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Some Finance Pros Say Fraud Is Necessary For Success

“When misconduct is common and accepted by financial services professionals, the integrity of our entire financial system is at risk,” Jordan Thomas, partner and chair of [prior firm][‘s] whistleblower representation practice, said in a statement.

A QUARTER of Wall Street Execs See Wrongdoing as the Key to Success (and 16% Said They’d Commit Insider Trading if They Could Get Away With It)

Daily Mail Online

“When misconduct is common and accepted by financial services professionals, the integrity of our entire financial system is at risk,” Jordan Thomas, partner and chair of [prior firm][‘s] whistleblower representation practice, said in a statement.

Many On Wall Street Say Greed Isn’t Just Good — It’s Necessary

Los Angeles Times

“When misconduct is common and accepted by financial services professionals, the integrity of our entire financial system is at risk,” Jordan Thomas, partner and chair of [prior firm][‘s] whistleblower representation practice, said in a statement.

Quarter Of Wall Street Executives See Wrongdoing As Key To Success: Survey

Huffington Post Business

“When misconduct is common and accepted by financial services professionals, the integrity of our entire financial system is at risk,” Jordan Thomas, partner and chair of [prior firm][‘s] whistleblower representation practice, said in a statement.

Many Wall St Execs Says Wrongdoing is Necessary –Survey

“When misconduct is common and accepted by financial services professionals, the integrity of our entire financial system is at risk,” Jordan Thomas, partner and chair of [prior firm][‘s] whistleblower representation practice, said in a statement.

Financial Industry Survey: 16% Would Commit Insider Trading

The Wall Street Journal

But a new survey by law firm [Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s], which looks to work with potential whistleblowers to help SEC investigations, found 26% of financial employees in the U.S. and U.K. surveyed had firsthand knowledge of “wrongdoing in the workplace.” Partly explaining that: 24% of those surveyed believed rules “may have to be broken in...

SEC’s AM Enforcement Unit Close To Full Capacity

“The majority of the asset management unit started the summer of 2011, and last year we brought 30% more enforcement action involving investment managers at a time when the unit was still operating at part capacity,” said Jordan Thomas, chair of the whistle-blowing practice at [prior firm], who previously worked at the SEC and was...

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...

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...

Labaton Sucharow Launches SEC Whistleblower Advocate Site

Corporate Counsel

“I’ve devoted the better part of my professional life to protecting investors,” he says, noting that part of his current practice includes speaking with corporate officers and general counsel about creating “a culture of integrity that will inoculate organizations” from having issues with the SEC in the first place. “The SEC Whistleblower Program has the...

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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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