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September 17, 2014

Holder’s Whistleblower Proposal Omits Key To SEC’s Success

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s proposal Wednesday to dramatically increase the size of monetary awards Wall Street tipsters can receive under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act may bring in more leads, but some experts say an amped-up rewards program should also take a cue from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which...

September 12, 2014

The Corporate Officer as SEC Whistleblower?

Labaton Sucharow

Corporate officers owe certain fiduciary duties, including a duty of loyalty, to an organization and its shareholders. What is required when the officer discovers possible violations of the federal securities laws? In an article in Risk Management Magazine Jordan Thomas and Lawrence A. Hamermesh examine corporate officers’ rights and duties in light of the new...

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September 5, 2014

SEC Whistleblower’s Program Working…Slowly

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The number one reason why people come forward, in Jordan Thomas’ experience? Retaliation. “Companies regularly tell their employees that if you know about wrongdoing, report it. And the vast majority of people do and if they perceive that they’ve been retaliated against, that breaks their tie to the organization and they no longer care. At...

September 3, 2014

SEC Strikes Fear With First Award to Compliance Pro

Attorneys said they expect an uptick in auditors and compliance officers becoming SEC whistleblowers, but they had differences of opinion as to their motivations. “The popular perception of an SEC whistleblower is it’s all about the money,” said Jordan Thomas, chair of the whistleblower representation practice at [prior firm]. But for in-house auditors and compliance...

August 30, 2014

The SEC Whistleblower Program Year in Review

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

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August 27, 2014

Support Protections for Whistleblowers

The New York Times

In Room for Debate, The New York Times invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues. In the article titled “Holding Bankers Accountable,” the following question was proposed: Can more be done to hold bankers accountable for the financial crisis or is there a good reason the Justice Department has reached...

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August 20, 2014

Protecting Non-US Whistleblowers from Retaliation

Corporate Secretary

Last week, a federal appellate court dismissed an appeal of the New York Southern District Court’s ruling in Liu Meng-Lin v Siemens last October, saying that Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation protections cannot be applied extra-territorially for activity that occurred outside the US in a non-US company. ‘I’m not sure this is good for corporations. Essentially, corporations won...

August 18, 2014

2nd Cir. Punts on Internal Reporting Issue, Holds No Protection for Int’l Whistle-Blowers

Regarding Liu v. Siemens AG, whistleblower practice chair Jordan A. Thomas said, “International whistleblowers have quickly become an important part of the SEC whistleblower program. And this decision will discourage some international whistle-blowers from coming forward, because of fear of retaliation and blacklisting.” “This decision is inconsistent with a trend in which courts have been...

August 17, 2014

Ruling Leaves Cloud on Whistleblowers

The Wall Street Journal

A federal appeals court last week held that U.S. law can only reach so far into Germany-based Siemens AG ‘s operations, upholding a lower-court ruling dismissing a whistleblower-retaliation claim a former Taiwanese employee brought against the German firm. The former employee sought protection under a strict new U.S. whistleblower law. “The question that we’re left...

August 14, 2014

2nd Circ. Ruling On Overseas Tipsters Dodges Big Issues

Jordan A. Thomas says recent Second Circuit decision may deter future international whistleblowers, but remains optimistic about future court rulings In its Thursday ruling that the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower protections do not cover tipsters outside the United States, the Second Circuit dodged a potentially tricky reading of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Morrison decision and left...

Achievements, Challenges and Change: A Look at the Past, Present and Future of the SEC Whistleblower Program

Labaton Sucharow

We discuss highlights from Achievements, Challenges and Change: The SEC Whistleblower Program Year in Review. Four years ago this month, with the country still reeling from financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act-the most sweeping financial reform effort since the Great Depression. The goal of Dodd-Frank was as ambitious...

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Achievements, Challenges and Change: A Look at the Past, Present and Future of the SEC Whistleblower Program

Labaton Sucharow

Four years ago, the President signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the most sweeping financial reform effort since the Great Depression. One of Dodd-Frank’s key charges was the creation of a whistleblower program that offered anonymous reporting, employment protections and significant monetary incentives to eligible SEC whistleblowers. Is the...

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Whistleblowers Represented by Jordan Thomas Earn Largest SEC Whistleblower Awards in History

New York, NY (March 19, 2018) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it will award a group of whistleblowers more than $83 million, the largest awards announced since the SEC Whistleblower Program was established seven years ago. Represented by Jordan Thomas, the whistleblowers’ tips led to a landmark enforcement action that resulted in Merrill...

Once an SEC Regulator, Now Thriving as a Lawyer for Whistleblowers

The New York Times

In a profile piece published in The New York Times, Whistleblower Practice Chair Jordan A. Thomas talks about his decision to travel “the road not taken,” and how it has benefited those in difficult professional positions. After dealing with a traumatic upbringing and seeking emancipation from his parents at the age of 15, Thomas went...

2019 Half-Time Report
The SEC Whistleblower Program: Where Wall Street Answers to Main Street

We are pleased to bring our clients and friends a midyear report to highlight key awards, trends and issues of import in the SEC whistleblower arena. It’s an exciting time for whistleblowers, and, by extension, investors at large. Since the program’s roll-out, the Commission has received nearly 30,000 tips from 119 countries. Most remarkable, as...

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NPR Features Jordan Thomas on Planet Money Podcast, “The Whistleblower Whisperer”

NPR Planet Money

Leading SEC whistleblower attorney Jordan Thomas was featured on NPR’s Planet Money podcast. In the episode “The Whistleblower Whisperer,” Jordan tells Planet Money co-host Jacob Goldstein about his work representing whistleblowers who provided evidence to the SEC that led to landmark enforcement actions against Wall Street’s biggest banks, including Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan. Jordan also...

October 5, 2018

Jordan A. Thomas Named Whistleblower “Lawyer of the Year”

New York, NY – October 5, 2018 – [Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s] is pleased to announce that its leading SEC whistleblower attorney Jordan A. Thomas, a principal architect of the SEC Whistleblower Program who established the nation’s first law practice exclusively focused on SEC whistleblowers, has been named a 2018 “Lawyer of the Year” by the Taxpayers...

Named one of the top whistleblower practices/attorneys in the country by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and The New Yorker

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