Robert S. Banks Jr.

Securities, Mediation
200 S.W. Market Street, Suite 1600
Portland, Oregon 97201


Securities

Admitted

1982, Wisconsin and Oregon; 1984, Massachusetts

Law School

University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., 1982

Law School Graduation Year

1982

College

Reed College, B.A., 1977

Memberships

Multnomah County, Massachusetts and Federal (President, Oregon Chapter, 1991-1992) Bar Associations; State Bar of Wisconsin; Oregon State Bar (Member: Securities Regulation Section; Chairperson, Executive Committee; Litigation Section, 1997-1998; Executive Committee, Antitrust Section, 1999-2001); Oregon Trial Lawyers Association (Chair, Business Litigation Section, 1993-1995); Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (Member: Federal Legislation Committee, 1998-1999; Membership Committees, 1999-2002; Chair, Self-Regulatory Organizations Committee).

Biographical

Recipient, Distinguished Service Award, 1988 and President's Award, 1991, Federal Bar Association. Author: Clearing Firms and the 2002 Uniform Securities Act: What you Didn't Know Could Have Hurt You, Practicing Law Institute Securities Arbitration 2003; Judgments in Federal Court, Oregon State Bar Federal Civil Litigation in Oregon, 1993; Of Bucket Shops and Boiler Rooms: A Primer on Micro-Cap Stock Fraud, Oregon Trial Lawyers Magazine, Fall 1998; Investor Protection-Not SIPC and the Securities Investor Protection Act, Practicing Law Institute Securities Arbitration 2000; Clearing Firms, The Uniform Securities Act and Koruga v. Fiserv Correspondent Services, Inc, Practicing Law Institute Securities Arbitration 2001; Technology Market Woes Oregon Trial Lawyers Magazine, Winter, 2002. Speaker: Northwest Securities Institute, 1995-1998, 2002; Oregon State Bar, New Lawyers Section, Deposition Basics, 1995, 1996 and 1998; Practicing Law Institute Securities Arbitration Program, 2001. Legal Writing Instructor, University of Wisconsin Law School, 1980-1981, 1981-1982. Member, Board of Directors, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA) (Board Member, Executive Committee, 2002-2003). Member, National Arbitration and Mediation Committee, NASD, 2002-2004.

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