Bloomberg Law
Sept. 18, 2018, 11:40 AM UTC

Labaton Sucharow Beefs up its Whistleblower Protection Bench

Elizabeth Olson
Elizabeth Olson
Special Correspondent

Richard Levine, veteran Securities and Exchange Commission associate counsel, is joining Labaton Sucharow as a partner in the firm’s whistleblower representation practice.

Levine helped start the SEC whistleblower program in 2011, which has recovered some $1.5 billion from enforcement actions and awarded around $320 million to nearly 60 whistleblowers.

Levine, whose title was associate general counsel for legal policy at the SEC, is now part of Labaton’s program that helps whistleblowers report possible securities violations anonymously.

Levine, who retired from the SEC in 2016, said in a phone interview that joining the plaintiffs’ litigation firm was “the opportunity to continue ...

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