Ari Yampolsky

Ari Yampolsky is a partner at Whistleblower Partners in San Francisco. He has represented whistleblowers under every major whistleblower-reward law for more than a decade. In his False Claims Act practice, Ari has successfully represented individuals exposing healthcare fraud, procurement fraud, and customs fraud. Ari’s cases include ground-breaking state False Claims Act lawsuits against four wireless carriers that resulted in a $138 million settlement. Ari also represents whistleblowers with claims under every reward program run by a federal agency. Ari has helped secure millions of dollars in awards for several financial-fraud whistleblowers under the SEC’s program. Ari and his colleagues also obtained a $24.3 million reward for a former Hyundai safety engineer, the first-ever whistleblower award made by the federal auto-safety regulator.

Previously, Ari was a law clerk for the Honorable Jane Branstetter Stranch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Kevin Hunter Sharp of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Ari graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Irvine School of Law, where he was a member of the inaugural class. Between college and law school, Ari worked for the Service Employees International Union, helping long-term-care employees organize unions and ensure government funds were used to support living-wage jobs.