Jordan Thomas

• Thomas began his legal career as a Navy Judge Advocate on active duty.
• He worked as a stockbroker while in law school.
• He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.
• He is a principal architect of the SEC Whistleblower Program in 2011.
• He established the nation’s first whistleblower practice exclusively focused on violations of the federal securities laws.
• He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the States of Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia.
• His clients won the largest single-case SEC whistleblower award in history, more than $83 million for reporting misconduct at Merrill Lynch.
• He has represented SEC whistleblowers in matters that have led to over $1 billion in sanctions.
• Among his many landmark cases, he successfully represented:
  • the first officer of a public company to win an SEC whistleblower award
  • the first SEC whistleblower to receive criminal immunity
  • the first SEC whistleblower to receive a whistleblower award because his company retaliated against him

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

• He chairs the Standing Committee on the SEC, IRS & CFTC for TAFEF.

PAST APPOINTMENTS

• He served as the Chair of the Investor Rights Committee of the District of Columbia Bar.
• He served as a board member of the City Bar Fund, the pro bono affiliate of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
• He was a Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice, where he specialized in complex financial services litigation involving the FDIC and Office of Thrift Supervision. 

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2017 Enforcement 40 by Securities Docket
• 2015 Top Thought Leaders in Trust by Trust! Magazine 
  
• 2014 Superstar by Corporate Responsibility Magazine
• 2012 Legal Rebel by the American Bar Association Journal, in recognition of his trailblazing efforts in the legal field
• One of the Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers by Lawdragon
• Shortlisted for Plaintiff Attorney of the Year by Benchmark Litigation
• Distinguished Leader by the New York Law Journal
• Securities Law MVP by Law360 
• Local Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation
• Lawyer of the Year by the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund
• Plaintiffs' Lawyers Trailblazer by The National Law Journal
• Top Thought Leader in Trust by Trust Across America
• While at the SEC, he received four Chairman's Awards, four Division Director's Awards, and a Letter of Commendation from the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
• The Ethisphere Institute included him in its listing of Attorneys Who Matter, which recognizes leading practitioners in corporate ethics.
• He has received an AV Preeminent rating, the highest attorney rating available, from the publishers of the Martindale-Hubbell legal directory.
• He is also a decorated military officer, who has twice been awarded the Rear Admiral Hugh H. Howell Award of Excellence, the highest award the Navy can bestow upon a reserve judge advocate.