ATTORNEYS/PROFESSIONALS: Securities Attorneys

Lars Soreide, Esq.

Bar Admissions:
Florida Bar Association
11th Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Areas of Practice:
Securities Arbitration and Litigation
Securities Employment Disputes
Commercial Litigation
Civil Litigation
Professional Licensing
Education:
University of Miami, BBA, Cum Laude
St. Thomas University School of Law, Magna Cum Laude, Salutatorian
Professional Association:
Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association
Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section
Florida Bar Business Law Section
About:
Securities lawyer, Lars Soreide, learned about the inner workings of the securities arbitration process during his tenure at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). FINRA is the forum where over 95% of all securities arbitrations take place. Lars Soreide’s main focus is representing individual investors in claims against brokers and brokerage firms. Lars Soreide has extensive knowledge about securities regulation and compliance matters. He also placed an impressive second in his class in law school. Lars Soreide holds a U.S. Patent and is resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has recovered millions of dollars for his clients across the United States in FINRA arbitrations.

Click Here For Sun Sentinel News Interview "Ask The Expert" Segment in 2011 with securities lawyer Lars Soreide.

Click Here Lars Soreide featured in the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Journal's December 2011 issue in the Awards of National Significance section.

Mr. Lars Soreide has assisted investors in making claims for recovery who invested in auction rate securities, regulation D private placements, principal protected notes, reverse convertible notes, bank preferred shares, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac preferred shares, junk bonds, promissory notes, viatical settlements, life settlements, stoli’s, insurance scams, and has brought claims on behalf of investors for failure to execute, fraud, elderly abuse, unauthorized trades, churning, excessive use of margin, civil theft, over-concentration and other unsuitable or overly aggressive trading strategies.

D. Daxton White, Esq., of Counsel

Bar Admissions:
Florida Bar Association
Illinois Bar Associations
Areas of Practice:
Securities Litigation
Education:
Northwestern University BA Economics
Florida State College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida
About:

Mr. White is a member of the Florida and Illinois Bar Associations. He graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a degree in economics. He obtained his law degree from the Florida State College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida, and has also taken legal history courses at Oxford University in Oxford, England.

In addition to practicing as a securities lawyer, Mr. White has also worked on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the Live Cattle Options Pit, and in the Boca Raton, Florida dispute resolution office of the NASD (n/k/a FINRA). His financial and legal background is essential in evaluating potential securities fraud claims.

Most of Mr. White’s clients are individuals who have been defrauded by their investment professional. Mr. White has handled over 250 FINRA arbitration cases, including handling claims against most of the FINRA registered broker-dealers.

Mr. White also has experience representing some of the largest broker-dealers in the world (including Banc of America Investments Services, Inc. (n/k/a Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Incorporated), Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Wachovia Securities, LLC, Wells Fargo Investments, and Ameriprise Financial). This experience gives Mr. White a unique perspective in evaluating potential securities fraud claims and in understanding how brokerage firms typically defend securities fraud cases.

Lowell Kuvin, ESQ. of Counsel

Bar Admissions:
Florida Bar Association
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Areas of Practice:
Appellate Practice
Civil Litigation
Education:
FIU BA Economics
St. Thomas University School of Law
Professional Associations:
Dade County Bar
American Bar Association
About:
Mr. Kuvin is special securities trial and appellate counsel to the Soreide Law Group. Mr. Kuvin’s practice focuses primarily on litigation at the circuit and appellate levels. As a third year law school student Mr. Kuvin successfully argued a case in front of a three judge panel at the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami. The court published a 48 page opinion which quickly established Mr. Kuvin’s superior appellate skills. Mr. Kuvin was a member of the United States Coast Guard from 1982 through 1987. Mr. Kuvin is an avid sailor and even acted as a Special Olympics Sailing Coach.

Leif Soreide, MBA

Education:
University of Miami, MBA, Finance, Business Law, Cum Laude
University of Miami, BBA, Cum Laude
About:
Leif Soreide uses his background in finance and forensic accounting to assist the Soreide Law Group in case evaluations and profit and loss evaluations. This is a very important first step in the securities litigation process which may determine if there is an actionable claim or merely a market loss. Leif Soreide uses his extensive trading experience and knowledge of foreign and domestic financial markets to assist in making that determination. Leif is also the business manager of the Soreide Law Group.