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Balancing Conscience and Confidentiality for Attorney Whistleblowers

Corporate Counsel

Attorneys-in-house and outside counsel alike-often stand at the crossroads of corporate misconduct. At one time, attorneys’ duty to maintain corporate clients’ confidences was thought to be virtually absolute. But that changed over time, as relevant rules and laws gave lawyers greater discretion to make public disclosures to avert clients’ anticipated or ongoing wrongdoing. And now,...

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Investor Bulletin: Municipal Bonds

“The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to help educate investors about assessing credit risks they face when purchasing municipal bonds, which may also be called notes or certificates of participation. Credit risk—or default risk—is the risk that interest and/or principal on the securities will not be paid on...

Rise In Whistleblower Protections Inspires New Firm Practices

Firms that focus exclusively on whistleblowing, as well as securities and employment firms, are those that will continue to focus on whistleblower actions, according to Jordan Thomas, chairman of the whistleblower practice at [prior firm]. However, he says, most of those firms have already incorporated these types of lawsuits into their services. “I expect the...

SEC Whistleblowers Waiting For Big Payouts As Rumors Of First Award Mount

Huffington Post

“I think that it will be significant, because one of the ways that whistleblower programs establish trust with potential whistleblowers is when they make payments,” said Jordan Thomas, a former SEC official who oversaw the creation of the whistleblower program and who now represents whistleblowers at the [prior firm] in New York. “It’s going to...

Survey Suggests SEC Whistleblower Program Has Not Significantly Affected Internal Reporting, Still Companies Should Do More

Labaton Sucharow

In August and September 2011, TheCorporateCounsel.net surveyed the impact of the SEC Whistleblower Program and how companies are responding to the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Contrary to the significant concerns expressed by the corporate community during the legislative and regulatory process, more than a year after the...

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Corporate Executives Concerned About Whistleblowers, Survey Finds

Labaton Sucharow

An October 2011 survey by law firm Littler Mendelson indicated that 96% of executives surveyed are at least moderately concerned about potential whistleblower claims against their companies in light of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new whistleblower program. The firm’s survey of senior legal, compliance and human resources executives at publicly traded or highly-regulated...

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SEC Criticized Over Revelation of a Whistleblower’s Identity

Labaton Sucharow

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), having faced significant criticism in recent years, was dealt another PR blow in a recent Wall Street Journal article reporting the agency’s “inadvertent” outing of an SEC whistleblower. According to the article, the disclosure occurred during an investigation of Pipeline Trading Systems LLC, when an SEC lawyer shared the...

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Blowing the Whistle Without Fear

Accounting Today

Jordan Thomas co-authored an article for Accouting Today, informing accountants on how they can participate in the SEC Whistleblower Program without fear of retaliation.

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How to Read an 8-K

“A company has just released its quarterly earnings. Another company has auditor news that could raise a red flag, and a third company is filing for bankruptcy. Where can you find more facts? Information about these events and many more are found in a document called a current report on Form 8-K.”

The Power of One: The Goldman Lesson

Labaton Sucharow

Whether you’re a Facebooker, Twitter is your information on-ramp of choice, or you still hold stubbornly to good old-fashioned newsprint, chances are, on March 14 you heard about “The Goldman Resignation.” Greg Smith’s stunningly public resignation through a New York Times op-ed certainly was one for the record books. Indeed, Smith was probably still bubble-wrapping...

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SEC Whistleblower Reveal Won’t Sink Program, Attys Say

That could hurt some enforcement actions, but it would be limited to the small percentage of cases that actually go to trial, said [Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s] partner Jordan Thomas, who helped craft the SEC’s whistleblower program while at the commission. “I think it affects the effectiveness, to some degree, of related enforcement actions, because it’s...

Jordan Thomas on Whistleblower Advocacy

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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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