Welcome to the Law Office of Brian P. Sweeney
An Indianapolis Firm317.701.7191
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Our firm is established to assist securities investors and securities firms by providing excellent legal representation in securities law matters.
We can provide representation to both private investors and securities professionals in most common areas of securities law. The following is a substantial, but not exhaustive, listing of practice areas in which we can render expertise:
- Sales practice abuses
- Unsuitable sales
- Arbitrations
- SEC, NASD, or state audit preparation
- SEC, NASD, or state inquiry preparation and response
- Licensing issues
- WSP and Compliance Manual authoring
- Compliance Consulting
Our firm is licensed in the State and Federal courts of Indiana and
represents clients from the Indiana suburbs of
Chicago to Indianapolis and throughout Indiana.
It's time to
publish a word I coined and have been using for
years, as the need to identify a particularly pernicious and
increasingly ubiquitous type of person is now more urgent than ever.
Poenamate, n. [poy-nuh-mah-tay]
1. One who enjoys punishments
being administered to others.
2. One who employs or advocates employing governmental power to limit
the freedom and enjoyment of another.
From the
Latin poena, punishment, and amare, to love. Similar
to schadenfreude, but
differing in that poenamate refers
to a person who enjoys the administration of punishments, while one who
indulges in schadenfreude enjoys
apprehending all forms of human suffering, with no specific manner of
suffering being implicit in the term.
pl. poenamates.
Ex. 1: The poenamates of Indianapolis, if given
full capacity to act, would make illegal every conceivable human
impulse and desire.
(First published use of the word
is recorded, and proper MLA citation references Brian P. Sweeney and
www.brianpsweeney.com.)
