What you need in a securities fraud lawyer / investment fraud lawyer.

• In the years before he opened The Sherman Law Firm, Managing Attorney Brett Sherman worked exclusively as a securities fraud lawyer. Mr. Sherman was senior arbitration counsel for investment banks and financial professionals in more than fifty NASD and NYSE arbitrations. 

• Mr. Sherman achieved an extremely high success rate in investment loss litigation, both in terms of arbitration results and average settlement ratio. 

• As a client of The Sherman Law Firm, you will reap the benefits of Mr. Sherman's experience and success during his tenures as senior counsel for what formerly were two of the largest and most sucessful Wall Street investment banks.

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Learn more about Securities Arbitration-

FINRA Homepage (a terrific resource)      

The World Financial Center

Some facts about arbitration. 

Today, nearly all securities fraud arbitration claims -- including claims of stockbroker fraud and claims against large broker-dealers like Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America) or Bear Stearns (now part of JP Morgan) for stock losses or other investment losses -- filed with FINRA Dispute Resolution. 

Thus, almost every time an investor sues a Wall Street firm for financial losses, the "case" is heard by a panel of FINRA arbitrators rather than a judge. 

Stock fraud arbitrations are, for the most part, very similar to lawsuits heard in court.  However, securities fraud arbitrations have a few key notable differences from court proceedings you should understand -

• Most importantly, with very limited exceptions, stock fraud arbitrations filed with FINRA Dispute Resolution cannot be dismissed in advance of hearings. 

• This means you will get your "day in court" in an investment loss arbitration. 

• The bar of prehearing dismissals in FINRA securities fraud arbitration is a tremendous advantage for the investor over cases filed in court (which often are subject to motions to dismiss that are time consuming and can be difficult to overcome).

• Securities Fraud arbitrations (FINRA Arbitration) are decided by a panel of three arbitrators, one of whom is appointed chairperson.  In FINRA Arbitration, the arbitration panel acts as judge and jury.

• Securities Fraud arbitrations have limited discovery.  The prehearing exchange of documents and information is much more limited in FINRA arbitrations than for lawsuits filed in court.  Therefore, case resolution in arbitration process is often much faster than in a state or federal court.  less time consuming in arbitration.  This limited discovery in securities fraud arbitrations is generally to your advantage.

• In FINRA securities fraud arbitrations, the rules of evidence are relaxed, often dramatically.