We all know that defending promissory note cases for brokers is difficult. After all, those notes have been written, revised, rehashed and reworked by brokerage firm attorneys for years.As I have noted in the past, and in my near daily telephone consultations with brokers with promissory note issues, this does […]
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Typical Customer Arbitration Claims
There are thousands of complaints filed every year, and they fall into categories. UPDATED November 19, 2021. The trial of customer arbitration claims is a large part of my legal practice. I have been representing customers and brokers in securities arbitration matters since 1982. In those 35 years, I have […]
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Featured Books Securities Litigation and Enforcement in a Nutshell – The 2nd edition of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Nutshell focuses on an area of law that burgeoned nearly two decades ago after the accounting and corporate governance scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and other large publicly traded companies. It is […]
Suitability and Whisper Numbers under Attack
New Proposals for a New Millennium – Suitability and Whisper Numbers Mark J. Astarita The end of the millennium has further demonstrated the changes that are in store for the brokerage industry in the start of the new millennium. Last month I took a look forward, but since writing that […]