significant cases
Harry S. Miller has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years, representing clients throughout the country and internationally as well. He has successfully handled hundreds of claims of securities fraud and investor/stockbroker disputes, representing investors in cases against brokerage firms and investment advisors in securities arbitration and litigation. The following are snapshots of just a few of the cases Mr. Miller has brought to favorable conclusions.
- Harry S. Miller successfully arbitrated a case in front of a NASD panel of arbitrators, which ultimately found Salomon Smith Barney ("SSB") Citigroup liable for three million dollars to a former customer in a dispute arising out of SSB's recommendation to purchase and hold WorldCom stock. The award included compensatory damages, interest and punitive damages of half a million dollars.
- Successfully negotiated a settlement worth over $200,000 on behalf of client with claims for unauthorized trading, over-concentration of account assets in unsuitably risky securities, misrepresentations, negligence, mismanagement, failure to diversify, and failure of supervision.
- Mr. Miller successfully represented an investor in Wisconsin in his case against his brokers and brokerage firm on claims of mishandling and churning his account, excessively margining his investments and fraudulently manipulating the markets for certain stocks.
- In the Massachusetts Superior Court, Mr. Miller successfully represented more than a dozen individual investors who had been defrauded of their life savings and retirement funds by a rogue broker. We litigated their claims against the brokerage firms that had employed the broker and allowed him to execute his scheme. In the same case, we coordinated our clients' participation in the simultaneous fraud investigation conducted by the Securities Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and represented our clients' interests in the restitution program established by that agency.
- Successfully litigated and ultimately mediated a favorable settlement for the claims of a couple who had purchased a number of limited partnership investments some years earlier and only recently came to suspect that they had been defrauded in being encouraged to purchase these investments. We advanced a novel interpretation of the statute of limitations to overcome the time limit rule which otherwise would have barred recovery in this case.
- Represented a group of Microsoft employees against the brokerage firm that had advised them in connection with the exercise of their employee stock options and holding the stock on margin. The claims were successfully resolved through mediation.
- Before an arbitration panel of the NASD of Colorado, Mr. Miller represented an institutional investor whose account had been churned, excessively margined, and then frozen without warning by the brokerage firm carrying the account. Our successful prosecution of the claims resulted in an award of all losses plus attorneys' fees to our client.
- Successfully represented an employee pension fund in negotiating a multi-million dollar settlement of their claims against the trustees and administrators of the retirement plan that had lost their savings while failing to disclose financial problems with the company.