Profile: John Lawrence Allen, Esq.

John Lawrence Allen, one of the nation's leading authorities in securities law, has enjoyed a distinguished career spanning three decades as attorney, business executive, stock arbitrage innovator, published author and columnist.  As plaintiffs counsel in numerous high-profile cases, Mr. Allen has won over one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) for his clients. 

A frequent speaker before professional and lay audiences on recognizing and preventing investment fraud, Mr. Allen is often called upon to provide expert commentary for print and electronic media.  In addition, many of Mr. Allen's high profile cases have been reported by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Business Week, USA Today, Barron's, Associated Press and Reuters, as well as The NBC Evening News With Tom Brokaw, PBS Nightly Business Report, CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio and other national television and radio programs. 

Author of INVESTOR BEWARE! How To Protect Your Money From Wall Street's Dirty Tricks (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1993), Mr. Allen is also a contributing writer to the Practising Law Institute, a non-profit organization that provides continuing education for attorneys, and authored a monthly column for Physicians Money Digest entitled "The Advocates Corner." 

A former prosecutor in the Los Angles District Attorney's Office, Mr. Allen was Chairman of the Joint Committee of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of California and the Royal Courts of Justice of England and Wales, which promotes procedural reform in the courts of the United States and the United Kingdom (1996-1997). 

In 1996 Mr. Allen was invited to assist the United States Permanent Select Committee on Investigations on the subjects of micro-capital stock fraud and senior abuse.  Mr. Allen participated in National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) forums on procedural reform and has served as an arbitrator before the American Arbitration Association.  Admitted to the United States Supreme Court in 1992, Mr. Allen is also admitted to practice before the California, New York and Washington, D.C. Bars.