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Chicago-Based Investment Fraud and Consumer Fraud Attorneys
The Chicago-based investment and consumer fraud attorneys at Stoltmann Law Offices are time-tested lawyers who have a combined fifty years of experience arbitrating, mediating, and litigating disputes on behalf of victims of investment, securities, and consumer fraud. Investment loss can be devastating. For many, the funds lost due to fraud or incompetence of investment advisors or brokerage firms, can have tragic repercussions on retirement savings and lifestyle. You work your entire life to build a retirement nest egg you deem sufficient to maintain your lifestyle into retirement – You have finally made it. And then an unscrupulous financial advisor sells you unsuitable investments, commits fraud, or does something that loses your retirement nest egg. If you are the victim of financial negligence or fraud, rest assured, the attorneys at Stoltmann Law Offices, P.C. have the experience, the grit, and the determination to secure the settlement, arbitration award, or jury verdict you are entitled to in order to put you back on your financial feet. We offer representation to our clients nationwide and offer contingency fee engagements which mean we do not get paid until you do.
If you are the victim of investment or securities fraud or negligence, there are several types of damages you can pursue. Traditionally, compensatory damages in investment cases are referred to as “net out of pocket”. Simply put, if you lost $100,000 in a bad investment that was unsuitable for you or sold to you based on misrepresentations or omissions of material facts, you can bring a claim against the company that sold you that investment. In this example, if you invested $100,000, received $10,000 back in the form of distributions or interest, your “net loss” would be $90,000.
SIM Swap Fraud
In today’s world, your cell phone is everything; it’s your connection to work, email, family, social media, entertainment, and bank and financial accounts. The security of your mobile device is therefore increasingly important to prevent unauthorized access to your phone and to prevent take-over frauds. We secure access to our actual phone through passcodes and increasingly through biometrics like a thumb print or facial recognition. These safeguards work pretty well. Even if someone steals your phone, it’s not likely that they will get into it.

Financial Abuse of the Elderly
Senior investors are becoming an increasingly large percentage of those utilizing the services of financial services firms and the sad reality is, seniors, especially those who are vulnerable as a result of cognitive decline, are all too often victims of financial exploitation. The attorneys at Stoltmann Law Offices will stop at nothing to recover those financial losses

Class Action Representation
A “Class Action” is a creation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 23. Not every case can be a class action, and importantly, just because a lawyer files a case as a class action does not mean it is one yet. A class action has named plaintiffs, who will ask the court to become lead plaintiffs or class representatives.

Stoltmann Law Offices, P.C. prides itself on aggressively prosecuting investment fraud across the country
Our team of lawyers has decades of experience fighting for investor rights in every forum. We use a hands-on approach with our clients and pride ourselves on being extremely diligent communicators. We understand most of our clients have been victimized once by someone they trusted, so we strive to create and maintain a relationship worthy of our clients’ trust and confidence. If you have any issues with your investments, retirement accounts, IRAs, brokerage accounts, financial advisors, or, if you have a business dispute or need more general guidance with litigation, please contact our firm today. We offer services nationwide, including in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Phoenix, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Denver, New Orleans, and Boston.
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Since its inception in March 2005, Stoltmann Law Offices, P.C. has dedicated its practice to representing investors in lawsuits and arbitration claims against brokers, financial advisors, investment advisors, and the companies they work for. Our Chicago investment fraud attorneys offer their clients a combined 35 years of experience fighting for investor rights from offices in Chicago, Illinois and suburban Barrington, Illinois and Downers Grove, Illinois.
The attorneys at Stoltmann Law Offices have dedicated their life’s work to representing investors who have been cheated or defrauded by those professionals they trusted with their hard-earned money and retirement savings, recovering in excess of $200 million for investors over the years.