Federal Bureau of Investigation Cases
The law firm founded by the Kohn brothers in 1988 first focused on defending nuclear power industry whistleblowers, who were retaliated against by their employers for revealing nuclear safety problems. This led to other areas of whistleblowing litigation, most prominently in the firm's defense of federal employees. KKC defended African American FBI agents charging racial discrimination within the bureau . The firm also defended Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, a forensics expert who blew the whistle on the lax standards at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Laboratory and subsequently suffered retaliation by the agency. Involvement in the FBI Lab case involved KKC in the O.J. Simpson murder case, as the forensic standards used by the prosecutors, and the forensic work itself such as DNA analysis, were called into question by Whitehurst's revelations against the FBI Lab, which had become the national authority in the field of forensics investigations.
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