Darlene Pasieczny

About

Darlene Pasieczny (“Pah-shetch-nee”) leads the Investor Defenders team at Samuels Yoelin Kantor LLP.
Her wide range of experience and knowledge in the field of securities litigation, elder financial abuse, and FINRA arbitration gives her the edge to help her clients recover investment losses. Based in Portland, Oregon, Darlene is licensed in Oregon and Washington but her FINRA arbitration practice enables her to represent investors nationwide.
Darlene also represents parties in other financial and fiduciary litigation, such as trust and estate disputes, shareholder rights cases, and elder financial abuse. Sometimes these matters involve financial professionals, and sometimes they unfortunately involve friends, family, trusted caretakers, or other professionals like CPAs and accountants.
Her Investor Defender practice group focuses on investor protection and investment loss recovery for individuals, fiduciaries, groups of investors in court and FINRA arbitration. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the self-regulatory organization that regulates and licenses securities brokerage firms and individual brokers across the country. FINRA arbitration is the main forum in the securities industry for resolution of legal disputes between investors and these industry professionals. It is a specialized forum with its own procedural rules – and Darlene knows how to navigate them.
In her law practice, Darlene brings a particular sensitivity to working with the all-too often targets of securities fraud -- retirees and women investors from every level of investment experience.    She helps clients recover their investment losses as well as rebuild trust in financial professionals.  Pasieczny (pronounced "Pah-shetch-nee") is a Polish surname.  Darlene's mother and paternal grandparents immigrated to the US and instilled in her a strong emphasis on education, hard work, and justice for the underrepresented.