Accomplishments

The firm is most proud of the ability of its partners to win major cases for whistleblowers.  Some of these cases are highlighted in the Whistleblowers and Major Cases sections.  


Linked on the right are some of the recognitions received by the firm and its partners from peer-reviewers or ot her organizations or courts that have acknowledged the firm's accomplishments.  

Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto's achievements include:

  • Challenging government contract fraud across the United States.
     
  • Holding government contractors accountable by compelling civil penalties and criminal prosecution of unscrupulous companies.
  • Proudly representing clients whose disclosures have resulted in the direct recovery of over $2 billion to the U.S. Taxpayers from dishonest corporations and individuals.
     
  • 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