ArbitrationIntel — For Defrauded Investors
If a broker or financial advisor put your savings into something unsuitable, traded your account to generate commissions, or simply lied to you, your account agreement almost certainly forces the dispute into FINRA arbitration — not court. A FINRA arbitration attorney who knows that forum can still get you a real hearing and a real recovery. No upfront cost to find out.
Unsuitable Investments
Your risk tolerance and goals never matched what you were sold.
Churning & Excess Trading
Frequent buying and selling that made money for the broker, not you.
Unauthorized Trades
Trades placed in your account without your knowledge or consent.
I. Why This Goes To Arbitration, Not Court
When you opened a brokerage account, the account agreement almost certainly included a pre-dispute arbitration clause. That clause routes any dispute with your broker or brokerage firm to FINRA Dispute Resolution Services — a private forum with its own rules, its own roster of arbitrators, and no jury. Most investors don't realize this until they've already lost money and started looking for a lawyer, and by then the clock is already running.
II. What A FINRA Arbitration Attorney Actually Does
FINRA arbitration runs on its own procedure: a Statement of Claim instead of a complaint, a panel of one to three arbitrators drawn from FINRA's roster instead of a judge and jury, a compressed discovery process, and a final hearing that produces an award — one that is very difficult to appeal once it's issued. An attorney who works this forum regularly knows how FINRA arbitrators actually weigh a churning case or a suitability case, and how brokerage-firm defense counsel typically responds.
ArbitrationIntel doesn't run your case. We screen what happened, and if it holds up, we match you to a firm on our vetted panel that handles FINRA claims like yours — at no upfront cost to you.
III. Signs You May Have A FINRA Claim
Unsuitable recommendations
You were put into investments far riskier — or far less liquid — than what you asked for.
Overconcentration
Your account was loaded into one stock, sector, or product instead of being diversified.
Churning or excessive trading
Frequent trades that generated commissions but didn't serve your goals.
Unauthorized transactions
Trades you never approved showed up on your statements.
Failure to supervise
The brokerage firm knew or should have known what its broker was doing, and didn't stop it.
Elder financial exploitation
An older investor was steered into products that mainly benefited the broker.
IV. How A FINRA Claim Moves
A few questions about your broker, your account, and your losses. No legal knowledge needed.
We confirm the basics — a registered broker, a real loss, still inside FINRA's 6-year eligibility window — before matching you.
A FINRA-arbitration attorney reviews your file and, if they take the case, handles the Statement of Claim and the hearing. You pay nothing upfront.
V. Questions Investors Ask First
It's the private dispute forum most brokerage account agreements require instead of a lawsuit. FINRA Dispute Resolution Services assigns a panel of arbitrators who hear the case and issue a final, binding award — there's no jury and, in most cases, no meaningful right to appeal.
If your account agreement has a pre-dispute arbitration clause — and almost every major brokerage's does — yes, in most cases. A FINRA arbitration attorney is precisely the person who knows how to work inside that requirement instead of fighting it.
FINRA's eligibility rule generally bars claims filed more than six years after the events giving rise to the dispute. That window can be shorter in practice depending on your facts, so the sooner you have a claim reviewed, the more options stay open.
Fraud, misrepresentation, and outright theft are all claims a FINRA arbitration attorney can bring within the same arbitration — you don't need a separate court case for the fraud piece.
Checking your claim costs nothing. Firms on our panel that take FINRA cases generally work on a contingency basis, meaning they're paid a share of what's recovered — confirm the exact fee agreement with the firm before you sign anything.
Check If You Have A Claim
Answer a few questions about your broker and your account. If it holds up, we'll match you to a FINRA arbitration attorney on our vetted panel — at no upfront cost to you.
Still Have Questions?
No pressure, no cost, no obligation. We'll walk through what happened and tell you honestly whether it looks like a FINRA claim.