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JOHN G. RICH
John G. Rich is a partner of the
law firm of Rich & Intelisano, LLP. He has been practicing securities
litigation law in New York for over 23 years. He represents individual
and institutional investors in securities arbitration and litigation
against financial institutions. He represents commodities investors
as well as employees in industry disputes. He prosecutes claims
against brokerage firms, banks, hedge funds, investment advisors
and other financial professionals. He also represents clients
in commercial arbitrations before the AAA. He formed Rich & Intelisano,
LLP in 2003 with Ross B. Intelisano.
Mr. Rich has extensive experience in large and complex securities
and commodities fraud cases on behalf of investors worldwide.
He was co-trial counsel in the Blumenfeld, et. al v. Refco commodities
fraud case, a $100 million Ponzi scheme. The 100-day arbitration
on behalf of a group of 13 individual and corporate investors
who lost a combined $35 million, generated a $43 million award
in 2001. It remains the largest collected arbitration award ever
rendered on behalf of investors against a brokerage firm.
Mr. Rich was co-counsel representing a large investor in connection
with court proceedings against Frank Gruttadauria, Lehman Brothers
and S.G. Cowen, regarding the massive securities fraud perpetrated
by Gruttadauria which came to light in 2002.
Mr. Rich began practicing securities and general commercial litigation
at Davis Polk & Wardwell in 1981, and was in private litigation
practice from 1990 to 1995. From 1995 to August 2003, when Rich
Intelisano LLP was formed, Mr. Rich was of counsel to the law
firm of Eppenstein and Eppenstein, were he tried multi-million
dollar securities and commodities arbitrations.
Mr. Rich has been quoted in Barron's on mismanagement of investments
by banks, and has lectured on International Securities Arbitration
at the Institute for International Studies.
Mr. Rich was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1955. He received
his law degree from the University of Utah College of Law in
1981, where he was Editor-In-Chief of the Law Review and a member
of the Order of the Coif. He received a B.A. from Santa Clara
University in 1978, cum laude.
Mr. Rich is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, and
was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1982, U.S. District
Court, Southern District of New York (1982), and Eastern District
of New York (1983).
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