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September 5, 2014

SEC Whistleblower’s Program Working…Slowly

FINalternatives

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...

2014 Annual Conference

On August 8, 2014, Jordan A. Thomas participated as a speaker at the Securities Experts Roundtable’s annual conference in San Francisco.

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...

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...

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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...

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