BIOGRAPHY
Sal focuses in the area of securities and investment disputes, including broker-client securities arbitrations, federal and state securities fraud litigation, and enforcement actions before administrative tribunals. He also represents clients in all types of commercial and business litigation matters.
Sal has firsthand securities industry experience as a former licensed securities representative and trading analyst with a major international brokerage firm. With his background managing accounts for the brokerage firm's active traders and high net worth clients, he has extensive knowledge of complex margin, securities, options, and fixed income trading strategies as well as brokerage compliance and account issues. While licensed in the industry, he personally placed thousands of trades on all major domestic exchanges for clients in all 50 states.
Sal serves as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He has chaired securities arbitration panels and is listed among FINRA's select panel of arbitrators eligible to issue injunctive relief.
Sal is a member of the State Bar of Arizona and the Maricopa County Bar Association. He is also a member of the State Bar of Arizona's Securities Regulation Section. After graduation from law school, he was a federal law clerk to the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Having been born in Mexico and raised in Phoenix, Sal is a native Spanish speaker and frequently counsels the firm's Spanish-speaking clients in a variety of litigation matters. He is President-Elect and a director of Los Abogados, the Hispanic bar association of Arizona.
Sal is admitted to practice law in the State of Arizona, the District of Columbia (inactive), the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (inactive), the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and before the United States Supreme Court.
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