About
Sandra P. Lahens is a partner at Lax & Neville LLP. Sandra’s practice includes representing agencies and people in commercial litigation and arbitration regarding securities and funding disputes, employment topics and regulatory investigations. She has successfully arbitrated and mediated instances earlier than the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), JAMS, and litigated cases in federal and kingdom courts, which include in appeals earlier than the New York Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York State Appellate Division.
Sandra represents buyers national in patron sales exercise disputes in opposition to their registered representatives, broking sellers and registered funding advisors in arbitration before FINRA and AAA. In one of her cases, the FINRA arbitration panel provided her customer, a former professional athlete, the full amount of his net out-of-pocket losses, at the side of the whole quantity of the lawyers prices and all expenses asked. Sandra additionally has experience in fashionable business litigations, including instances related to defamation. In a current case, Sandra successfully defended a famous New York City restaurant and its manager towards claims of age discrimination and defamation with the aid of a former employee.
Sandra has sizable experience representing clients in litigation of employment-related matters. She represents specialists in monetary enterprise disputes, such as, repayment and bonus disputes, promissory observe negotiations, Form U-four and U-5 negotiations, and expungements. Additionally, she represents customers in employment discrimination claims, wrongful termination, whistleblower litigation, violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, salary and hour hard work disputes, and negotiates severance agreements. In addition, Sandra represents registered representatives of their transitions or actions between brokerage companies, consisting of Broker Protocol troubles.
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Legal Issues
- Securities Law
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
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- Free Consultation
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- English
- Spanish
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- Lawyer
LaxNeville
2005
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