Rules for Whistleblowers
A Handbook for Doing What's Right

Learn how whistleblowers have saved lives, stopped frauds, protected their jobs, and earned million-dollar rewards for doing the right thing.

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Experts Reviews

“Rules for Whistleblowers: A Handbook for Doing What’s Right, delivers on the title’s promise, providing a comprehensive overview of what it takes to bring a successful whistleblower suit.”

DC BAR Read Full Review

“Definitive and compulsively readable.”

Kirkus Read Full Review

What the Whistleblowers are Saying

With the Holy Bible in one hand and Mr. Kohn's Whistleblower Handbook in the other, my wife crushed a powerful corporation.

Jim Gunther - pro se representative Gunther v. Deltek pro se representative

The only lawyer still on my side was Stephen Kohn...he was as smart as they come and feisty as a pit bull. Steve was convinced the government owed me a fat reward, and he was going to get it or die trying.

Bradley Birkenfeld Receipt of the Largest Individual Whistleblower Reward $104 Million

Meet the Author

For the past 25 years, Kohn’s been in the trenches fighting the whistleblower wars. The lessons learned from those wars have been distilled in this book.

Michael E. Tigar Professor of Law at American University

Kohn is a feared litigator in government and corporate circles.

John Solomon News and Investigations Editor, Newsweek/The Daily Beast

What the Press and Experts are Saying

An essential resource for potential whistleblowers, packed with practical advice.

Publisher's Weekly Read Full Review

The top ten books about whistleblowers.

PEN Center, USA Selected by the Pen Center as one of the “top ten books about whistleblowers.”

Vastly shrewd and practical, but it also offers an astute long view of American whistle-blowing.

The Boston Globe

If you’re among the 34% of Americans who have seen wrongdoing at their job, you may want to add this Read More

The Wall Street Journal

[The Handbook] is the single best volume collection of all laws, rights, and obligations related to whistleblowing that I have Read More

Thomas R. Fox FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog

The ultimate legal guide to protecting yourself.

PEN Center, USA Selected by the Pen Center as one of the “top ten books about whistleblowers.”

Finally — the “how-to” guide for whistleblowers. This is a much-needed step-by-step explanation for anyone thinking about speaking out against Read More

Dean Zerbe Forbes.com Columnist

The Whistleblower’s Handbook opens a window into the controversial but vital role of whistleblowers in America’s workplace dating from the Read More

Donna Boehme Founder Compliance Strategists LLC

Whistleblowing handbook points up some serious pitfalls.

The Washington Times

This comprehensive and well researched…. book by Kohn is an invaluable tool and guide to anyone finding themselves in the Read More

East County Magazine

If you are a Chief Compliance Officer [this] is a gift you may wish to give yourself.

FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog

If you are a Chief Compliance Officer [this] is a gift you may wish to give yourself.

Mark Worth European Center for Whistleblower Rights

Security directors who want to increase the chances that insiders will have the courage to come forward should consider purchasing Read More

SecurityManagement.com

Whistleblowers should read The Whistleblower’s Handbook. Its twenty-one rules lay out the game plan for holding institutions accountable while protecting Read More

Michael Radutzky Senior Producer 60 Minutes

Whether you are a corporate crime defense counsel, a worker thinking on turning in your crooked boss, or a whistleblower’s Read More

Corporate Crime Reporter

It’s vastly shrewd and practical, but it also offers an astute long view of American whistle-blowing.

The Boston Globe

You may want to add this book to your Christmas wish list. Just don’t let your boss catch you reading Read More

The Wall Street Journal

What the Whistlebowers are Saying

Whistleblowers need this Handbook!

Dr. Frederic Whitehurst FBI Crime Lab Whistleblower

“Steve has written a first-rate handbook for workers who have witnessed egregious examples of waste, fraud or abuse which they Read More

William Sanjour EPA Whistleblower

“As a National Security whistleblower, I am very familiar with the plight of those who dare to expose corruption, fraud, Read More

Julia Davis Department of Homeland Security Whistleblower

I hope that employees of every defense contractor use the book to ensure that taxpayers are not robbed by unscrupulous Read More

Bunnatine Greenhouse Army Corps of Engineers Whistleblower

This book arms the whistleblower with the vital ammunition needed to effectively document corruption, while guiding them in how to Read More

Linda Tripp White House Whistleblower

As a whistleblower who has successfully won a case against the FBI, I can attest to the fact that this Read More

Jane Turner FBI Whistleblower and 25 Year Veteran Agent

Steve Kohn’s book The Whistleblower’s Handbook provides a great service to current and would-be whistleblowers and to our citizenry by Read More

Russ Tise Former Intelligence Officer (NSA) National Security Agency

This is a great book… Read [The Handbook] to see how Stephen Kohn won a case using his powerful skills Read More

Dr. Donald R. Soeken America’s best-known psychological counselor to whistleblowers.

his book highlights citizen empowerment and true grassroots democracy in action. As a whistleblower, I know the power of speaking Read More

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Founder of No FEAR Coalition

Meet the Author

Stephen Kohn's new book on whistleblowing . . . is a masterpiece. The book is an invaluable resource.

Victoria Toensing Founding Partner of di Genova & Toensing

Stephen Kohn's book gives workers, their unions, and their lawyers all the tools they need to make sure that when Read More

John Sweeney Former President AFL-CIO

Stephen Kohn's new treatise on Whistleblower Protection Law provides a critical resource in a vital area. Whistleblowers help protect us Read More

Gerard M Waites Partner at O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue.

The ultimate legal guide to protecting yourself.

PEN Center, USA Selected by the Pen Center as one of the “top ten books about whistleblowers.”

Stephen Kohn has written an inspiring and optimistic report on the state of whistleblowing in the US and guides us Read More

Gina Vega Professor of Management at the Bertolon School of Business and Author of Moral Courage

In a mix of anecdote, legal history, compendium of relevant laws and practical handbook, Stephen Kohn tries to steer both would-be whistleblowers and corporate compliance officers through what he calls a ‘labyrinth’.

Financial Times