Joshua Bradford Kons
Creditors' Rights | Business Law | FINRA Arbitration and Securities Litigation
Joshua B. Kons is a business and financial services attorney with over 17 years of experience. He has built a practice around representing business clients in both litigation and transactional matters, including consumer and commercial collections. In addition, he maintains a nationwide practice focusing on representing individual investors and financial advisors nationwide in FINRA arbitration and securities litigation.
Before attending law school, Mr. Kons worked as an equities trader for a large national bank. After receiving his law degree, he worked as an in-house attorney for a multinational, Fortune 500 corporation where he was responsible for corporate and commercial transactional matters, along with commercial collections.
Prior to forming his own practice, Mr. Kons worked with a boutique corporate and securities law firm, where the focus of his practice was representing investors and financial advisors in FINRA arbitration proceedings.
Mr. Kons received a B.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from the Pepperdine University School of Law. Mr. Kons concentrated his legal education in the areas of corporate and securities law, and served as a senior fellow at the Geoffrey Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law.
Mr. Kons is a member of the State Bar of California, the State Bar of Connecticut, the State Bar of Illinois, and the State Bar of Wisconsin, and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Central District of California, the Northern District of California, the Eastern District of California, the Southern District of California, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Western District of Wisconsin, the District of Connecticut, the District of North Dakota, the District of Colorado, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Central District of Illinois.
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
- Collections
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Commercial Collections
- Judgment Enforcement
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- California
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- Connecticut
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- Illinois
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- Wisconsin
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- English
- Creditors' Rights Attorney
- Grayrock Law, LLC
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- Business and Securities Litigation Attorney
- Kons Law Firm
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- Pepperdine University School of Law
- J.D. (2006)
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- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- B.A. (2002) | Business Administration
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- Super Lawyer
- Super Lawyers
- Connecticut Super Lawyer for Securities Litigation 2013-2024.
- State Bar of Connecticut
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- State Bar of Illinois
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- Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA)
- Member
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- Activities: Speaker, Moderator, and Special Committee Member
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- State Bar of Wisconsin
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- State Bar of California
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- From Wall Street to Main Street: A Guide To Litigation Over Hedge Funds Sold by Brokerage Firms to Retail Investors
- PIABA Bar Journal
- Corporate Successor Liability: How to Pierce the Corporate Veil, PIABA 2024 Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
- Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association
- Discussion of theories of liability for successor liability claims along with specific discussion of successor liability against broker-dealers along with FINRA approval broker-dealer successors when claims are pending.
- Nuts and Bolts of Options Cases, PIABA 2024 Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
- Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association
- Presented on how to frame and prosecute FINRA arbitration claims related to stock options, including a roadmap on how to prosecute and win against clearing firms in cases involving discretionary stock option trading strategies.
- Collecting from Insolvent Broker-Dealers, PIABA 2018 Annual Conference, Bonita Springs, Florida
- Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association
- Presentation regarding collection issues associated with securities litigation judgments and FINRA arbitration awards, along with bankruptcy-related issues and post-judgment or post-award collection strategies.
- Q. HelloAm I able to patent a silicone scar gel?
- A: The patent prosecution process is rigorous, but generally speaking the elements to receive a patent are that a product is new or novel, cannot have been previously publicly known, cannot have been previously offered and sold in the United States for at least one year prior to the patent application, and cannot be covered by patents issued elsewhere in the word.
If our product meets these requirements, then it may be patentable. I would encourage you to speak with a patent lawyer for a further evaluation of the patentability of your product.
- Q. Hello. Will using the registered agent's address as the business address allow possible piercing of the corporate veil?
- A: Generally speaking, for piercing the corporate veil in Connecticut, courts look at whether the owner exercised complete control over the business and its practices so that the business is a mere “instrumentality” of the owner, or if the business and the owner effectively share the same identity given the owner's failure to keep treat the business with its own separate legal identity.
As for business addresses, it would be advisable to maintain a separate address for the business. Although convenient, it may also make sense to not use the address of the registered agent that formed the entity as the primary business address on a long-term basis, as a court could consider this a factor ... Read More
