Darren C. Blum, Esq. (Member)

Mr. Blum spent many years in the financial services industry as a licensed stock and commodity broker trading for institutions and private individuals prior to becoming an attorney. He worked in the "pits" of the Commodity Exchange in the World Trade Center in New York. Mr. Blum then combined his extensive experience and knowledge of the securities industry with a law degree and joined one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the world, with sixteen offices and over five hundred attorneys.

Mr. Blum learned the inner workings of the arbitration process during his tenure at NASD Dispute Resolution, which is the forum where approximately 80% of all securities disputes are resolved. At the NASD, Mr. Blum assisted in the adjudication of hundreds of securities arbitration cases.

In 1997, Mr. Blum shifted his practice from representing brokers and brokerage firms to the representation of aggrieved investors who lost money as a result of misconduct by brokerage firms and their employees.
Mr. Blum has recovered tens of millions of dollars of investors’ losses from brokerage firms through the arbitration process. His success has been recognized worldwide. His cases have been featured on CNN, Inside Edition, CNBC, and in many news reports. Many financial publications have also reported on Mr. Blum’s law firm such as The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post, Time Magazine and others. He was one of the first attorneys to win a 'Research Analyst' case. Moreover, he has even had numerous arbitration panels order brokerage firms to pay his clients all of their attorney's fees.

Over the past decade, Mr. Blum has drawn on his experience as an Editor for the Law Review to author and publish numerous articles, including Punitive Power: Securities Arbitrators Need It and NASD Mediations: PLI Securities Update. He has also won punitive damages in various cases.
Mr. Blum is admitted to practice law in all of the Florida State Courts and numerous United States District Courts (Federal Courts). Moreover, Mr. Blum is an NASD and NFA approved arbitrator, lending unique perspective to his practice.

Mr. Blum founded Blum & Silver, LLP, a law firm with experienced attorneys and staff that focuses on representing investors worldwide with their claims for losses due to stockbroker misconduct and brokerage firm negligence. The law firm is willing to represent clients with monetary losses due to any type of financial fraud or negligence. The law firm maintains headquarters in Coral Springs, Florida with satellite offices throughout the country. Mr. Blum represents investors across the United States and overseas.

New York, N.Y., August 13, 1971; admitted to bar, 1996, Florida; 1997, New York, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, Southern And Eastern Districts of New York. Education: State University of New York at Albany (B.S., 1993); University of Miami School of Law (J.D., 1996).

Author: "Non-Customer 'Customers' and Compulsory NASD Arbitration," PLI Securities Arbitration, 2002. Member, CLI Securities Exchange Commission, 1995-1996.

Member: New York State and American Bar Associations; The Florida Bar; New York Bar; United States District Court Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and Southern District of Florida.

Practice Areas: Securities Arbitration; Broker-Dealer Litigation; Commodities; Class Actions; NASD Arbitration.

Scott Silver has spent his entire legal career practicing securities and financial services law. Mr. Silver graduated from the University of Miami School of Law. During law school, Mr. Silver successfully completed a CLI Program with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

Mr. Silver subsequently joined a Wall Street law firm specializing in the defense of brokerage firms in NASD, SEC, and court matters. Mr. Silver regularly represented clients before the NASD and in state and federal courts on various financial matters.

In 2001, Mr. Silver relocated to Florida joining The Law Offices of Darren C. Blum, P.A. bringing his unique knowledge of the inner workings of Wall Street to a leading Plaintiff’s firm. Thereafter, the firm of Blum & Silver, LLP was formed whereby Mr. Blum and Mr. Silver combined forces. Mr. Silver switched “hats” and began primarily representing individual investors, institutions and companies in claims against brokerage firms, investment advisors, commodities firms, hedge funds and others. Mr. Silver maintains strong ties to New York and regularly represents investors in and around New York through the firm’s New York office.

Mr. Silver has represented investors in a wide variety of matters including claims for:
• Fraud
• Theft
• Churning
• Penny-stock fraud
• Commodities fraud
• Fraudulent bond transactions including high-yield bonds, CMO’s and Inverse Floaters
• Suitability
• Pipe transactions
• Private placements
• International Fraud

Mr. Silver frequently contributes to various publications and he has authored or co-authored numerous articles relating to investors and the arbitration process. Mr. Silver is an active member of PIABA (Public Investor Arbitration Bar Association) and co-hosted Stockattorneys Live, a weekly talk show educating the investing public.

Mr. Silver is admitted to practice law in Florida and New York and many federal courts including the Southern and Eastern District of New York and Southern District of Florida. Mr. Silver has represented clients throughout the United States as well as Israel, Egypt, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Mexico, England and elsewhere.