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J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop is a partner in the Atlanta firm of Smiley & Bishop LLP. He is a 1984 Graduate of Mercer Law School.
For over twenty years, Mr. Bishop has practiced exclusively in the areas of securities arbitration and litigation, representing investors with securities claims of all types and sizes. Mr. Bishop and his firm have obtained numerous seven-figure arbitration awards, which have included punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Many of Mr. Bishop’s clients are elderly investors who have been victims of investment and financial fraud.
Mr. Bishop has lectured to numerous groups about securities arbitration and has been a Course Instructor for the National Association of Securities Dealers Arbitrator Training Programs on claims and defenses in arbitration, discovery in arbitration and brokerage firm documentation. Mr. Bishop is also an Arbitrator NASD.
Mr. Bishop has been widely quoted as an expert on securities matters in various national news publications and cases he has handled have been featured in the The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Bishop has also appeared as an expert on securities law on CNBC.
Mr. Bishop has co-authored articles on “How to Read and Understand Broker Account Statements” and “Limited Partnership Interests: What are The Worth?” which have been published by the American Association of Individual Investors’ AAII Journal.
Mr. Bishop is a Board Member of the Elder Law section of the Atlanta Bar Association and a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Barr Association and the Georgia ElderCare Network. Mr. Bishop is also Chairman of the Board of the Brain Injury Resource Foundation.
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