After my over-50 piece appeared online, I got a note from one of my most thoughtful, articulate sources, Orville Pierson, a senior vice president at outplacement firm Lee, Hecht Harrison and author of Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job.

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The sole FINRA Arbitrator hearing this dispute rendered a very thoughtful rationale in place of the usual terse ruling on these promissory note cases.

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