrate Judge Ryon M. McCabe U.S.D.C., So. District of Florida. In January 2022, Ms. Shivery joined the Whistleblower Law Collaborative. She works remotely from her home in Palm Beach County, Florida. Ms. Shivery is honored to continue the important work of assisting whistleblowers report government fraud.
Melissa Tremblay has been with Whistleblower Law Collaborative since it was launched by co-founders Bob Thomas and Suzanne Durrell in 2003. As the longtime administrator and paralegal, she manages the firm’s infrastructure and provides legal support for its busy caseload. Melissa is the gatekeeper for the firm’s new business, and she carefully welcomes and processes each potential new client that enters Whistleblower Law Collaborative’s doors. She handles the complicated Rule 4 service on the federal government and the 32 states (along with Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) that have their own False Claims laws, which is a critical part of the firm’s False Claims Act practice.
Melissa began her legal career at New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, working in their General Law Group processing the lawsuits and subpoenas received by the company and eventually managing an administrative team. Having grown an interest in litigation while working with this group, she moved on to Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault’s litigation practice group where she spent seven years assisting in SEC class actions and white collar representation in government fraud investigations.