Karras, Kim

ROBERT A. KANTAS: maintains a regional securities arbitration and litigation practice. He has had primary responsibility for dozens of securities cases. Mr. Kantas received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management (cum laude) from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Mr. Kantas has written and taught on the subject of securities arbitration and specifically broker/customer disputes. He is the Co-Author of Arbitrating Claims Against Stockbrokers, The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyer's Association, pp. 3-13, Winter 2002/2003, and Co-Author and Lecturer of the Virginia CLE Program, Claims Against Stockbrokers: How to Advise Your Investor Client, February 2003. Prior to joining Shepherd Smith & Edwards, he had a busy securities arbitration and commercial litigation practice with a law firm in central Virginia. He is a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Trial Lawyer's Association. Mr. Kantas maintains a BV Martindale-Hubble rating. Prior to beginning his law practice, he served in the United States Air Force for more than ten years.