Albany Law School Launches Investor Arbitration Clinic

The Albany Law School is launching a new clinic where third-year law students will represent lower-income stockholders in arbitration hearings before the National Association of Securities Dealers and the New York Stock Exchange.

The clinic is funded by a $490,000 grant from the New York State Attorney General's Office.

Students participating in the clinic will interview clients, analyze cases, prepare pleadings, and negotiate settlements.

Professor Mary Lynch, who is co-director of the School's Law Clinic & Justice Center, told a local reporter that the new clinic will give students who want to work on Wall Street valuable experience in securities arbitration.

Approximately 250 of Albany Law School's 738 students take part in a law clinic.

Source: "Albany Law School Will Aid Investors," by Larry Rulison, the Times Union (Albany, NY), December 15, 2006