Honors and Awards:

• Martindale Hubbell AV Rated (Highest Rating)
• President's Award, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association
• Distinguished Service Award, Federal Bar Association, Oregon Chapter
• Chambers Best Lawyers In America (Securities Arbitration)
• President's Award, Federal Bar Association for Services To Members of the Bar

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Past President and 9 year board member, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association
• Member, Board of Directors, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, 2000 - 2009
• Member, Board of Directors, St. Andrews Legal Clinic, 1996 - 1997
• Chairman, Oregon State Bar Securities Regulation Section, 1999-2000
• President, Federal Bar Association, Oregon Chapter, 1994
• Chairman, Oregon State Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, 2009
• Chairman, Rules and Procedures Subcommittee, FINRA National Arbitration and Mediation Committee, 2010 - 2011
• Chairman, FINRA Arbitrator Training Materials Task Force, 2008 - 2009
• Member, FINRA National Arbitration and Mediation Committee, 2009- Present
• Member, FINRA National Arbitration and Mediation Committee, 2002 - 2005
• Chair, NASAA Committee, 2008 - 2009
• Chair, FINRA Arbitrator Training Committee, 2008
• PIABA, Executive Committee, 2001 - 2009
• President, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, (PIABA), 2005 - 2006
• Florida
• New York
• California
• Idaho
• Washington
• Oregon
• Massachusetts
• Massachusetts

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Youth Baseball Coach, 2001-2009
• Middle School Mock Trial Instructor
• Member of the Federal Court's Pro-Bono Lawyers, 2005

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Speaker, "Private Securities Lawyers and State Regulators Should Work Together", North American Securities Administrators Association, (NASAA Annual Enforcement Conference, Orlando, Florida, January, 2007
• Speaker, "The Merger of the NASD and NYSE and What It Means For Securities Arbitration and Regulation" Oregon State Bar Securities Regulation Section, Portland, Oregon, May, 2007
• Speaker, "Welcoming  Address " and "NASD Code Rewrite", Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, October, 2006
• Speaker, "Multi Jurisdictional Arbitration Practice in light of Jevne v. Superior Court", Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Annual Meeting, La Costa, California, October, 2005
• Speaker, "Common Brokerage Firm Defenses", Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association California Mid-Year Meeting, Los Angeles, California, Spring, 2006
• Speaker, NASD Securities Arbitration, Oregon State Department of Finance and Corporate Securities, Salem, Oregon, Spring, 2006
• Speaker, Recent Developments in Securities Arbitration, West Coast Faculty Representative, New York City Bar Association, Summer, 2006
• Practicing Law Institute, Securities Arbitration: Taking Responsibility (Faculty Member) (New York City, August, 2006)
• Oregon State Bar Securities Regulation Section, Portland, Oregon: Houston v. Seward & Kissel, LLP: A New Case On Oregon Blue Sky Laws (April, 2008)
• The Changing Face of Commercial Arbitration, Arbitration Developments Panel, Oregon Law Institute, Portland, Oregon, September 26, 2008
• Speaker, "Trends in Broker-Dealer and Investment Advisor Fraud From The Investor Attorney Perspective FINRA Fall Conference, Claimant Representative, Arbitration Panel moderated by FINRA Dispute Resolution President Linda Fienberg (Carlsbad, California October 23, 2008)
• NASAA (North American Securities Administrators Association) Enforcement Conference, January, 2009
• Speaker, "Recent Developments in Securities Arbitration and Broker Dealer Regulation", Northwest Securities Institute, Portland, Oregon, February, 2009
• Selected Developments in Broker-Dealer Arbitration, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association 2010 Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, Florida
• Practicing Law Institute, Securities Arbitration 2008 (forthcoming) A Comment On the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s Proposed Rules On Motions To Dismiss.
• Practicing Law Institute, Securities Arbitration 2000 at 995, Investor Protection-Not! SIPC and The Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970
• Practicing Law Institute, Securities Arbitration 2001 at 565, Clearing Firms, The Uniform Securities Act, and Koruga v. Fiserv Correspondent Services, Inc.
• Practicing Law Institute, 1 Securities Arbitration 2003 at 253, Clearing Firms and the 2002 Uniform Securities Act: What You Didn’t Know Could Have Hurt You
• Practicing Law Institute, 1 Securities Arbitration 2006 at 225, The NASD’s Explained Awards Rule Filing
• Invited Speaker at FINRA Fall Conference in Carlsbad, California, representing the investor perspective on a panel discussing securities arbitration, FINRA, 2008
• Guest Lecturer for American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). Investor Rights in America: Claims, Financial Industry Defenses, and the Fairness of the Process, AAII, 2011
• Guest Lecturer on Brokerage Firm Liability, Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, Seminar on Advanced Business Law, January, North American Securities Administrators Association, 2011
• Speaker, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association Business Litigation Section Meeting, Securities Arbitration Cases, February, Northwest Securities Institute, 2011

Representative Clients:

• Koruga v. Fiserv Correspondent Services, Inc., 183 F. Supp.2d 1245 (D.Or. 2001), 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 6439 (9th Cir. 2002)
• Estate of Aguirre v. Koruga (I) 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 14632 (9th Cir. 2002)
• Estate ofAguirre v. Koruga (II), 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 25234 (9th Cir. 2005)
• Marshall, et al. v. McCown DeLeeuw, 391 F. Supp. 2d 880 (D. Idaho 2005)
• Houston v. Seward & Kissel, LLP, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23914 (March 27, 2008)
• Boyer v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. 344 Ore. 583 (2008)
• Registered Representatives Bringing or Defending Claims against their broker-dealers
• Defrauded Investors

Video:

• Banks Law Office, P.C.  has been representing aggrieved investors since 1985

Educational Background:

• Reed College, B.A., 1977
• J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School, 1982