Linda S. Pacer is a securities lawyer and litigator who launched her own practice in 2003 after successfully representing individual, corporate and institutional investors in federal and state court, and NASD and NYSE arbitration and mediation proceedings for nearly 15 years.  She has worked on cases in alliance with Page Perry, LLC since 2004. 

In addition to her extensive experience with claims for breach of fiduciary duty, suitability, unauthorized trading and violations of federal and state securities laws, Ms. Pacer has special expertise in ERISA fiduciary issues involving investments in pension plans and retirement funds. As counsel for the retirement trusts of a New York union affiliated with the AFL-CIO and an international trade association, she won a large multimillion settlement in a complex securities and ERISA case against a leading broker-dealer.  In that case, she persuaded the U.S. Secretary of Labor to file amicus curiae briefs on behalf of her clients in both the district and appellate court actions.   Ms. Pacer’s ERISA experience includes 401(k) and other defined contribution plans, as well as traditional pension and other defined benefit plans.

Most recently, Ms. Pacer has focused her practice on multimillion cases arising from analyst misconduct and conflicts of interest.  She has represented individual clients in disputes involving the “private banking” and “private wealth management” divisions of the world’s leading securities and investment firms.  She has also counseled individual and institutional clients in disputes concerning exchange funds, collateralized mortgage obligations and other sophisticated investment strategies. Ms. Pacer is co-author of an article on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act published in the Civil Rico Report (Sept. 1996).

Prior to moving to Atlanta in 1987, Ms. Pacer was an associate with the Washington, D.C. office of New York's Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where she worked with a former general counsel and chairman of the SEC on several high-profile cases.  She also advised major banks and financial institutions on administrative, compliance and enforcement matters involving the SEC, Federal Reserve Board, Office of Comptroller of Currency and other bank regulatory agencies.  During her tenure at Fried Frank, Ms. Pacer designed and implemented defensive strategies and securities compliance programs for investment banks, broker-dealers, mutual fund companies and other financial services clients.  She continues to have an interest in legal risk management. 

Ms. Pacer earned a B.A. degree summa cum laude in history and French from Daemen College in Amherst, New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  She received her Juris Doctor degree in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she took several courses in conjunction with the Wharton School. She is a member of the New York Bar, Pennsylvania Bar and State Bar of Georgia, and is admitted to practice before all Georgia state courts, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.