Securities Arbitration Commentator, Inc. – commonly known as SAC – was established in 1988 by Richard P. Ryder. SAC is located in the village of Maplewood, NJ, approximately 15 miles from New York City. Growing steadily and strongly over the decade, SAC now offers more than a dozen quality products serving the highly specialized securities arbitration field. Above all, SAC prides itself on courteous, direct and personalized customer service.

The History of Securities Arbitration...and the Creation of SAC Products
Just before the 1987 stock market crash, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that investors with arbitration contracts would have to arbitrate. Securities Arbitration Commentator, Inc. (SAC) was founded to prepare securities attorneys, experts, arbitrators, and industry managers alike for the impending surge in arbitration.

The Commentator newsletter, with its first issue in April 1988, remains the only periodical to focus exclusively on the practice and process of securities/commodities arbitration. It reports on developments, rule changes, tactical matters, and arbitration case law in a broker-dealer context. It is read and appreciated by practitioners, experts, and arbitrators all around the nation and the world.

In May 1989, when the major forums began making their arbitration awards publicly available, SAC began tabulating those Arbitration Awards on a computer database that today contains approximately 25,000 awards. Gathering data from the arbitration forums, including the NASD, NYSE, NFA, and the AAA, SAC continues to maintain the only database of its kind that contains so many securities awards from all the forums. SAC has also created a substantial Court Decision Database containing headnotes and summaries on more than 1,100 court decisions presented in the Commentator's "Articles & Case Law" section.

While we pride ourselves on the breadth and depth of our Arbitration Award Database and the expert analysis in our Court Decision Database, the main attraction to our Database Searches is ease: Since our Databases are broken down into key-word fields, we can retrieve the information you need in quick-review Search Reports.

Two more marquee products serving the securities arbitration field are featured in our Database Publications arena: the Advocate Record, a hard-bound compilation of securities arbitration advocates and their award participation; and the Award Reporter, a monthly newsletter (free to SAC Database subscribers) covering critical information from a recent month's worth of awards, indexed by key topics.

Biography of Our Company President
Richard P. Ryder
President/Founder of Securities Arbitration Commentator, Inc.
Editor/Publisher of the Securities Arbitration Commentator and Securities Litigation Commentator newsletters
Richard P. Ryder is the founder and owner of SAC, and the editor/publisher of two newsletters, Securities Arbitration Commentator and Securities Litigation Commentator.  Mr. Ryder earned his J.D. degree from New York University School of Law; he served with the NASD for seven years as New York District Counsel among other positions, and later as Director of Arbitration in charge of the NASD's nationwide arbitration program. From 1982 through 1988, he was head of litigation and Associate General Counsel for PaineWebber, Inc. In addition to his editorial pursuits and a current law and consulting practice that concentrates on securities arbitration, Mr. Ryder participates in the arbitration process as an arbitrator and mediator for many of the SROs and the American Arbitration Association.

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