LAW 7953 - Securities Law Clinic I


(CU-CEL)     
Fall, Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Recommended prerequisite or corequisite: LAW 6821 .  Permission of instructor required. Satisfies the skills requirement. This course may require off premises travel for potential client and witness interviews, hearings, and community presentations. Assistance will be provided to students who lack available transportation.

W.A. Jacobson.

The course will focus on fundamental investigatory and advocacy skills applicable to representation of public investors in disputes subject to arbitration at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (f/k/a National Association of Securities Dealers), with particular attention to the elderly and to small investors. Substantive legal topics will include the scope and nature of binding arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act and New York law, and the legal and regulatory remedies available to defrauded investors. Coursework will include training in skills such as interviewing potential clients, evaluating potential claims, preparing pleadings, conducting discovery, representing clients at hearings and negotiating settlements. Class work will include presentations by nationally-recognized experts on topics applicable to evaluation of securities accounts, trading, and products. Students will have the opportunity under faculty supervision to represent investors, to provide public education to community groups as to investment frauds, to draft position statements to regulatory authorities, and/or to participate in preparing amicus briefs, in support of public investors.



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