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Law & Order: Client-Broker Disputes

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The last couple of years have been hell on anyone who owns stock. And someone must pay. Rightly or wrongly, that person typically is you. Case in point: the rate of NASD arbitration cases is expected to increase nearly 35 percent in 2002 compared with 2000. That’s a lot of brokers on the hot seat. […]

Mighty Merrill Lynch bogs down in legal troubles

USA Today

NEW YORK – Douglas and Deborah Millar are about to become $7.7 million richer. The Pennsylvania couple didn’t buy a state lottery ticket. Instead, they played another popular game of chance: Sue Your Broker. In granting one of the largest awards on record six weeks ago, a private arbitration panel ruled that Merrill Lynch failed […]

Firm Breaks Through Hearings Controversy

Los Angeles Business Journal

NASD arbitration hearings are currently frozen in California, due to the NASD’s opposition to new state regulations governing arbitrators’ conflicts of interest and disclosure. The NASD has taken the position that the state rules are unworkable, and the matter is pending before courts and regulatory bodies. However, the Beverly Hills last firm last month argued […]

Life After Lompoc: Post-Prison, Executives Face Rough Re-Entry

Wall Street Journal

Hartley Bernstein has a neighbor who revels in calling him “a felon.” His mother wonders: “Did I do something wrong raising you?” His probation officer asks: “What are you doing with your life?” Mr. Bernstein used to be a prominent New York attorney, a self-described “rainmaker.” But he represented stock-manipulation schemers who were cheating investors […]

Investors Burned in Bear Market Turn On Brokers

Seattle Times

Irate investors who have been burned by their brokers or the market are out for revenge. Across the nation, legal filings against stockbrokers are at unprecedented levels, said the National Association of Securities Dealers, which regulates brokers. Securities attorneys say they’re being bombarded with legitimate cases and with calls from people who have lost lots […]