Firm Profile

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, based in Washington, D.C., is the nation’s leading law firm for whistleblower protection. We stand up in court for those who speak out against unjust and illegal practices on the job. As experts in employee litigation, our attorneys focus on the many complex statutes that today are at issue in whistleblower cases, including the qui tam provision of the False Claims Act, which encourages workers to report government contract fraud. With clients from both the public and private sectors, we also pursue actions involving wrongful dismissal, the American worker’s right to privacy and free speech, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Freedom of Information Act, to name a few.

Founded in 1988, KKC has won numerous landmark decisions, rewriting workplace law while earning millions of dollars in damages for our clients. The firm has successfully litigated a series of prominent cases, generating widespread recognition via the national press. Meanwhile, our volunteer efforts on behalf of lesser-known whistleblowers and the crucial role they play in a free society have earned us the respect of our legal peers. The attorneys at KKC support all those who serve the larger good by revealing work-related assaults on the nation’s health and defense, from government malfeasance to the corporate disregard for nuclear and environmental regulations.

KK&C and each of its partners have an "AV®" rating from the Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.TM This rating is based on a peer review survey conducted by Martindale-Hubbell.


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Our achievements include:

  • Challenging government contract fraud across the United States.
     
  • Holding contractors accountable by recovering over half a billion dollars for taxpayers and compelling criminal prosecution of unscrupulous companies.
     
  • Working with Congress to pass critical whistleblower laws, including the No-FEAR Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the consumer product safety act,  adding whistleblower protections into the stimulus laws,  and the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act.
     
  • Leading the effort to ban "hush money" payments in federal cases involving environmental and nuclear violations.
     
  • Setting national precedent permitting federal employees to speak publicly and criticize their employing agencies.
     
  • Revealing vulnerabilities at U.S. nuclear power plants to airborne terrorist attack and forcing reforms within the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
     
  • Creating precedent permitting federal employees to use the "mixed case" theory in order to obtain the right to trial by jury on their merit systems protection board claims
     
  • Findings government doctors protected under the whistleblower protection act
     
  • Pushing to win reinstatement for the country's highest-ranking nuclear
    whistleblower.
     
  • Forcing the recall of thousands of unsafe bullet proof vests sold to law enforcement and members of the u.s. military
     
  • Helping to block President George W. Bush's nominee for a top enforcement post at the EPA, a state regulator who had punished an employee for investigating a cancer cluster.
     
  • Documenting deficiencies in the FBI's counterterrorism program and misconduct in its investigations at the World Trade Center site after 9/11.
     
  • Forcing the FBI to improve and accredit its crime lab.
     
  • Establishing precedents under the first amendment, state common law and numerous federal statutes, recognizing and expanding whistleblower protection.
     
  • Vindicating whistleblowers before juries, judges and the public.
     
  • Winning the first-ever "hostile work environment" whistleblower retaliation case