Dimond Kaplan & Rothstein, P.A.

General Commercial Litigation: Messrs. Dimond, Kaplan, and Rothstein have extensive experience litigating general commercial matters, including complex cases involving breach of contract, telecommunications, lender liability, commercial foreclosure, insurance, contests for corporate control, real estate and land use, landlord-tenant disputes, environmental issues, non-compete agreements, personal injury, premises liability, legal and accounting malpractice, construction defects, corporate compliance, creditor's rights, entertainment and sports law, defamation, franchise litigation, intellectual property, officers' and directors' liability, RICO and fraud, collections, charitable pledges, and bankruptcy proceedings. DKR's partners have litigated in state and federal courts, bankruptcy courts, private arbitration forums, and state and federal appellate courts.Securities Arbitration and Litigation: The Firm's partners have extensive experience in the securities arbitration and litigation arena, both in the representation of individual and institutional investors against brokerage firms and also in the representation of brokerage firms accused of misconduct. Mr. Dimond spent the first five-and-one-half years of his career with Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, one of the nation's largest law firms, defending securities arbitration claims on behalf of large brokerage firms such as Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., and Oppenheimer & Co. Since 1999, however, Mr. Dimond has limited his securities practice to the representation of investors bringing claims for broker misconduct. Since 1997, Mr. Kaplan similarly has limited his securities practice exclusively to representing investors bringing claims for broker misconduct. Mr. Kaplan also has internal brokerage- firm experience, having worked for Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., where he developed asset allocation models and investment proposals for high-net-worth individuals. Mr. Dimond, Mr. Kaplan, and DKR's other lawyers collectively have assisted in the recovery of in excess of $20,000,000 on behalf of individual and corporate investors.