NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A divided U.S. appeals courton Thursday revived a whistleblower lawsuit by a former officialof a unit of advertising company WPP Plc, who claimed hewas fired in retaliation for reporting accounting irregularitiesto his superiors.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Daniel Berman,who was a finance director at WPP's Neo@Ogilvy LLC unit, couldqualify for whistleblower protection under the 2010 Dodd-Frankfinancial reforms, though he did not report his concerns to theU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission before the retaliation.
Thursday's 2-1 vote reversed a December 2014 ruling by U.S.District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by ChizuNomiyama)
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