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Since establishing his law practice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1990, Mr. Tepper has participated as a lecturer during Arbitrator training for the National Association of Securities Dealers ( NASD), is an active participant in the Planned Giving Council of Nova Southeastern University since 1993, and a member of the Speaker's Bureau of the Broward County Bar Association. While practicing law in New York, he was associated with the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), from 1982-1988, as a Lecturer in their Education and Training Program, as a Vice Chairman and Member of the Special Projects Committee, and received an Outstanding Service Award. In 1987, he was a Delegate at the Fifth International Symposium on Commercial Crime, Cambridge England. He recently made a presentation at NASAA's Enforcement Meeting (January 2007, Orlando, Florida) explaining a survey which showed that NASD arbitration is unfair to public customers. He was an Assistant Attorney General, Chief Trial Counsel, Bureau of Investor Protection and Securities, in the Office of the New York Attorney General from 1977-1988 and was in private practice in New York until 1990. Prior to that position, he was a Senior Trial Attorney, Criminal Defense Division, Legal Aid Society, New York from 1972-1977. Mr. Tepper has been a panel moderator on the following topics: A Primer on Securities Mediation; (PIABA 11th Annual Meeting, 2002) and on Mediation Strategy (PIABA 12th Annual Meeting 2003). He was Author and Presenter: CLE Materials: Supervision in the Securities Industry (PIABA 11th Annual Meeting, 2002) and was the panel moderator at the PIABA 14th Annual Meeting on the topic of The Hearing From the Arbitrator's Perspective (October 2005). Mr. Tepper is the author of the following articles published in the PIABA Bar Journals: Goliath Refuses to Yield (Winter 2003) regarding Merrill Lynch and Confidentiality Orders during the Discovery Process; Attorney Issued Discovery Subpoenas in Arbitration are an Abuse of Process (Winter 2004); Another Serpent on Wall Street – The WorldCom Fraud (Summer 2004); Judge Pollack’s Merrill Lynch Research – Analyst Decisions – Lost in [Info]Space (Fall 2004); NASD 10106 - A Toothless Tiger or Protection From Improper Lawsuits by NASD Members (Winter 2005); Lessons Learned in the Labyrinth of Loss Causation - Finding Your Way in Infospace (Summer 2005) and SRO Arbitration - Is It Fair to Investors? (Winter 2007)and The Rules are Not Discounted for the Discounter (Summer 2007). He is an elected director, Board of Directors, of the Public Investor's Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) serving on the Annual Meeting Committee and on the Board of Editors of the PIABA Bar Journal. Current Memberships include the Florida, New York, and California Bars and the newly formed South Broward Bar Association. He is also a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and currently serves on the Grievance Committee of the Florida Bar Association, Broward County Chapter. In an effort to educate the public about securities fraud, Mr. Tepper offers his services as a lecturer to professional associations, local clubs and organizations in South Florida. He also presented programs to the Certified Financial Planners, Gold Coast Chapter, on How to Recognize Securities Fraud and Protect Yourself and to the Florida Society of Enrolled Agents and the Florida Accountants Society, Broward Chapter on How to Detect Securities Fraud from Tax Returns. Mr. Tepper continues to participate as an invited Moot Court Judge at the student chapter of the Association of Trial Lawyer of America annual American Bar Association's Regional Negotiation Competitions at the Shepard Broad Law Center of Nova Southeastern University which are attended by 12 different law schools from the southeastern United States. If you are interested in having Mark as a guest speaker, please click here to send us your request. If you have any questions regarding securities law or investment fraud, email askmark@marktepper.com or telephone (954) 961-0096 for a free consultation. Sí usted tiene pregunta con respecto a la ley de valores o fraude de inversión, mande un corre electrónico a askmark@marktepper.com TO SPEAK WITH ONE OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS, CALL (954) 961-0096 NOW! |
MARK A. TEPPER (Abogado de Fraude de Valores) a native of Brooklyn, New York, received his law degree (J.D.) from Cornell Law School, (1972) and his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Stonybrook, B.A.(1969). He was admitted to practice in New York State in 1973, before the United States District Court, Southern District of New York in 1974, in California in 1976, Florida in 1989, before the United States Supreme Court in 1997 and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2004. He is AV®-rated in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.