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SECURITIES
LAW
Davidson & Grannum represents its clients in the areas of
securities litigation and regulatory issues, including SEC registration
and regulation. Because of the extensive in-house background
of our attorneys, we bring an “in-house” approach to
our securities practice and we believe we are uniquely qualified
to focus on defense costs, mitigation and regulatory risk, compliance
and supervisory issues as well as publicity risk, in working with
our clients in developing approaches and solutions to a broad array
of issues.
LITIGATION
The Firm defends broker-dealers and individuals in actions
before the industry's arbitration facilities, including NASD Dispute
Resolution and the New York Stock Exchange Department of Arbitration
in a broad array of disputes including:
- Sales practice complaints
- Employee conflicts
- Industry disputes
- Promissory Notes and other collection matters
- Injunctive actions
- Prime Brokerage
- Clearing disputes
- Mediation
REGULATORY AND COUNSELING
The Firm represents broker-dealers and their
employees in connection with:
- SEC/NYSE/NASD and State Securities Division issues
- Regulatory inquiries
- Wells submissions
- Disciplinary proceedings
- Stockbroker/client disputes
The Firm also practices in the following areas:
- Licensing with other state regulatory issues
- Internal investigations
- Compliance with state and local government pension and related
investment guidelines and regulations
COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
Davidson & Grannum litigators represent clients in business-related
litigation. Our litigation practice serves our securities clients,
as well as those who come to us solely for our litigation capabilities. The
Firm handles a broad variety of matters, but is focused primarily
on contract and UCC related matters, shareholder disputes, estate
litigations, enforcement and vacation of arbitration awards, accountants'
malpractice issues and collection matters. The Firm is active in
the trial of matters before Federal and State courts, and administrative
agencies in New York, New Jersey and across the country.
EMPLOYMENT LAW
Davidson & Grannum provides
legal representation to clients regarding all aspects of employment
related issues. We focus particularly on giving practical, cost
effective advice to specific situations and providing assistance
to corporate clients in the development and implementation of policies,
procedures and training to ensure compliance with the wide array
of federal, state and local employment laws. When disputes do arise,
the firm represents clients in administrative, Alternative Dispute
Resolution and judicial forums to achieve the best attainable result
in a prompt and cost-effective manner. Firm attorneys also lecture
on employment-related subjects to clients as well as industry and
bar association panels.
The Firm's practice activities include:
- Drafting policy and procedure manuals
- Conducting in-house seminars and training
- Conducting internal investigations
- Negotiating and drafting employment contracts, confidentiality
and non-compete agreements and severance agreements
- Maintaining compliance with the myriad of federal, state and
local employment laws, including the Americans with Disabilities
Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Employment Retirement
Income Security Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family
and Medical Leave Act, Title VII, Sarbanes-Oxley and state and
local anti-discrimination, whistleblowing and workers' compensation
laws.
Representing clients in employment litigation before administrative
agencies, and in arbitration forums, alternative dispute resolution
forums and judicial forums relative to all employment-related claims,
including:
- Contract claims
- Discrimination claims
- ERISA claims
- Sexual harassment claims
- Unfair competition claims
- Whistleblower claims
- Workers compensation claims
- Defamation claims
- Wrongful discharge and constructive termination claims
COLLABORATIVE LAW
We offer to serve as settlement counsel for clients involved in
self-insured litigations. We attempt to provide an early resolution,
reducing fees and overall settlement costs, as well as the time and
energy consumed by commercial and employment law litigations.
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