Joseph Peiffer

About Joseph Peiffer

Mr. Peiffer is the managing partner of Peiffer Wolf Carr & Kane. His practices consists of representing individuals harmed by IVF clinics negligence. He also represents individuals and institutions that have been harmed by investment banks and brokerage firms, prosecuting ERISA class actions, and representing victims of labor trafficking and those that have suffered catastrophic injury. He has co-authored a treatise Litigating Business and Commercial Tort Cases, which is published by Thompson West. He has also taught and lectured extensively. He co-created and taught a class entitled Storytelling and Advocacy at Loyola Law School. Also, at Loyola Law School, he has taught a course entitled \"The Basics of Arbitration\" and he also serves as an adjunct professor teaching Trial Advocacy. Mr. Peiffer has represented hundreds of individual retirees against their brokers in FINRA arbitration. The highlights of this practice include representing 32 Exxon retirees in a 90-day FINRA arbitration against Securities America that resulted in a $22 million verdict - one of the largest ever awarded by a FINRA arbitration panel. His financial services fraud practice also includes representing about 25 hospitals and municipalities around the country in cases involving their issuance of auction rate securities. He also filed several ERISA class actions against large financial services firms alleging that they did not prudently invest retirement money and had conflicts of interest. He also currently represents hundreds of clients in cases involving serious injuries sustained by pharmaceutical products such as Pradaxa, Nuvaring, Granuflo, and Lexapro. Finally, he represents victims of human trafficking and labor exploitation. He has travelled extensively to the Philippines for this labor exploitation cases and wrongful death cases arising out of a rig explosion.

Experience

1. Founding Partner

   Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, LLP

   Jan 2023 — Present · New Orleans, LA, US

Education

• Tulane University Law School

  Doctor of Law (JD)

  1996 — 1999

• Bowling Green State University

  Bachelor's degree, Communications

  1992 — 1996