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J. Michael Bishop - Atlanta, Georgia

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J. Michael Bishop is a partner within the Atlanta corporation of Smiley Bishop & Porter LLP.

For over 25 years, Mike has practiced appreciably inside the areas of securities arbitration and litigation, representing buyers with securities claims of every type and sizes. Mike and his organization have acquired numerous seven-discern arbitration awards that have included punitive damages, attorneys’ charges and fees. Many of Mr. Bishop’s clients are aged investors who have been sufferers of investment and financial fraud.

Mike has efficaciously represented clients with claims towards simply every major Wall Street firm, which includes: Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, UBS/PaineWebber, Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, Wells Fargo Securities/Wachovia Securities, Prudential Securities, Citigroup/Smith Barney, Shearson/Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse, Ameriprise Financial, Morgan Keegan, and LPL Financial, as well as severa others.

Mr. Bishop has additionally represented numerous traders who've suffered losses through illegal Ponzi schemes, and has acted as counsel for an SEC court appointed Receiver to get better price range on behalf of defrauded investors.

Mike has lectured to severa corporations approximately securities arbitration which includes, among others, the American Association of Individual Investors, the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), the Atlanta Bar Association, the Montana Bar Association, and the Georgia ElderCare Network. He has been a path instructor for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) Arbitrator Training Program, and has taught publications on claims and defenses in arbitration, discovery in arbitration, and brokerage organization documentation. Mr. Bishop has also served as a FINRA arbitrator.

Mike has been broadly quoted as an expert on securities matters in various countrywide news courses and cases he has dealt with were featured in The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Bishop has additionally seemed as a securities regulation expert on CNBC.

Mr. Bishop has co-authored articles on “How to Read and Understand Broker Account Statements” and “Limited Partnership Interests: What Are They Worth?” which have been posted via the American Association of Individual Investors’ AAII Journal.

Mr. Bishop has served as a Board has club of the Elder Law section of the Atlanta Bar Association and Vice-Chair of the ADR Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort and Insurance Practice segment. Mr. Bishop is a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, the National Association of Elder Law Lawyers, and the Lawyers Club of Atlanta. He is likewise the previous Chairman of the Board of the Brain Injury Resource Foundation.

Mr. Bishop is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He acquired his law diploma from Mercer University Law School in 1984.

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    Arbitration & Mediation
    Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
    Elder Law
    Securities Law
    Stockbroker & Investment Fraud

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        Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law Education School Logo
        Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
        J.D. (1984)
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