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Stephen M. Kohn is considered one of America's leading whistleblower legal professionals, regarded for his successful illustration of whistleblowers in groundbreaking instances.

Stephen M. Kohn, along together with his partners, is considered one among America's main whistleblower lawyers. With a profession spanning over three many years, Kohn has set up himself as a fierce advise for people who talk out towards fraud and corruption. One of his most brilliant cases concerned representing Bradley Birkenfeld, the maximum essential tax whistleblower in U.S. records, and securing the largest whistleblower reward ever paid to an character whistleblower, a stunning 4 million.

Since 1984, Kohn's exercise has been committed solely to advocating for whistleblowers, expanding legal guidelines that defend and praise them, and litigating modern-day instances. He has efficiently represented whistleblowers below diverse country and federal laws, consisting of the False Claims Act/qui tam legal guidelines, and has performed a key position in setting up critical precedent protecting whistleblowers beneath the First Amendment.

In current years, Kohn's exercise has expanded to helping international whistleblowers in submitting claims in the United States for securities fraud, tax fraud, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He has served as lead counsel in predominant precedent-setting whistleblower instances, each at trial and in appeals court docket rulings.

Kohn has also been actively concerned in shaping whistleblower legal guidelines, running with Congressional group of workers to advocate language that was integrated into most important rules consisting of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the Whistleblower Protection Act. Many of his proposals had been adopted by using the Securities and Exchange Commission for the duration of their whistleblower-rulemaking court cases.

In addition to his criminal paintings, Kohn volunteers because the seasoned bono Executive Director of the National Whistleblower, wherein he has filed severa amicus briefs on behalf of whistleblowers in key Supreme Court cases. He wrote the primary prison treatise on whistleblower regulation in 1985 and has authored several books on whistleblowing, which includes "The Whistleblower's Handbook," which changed into praised with the aid of the Wall Street Journal as vital studying for whistleblowers.

In 2014, Kohn and his organization were recognized by means of the National Law Journal as many of the top 50 plaintiffs' law workplaces inside the United States.

Legal Issues

Employment Law

Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination

Tax Law

Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning

Securities Law

International Law

Human Rights, Imports & Exports

Gov & Administrative Law

Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs

• Whistleblower Protections and Rewards under the False Claims Act
• Whistleblower Protections and Rewards under the Dodd-Frank Act
• Whistleblower Protections and Rewards under the Internal Revenue Code
• Whistleblower Protections and Rewards under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Certificates

No Certifications

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Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Partner
  Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto
  1988
• Director of Corporate Litigation
  Government Accountability Project
  1984
• Supervisor of Whistleblower Advocacy Clinic
  Antioch School of Law
  1984
• Judicial Intern, Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Circuit Judge
  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  1982

Education

Associations

Costs

• Free Consultancy Service
• Conditional Fees
• Retaines and Rates
  For information about the fee policies at Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto, see our Standard Billing Rates page, http://www.kkc.com/our-firm/standard-billing-rates/

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