Investment Fraud Recovery

Investment Fraud, also referred to as securities fraud, in some cases, it is nothing more than stealing.  In other cases, it is simply a question of negligence on the part of the investment advisors.  Investment fraud affects people from all walks of life.  Anyone can be a victim of investment fraud. At the Coleman Law Firm, our primary goal is to represent investors who have lost money because of the mishandling of their brokerage accounts. Our firm has represented hundreds of clients who were victims of a variety of wrongful acts by stockbrokers, financial planners, financial advisors and the institutions with which they had invested their savings, including:

• Misrepresentations
• Commission churning
• Unsuitable investments
• Unauthorized transactions
• Execution failures
• Excessive mark-ups
• Disappearing funds
• Botched transfers
• Web-broker outages
• "Selling away" from firms
• Unregistered brokers
• Unregistered securities
• Improper margin liquidations
• Broker bribes
• Fraudulent research
• "Boiler room" sales practices.

Our cases involve a variety of investment vehicles, including stocks, bonds, "penny" stocks, "junk" bonds, options, warrants, commodities, mutual funds, REIT's, limited partnerships, and derivative securities.  We also handle cases involving problem investments such as limited partnerships, promissory notes, class actions, and other high-risk investments.

To recover their losses, investors must file claims for recovery. Statistics demonstrate that an individual investor is far more likely to recover if represented by experienced attorneys.  Since investors sign account documents at brokerage firms that almost always contain binding arbitration clauses, most claims against brokerage firms must be resolved in securities arbitration.  Mr. Coleman serves as an arbitrator with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and is on the Government Committee of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA). He has served as Chairman of the Securities Section for the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA).  He has also authored articles in both professional and lay publications regarding securities fraud relating to the inappropriate actions of stockbrokers involving misrepresentations, churning, and suitability.

At The Coleman Law Firm, we have the experience and expertise to have successfully resolved matters against firms such as Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney, AG Edwards, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Paine Webber and many, many others before the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.