The Importance of Selection of Experienced Counsel

FINRA securities arbitration is the forum for the resolution for most disputes between customers, financial service professionals and financial institutions. The retention of an experienced law firm and counsel is a critical step, a decision that should be made with great care. While some firms offer legal services, few – if any – have our experience and credentials.

Bakhtiari & Harrison is an “AV” rated law firm that represents retail and institutional investors around the world in securities arbitration and litigation covering a wide range of disputes. Our experience includes:

• More than 50 years of collective experience handling securities arbitration and litigation matters. Each of our attorneys have served as lead counsel in arbitration hearings. Our partners have been involved in groundbreaking cases in the industry.

• One partner served as co-lead counsel in the largest FINRA case award of $54 million in damages on behalf of an investor. The award included $17 million in punitive damages and involved losses incurred by investors a leveraged municipal arbitrage fund that failed in February 2008. According to the Wall Street Journal, the arbitration award is the largest ever levied against a major Wall Street brokerage in favor of individual investors.

• Our partners have litigated and been involved with regulatory matters before various state securities commissions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA. We have also worked with state and federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI and Department of Justice.

• One of our partners served as President of the Public Investor Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), the only nationwide bar association of securities arbitration and litigation attorneys.

• One of our partners chaired the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) National Arbitration and Mediation Committee (NAMC). The NAMC board position is approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and makes policy and rule recommendations that govern the securities arbitration process.

• For nearly three decades, the firm and its attorneys have advocated for the improvement of the securities arbitration process by commenting on a wide variety of issues pending before the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA and other state and federal authorities.

• Representation of investors in disputes with financial institutions in 50 different states and on five continents (Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America).

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