Previous Law Firm Name

• Beyer, Lerner & Harris, January 1, 1982
• Lerner & Pearce PA, November 1, 1999
• Lerner, Harris & Pearce, P.A., January 1, 1990

Law Firm Overview

Practice Areas

Decisions & Awards

Robert Wayne Pearce has 20 years of experience, including experience as an attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") enforcing the Federal securities laws. Mr. Pearce has been in private practice in Florida since 1982 managing the litigation arm of a boutique securities law firm practice.

Mr. Pearce has tried, arbitrated and mediated numerous disputes involving complex securities, commodities, administrative, contract, commercial, business tort and employment law issues. He has represented thousands of clients in Federal and state courts (trial and appellate) as well as administrative, arbitration, and mediation proceedings before the SEC, Commodities Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"), Florida Division of Securities & Investor Protection ("FDS"), National Association of Securities Dealers regulation, Inc. ("NASDR"), New York Stock Exchange, Inc. ("NYSE") and/or National Futures Association ("NFA").

Mr. Pearce is a Florida Supreme Court Mediator and a respected mediator in the NASD Mediation Program. He also acts as a private judge or arbitrator in mini-trials and arbitration proceedings, respectively. Mr. Pearce has also served as a Federal Court-appointed Receiver- an attorney who is called upon by Federal and state regulators (SEC, CFTC and FDS) to take over companies engulfed in legal problems.

Areas of Practice

• Securities Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Administrative Law
• Business & Commercial Law
• Employment Law -- Employee
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Insurance Law
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff

Representative Cases

• Allen v. TIC Participations Trust, 722 So.2d 260, (Fla. App. 4 Dist. 1998)
• Ramos v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc., 714 So.2d 1146 (Fla. App. 3 Dist. 1998)
• The Florida Bar re Advisory Opinion on Nonlawyer Representation in Securities Arbitration, 696 So.2d 1178 (1997)
• First Union Discount Brokerage Services, Inc. v. Milos, 997 F.2d 835 (11th Cir. 1993)
• S.E.C. v. Sunco Resource and Energy, Ltd., Inc., WL 128232 (S.D. Fla.)
• Great American Mortg. Corp. v. TMA Government Securities, Ltd, 1988 WL 26375 (S.D. Fla. 1988)
• In re Mullin, 91 B.R. 175 (Bankr. S.D. Fla 1988)
• Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. v. Warner, 665 F.Supp. 1549 (S.D. Fla. 1987)
• American Television and Communications Corp. v. American Communications and Television, Inc., : 810 F.2d 1546, 86 A.L.R. Fed. 479 (11th Cir. Fla. 1987)
• Tashea v. Bache, Halsey, Stuart, Shields, Inc., 802 F.2d 1337, 55 USLW 2264 Fed. Sec. L Rep.P9 (11th Cir. Fla. 1986)

West Practice Categories

Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Unfair Competition, Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Secured Transactions, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Insurance Law, Litigation & Appeals, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Securities Law, Capital Markets, Commodities, Foreign Investment, Private Placements, Public Offerings, Securities Fraud & Insider Trading, Securities Regulation