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February 9, 2012

Evidence, Access Aid Job Security When Compliance Staff Raise a Red Flag

Firms should adopt innovative techniques to encourage employees to report possible unethical conduct, including recognizing them publicly and offering financial incentives, said Jordan Thomas, a partner in [prior firm]. “Organizations should be prepared to investigate, in a timely manner, reports of misconduct. When legal or ethical violations are discovered, violators should be held accountable, regardless...

February 1, 2012

Corporate Counsel

But what is prompt and resource-saving for the SEC can mean the opposite for others. Jordan Thomas, a former assistant director and assistant chief litigation counsel for the SEC, admits as much. He says, “It is true, when defendants fail to accept responsibility for their misconduct, there can be negative collateral consequences, including the inefficiency...

Retaliation in the Workplace: Why It Matters and What Companies Can Do About It

Reports & Surveys

Mapping Misconduct: An Overview of Significant SEC Enforcement Actions Since the Passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Reports & Surveys

January 28, 2012

National Business Ethics Survey Results – Signs of Hope, Also Causes for Concern

Labaton Sucharow

In January, the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) released its biennial National Business Ethics Survey (NBES), widely recognized as a definitive measure of workplace ethics. A number of the key findings were positive. For instance, the survey found that 45% of respondents had witnessed workplace misconduct, a drop from 49% in 2009. Set against the degree...

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January 19, 2012

Will New Whistleblower Program Really Help SEC Investigations?

Labaton Sucharow

“It’s a new SEC,” Jordan Thomas told Fox Business News in January, characterizing the agency’s renewed commitment and enhanced law enforcement capabilities under its new whistleblower program. With the significant employment protections and the possibility for substantial monetary awards, whistleblowers have new reasons to provide the SEC and other enforcement bodies with early and invaluable...

Articles & Perspectives

January 13, 2012

Will Whistleblower Rules Help SEC Investigations?

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January 12, 2012

To Blow the Whistle — or Not

If this trend continues, the number of whistleblower submissions is likely to exceed the number of cases that the Enforcement Division actively investigates, according to Thomas, who says he was surprised by the overall results of the survey. “At the SEC, I knew that there were no shortages of securities violations to investigate and prosecute,”...

January 12, 2012

Will Whistleblower Rules Help SEC Investigations

Fox Business News

January 10, 2012

Study: Whistleblowers Want Anonymity, Monetary Rewards

Compliance Week

The survey suggests that many employees remain tight-lipped on misconduct, says Jordan Thomas, a partner and chair of [prior firm][‘s] whistleblower representation practice. “Many corporations should reconsider their policies and practices regarding communicating with those who reported misconducts to them. Failure to do so may lead to unnecessary whistleblower submissions to the SEC.”

January 5, 2012

Survey Sees Less Misconduct But More Reporting And Retaliation

The Wall Street Journal

Whether the perceived retaliation is real, Thomas said, it creates a negative experience reporting misconduct internally, and that will drive other potential informants reporting securities violations to exercise their rights under the Dodd-Frank Act to report first to the Securities and Exchange Commission. “It’s situations like Olympus that lead employees to not have confidence in...

2012 Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program

Reports & Surveys

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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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