A recent New York state court decision granted a fairly unique petition to disqualify the attorney for a group of former employees from representing them in an intra-industry arbitration at FINRA. Why? Because the lawyer had turned himself into a fact witness by negotiating the termination explanation in the U5 notice of two of the employees. The decision raises an interesting question about whether the same logic could be applied in a U5 expungement hearing at FINRA when there have been discussions between counsel about the U5 language, regardless of whether ...
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