Stephen M. Kohn

Stephen Martin Kohn is an attorney for Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, a Washington, D.C., law firm specializing in employment law. The author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing, Kohn is recognized as one of the top experts in whistleblower protection law. He also has written extensively on the subject of political prisoners and the history of the abrogation of the rights of political protestors. His interest in First Amendment issues as related to political protest likely spurred his interest in whistleblowers, as whistleblowing cases typically are adjudicated on the basis of the First Amendment.

Kohn is a graduate of Boston University (B.S. in Social Education. 1979) and Brown University (M.A. in political science, '81); he received his law degree from Northeastern University in 1984. While at Boston University, Kohn was one of the founders of the B.U. Exposure, a student-run independent newspaper dedicated to exposing the ethical irregularities of the administration of B.U. President John Silber. (In an interview with Mike Wallace first broadcast on 60 Minutes in January 1980, Silber denounced the B.U. Exposure staff as "short-pants communists".

After graduating from Northeastern Law, Kohn served as an Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor at the Antioch School of Law, where he oversaw a legal clinic on whistleblower protections from 1984-88. He also served as the Clinical Director and Director of Corporate Litigation for the Government Accountability Project.

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