Practice Areas

Furgison Law Group represents investors, retirees, and policyholders harmed by financial industry misconduct. Our practice is focused on a few areas where we have deep experience, documented results, and the substantive expertise to take cases all the way through arbitration or trial. We also handle select matters outside our core focus when the facts warrant it, and we maintain an active referral network for cases that are better served by other counsel.

Our Primary Practice Areas

Securities Arbitration

We represent individual and institutional investors in claims against stockbrokers, broker-dealers, and registered investment advisers for unsuitable recommendations, misrepresentations and omissions, churning, unauthorized trading, breach of fiduciary duty, failure to supervise, and other forms of broker misconduct. Most of these claims proceed through FINRA securities arbitration, with some matters litigated in state and federal court depending on the facts.

Variable Annuity, Life Insurance, and Premium Financing Misconduct Claims

We represent investors harmed by variable annuities, indexed universal life policies, premium-financed life insurance, structured cash flow schemes, and related insurance products sold as investments. These cases often involve a combination of securities and insurance products that determines whether the dispute proceeds in arbitration or in court — a critical early decision we evaluate at the outset of every matter.

California Financial Elder Abuse

A substantial portion of our work involves California financial elder abuse claims on behalf of seniors whose retirement savings were depleted by broker, agent, or adviser misconduct. California's Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act (Welfare and Institutions Code §15600 et seq.) provides enhanced remedies — including treble damages, attorneys' fees, and a statutory presumption of undue influence — when investors 65 or older are the targets of financial misconduct. We work regularly with experienced damages experts, geriatric psychologists, and capacity specialists to build these cases.

Elder abuse claims often arise as part of broader securities or insurance misconduct cases, and we plead them alongside the primary causes of action wherever the facts support it.

Additional Services

We accept select matters outside our primary practice areas where the facts and circumstances warrant our involvement, including securities class actions on behalf of lead plaintiffs or affected investors, SEC and FINRA whistleblower claims, and disputes within the financial industry workforce (advisor transitions, U5 expungement, deferred compensation, restrictive covenants). These cases are evaluated individually; please call to discuss whether your situation fits.

Cases We Refer Out

When a matter falls outside our practice areas, we maintain an active referral network of trusted plaintiff-side attorneys across California in personal injury, civil rights and police misconduct, employment discrimination and wrongful termination, family law, probate and trust litigation, consumer class actions, and other specialty areas. We pay and accept referral fees in compliance with California Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.5.1, including the required written client consent and joint responsibility.

Talk to a Furgison Law Group Attorney

We offer a free, confidential case evaluation for every prospective matter. If your situation doesn't fit our practice, we'll tell you that directly — and where we can, we'll route you to a colleague who handles the work.

Call (310) 356-6890 or request a case evaluation online.

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Typical Claims

Our firm represents individual and institutional investors in their disputes with the securities industry. The following are the most common claims: 

Investment Products

Our firm is currently working on cases involving the following issues:

• TIC's, Tenant In Common real estate investments

• 1031 Exchanges

• REIT's, Real Estate Investment Trusts

• Oil & Gas Investments

• Hedge Funds

• Ponzi Schemes

• Limited Partnerships

• Private Placements

• Bond Funds

• Municipal Bond Funds

• Preferred stocks

• Financial sector securities

• Margin trading

• ETF's, Exchange Traded Funds

• United Development Funding REIT's (UDF I, III, IV and V)

• UBS Puerto Rico Bond Funds

• Future Income Payments (FIP)

The Usual Suspects (Investment Firms)