Lost Your Life Savings Because Of A Stockbroker? Call A Securities Arbitration Attorney Today!

In an effort to avoid overcrowding the courts, judges and lawyers alike are recommending arbitration as a viable alternative to mediation or litigation. While any case can enter arbitration, this option is more successful if the case is fairly straightforward and the plaintiff and defendant are willing to talk things out. Instead of judges, arbitration hearings have panels that are typically composed of one-to-three arbitrators who are chosen by both sides.

The Process

The panel peruses the pleadings that were filed by the plaintiff and defendant before the arbitrators listen to any arguments. Documents can be submitted by either side's attorney, and a testimony can be given. Although the process is quite similar to a traditional trial, it is far less formal. For example, witnesses are not subject to perjury laws and related offenses since they do not have to swear an oath.

What Are The Advantages?

On average, arbitration cases are more expeditious than traditional trials, which can languish in the courts for years as cases are delayed and appeals are heard. From the time the initial claim is filed until the panel renders a decision, the average case takes a little over a year. The award issued by the panel is binding on all parties.

The main advantage of the process for plaintiffs is the speed, which generally results in much smaller legal fees. For the defendant, the fact that the decision is often confidential is imperative, since many of the defendants in these cases are companies that don't want their dirty laundry aired in public.

What Are The Disadvantages?

As we mentioned, the ruling or award of the panel is final. There are also fees associated with the process, which are determined by the size of the award and the number of hearings required to reach a decision.

Which Cases Are Eligible?

Any case that involves an individual investor and a person or entity that is registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is eligible. Arbitration may also be an option for disputes that involve businesses. In most cases, however, the dispute is between an individual and his or her investor or brokerage house. The reason for this is simple: most investment firms now insist that their new clients settle any dispute they might have with them in arbitration, rather than in court. This clause is included in most contracts between investors and investment firms. Although the process is not necessarily less expensive for investment firms, they prefer it because it helps them avoid bad press.

Should The Plaintiff Hire An Attorney?

Just as with a regular trial, although it is possible to represent yourself in an arbitration hearing, it is not recommended. The company you'll be arguing against will almost certainly have an experienced attorney who knows the process on their side. Therefore, we strongly suggest you contact a securities arbitration attorney before you file your case.

Have Fun, Learn a New Profession and Earn Money Working From Your Home With a Computer and Internet

The world is going digital at a really remarkable pace. In the time that I have been an adult (now 57) we have come from bakelite telephones and telex machines to this, a world where almost everybody regardless of country or origin is reachable by a few keystrokes. Absolutely amazing!

So of course this brings us enormous potential for all kinds of communication and the one this article is about is marketing. Most of what we produce on this planet is for commercial purposes and the trick is of course for the producer or seller to find a buyer. The buyer also needs to find a supplier. Add to this all kinds of messages that are out there trying to connect and we have a marketplace.

The old ways to connect producer and consumer we all are very familiar with. TV, newspapers, billboards, we have grown up and lived our lives under a veritable onslaught of commercial messages. And now this has spread to the Internet, it was of course inevitable. This is something that we can see as tiresome. We can also see this as an enormous opportunity. Because the world Online is new, and changing all the time even as I am writing this.

It is like the old Wild West, full of opportunity for those who are able to adjust and to see the possibilities. But how does this work? If you look at this from a marketing point of view it could look a nightmare. All these potential customers but how can one reach the right people? It is diversified and spread all over without any real structure or logic, is it not?

So finding the right audience for whatever one wishes to promote is a real challenge and a very good business opportunity for people who can come up with strategies and implementing these.

If for one moment we imagine what tools and environment a person working with Online Marketing would need? A peaceful place to concentrate, a working computer and Internet access would do it. For most of us the peaceful place is our home, and there we also have a computer and Internet. What would we need more than these?

We would need knowledge how to do it, and we would need help and access to people, at least in the beginning. When we learn enough we could in our turn maybe also teach others. Do we need to be technical minded geniuses to learn? This one is easy to answer with an emphatic "no". With the right kind of teaching almost everybody can learn.

A person who can read and write in English, and operate a computer and use mail and surf the net can learn this. Even in a very short time. I have heard of people who just in a few weeks time have learned enough to start working and earning an income with this, for myself it took 3 months to get going.

For me I can say that the journey has been a real blast and continues to be so, earlier I often wondered how for example when in Facebook some ad caught my attention and I wondered how they managed to get one so suited for people like me in front of my eyes. Now I know how they do it. Or why, when I Googled something there always came up as first suggestions something with little yellow labels on? Now I know that too.

When we hear the word marketing we often associate this with selling. Some people have a hard time trying to sell stuff, they will feel unnatural and uncomfortable. But marketing really is about getting the object in front of a buyers eyes, often the selling is done by other people.

So if one can earn a living by doing marketing work it does not automatically mean that the same person has anything to do with selling the object. He/she just puts the object under the eyes of a buyer.

This is something that most of us are capable of learning and a great way either to get extra income or maybe even earn an income that makes it possible to be self-sufficient.

Think for a moment how nice it would be to wake up in the morning, with money rolling in to the bank account and not having to go anywhere to do work. To be able to live like that has not been possible earlier for more than a few people but now, thanks to new technology it is suddenly in reach for most of us, we just have to recognize and grasp this possibility.

This surely is something that is worth pursuing, is it not?

Article written by Robert Lindstrom, a 57 year old professional truck driver living in Sweden.