Articles Tagged with Contingency-Based Law Firm

When you give someone money to invest for you, you expect that they will do what is best for you and your situation. You’re counting on their financial knowledge and experience and that they will make the right decisions. In addition to your hard-earned money, you are giving them your trust.

This is why when that trust is broken, it can be devastating, especially if it hurts you and your family financially. Unfortunately, fraud or mismanagement can and does happen in the financial services industry. In some cases, an overzealous broker or firm may not explicitly mean any harm, but in others, the harm is clearly intentional.

Because any type of investment comes with a certain amount of risk, often investors don’t know that anything improper may have taken place when they’ve lost money. But in some cases, the broker or brokerage firm is at fault and violates financial industry regulations, and all parties should be held responsible.