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Deutsch & Lipner is one of the nation's most-respected and most-successful law firms representing investors against the financial services / securities industry. Deutsch & Lipner has recovered millions of dollars for aggrieved investors in over twenty years of representation of the public.

If experience and knowledge are important to you, then Deutsch & Lipner is the law firm for you. Deutsch & Lipner represents only investors -- and does so on an individual basis -- in arbitration and litigation.

Deutsch & Lipner currently has cases pending involving, among others, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs), Auction Rate Securities.("ARS") and risky bond funds, such as the Oppenheimer Rochester Municipal Fund, the Schwabb Yield-Plus Fund, the RMK (Morgan Keegan) Funds, and the Fidelity Floating Rate Fund. Most recently, Deutsch & Lipner is among the first firms to identify problems and commence arbitrations against UBS for deceptive sales practices in the sale of now-worthless Lehman Brothers' "Principal Protected" securities. See:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aBJ_0ULSgrjY

During 2008, Professor Lipner has continued his research and writing about issues important to investors. The new edition of Lipner & Long, SECURITIES ARBITRATION DESK REFERENCE 2008-2009 is now available through Thomson/West. He recently completed scholarly article titled "The Tort of Giving Negligent Investment Advice", an especially-timely piece that will appear soon in Volume 39 of the University of Memphis Law Review. And he continues to contribute tongue-in-cheek verse to WallStreetPoet.com.

Seth Lipner was recently named a member of the "Investor Protection Team" at Forbes.com, where periodically a group of recognized experts offer insight and counsel on investor-protection issues. In 1990, together with a handful of colleagues, Mr. Lipner founded the Public Investors arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), which now has over 500 members nationwide and is recognized as a leading voice for the interests of investors in arbitration. Mr. Lipner is currently "Director Emeritus" of the organization.

All inquiries are of course confidential. Learn more about Deutsch & Lipner by reviewing the links on this web-site.

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Deutsch & Lipner

Lehman Good-for-Retirement Notes Worth Pennies for UBS Clients Nov ... ``The sales pitches were that it's good for retirement accounts, and good for the safe, fixed-income part of people's portfolios as an alternative to owning stocks, because it's less risky,'' said Seth Lipner, a lawyer in Garden City, New York. `Of course, it turned out to be more risky.'' 11-3-08. Bloomberg.com,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aBJ_0ULSgrjY

How Wall Street Robbed You

A trip through the emerging principal protected notes scandal with the Forbes.com Investor Team. Forbes.com, October 23, 2008.
http://www.forbes.com/intelligentinvesting/2008/10/22/Intelligent-investing-wallst-robbery-lehman-UBS-panel.html

Finra to Test Public Panels for Investor Disputes

... ``Why don't they just get rid of it altogether?'' said Seth Lipner, a founder of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association and professor at Baruch College...  -07-24-08, bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aYNY_4Plc25k

Dementia Can Wreak Havoc on Family Finances

Loved ones are finding that dementia can wreak havoc on the family finances, too.  Some brokerages and regulators "are almost blind to the idea that folks have diminished capacity over the years," says Seth Lipner, a Garden City, N.Y.-based securities lawyer. SmartMoney Magazine, August 19, 2008;
http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/elder-care/Dementia-Can-Wreak-Havoc-on-Family-Finances-23715/

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