So, you take a case through a full Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration hearing, receive a nice arbitration award, but the check to pay off the award never arrives. The well-known secret among attorneys working in this area is that investors that pursue arbitration claims against financial professionals cannot always recover on the arbitration award. This secret is known to everyone except for the customer pursuing a FINRA arbitration claim. Since the 1980’s (after a United … [Read more...]

Roger Bannister, the first man to run the mile in under four minutes, died earlier this week. For track aficionados like me, his story is for the ages. For those that participate in a mediation, his accomplishment demonstrates how human tenacity can make the impossible something possible. The sub-four minute mile in the 1950’s was widely believed to be humanly unachievable. There were more than 50 medical journals featuring articles supporting the theory that human body lacked the … [Read more...]

Love is in the air, everywhere I look around, love is in the air, every sight and every sound. When John Paul Young wrote these lyrics in 1979, he probably didn’t have the workplace in mind. But this Valentine’s Day will find love in the air at work. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, over 40% of U.S. workers acknowledge dating a colleague and nearly one-third found marriage in the workplace. Other surveys find that Human Resources managers report that love is everywhere they look … [Read more...]