Paul R. Walsh

Since 2004, Paul R. Walsh continues as a Vice President, Compliance Director & Assistant General Counsel in the Legal & Compliance Department of JPMorgan Chase. Mr. Walsh manages a group of compliance professionals and attorneys responding to regulatory inquiries and examinations from FINRA, SEC and state securities departments along with customer disputes involving Chase Investment Services Corp. (CISC), the firm’s retail broker-dealer. Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Walsh spent six years as an Assistant Vice President and Counsel in the Compliance Department at AXA Financial providing legal and compliance advice to AXA Advisors, the firm’s broker-dealer.

Before moving to in-house counsel positions, Mr. Walsh was a trial attorney in the Torts Division of the New York City Law Department. He began his legal career after graduating from St. John’s University School of Law in 1992 as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2011, Paul has been an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University School of Law teaching Broker Dealer Regulation. He has also been a FINRA neutral arbitrator as an industry panelist since 2002.