Stephen M. Kohn (Executive Director, NWC) Stephen M. Kohn is one of the nation's leading advocates for corporate and government whistleblowers. His record of winning whistleblower cases, at trial and on appeal, dates back to 1984. Many of his court victories have become landmark precedents in modern workplace law, establishing the employee's right to free speech under the First Amendment. A respected scholar as well as a litigator, he has testified in Congress on behalf of whistleblowers and worked with the Senate Judiciary staff to draft corporate whistleblower protections under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Prior to practicing whistleblower protection law, Mr. Kohn served as a student law clerk to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Kohn served as Clinical Director of the groundbreaking whistleblower rights clinic at the Antioch School of Law. He is the author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing, Protecting Environmental and Nuclear Whistleblowers: A Litigation Manual (NIRS, 1985). Since then, he has authored or co-authored numerous articles and books on the subject, including: Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees (Praeger, 2004); Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law (Greenwood Press, 2000); The Whistleblower Litigation Handbook (Wiley Law, 1991); and The Labor Lawyers Guide to the Rights and Responsibilities of Employee Whistleblowers (Greenwood Press, 1988). He has also written widely on American law and its relation to human rights.

Stephen Kohn serves as the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and a Trustee of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 2006, Northeastern University awarded Mr. Kohn the prestigious Daynard Public Interest Fellowship, recognizing him as a "social justice path-breaker" and "distinguished practitioner of public interest law" who serves as a role model "demonstrating how legal skills can be used effectively and creatively to make the world a better place."

David K. Colapinto (General Counsel, Special Litigation, NWC) David K. Colapinto is a nationally recognized whistleblower advocate with expertise in government fraud and qui tam cases and whistleblower retaliation cases. He has successfully represented many whistleblowers in state and federal courts and before numerous agencies.

A key attorney in several cases of national interest, Mr. Colapinto represented the leading whistleblower in a major qui tam fraud action against the drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb, helping to recover more than $500 million for U.S. taxpayers and the government under the False Claims Act in 2007. He has also played a central role in securing whistleblower protection for FBI employees, such as the firm's successful efforts on behalf of Fredric Whitehurst, the forensics expert who suffered recriminations after reporting poor lab practices at the bureau. He served as co-counsel in Linda Tripp's successful lawsuit citing Privacy Act violations by the Department of Defense. An experienced litigator, he has established important precedent under the Freedom of Information Act. He is the co-author of Whistleblower Law: A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees (Praeger, 2004). 

Anthony C. Munter (Legal Director, National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund) Anthony Munter specializes in government contract fraud and has filed numerous qui tam whistleblower claims under the Federal False Claims Act and State False Claims Cases. In a case before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2005, he successfully appealed a ruling that earlier had led to the extended detention of an alien in Andrewes v. U.S. INS. 

 


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