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ARTICLE · 23 AUGUST 2005

PLI Securities Arbitration 2005: Telling Your Story

The Practicing Law Institute held its annual Securities Arbitration Seminar in New York City on August 17, 2005. The theme of the seminar was the importance of framing facts and issues in order to present the client’s most compelling story to the arbitration panel.

United StatesFinance and Banking

Originally published August 19, 2005

By Thomas A. Farnen, Judith A. O'Brien, S. Lawrence Polk, Terry R. Weiss and Alan M. Wolper

The Practicing Law Institute held its annual Securities Arbitration Seminar in New York City on August 17, 2005. The theme of the seminar was the importance of framing facts and issues in order to present the client’s most compelling story to the arbitration panel.

  • The primary focus of the seminar was on improving practitioners’ procedural techniques at arbitration hearings. Panelists emphasized the importance of gaining the arbitration panel’s trust, attention and sympathy – and keeping it.
  • Topics included the art of legal storytelling, the "likeability" factor as it relates to the client, new SRO developments, techniques in handling expert witnesses, the pros and cons of demonstrative evidence, general ethical topics, mediation techniques and strategy, and quantifying suitability, risk and damages.

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