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Joseph C. Peiffer is an attorney at law and partner at the Lousiana based law firm Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson, L.L.P.  He focuses primarily on the areas associated with U.S. securities arbitration and commercial lawsuits.

Attorney at law Joseph Peiffer has represented 100's of retired persons that took action against their stockbrokers in Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration. One highlight with this experience included Joe representing 30+ former Exxon employees in a 3 month long FINRA arbitration against Securities America. The outcome in this was a $22 million dollar judgement which was one of the most significant ever issued by a FINRA arbitration panel.

Additionally, Joseph C. Peiffer has represented 100's of Xerox and Kodak retirees against their stockbrokers. This representation was the result of the stockbrokers deceptive investment that was not appropriate for the risk profile of retired persons.

In the aftermath of the BP petrol spills that took place in the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans based attorney at law Joseph Peiffer was part of the team of legal counsel that filed a temporary restraining order to prevent British Petroleum from paying quarterly stock dividends to its investors before the corporation could prove that it was able to fund the Gulf’s environmental restoration.

Joseph C. Peiffer recently represented the Louisiana Firefighters Retirement Fund as they began legal action against the enterprise Northern Trust pertaining to stock loaning. Yet another instance of Joseph’s regional involvement included his counsel of Louisiana Citizens Insurance Company.

An additional illustration of his work representing a business that received improper services was a group of West Virginia based hospitals that were taking legal action against a number of investment banks and their issuance of market rate securities. Joseph Peiffer is also on the plaintiffs’ steering committee in a U.S. wide antitrust class action lawsuit that involved the unlawful tying of cable TV top box equipment to the provision of premium cable tv services.

Joseph C. Peiffer is one of Three Louisiana lawyers that is ranked by Chambers USA for securities litigation.

While working at Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson, L.L.P. Joe has also taught and lectured broadly. Joseph’s recently published book, which he co-authored, is about Litigating Business Torts. He co-created and taught a class entitled Storytelling and Advocacy at Loyola Law School. In addition at Loyola Law School Joseph has instructed a class called “The Basics of Arbitration” while also serving as an adjunct teacher focusing on educating on Trial Advocacy. Joseph C. Peiffer has also guest lectured at Tulane Law School in the Securities Regulations course as well as Syracuse Law School on the subject of investments arbitration. Joe has also lectured at a variety of national conferences on numerous topics such as prosecuting significant, multi-client claims, broker’s deficient assistance to retirees and also FINRA mediation.

Joseph’s academic qualifications consists of his graduation from Tulane School of Law, cum laude, in 1999. While a student at Tulane, Joe served on the Tulane Law Review and worked withTulane’s Legal Assistance Program. Prior to the law program at Tulane, Joseph received his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University in 1996 with a major in communications. While at Bowling Green,Joeseph was employed as the General Manager of the university radio station in addition to City Editor of the University’s daily newspaper.

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Joseph C. Peiffer is an attorney and partner at the Lousiana based law firm Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson, L.L.P.  He specializes in the areas related to U.S. securities arbitration and commercial litigation.

He is also a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association where he has served on the amicus panel,The Louisiana State barand also American Bar Associations. He also is a member of the American Association for Justice where he presently serves as Chairman for the Business Torts segment. He's additionally a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association where he has supported on the amicus committee.