FINRA DRS Postpones In-Person Hearings through Beginning of April
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Coronavirus, COVID-19, FINRA Code of ArbitrationTags , , , , , on January 11, 2021

FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution Services (“DRS”) has again administratively postponed all in-person arbitration and mediation hearings.

The January 5 announcement now includes hearings through April 2;

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FINRA Stats, 6/18: At the Halfway Mark, FINRA-DR’s Incoming Cases Are On Track To Add More Than a Thousand More Cases Than 2017
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration, News, Statistics & SurveysTags , , , , on July 27, 2018

At the end of 2018’s first quarter, we would not have thought the surprising caseload surge sustainable, but, having reached the end of the second quarter,

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Latest Neutral Corner from FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution Hits the Electronic Newsstand. Its Lead Article Discusses the NAMC, But It Also Features Tips on Scheduling Hearings
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration, Arbitrators, NewsTags , , , , on April 13, 2018

FINRA’s Office of Dispute Resolution (“ODR”) has once again posted the latest issue of its newsletter for arbitrators and mediators, The Neutral Corner (“TNC”) and,

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Award Survey: Impact of Claim Amounts on 2013-17 Customer-Member Awards
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Arbitration, Arbitration Awards, Statistics & SurveysTags , , , , , , on December 21, 2017

To close out this calendar year, we decided to investigate how the amount of compensatory damages claimed affects a customer Claimant’s case.

This survey considers a number of factors that we thought might well differ depending on the claim amount: the number of hearing sessions,

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FINRA Posts Its July Statistical Report for Arbitration Activities: July, Average Month
Posted by Securities Arbitration Alert Categories Securities Arbitration, Statistics & SurveysTags , , , on August 25, 2017

With seven months of 2017 tabulated, FINRA, in its monthly statistical report on the activities of its dispute resolution unit (ODR), has recorded fewer than two thousand new cases filed.

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