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Attorney Stan Smith has been practicing law for 17 years. His areas of practice include criminal defense (all misdemeanor, felony, and capital crimes), personal injury (including car and truck accidents), family law, and wills. Stan is admitted to all Mississippi courts, (Municipal, County, Justice, State, Circuit, and Appellate courts including the Mississippi Court of Appeals and the Mississippi Supreme Court, as well as the Federal District Court of Mississippi). Education: Bachelor of Science in Finance from University of Southern Mississippi. (Hattiesburg, MS) MBA in Finance from Mississippi State University. (Starkville, MS) Juris Doctor...

I primarily represent closely held businesses and their owners. My clients look to me to act as outside general counsel since it is unnecessary for most businesses to have a full time attorney on staff. I work with clients to resolve general business issues, whether it involves drafting and negotiating contracts, general business advice or litigation. I handle general corporate matters, contract drafting and review, merger and acquisition transactions, commercial real estate transactions, estate planning and general civil litigation services. Recent representative matters include resolution of two wage and hour class actions with one saving the client over $3,000,000; Six...

JAHAN C. SAGAFI is the partner-in-charge of the firm’s San Francisco office, where he represents workers in employment class actions challenging discrimination, wage and hour abuses, Fair Credit Reporting Act violations, and other types of exploitation. He has won a jury trial for a nationwide class of approximately 1,000 technical support workers, an en banc appeal in the Ninth Circuit, and many settlements to recover backpay for overtime compensation, meal and rest breaks, vacation benefits, discriminatory pay and promotion gaps, and more.

Mr. Sagafi has represented a wide array of workers throughout the country, including HVAC service technicians,...

ADAM T. KLEIN is Managing Partner of Outten & Golden LLP, and founded the firm's class action practice area. His practice focuses on the prosecution of class actions and impact litigation of employment discrimination and wage and hour claims. Mr. Klein currently serves as lead or co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in numerous major class action lawsuits involving discrimination claims in the financial services industry, the high tech industry, and challenges to the use of credit and criminal history records for employment decisions.

Mr. Klein represents the Metropolitan Council of the New York State Conference of the NAACP in challenges to the...

Andrew Stoltmann, attorney and investor advocate, exclusively concentrates his practice in representing investors who are the victims of investment fraud. He has represented over one thousand individuals in lawsuits and securities arbitration actions against brokerage firms like Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Wachovia, Linsco, Prudential, Baird, Edward Jones, AG Edwards and Smith Barney and has tried approximately 80 cases. Previous to opening the Stoltmann Law Offices P.C. he was a partner in a law firm concentrating its practice in the representation of investors in lawsuits, arbitration claims and class actions against brokerage firms. Mr. Stoltmann is...

Avram has been practicing family law exclusively since 1999. He is a member of the Matrimonial Inns of Court, the Allegheny County Bar Association Family Section, the Washington County Bar Association Family Section and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Division. Avram maintains offices in Allegheny and Washington Counties, serving clients throughout several areas of Pittsburgh. Avram's wealth of experience and expertise are at your disposal and we answer communications promptly. He has seen it all and will tell it to you straight. Avram is able to settle most cases, but litigates aggressively when necessary. Our clients appreciate his ability to...

Bradford M. Gucciardo is an experienced attorney whose work is devoted almost exclusively to the representation of stock market investors who have been victims of stockbroker and brokerage firm misconduct. Specifically, Mr. Gucciardo helps brokerage firm customers recover stock market losses, most often of retirement savings, that they sustained as the result of mishandling of their brokerage accounts. After he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in the study of English literature, creative writing and criminology from the University of South Florida, Mr. Gucciardo, a native New Yorker, returned to New York to attend St. John’s University School of...

Mr. Zuckerbrod began his legal career in 1987 as an Enforcement Attorney with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and subsequently joined the Law Department of Merrill Lynch where he worked for 13 years. Mr. Zuckerbrod also represented Merrill Lynch Trust Company and has for decades dealt with complex trust and estate issues and has a vast understanding of fiduciary duty. In 2002, Mr. Zuckerbrod joined the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, P.A. where he primarily defended such clients as Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney in securities arbitration, often involving trust accounts and related issues. From January 2008 through...

Tom Seymour joined the practice of Sostrin and Sostrin in 2014. Prior to becoming an associate, Tom worked in Finance for over a decade for Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley and most recently Mayer Brown LLP managing Financial Reporting and Budgeting. Tom has been awarded the prestigious Cali Award for Future Excellence in Worker’s Compensation. His practice concentrates in representing clients in personal injury, social security disability and employees in workers’ compensation cases before the Workers’ Compensation Commission, Illinois Circuit, Illinois Appellate and Social Security Administration. Tom earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Drake University in...

J. Michael Bishop is a partner in the Atlanta firm of Smiley Bishop & Porter LLP. For over 25 years, Mike has practiced extensively in the areas of securities arbitration and litigation, representing investors with securities claims of all types and sizes. Mike and his firm have obtained numerous seven-figure arbitration awards which have included punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and costs. Many of Mr. Bishop’s clients are elderly investors who have been victims of investment and financial fraud. Mike has successfully represented clients with claims against virtually every major Wall Street firm, including: Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, UBS/PaineWebber, Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter,...