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Whistleblower Summit: Civil and Human Rights Conference

On July 30, 2014, Jordan A. Thomas served as a panelist in “Strengthening Anti-Reprisal Rights under the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform.” The panel examined appropriate rule-making for the SEC to clarify and strengthen protections available to those who report misconduct internally or externally. This session was part of the Whistleblower Summit: Civil and Human Rights Conference,...

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...

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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...

SEC Needs Stronger Whistleblower Rules, Ex-Official Says

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...

Coalition Blows the Whistle on Whistleblower Retaliation

Corporate Counsel

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...

SEC Whistle Blower Program Increasingly Stymied

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...

BNP Case Spurs Calls for Whistleblower Incentives in Banking

“We have a (whistleblower) law that covers tax fraud and fraud against the government (and) commodities and securities violations, but we don’t have similar laws for banking regulators,” said Jordan Thomas, head of a prominent whistleblower representation practice at [prior firm] and an architect of the SEC’s program. “To me, that is a significant gap.”...

Coalition Presses SEC on Whistleblower Rules

The Wall Street Journal

[Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s] and the Government Accountability Project formed a petition requesting that the SEC improve prohibitions on certain employment agreements and publicly clarify how protection from retaliation works for whistleblowers. The petition is a reaction to some of the “egregious and aggressive” tactics firms have taken in recent years in response to the program,...

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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...

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