Robert "Bert" Savage is a New Jersey native who has been living in Florida since college. He earned his law degree and master of business administration from the University of Florida and has been a member of the Florida Bar since January 1994. Mr. Savage has significant experience in all manner of investor stock and investment losses. He is licensed to practice in all Florida state courts and the Federal District Courts for the Middle District and the Southern District of Florida
Since graduating from the University of Florida with his undergraduate, master of business administration and law degrees, Mr. Savage has dedicated his practice to helping his clients to achieve their goals in recovering investment losses.
Between 2010 and 2015, Mr. Savage was on the faculty of two law schools where he founded legal clinics to provide free legal services to those who could not afford an attorney. From 2010-2013 Mr. Savage was a professor at Florida International University School of Law, and then from 2013-2015, at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.
Mr. Savage was senior in-house counsel and chief compliance officer for what grew to be a large regional brokerage firm. Mr. Savage worked in New York City as a regulator with the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD), now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). During Mr. Savage’s time as a regulator, he investigated numerous customer complaints against registered representatives and brokerage firms.
Mr. Savage now primarily represents investors in arbitration matters to recover stock market and other investment losses for individual investors. Over the years, he has recovered tens of millions of investor losses for his clients by pursuing brokerage firms and registered investment advisors for their wrongdoing.
- University of Florida - Warrington College of Business
- MBA (1993) | Business Administration
- Certificate of Entrepreneurship
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- University of Florida Levin College of Law
- J.D. (1993) | Law
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- University of Florida
- B.S./B.A. (1987) | Finance
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- Founding Member / Attorney
- Savage Villoch Law, PLLC
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- 2002 - Current
- Owner
- MercuryServe, Inc.
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- Associate Professor, Tampa Bay Campus Clinic Director
- Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
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- Assistant Professor of Law, Visiting Clinical
- Florida International University College of Law
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- Of Counsel
- Bricklemyer
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- General Counsel/Co-Founder
- GA Financial
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- United Resources Group
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- Are your tax returns trying to tell you something? What your year end investment documents can tell you about your stockbroker or investment advisor
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- Solo Success; Practical Advice on Starting Your Law Practice, Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity
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- Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
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- Michigan State Bar # P83270
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- Florida State Bar # 995576
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- Florida
- The Florida Bar
- ID Number: 995576
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- Michigan
- State Bar of Michigan
- ID Number: P83270
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- U.S. District Court, Southern & Middle Districts of Florida
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- Q. How serious is it if somebody who has a series 7 license opens an account in my mine and then cashes out the profits?
- A: Hi, I agree: this is definitely shady and wrong.
Your spouse is not permitted to sign your name unless you signed a power of attorney document giving him the explicit authority to do so. Thus, if your spouse forged your signature, most fact finders would determine that that is fraud.
If the stockbroker was aware that your husband forged your signature then I would argue that the stockbroker and brokerage firm are also responsible for the money that your spouse took from you using a forged signature. Also, depending on the specific facts of the situation the stockbroker and his/her brokerage firm may be responsible even if they did not have direct knowledge but the circumstances were ... Read More
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