Chase Investment Services loses arbitration to Morgan Keegan

This is fun to talk about, because my firm (in the form of yours truly) represented Morgan Keegan. The firm was named in an arbitration by Chase Investment Services, Inc. because a former Washington Mutual investment representative left the firm just before Chase Investments and WaMu Investments merged in May 2009. Chase thought he shouldn’t have contacted his customers.

Chase filed for an injunction and an arbitration. The final FINRA arbitration hearing took place in early March. The result was a complete victory for Morgan Keegan and the broker, Todd Rozzo. In fact, Rozzo was awarded $50,000 in damages for a wrongful injunction and custody of notebooks he had created while at WaMu. Kudos to my co-counsel, Chuck Dalziel and Stuart Sims, from Brock, Clay in Marietta, Georgia. These guys were a lot of fun to work with, and Chuck and I go waaaay back.

One part that was particularly fun was that I got to refer to one of my favorite television commercials. It’s called Washington Mutual “head scan”.

Just remember the phrase – “I hate it when these things don’t scan.”

You might recognize Jane Lynch from Glee and Tim DeKay from White Collar.

That’s the joyous view of one lawyer from Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida. I’m Marc Dobin.

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