Mark Tepper

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About Mark Tepper

Career Highlights: Practicing law for over 35 years, representing the interests of investors in criminal and civil actions, securities fraud attorney Mark A. Tepper is in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mr. Tepper is a graduate of Cornell Law School and a former Assistant Attorney General and Chief Trial Counsel for the Bureau of Investor Protection and Securities for the Attorney General in New York.(1977-1988). He was in private practice in New York until 1990 when he relocated his practice to South Florida. Prior to that he was a Senior Trial Attorney, Criminal Defense Division, Legal Aid Society, New York from 1972-1977. While practicing law in New York, Mr. Tepper was associated with the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), from 1982-1988, as a Presenter in the Education and Training Program, as a Vice Chairman and Member of the Special Projects Committee. In 1987, he led the NASAA Delegation to the Fifth International Symposium on Commercial Crime, Cambridge England. He was awarded for outstanding service by NASAA. His presentation at NASAA's Enforcement Meeting in Orlando, Florida explained a survey which showed that NASD arbitration can be unfair to public customers. Mr. Tepper also conducts suitability training for state securities regulators in a number of forums around the country, including the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) annual Broker/Dealer Conferences. He has also conducted suitability training for NASAA and during a NASAA Enforcement Meeting in Orlando, Florida, presented his study which provided some of the first evidence that arbitration can be unfair to public customers. Mr. Tepper also served on the Board of Directors for the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA).