David Neuman

David Neuman is an attorney representing the interests of investors and consumers for over a decade. Before co-founding Israels & Neuman in the summer of 2014, Mr. Neuman worked for over seven years at a law firm in Chicago that focused on representing aggrieved and defrauded investors, mainly in FINRA arbitration. Throughout his years of experience, Mr. Neuman has recovered millions of dollars in hundreds of FINRA and court cases on behalf of clients from over 40 states and international community investors. He has represented these clients from the case's inception to their finish, including several that have gone to an arbitration hearing.

In addition to representing investors in FINRA Arbitration, Mr. Neuman has represented investors in numerous courts throughout the U.S., including victims of a Ponzi scheme in Utah, dozens of investors in Colorado state and federal court who lost money in a bond fund, successfully opposing an action to enjoin an arbitration in Idaho, intervening and opposing class action settlements in Iowa and Texas, opposing motions to vacate arbitration awards in Alabama and California, and representing investors of a failed hedge fund in Illinois. Mr. Neuman has also represented persons deceived by their insurance brokers and parties in shareholder disputes.

Before his work representing victims of investment and securities fraud, Mr. Neuman worked for a law firm in the Chicago area that focused on consumer and commercial class action litigation. During law school, he also worked for a law firm that handled several NASD arbitrations and personal injury matters.

Mr. Neuman is currently on the Board of Directors of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (“PIABA”). He is currently the co-chair of the Membership Committee and has chaired several other committees. He is also an arbitrator with the FINRA Dispute Resolution.

David Neuman was admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois in November 2005, the State of Florida in April 2010, and the State of Washington in 2014. He has been admitted to the United States District Courts for the Western District of Washington, the Northern District of Illinois, the Central District of Illinois, the District of Colorado, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Mr. Neuman graduated with Honors from the University of Illinois in December 2001 with a B.S. in Finance. He attended the Northern Illinois University College of Law and graduated Magna Cum Laude in May 2005. While at the NIU College of Law, Mr. Neuman was on Law Review and was an Associate Justice for the Moot Court Society. In addition, while at the NIU College of Law, he was a research assistant for Professor David Gaebler and researched various contract, commercial, and consumer law areas.