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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...

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...

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...

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February 10, 2020

Jordan Thomas Recognized as a 2020 Top Thought Leader in Trust

Whistleblower Representation Practice Chair Jordan Thomas has been named a Trust Across America 2020 Top Thought Leader in Trust. A multi-year award winner, Jordan joins corporate leaders, academics and researchers who transform the way organizations build and operate their businesses. Describing Jordan’s work, Trust Across America wrote “And what if the SEC could tap the...

February 1, 2018

A Conversation with Jordan Thomas: The Origins of the SEC Whistleblower Program

Labaton Sucharow LLP

How to avoid the next financial crisis? How to detect the next fraud and deter the next fraudster? These questions plagued regulators, law enforcement, legislators and the public at large following the collapse of the global economy in 2008. One idea that would prove to be prescient and, in its execution, extraordinarily successful, was the...

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Labaton Sucharow Wins National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers Award for Securities Litigation

— Firm’s immigration pro bono efforts also recognized as the best in 2019 The National Law Journal has recognized Labaton Sucharow’s securities litigation practice as one of the best in 2019, earning the publication’s most prestigious plaintiffs’ bar award of the year. The NLJ’s annual Elite Trial Lawyers award honors the law firms that have demonstrated repeated success in...

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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