Stephen M. Kohn
Stephen M. Kohn (Wheelock’79) of Washington, D.C., was named one of America’s Top 200 Lawyers of 2024 by Forbes. Stephen has specialized in whistleblower advocacy. He writes that his firm, Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto, has helped their clients force the FBI crime lab to become accredited, stop illegal nondisclosure agreements, end offshore Swiss banking for American taxpayers, and expose one of the largest money laundering scandals in history. Stephen’s book, Rules for Whistleblowers: A Handbook for Doing What’s Right (Lyons Press, 2023), has received favorable reviews from the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. He and his legal partner, David Colapinto (CAS’84), met at BU under the mentorship of Howard Zinn, the late College of Arts & Sciences professor and a founding board member of their National Whistleblower Center.
From the Fall 2024 issue.