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Mr. Kopecky currently represents public companies, brokers and individuals in investigations and arbitration proceedings before the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and NASD, Inc., as well in litigation actions. Mr. Kopecky also acts an independent investigator for investigations under Sarbanes Oxley and as an independent expert consultant to companies disciplined by Self Regulatory Organizations (SROs). Mr. Kopecky also represents businesses, shareholders in close corporations, and limited partners in litigation arising out of business and partnership transactions. Mr. Kopecky joined the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1999 and quickly became a Branch Chief in the Division of Enforcement. He remained there until July 2002. At the SEC, he led a team of attorneys and staff that investigated and prosecuted securities fraud, including insider trading, accounting fraud, complicated market manipulation actions, ponzi schemes, offering frauds and sales practice actions. Mr. Kopecky graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Economics. He went on to obtain a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law where Jim was a Senior Member of the Loyola Law Journal, winner of two American Jurisprudence Awards for Highest Grades in Legal Writing and Moot Court, and a recipient of a 1994 Leadership and Service Award. | 