On Feb. 17, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against financier R. Allen Stanford, two of his colleagues and three of his companies for allegedly engaging in a $9.2 billion investment fraud, the SEC’s allegations were not news to Houston solo Mike O’Brien.

“I’ve been dealing with Stanford matters since December 2007,” says O’Brien, who represents two of Stanford Group Co.’s former financial advisers who allege in a wrongful-termination and employment discrimination suit that they were constructively discharged after “they learned that Stanford employed illegal and unethical methods to market and sell its financial products to the public.”

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