Soreide Law Group is often involved in both mediations and arbitrations, and are asked quite frequently what the difference is between the two. Below is a brief summary on what FINRA considers an arbitration and a mediation. An arbitration is adjudicated which is a legal process by which an arbitrator reviews evidence and argumentation including […]

FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, plan to warn parties in its arbitration hearings against using electronic devices to secretly record and transmit the proceedings writes Dan Jamieson in a recent article in InvestmentNews.com. This warning began by complaints from the Securities Experts' Roundtable Inc., a group of expert witnesses, about several instances of “electronic […]