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October 8, 2008

John Singer discusses potential Wall Street related lawsuits.

 




September 12, 2008

John Singer on representing high-level employees who were laid off at Lehman.





August 19, 2008

John Singer discusses Auction Rate Securities.





March 28, 2008

Employees Sue Bear Stearns

Bear Stearns employees have seen their retirement nest eggs wiped out, and now they're going after the company. Attorneys Michael Carlinsky and John Singer discuss.






March 20, 2008

John Singer discusses litigation against Bear Stearns by Bear Stearns employees.




March 14, 2008

Michael Deutsch discusses Spitzer case.




February 08, 2008

John Singer discusses Broker and Investment Advisor misconduct.





January 10, 2008

John Singer discusses Wall Street Bonus Cases.






January 10, 2008

John Singer discusses Writers' Strike.







December 17, 2007

CNBC Power Lunch Interview

Whether banks could be buried in a landslide of lawsuits, with
John Singer, Singer Deutsch; David Garland, Sills Cummis and CNBC's Bill Griffeth


Print Media


IDD Bear Stearns Employees at a Crossroads

A Deal Journal Q & A:
Wall Streeters & Bonuses–Know Your Rights
Posted by Heidi N. Moore

Nov 18, 2008 (A Deal Journal) -- Goldman Sachs Group CEO Lloyd Blankfein and six of his fellow executives voluntarily opted not to get bonuses this year. Others on Wall Street don’t have the luxury of choice, as layoffs wreak havoc on their careers. Goldman has targeted layoffs of nearly 10% of its work force, Citigroup is letting go 53,000 people, and there is guaranteed to be more to come.

That spells a boon for employment lawyers. Deal Journal talked to John Singer, name partner of law firm Singer Deutsch, who represents bankers and traders in their bonus disputes with banks. An edited version of our conversation is below.

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IDD Bear Stearns Employees at a Crossroads
UPDATE 3-US SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading

By Rachelle Younglai and Robert MacMillan
(c) 2008 Reuters Limited

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) -- Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, was charged with insider trading in the shares of search engine company Mamma.com, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday.

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IDD Bear Stearns Employees at a Crossroads
Investors facing huge account losses take brokerage firms, advisers to arbitration

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

National Law Journal (October 16, 2008) -- Investors grappling with major account losses are flocking to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) with arbitration cases against brokerage firms and investment advisers.

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IDD Bear Stearns Employees at a Crossroads
Battle over Wachovia highlights
tension between state and federal laws

By Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter

National Law Journal (October 13, 2008) -- The legal battle over whether Citigroup Inc. or Wells Fargo & Co. should be able to buy Wachovia Corp. is on hold for now, but the clash highlights the tension between state corporate laws and federal laws that govern banks as the government tinkers with banking-sector rescues.

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IDD Bear Stearns Employees at a Crossroads
Arbitrate this

By Lisa Lee

(October 3, 2008) -- Employment Arbitrations On The Increase.

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IDD Bear Stearns Employees at a Crossroads
Layoffs Likely To Spark Legal Wrangles

By Jacqueline Bell

Law360, New York (October 01, 2008) -- With the financial crisis prompting dire predictions of mass layoffs on Wall Street, companies and employees are bracing themselves not only for the possibility of pink slips, but also the legal battles that are likely to follow.

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IDD Bear Stearns Employees at a Crossroads
Bear Employees at a Crossroads

By Jessica Papini

Investment Dealers Digest
07 April 2008

On Wall Street, still abuzz about Bear Stearns' rapid fall, there are probably less than six degrees of separation between finance professionals. So, few Wall Streeters do not know of someone at Bear or of someone with contacts at Bear wrestling with the question of what to do next. Do they stay and risk being laid off, or do they seek other options in a turbulent job market?

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With Layoffs Come Arbitration Suits: Financial-industry job losses triple the pace of last year

By Jessica Papini

Investment Dealers Digest
19 November 2007

The downfall of chief executives at two leading Wall Street firms, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, was well-documented, but the credit market mess has also spurred the first big round of mass layoffs since 2001. Wall Street firms and financial services firms have announced

 

Registered Rep Source for Investment Professionals
The Expungement Crusade

By Karen Donovan

Registered Rep

Nov 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Wall Street Breathed a Sigh of Relief when Eliot Spitzer moved into the governor's mansion in Albany. Word was that Andrew Cuomo, New York's newly elected attorney general, had other fish to fry. And, sure enough, he went on to make...


Registered Rep Source for Investment Professionals
U5 Hazard

By Karen Donovan

Registered Rep

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Brokerage firms can say anything they like on a departing broker's Form U5, even if it's defamatory in nature - and untrue. That's because the New York Court of Appeals ruled in Rosenberg v. MetLife Inc. that brokerage firms were entitled to an "absolute privilege" for the statements they place on the U5...



U-5 Process Could Compound Job Problems

By Carol E. Curtis

SECURITIES INDUSTRY NEWS

20 August 2007

(c) 2007 Securities Industry News and SourceMedia, Inc. All rights reserved.

While investors may be worried about losing money in the current volatile market, securities industry professionals have a self-interest at stake: their jobs. In what could be a leading indicator, Bear Stearns Companies said Thursday that it is cutting 240 jobs in its mortgage lending unit. Read more...



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August 06, 2007

INDUSTRY WATCH

New York Firm Opens Shop in Century City New York-based securities firm Singer Deutsch has opened an office in Century City. Partner John Singer, who is licensed to practice in California, will split time between the firm's Century City and New York offices. The new office is located at 1901 Avenue of the Stars, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

 

Arbitration Award against Barclays Capital in a Bonus/U-5 Defamation action:

On July 26, 2007, an NASD Arbitration Panel awarded our client, a former Analyst within Barclays Capital's Investment Banking Division, substantial compensatory damages and an Expungement of the language on her Form U-5. In granting her request for an Expungement, the NASD Arbitration Panel concluded that Barclays defamed our client.

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