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CurrentPracticing law for over 35 years, representing the interests of investors in criminal and civil actions, securities fraud attorney Mark A. Tepper is in private practice in Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The practice specializes in representing individual investors with securities fraud claims against brokers and brokerage firms throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Mr. Tepper was associated with the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), led the NASAA Delegation to the Fifth International Symposium on Commercial Crime, in Cambridge England, and was awarded for outstanding service by NASAA. He has also conducted suitability training for NASAA and during a NASAA Enforcement Meeting in Orlando, Florida, presented his study which provided some of the first evidence that arbitration can be unfair to public customers. Mr. Tepper also served on the Board of Directors for the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), from October 2004 through October 2010. He continues to serve on numerous PIABA committees and during a PIABA Annual Conference, Mr. Tepper interviewed FINRA President Linda Feinberg on changes and procedures at FINRA. As a former Chairman of PIABA's NASAA Committee, he participated in an arbitration forum in New York, sponsored by NASAA, where he presented evidence from a defrauded investor, illustrating how the arbitration system can fail.Mr. Tepper has authored numerous legal articles on securities arbitration and his legal expertise is often sought as an expert source for the media.In addition to representing victims of fraudulent investment schemes from his law practice in Fort Lauderdale, Mr. Tepper continues to volunteer his expertise to professional associations, local clubs and financial organizations in a continuing effort to educate on the subject of securities fraud.
