J. Michael Bishop is a partner in the Atlanta firm of Smiley Bishop & Porter LLP. He has been partners with Brian Smiley for over twenty years.

Mr. Bishop has practiced extensively in the areas of securities arbitration and litigation, representing investors with securities claims of all types and sizes. He and his firm have obtained numerous seven-figure arbitration awards on behalf of their clients. Many of these awards have included recoveries of punitive damages and attorneys fees. Mr. Bishop frequently represents elderly investors who have been victims of investment and financial fraud.

Mr. Bishop has lectured to numerous groups about securities arbitration, including, among others, the American Association of Individual Investors, the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, the Atlanta Bar Association and the Montana Bar Association. He has also been a Course Instructor for the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Arbitrator Training Program and has taught courses on Claims and Defenses in Arbitration, Discovery in Arbitration and Brokerage Firm Documentation.

Mr. Bishop has been widely quoted as an expert on securities matters in various national news publications and cases he has handled have been featured in The Wall Street Journal. He has also appeared as an expert on securities law on CNBC.

Mr. Bishop has co-authored articles on "How to Read and Understand Brokerage Account Statements" and "Limited Partnership Interests: What Are They Worth?" which have been published by the American Association of Individual Investors' AAII Journal.

Mr. Bishop is a Board Member of the Elder Law section of the Atlanta Bar Association, a Vice-President of the American Bar Association�s Tort and Insurance Practice section, a member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys and the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, a member of the Lawyers Club of Atlanta, He is also the former Chairman of the Board of the Brain Injury Resource Foundation.

Mr. Bishop is a native Atlantan. He received his law degree from Mercer University law school in 1984.