• Complex Securities and Business Litigation
• Securities and Business Arbitrations
• Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Disputes

Erwin Shustak is one of the founding partners and heads the Firm's Litigation and Arbitration Department. He is the managing partner of the Firm.

Mr. Shustak specializes in litigations, trials, arbitrations and appeals of complex business and securities disputes. He has handled and overseen several hundred litigations and arbitrations, in Federal and State Courts and arbitration forums across the country. He specializes in securities and financial fraud cases.

He has represented public and private companies of all kinds, including financial institutions, governmental agencies, including the FDIC and the Resolution Trust Corporation, manufacturing firms, broker-dealers, hedge funds, registered representatives and investors. His vast trial and arbitration experience includes business, securities and financial fraud; breach of contract; employment disputes; unfair competition, non-compete and restrictive covenant cases; RICO and intellectual property disputes including copyright and trademark infringement.

Erwin was honored as one of San Diego's "Super Lawyers" of 2007 (securities litigation) and 2008 (business litigation) by Southern California's "Super Lawyers" magazine published by Law & Politics and featured in the Southern California edition of The New York Times. He also was selected by the Editors of the San Diego Daily Transcript as one of the Transcript's Top Ten Attorneys in 2005.

Mr. Shustak began his career at the prominent firm of Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler in New York City. He is admitted to the State and Federal Courts of California, New York and New Jersey; the Second, Third, Fifth and Ninth Circuit Federal Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

He serves as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers), the National Futures Association and the Arbitration Forum and is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; the Association of Business Trial Lawyers of San Diego; the Public Investor Arbitration Bar Association; the New York and California State Bar Associations and the San Diego County Bar Association where he has served on the Mandatory Fee Arbitration Committee since 2000.

Erwin resides in La Jolla, California and travels extensively serving the Firm's clients. He is an avid sailor and skier and is active in a number of community organizations and various pro bono projects.

Education
J.D.- New York University School of Law, 1976. Member Law Review, selected on the basis of academic excellence.

B.A.- Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1973. Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude and Highest Distinction in Economics; Omicron Delta Epsilon, National Economics Honor Society.


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