Jason Zuckerman

Jason Zuckerman litigates whistleblower retaliation, qui tam, wrongful discharge, discrimination, non-compete, and other employment-related claims, and authors the Whistleblower Protection Law Blog. Recently, Zuckerman served as Senior Legal Advisor to the Special Counsel at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency charged with protecting whistleblowers in the federal government. In addition, Zuckerman served on the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the Secretary of Labor to improve the fairness, efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of OSHA's administration of whistleblower protections. Zuckerman is rated 10 out of 10 by Avvo and was recognized by Washingtonian magazine as a "Top Whistleblower Lawyer" in 2007 and 2009 and selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America® in the category of employment law (2011 and 2012), and in SuperLawyers (2012). He has lectured extensively on whistleblower law and employment law, especially on Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley and False Claims Act actions, and has written several articles on whistleblower protections. Mr. Zuckerman co-authored a chapter on litigating whistleblower cases for Whistleblowing: The Law of Retaliatory Discharge and drafted a chapter on the D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act for the D.C. Practice Manual. For nearly a decade, Zuckerman has been a contributing author to an annual update on the whistleblower protection provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act published by the ABA Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee. Zuckerman serves as Co-Chair of the Whistleblower Subcommittee of the ABA Labor and Employment Section’s Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee and served as Co-Chair of the Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, Co-Chair of the Whistleblower Committee of the District of Columbia Bar's Labor and Employment Section, and Co-Chair of

University of Virginia School of Law

J.D. (2000)

1997 - 2000

Georgetown University

B.A. (1996) | American Government

1992 - 1996

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude

District of Columbia Bar

Member

2001 - Current

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Since 2001