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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...

Articles & Perspectives

SEC Whistleblower Rewards Provide a Powerful Incentive

The Globe and Mail

As with Mr. Ben-Artzi, whistleblowers often have to spend countless hours with regulators explaining their allegations, and sometimes hire their own accountants and lawyers to back up their claims. That dissuades people from coming forward. Who wants to risk their career and then spend time and money arguing their case for years against a powerful...

Employee Speech Suit Raises State Constitutional Issues

Connecticut Law Tribune

A lawsuit filed by a manager who lost his job at the Hartford Connecticut office of Swiss financial services giant UBS AG has turned into a pivotal case that could affect how Connecticut workers are protected by the state’s whistleblower law. The Connecticut Supreme Court will try to determine whether free speech provisions in the...

Private Equity’s Free Pass

The New York Times

Jordan A. Thomas, a partner at [prior firm] and a former assistant director in the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, represents the whistleblower. “For more than a decade,” he said, “many leading private equity firms in the country have collected billions of dollars in illegal fees for engaging in unregistered broker-dealer activities...

The Best Way to Honor Whistleblowers on National Whistleblower Appreciation Day? Do More to Protect Them

Labaton Sucharow

In recognition of National Whistleblower Appreciation Day, coming up on July 30, we were asked to contribute a guest post on the Government Accountability Project’s website, which can be found here. GAP is the nation’s leading non-profit, non-partisan whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, which helps expose wrongdoing to the public and actively promotes government and corporate...

Articles & Perspectives

Fed Is Said to Criticize Deutsche Bank’s Oversight and Reporting Efforts

The New York Times

Jordan Thomas, a lawyer who represents a former Deutsche Bank risk analyst who filed a whistleblower claim against the bank, said that regulator, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, sent a letter in December to officials at the German bank notifying them of the findings of its review. Mr. Thomas said he had seen...

Connecticut Supreme Court to Revisit Protection for Whistleblowers

The Wall Street Journal

“If the court interprets the law narrowly, whistleblower employees will have less protection for reporting corporate wrongdoing” in Connecticut, said Jordan Thomas, a lawyer who represents whistleblowers but isn’t involved in Mr. Trusz’s case. “That would be a setback for investors and the general public.”

Pro-whistleblower Organizations Ask SEC to Clarify Protections for Employees

Partner at [prior firm] and former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement official, Jordan A. Thomas and whistleblower advocacy group, the Government Accountability Project, recently filed joint petitions for rulemaking. Written on behalf of more than 250 organizations and nearly two million individuals, the petitions aim to clarify and strengthen whistleblower protections. and coincide with...

Whistle-Blower Advocates Ask SEC To Address Employer Retaliation, Work Pacts

Partner at [prior firm]and former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement official, Jordan A. Thomas and whistleblower advocacy group, the Government Accountability Project, recently filed joint petitions for rulemaking. Written on behalf of more than 250 organizations and nearly two million individuals, the petitions aim to clarify and strengthen whistleblower protections. and coincide with 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...

Articles & Perspectives

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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