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Today is the best day to deal with these issues that have been for your to do list and we are the right regulation office to do the task. We have taken care of those type legal topics for thousands of clients during the years. With our many years of experience and our rolodex of contacts, our goal is to get you via this enjoy smoothly.
With her boutique elder law, estate planning, probate, guardianship, agree with and property management and and funding fraud law office, Debra, a former chair of the Elder Law Committee of the Bar Association, TV criminal expert, quoted in extra than 250 periodical nationally, and voted through other attorneys as a pinnacle elder law and funding fraud attorney, has assist thousands of households with their legal needs. Every purchaser is handled as if that customer will decide the fulfillment of this organization.
Debra get effects - efficiently and compassionately. Her e book "Money, Health and Home: Seven Steps to Helping Your Parents Navigate Retirement and Aging" is being posted shortly.
Public provider is an indispensable part of this law office. We serve the community through educating the public and other legal professionals approximately funding fraud, elder fraud, and elder law. We also offer good sized and worth seasoned-bono provider to the indigent elder network.
Debra is likewise an astute, experienced, and competitive litigator with a national and international securities law practice. Before going into non-public practice in 1990, Debra became an lawyer with the Enforcement Division of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) prosecuting brokerage companies and stockbrokers for investment fraud and regulatory violations. Prior to that, she became an legal professional and vp with Thomson McKinnon Securities, Inc., an international brokerage company which later merged with Prudential Securities. While at Thomson McKinnon, she surpassed each stockbroker and brokerage corporation exam that the securities enterprise provided, along with all options and commodities examinations.
Debra holds a law degree, a master s degree in finance with a thesis on program trading and stock markets, and a bachelor s degree in accounting. Prior to getting into law school, she changed into an accountant.
She has been quoted in over 250 periodicals during the world, together with Newsweek, Kiplinger s Magazine, USA Today, Crain s New York Business, American Banker, The Street.com, Securities Week and Investment News.
She have been voted by way of different legal professionals as being considered one of Philadelphia s top legal professionals acting in Best Lawyers of Philadelphia. She is also indexed in Who s Who in American Law and Who s Who in America. She changed into venerated via the National Organization of Women Business Owners with their annual "Women Making History" award. Debra has been acknowledged with the aid of Arrive Magazine as being one of the five "Women to Watch" on the East Coast for her paintings protecting the rights of defrauded Senior Citizens.
Debra is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum for her securities arbitration paintings. The Million Dollar Advocates Forum is restrained to attorneys who have won million- and multi-million-greenback verdicts and settlements.
Debra is a frequently invited visitor speaker for commercial enterprise, professional and non-income businesses, and is a felony commentator for radio speak indicates and television. She has seemed on Wall Street Journal Radio, NBC TV, CNN Financial News TV, CNBC TV s "Wake Up Call" and "Power Lunch Financial News," CN8 TV, Fox News, and WB17, in addition to Comcast TV s "Legal View" with the Securities and Exchange Commission Director speaking on topics related to securities fraud. Debra has written notably approximately funding fraud and elder fraud, and those articles have seemed in numerous newspapers and magazines.
Debra is at the Lawyers Advisory Board of the Pennsylvania Securities Commission. Pro bono paintings is an critical part of her law exercise. She has been on severa non-earnings forums, along with SeniorLaw, which assists indigent senior residents with their criminal troubles. She is also on the board of directors for AMIT Children, and acquired an award from the business enterprise for her fundraising efforts on behalf of abused and deprived youngsters.
Debra is a lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and other continuing prison education applications with regards to securities fraud and the aged, and has been a co-lecturer with the Pennsylvania Securities Commissioner with regards to funding fraud. She is co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute s annual elder regulation course "Legal Issues in an Age of Aging," and was chair of the elder fraud convention together with the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging, the purpose of which changed into to train senior residents on how now not to come to be victims of fraud.
In addition to being a former chair of the Elder Law Committee of the Bar Association, she has been active in other committees and sections consisting of the Probate and Estate Committee and the Securities Regulations Committee. She belongs to, and serves on, numerous committees and subcommittees of the American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Public Investors American Bar Association, American Association for Justice, American Trial Lawyers Association, British Law Society, Connecticut Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, New York State Bar Association and DC Bar Association. She is also an arbitrator for FINRA and the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Debra welcomes new customers and referrals from regulation places of work and looks ahead to working with you.
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Legal Issues
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Securities Law
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
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Experience
- Adjunct Professor of Law at Drexel Law School
Drexel Law School
2010 - Principal
Law Offices Of Debra G. Speyer
1990 - Prosecutor
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
1988 - Vice President/Counsel
Thomson McKinnon
1984 - Law Clerk
The Honorable Michael Solomon
1980
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