As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program continues to spin out multimillion-dollar financial awards to tipsters who report wrongdoing on Wall Street, plaintiffs firm Labaton Sucharow has beefed up its whistleblower practice, hiring former high-ranking SEC official Richard Levine.

Levine, a former longtime associate general counsel for legal policy at the SEC, will focus his efforts on representing whistleblowers in front of the agency in his new role as a partner at Labaton in Washington, D.C. Levine’s hire lands him among other former SEC officials already in Labaton’s five-partner whistleblower practice, including the group’s leader, Jordan Thomas, who started the practice in 2011 after several years as a lawyer in the SEC’s enforcement division.