JENICE L. MALECKI, ESQ. is a well-known New York securities attorney and has been a FINRA arbitrator and Chairperson. In 2012 Ms. Malecki was named as a Top Attorney by Super Lawyers and the National Law Journal, being featured in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, National Law Journal and other related publications. She appears regularly on TV, in the news and on the radio. She is a frequent bar association and law school speaker, as well as a seasoned authority on New York law, who frequently files official comments for consideration on new rules and laws.
Ms. Malecki is a member of and has been on the Board of Directors (and an Officer of) the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), as well as has been a member of the Securities and Exchanges Committee at the New York City Bar Association, as well as the New York State Bar Association. She has spoken at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) and New York County Lawyers Association on several panels, and at both Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School, in addition to speaking annually at PIABA’s year-end conference. Ms. Malecki has appeared on Wall Street Journal Live, NBC’s Today Show, Fox Business News, ABC’s Eyewitness News, Bloomberg Television, China TV, EBR TV and on other syndicated shows and networks. She also has appeared on Steve Forbes’ in-flight radio show “America’s Most Influential Women in Government, Technology, Business, and the Law”, as well as other nationally syndicated radio programs. She and her cases have been and continue to be cited in numerous industry publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Forbes and Newsweek. The Wall Street Journal is featuring Ms. Malecki in an educational video clip about the arbitration process at FINRA, the Financial Regulatory Authority. Ms. Malecki’s career has been the subject of an article of Law Crossing.
Jenice L. Malecki’s experience as a New York securities attorney began in class action litigation, having worked on the famed class action case In re Crazy Eddie in the counsel’s office of the lead plaintiffs. Throughout the 1990s she represented numerous broker dealers and was instrumental in regulatory matters against well-known “boiler room” stock fraud of the era. In 1999 Ms. Malecki founded her own practice, MALECKI LAW, in Manhattan, which today employs an esteemed staff of New York securities arbitration and employment lawyers, and paralegals.
Ms. Malecki was awarded Martindale-Hubbell’s highest legal ability rating of “AV Preeminent”, a distinction she has long maintained. This rating “identifies a lawyer with very high to preeminent legal ability”, and is a reflection of one’s “expertise, experience, integrity, and overall professional excellence.” These ratings, “established by attorneys for attorneys, clearly indicate [Ms. Malecki] demonstrate[s] the highest professional and ethical standards.”
