CARLOS RICCA, former Senior Vice President and Senior Litigation Counsel at Wachovia Securities, is now a Partner of Davidson & Grannum.

ERIN BURKE, a 2009 graduate of Fordham Law School joined the firm and is now admitted in New York.

KYLE KRUEGER, is awaiting admission to the Connecticut and New York Bars.

JOEL DAVIDSON successfully defended a case brought by the SEC in Federal Court in New Jersey. After a 14 day bench trial, the Court dismissed the SEC’s complaint which alleged fraud, frontrunning and excessive mark-ups on institutional trades. See, SEC v. Pasternak, 2008 WL 2501355 (D.N.J. June 24, 2008). Joel also was on a Panel at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Chicago in August 2009. The topic was “Mediation: The Seven Deadly Sins.” Joel has been a member of AMEX since 1977.

On March 3, 2010, the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA reversed a Hearing Panel's findings against John Leighton and Kenneth Pasternak, and the sanctions that had been imposed against each of them, in a 68 page decision, in Matter of Department of Market Regulation v. John Patrick Leighton and Kenneth D. Pasternak. Mr. Leighton was represented by Joel E. Davidson at the FINRA hearing and on the appeal.
http://www.finra.org/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2010/P121042

SANDRA GRANNUM was a member of the Employment Law Panel of the SIFMA Compliance and Legal Division Meeting in March 2009, and on the ABA Special Arbitration Panel in New York City in April 2009. Sandra also was a Panel at the PLI Program “Securities Arbitration in the Market Meltdown Era” in August 2009. She will also be on the Employment Law Panel at SIFMA’s 2010 Annual Meeting.

JOSEPH GENERELLI has been admitted to practice in the State of Connecticut.

Recent articles by Sandra Grannum, include; “The Standard for Employee Claims of Retaliation in the Wake of Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Sheila White” published by SIFMA for its 2009 Annual Compliance and Legal Service Court Material; “The Faith and Face of Securities Arbitration: After the 2008 Crash” published by the Practicing Law Institute (“PLI”) for its 2009 Securities Arbitration in the Market Meltdown Era: Achieving Fairness in Perception and Reality – Volume One; “Arbitrator Selection in FINRA Arbitrations: An Ever Changing Process with an Uncertain Faith for the Industry Arbitrator” published by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York for the Securities Arbitration & Mediation 2009; “U-5 Defamation in New York” published by SIFMA for its 2008 Annual Compliance and Legal Service Course Material; “Expungement Developments” published by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in June 2007 for it Handbook for Securities Arbitration & Mediation Hot Topics 2007; “Recent Developments In the Law of Vacation” published in the August 2007 Handbook on Securities Arbitration 2007 by Practicing Law Institute (“PLI”).