Whistleblower Law

Rules for Whistleblowers: A Handbook for Doing What’s Right

“As a whistleblower who has successfully won a case against the FBI, I can attest to the fact that this is the definitive Bible for whistleblowers. Written by the premier whistleblower attorney in the United States, this handbook contains everything you will need to know about blowing the whistle and surviving.”

Jane Turner - FBI Whistleblower Jane Turner, Former Senior Counsel and Tax Counsel for the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Charles E. Grassley, 2001-2008
Whistleblower Law

The New Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Doing What’s Right And Protecting Yourself

“Finally — the “how-to” guide for whistleblowers. This is a much-needed step-by-step explanation for anyone thinking about speaking out against fraud and corruption. Whistleblowers will avoid a lot of tears from the book’s checklists and dos and don’ts. Written in clear and understandable language, this book should be in the bottom drawer of anyone thinking about blowing the whistle — and on the desk for managers who want to improve compliance.”

Dean Zerbe Dean Zerbe, Former Senior Counsel and Tax Counsel for the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Charles E. Grassley, 2001-2008
Whistleblower Law

Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees (Co-authors Michael D. Kohn & David Colapinto)

“Corporate whistleblowers are the unsung heroes on Wall Street. However, because these corporate employees are frequently subject to retaliation, it is essential that they have a thorough understanding of their rights. The new book Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees provides a clear, comprehensive and easy-to-understand explanation of the employee-protection requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.”

Senator Grassley Senator Chuck Grassley, United States Senator (R - IA)
American Political Prisoners

American Political Prisoners: Prosecutions under the Espionage and Sedition Act

This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, their trade union activities, or their unpopular political or religious beliefs. Based on the author’s exclusive access to the uncensored prison files of many of these prisoners, and information obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act, Kohn relays the powerful prison experiences of some of America’s most famous and colorful labor, socialist, and peace leaders. With over ten years of research, and access to tens of thousands of pages of never-before released U.S. Department of Justice records, Stephen Kohn has been able to recreate the actual prison experiences of these political prisoners.

“An extraordinary feat of research, extracting from a reluctant government the records that are published for the first time in this book.”

Howard Zinn, Author, “A People’s History of the United States Former Professor Emeritus, Boston University”
Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law

Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law

“For the past 25 years, Kohn’s been in the trenches fighting the whistleblower wars. The lessons learned from those wars have been distilled in this book.”

Michael E. Tigar, Professor of Law at American University

“Stephen Kohn’s book gives workers, their unions, and their lawyers all the tools they need to make sure that when the whistle is blown, the wrongdoer and not the whistleblower gets punished.”

John Sweeney, Former President, AFL-CIO
Jailed for Peace

Jailed for Peace: The History of American Draft Law Violators, 1658-1985

“While its copious notes and statistical apparatus attest to real scholarship in its composition, this sympathetic history of resistance to military conscription in the U.S. is no dry-as-dust academic tone. It is a concise, humane chronicle of the most familiar expression of a very old American ideal-pacifism.”

Brian David Mussington, Booklist
Employee Whistleblowers

The Labor Lawyer’s Guide to the Rights and Responsibilities of Employee Whistleblowers

“Whistle-blowers now have increased protection.”

Society for Human Resource Management HR Magazine
Whistleblower Litigation

The Whistleblower Litigation Handbook: Environmental, Nuclear, Health, and Safety Claims

“Kohn cuts through the maze.”

Legal Publishing Review
Nuclear Whistleblowers

Protecting Environmental and Nuclear Whistleblowers: A Litigation Manual

“The efforts to protect employees who assist in the enforcement of our Nation’s environmental laws has been significantly enhanced by the publication of Protecting Environmental and Nuclear Whistleblowers: A Litigation Manual, by Stephen M. Kohn. Kohn has prepared this detailed and comprehensive manual which shows both attorneys and workers how to use successfully the Federal worker protection statutes.”

James Florio, Former Governor of New Jersey
False Claims Act - Federal, State and Municipal Qui Tam Laws

False Claims Acts: Federal, State and Municipal Qui Tam Laws

Federal Whistleblower Laws and Regulations

Federal Whistleblower Laws and Regulations