Advisor Perspectives welcomes guest contributions. The views presented here do not necessarily represent those of Advisor Perspectives. Cyberattacks have become so common that it is no longer a question of if a broker dealer, investment advisory firm or financial institution (collectively,...

Reif Law Group, P.C., California’s preeminent boutique trial and litigation law firm for securities and business disputes, filed a motion that a financial advisor’s wrongful termination lawsuit argues that the brokerage firm Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. waived the right to compel FINRA arbitration by violating California law and must pay for the financial advisor’s...

(August 28, 2020 – Los Angeles, CA). The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued this ruling and judgment in a securities case that Brandon S. Reif and Marc S. Ehrlich of Reif Law Group, P.C. defended for Capital Synergy Partners, LLC. (David Kirkwood v. Financial West Investment Group, Inc., et al, Case No. 19-2231,...

(August 18, 2020 - Los Angeles). On August 12, 2020, the Second Appellate Court issued its final ruling affirming the August 26, 2019 jury verdict for the defense in a $2.25 million dispute over the ownership and management of a Cannabis dispensary. (Franco Brunetti, et al v. Arts District Patients Collective, et al, LASC...

(July 16, 2020, Los Angeles, CA). Financial elder abuse is real, and it’s unacceptable. I’m pleased to report that Reif Law Group P.C. defeated a motion for summary judgment brought by Morgan Stanley in a case pending in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Our clients allege that an investment advisor in Morgan Stanley’s Beverly Hills...

GPB Capital Holdings, LLC (GPB), with its affiliates, is the latest failure of a multi-billion dollar private placement investment sponsor. GPB’s implosion tracks the classic meltdown model: there was an investor capital raise of over $1.8 billion followed by a barrage of lawsuits for corporate control, multi-front investigations by governments and regulators, whistleblowers signaling egregious mismanagement, an abrupt halt in...

On August 26, 2019, RLG won a unanimous defense jury verdict in case involving a $2.25 million dispute over the ownership of a cannabis dispensary.  (LASC No. BC667048) (Hon. Gregory Alarcon). It was a nine-day trial, plus one day of jury deliberation. The jury found unanimously for RLG’s...

Reif Law Group, P.C. continues to expand its securities and business disputes trial and litigation practice with its eighth attorney in the office, Lisa M. Foutch.

Lisa graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in Criminology & Psychology, and from...

I’m honored to have been named by Top Verdict magazine as one of the Top 10 Court Verdicts in 2017. As lead trial counsel, I obtained a verdict of $1,807,559.00,reflecting an unpaid commercial loan of $500,000 plus $1,307,559 in pre-judgment interest and late fees against defendant Shahram Elyaszadeh, a California licensed real...