Stephen M. Kohn is one of the nation’s foremost experts in whistleblower protection law and the author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing, Protecting Environmental and Nuclear Whistleblowers: A Litigation Manual.

In addition, he has authored or co-authored five additional books on whistleblower law: The Labor Lawyers Guide to the Rights and Responsibilities of Employee Whistleblowers , The Whistleblower Litigation Handbook , Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law , and Whistleblower Law:  A Guide to Legal Protections for Corporate Employees.

Since 1984, Mr. Kohn has successfully represented whistleblowers in numerous cases (both at trial and on appeal), has testified in Congress on behalf of whistleblower reforms, and has worked directly with the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee on drafting the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate whistleblower law.  Mr. Kohn has filed numerous qui tam claims on behalf of employees who disclosed government fraud, has successfully litigated landmark precedents establishing employee rights under the First Amendment, and has represented whistleblowers in the O.J Simpson murder case, the World Trade Center bombing cases, the Oklahoma City bombing case and the Linda Tripp Privacy Act case. Mr. Kohn was awarded the Danyard Public Interest Fellowship in 2007 by the Northeastern University School of Law.

Prior to co-founding NWC in 1988, Mr. Kohn served as an Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor at the Antioch School of Law (supervising a legal clinic on whistleblower protections from 1984 to 1988) and he served as the Clinical Director and Director of Corporate Litigation for the Government Accountability Project.  In 2006, Mr. Kohn was named the Northeastern University School of Law’s Daynard Public Interest Visiting Fellow.  Mr. Kohn has a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law; an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University; and a B.S. in Social Education from Boston University.  In addition to his books on whistleblower law, Mr. Kohn is the author of Jailed for Peace  and American Political Prisoners. Mr. Kohn is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and also serves as an Attorney-Trustee for the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund.