December 07, 2012
Christine Lazaro, Supervising Attorney with the Law School’s
Securities Arbitration Clinic, is the recipient of the 2012
PIABA Outstanding Service Award for her service and contributions
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Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA).
The PIABA SRO Committee monitors FINRA and SEC arbitration
rule-making proposals that are of significant interest to the PIABA
membership and investing public. Professor Lazaro has served as the
PIABA SRO Chairwoman for the past two years, coordinating PIABA's
response to more than 30 PIABA Comment Letters to the SEC, FINRA
and the Department of Labor.
Before coming to St. John’s, Professor Lazaro was an associate at
the boutique law firm of Davidson & Grannum, LLP, where she
represented broker-dealers and individual brokers in disputes with
clients in both arbitration and mediation. She also handled
employment law cases and debt collection cases. She holds a B.A.
from New York University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School.
Read PIABA’s press release.