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Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP Featured As Texas SuperLawyers 2009

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GRETCHEN MORGENSON

Eight Former Employees of Defunct Brokerage Firm Hampton Porter Investment Bankers are Indicted by Federal Grand Jury

Revenge of the Investor

N.Y. Files Fraud Suit Against H&R Block

NASD fines reach record levels

David A. Noyes & Co. to Pay $550K to Settle Variable Annuities Case

Waddell & Reed Agrees to Pay $11 Million to Settle Annuities Switching Case

NASD Says Firms Directed Investors to Costly Options To Boost Their Commissions

SEC Settles Securities Fraud Charges Against Theodore Sihpol

NASD Orders Morgan Stanley to Pay Over $6.1 Million for Fee-Based Account Violations

Edward Jones Reaches $1.5M Settlement

American Express Unit Is to Pay Settlement In Mutual Fund Probe

NASD Fines Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Inc. $325,000 for Improper Sales Contests, Email and Supervision Violations; Firm Ordered to Prohibit Variable Product Sales Contests for Three Years

Hartford Reports New York Subpoena

Who's Preying on Your Grandparents?

NASD probing A.G. Edwards fund sales

Morgan Stanley Hit With Class Action Alleging Discovery Improprieties

15 Specialists From Big Board Are Indicted

Morgan Stanley Clamps Down On Sales Of Some Fund Classes

Two Top Morgan Stanley Bankers Resign

S.E.C. Expands Best-Price Rule on Stock Trading

Investors File Suit Against A.G. Edwards

Oceanside woman sues A.G. Edwards

Missouri Suspends Waddell's License

NASD Rethinking Scope Of Sales Contests Policy

NYSE Regulation Fines Merrill Lynch $13.5 Million

Salomon Smith Barney Disciplined for Supervisory Failures Relating to Electronic Communications

President Bush's Uncle Loses Securities Arbitration Case

Jesup & Lamont: NASD fines, suspends analyst for 6 months

Morgan Stanley: NASD Eyes Disciplinary Action vs Unit

Details of stock research settlement outlined

Morgan, Merrill Face Lawsuits Over Annuities

Morgan Stanley Subpoenaed Over Annuity Sales

Edward Jones Details Payments by 7 Funds

Top Executive at Edward Jones to Step Down

How Consultants Can Retire on Your Pension

Morgan Stanley Lawsuits

SEC Charges Morgan Stanley With Inadequate Disclosure in Mutual Fund Sales

Unit of H&R Block Is Accused of Fraud

Five execs convicted in Enron barge case

Regulators Charge Brokerage Firm Raymond James

Wall Street to have role in 1st Enron trial

SEC Charges Charles Schwab & Co. with Improperly Allowing Certain Customers to Purchase Mutual Fund Shares After Market Close

Research Settlement Completed: 2 More Banks Agree To Pay $100 Million

SEC Sues Three in Stan Lee Stock Fraud Case

Global Money Management LP and Zenith Capital

Fund Losses May Be Returned

Sales of Investments to G.I.'s Under Scrutiny in Washington

Top 10 investing scams

NASD Disciplines Three Firms, Three Brokers for Variable Annuity Abuses

Check Is Not In The Mail in WorldCom Settlement

Citigroup in $2.65 Billion WorldCom Settlement

The WorldCom Settlement: What it Means for You

Putnam to Pay $110 Million in Fund Trading Probes

Janus Settles Fund Trading Complaints for $225 Million

A Broker's Empty Promise, a Retiree's Shattered Dream

Conflict Probes Resolved at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley

Tough road for investor payback

Investors seeking lost assets face hard road

Few believe $1.4B deal will change Wall St.

10 Wall St. Firms Settle With U.S. in Analyst Inquiry

In a Wall St. Hierarchy, Short Shrift to Little Guy

Fines, Findings May Bring IPO Case To A Head

Lawsuits over IPOs to proceed

Ex-Salomon broker files claim on Grubman, Citigroup

Regulators announce $1.4 billion settlement with Wall Street

SEC Chairman Resigns Under Pressure

Credit Suisse First Boston under fire for conflict of interest, misleading clients.

Complaint Expected to Be Filed Against Credit Suisse First Boston

Merrill Lynch Lawsuits

Fraudulent Analyst Lawsuits

Online Investors Get 10 Tips from State Securities Regulators

State securities regulators highlight problems with day trading

NASD Regulation Files Six Enforcement Actions Involving Marketing and Sales of Variable Annuities

Scandal sullies mutual funds

SEC joins probe, asks funds for documents

Bill to Limit Oversight of Wall St. Gains

NASD Takes Disciplinary Actions For Variable Annuity Abuses And Issues Investor Alert On Variable Products

SEC Takes Steps to Address Late Trading, Market Timing and Related Abuses

SEC Charges Invesco Funds Group, Inc. and CEO Raymond Cunningham With Fraud and Breach of Fiduciary Duty for Allowing Market Timing at Invesco Funds

SEC: More Mutual Fund Charges Are Likely

Janus Capital Group Under Investigation

Experts: Mutual funds riddled with abuse

Richard Strong resigns as chairman of Strong Mutual Funds

Putnam's Chief Steps Down Amid Shake-Up in Fund Industry

SEC, Massachusetts Accuse Putnam of Fraud

Bond arbitration cases boom; More cases expected as interest rates rise

Former Morgan Stanley Broker's Assets Frozen

Stocks That May Have Been the Subject of Tainted Investment Bank Research

ARS Auction Failure

RANDALL W. FORSYTH

Wall Street Crisis Snares Main St. Schools