Stephen M. Kohn is a founding partner of the whistleblower rights law firm Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto LLP and co-founder of the National Whistleblower Center in Washington, DC. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading whistleblower rights attorneys. He won the largest tax whistleblower reward for Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, and the largest reward ever paid under the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) programs. He represents Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson in the largest money laundering scandal in history. His successful advocacy has resulted in landmark precedents in whistleblower and qui tam law. He helped draft many key whistleblower provisions, including in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act, IRS Qui Tam whistleblower program and US Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. He is the world’s most published author on whistleblower protection, including his seventh book, The New Whistleblower's Handbook. He teaches whistleblower law at the Northeastern University School of Law.