Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of legal services

Jon Hackbarth is the national chair of the Quarles Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice Group and has been repeatedly recognized by Best Lawyers in America^® and Wisconsin Super Lawyers^® for both his securities litigation and general litigation practices. Jon represents a wide array of clients in securities, shareholder, and business disputes pending before FINRA, the AAA, and JAMS, and in state and federal courts across the country.

Jon works with his clients to:

• Enhance the quality of their legal services.
• Streamline their legal processes.
• Decrease their overall legal spend.

Having started his career working in the legal department of a large corporation, Jon understands how outside counsel can best partner with clients - learning their businesses and systems, developing strategies aligned with their business goals and putting in place the right teams and processes to achieve their desired results in a lawful, cost-effective manner.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• Marquette University (B.A.)
  • Monash University; Melbourne, Australia
  • Les Aspin Center for Government, Washington, D.C.

• University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude)
  • Wisconsin State Bar Award for Highest Achievement in Constitutional Law II and Professional Responsibility
  • Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler, judicial intern
  • Wisconsin Department of Justice Civil Litigation Division, legal intern
  • Miller Brewing Company, legal intern

• "Kokesh, Lucia, and Their Impact on SEC Enforcement"
• "Annual Municipal Market Seminar on Securities Regulation, Compliance, and Enforcement"
• "Defending against SEC Enforcement Actions and Recent Legal Developments"
• "Target Agrees to Pay $39.4 Million to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit Filed by Financial Institutions"
• "​An Underused Arsenal Of Securities Suit Defenses"
• Business Law Training: Crisis Communications: Finding Out What Happened and Controlling Your Message in the Face of Intense Media or Other Scrutiny
• Defending a FINRA Investigation to Avoid a FINRA Enforcement Action
• Financial Advisor Litigation Goes Digital in the Age of COVID-19
• SEC Adopts New Disclosure Form CRS and Issues Official Guidance Regarding Investment Advisers' Fiduciary Duty
• Spoofing in Commodity Futures Exchanges
• Supreme Court Affirms And Narrows SEC's Use of Disgorgement as Remedy
• Supreme Court Holds SEC's Administrative Law Judges are Subject to Constitutional Appointments
• Wisconsin Supreme Court Limits the Ability of Government Contractors to Qualify for Governmental Immunity
• ​Prevailing Against FINRA Investor Complaints
• ​Prevailing Against FINRA Investor Complaints
• ​The SEC Takes Aim At Agreements That Stifle Whistleblowers

Seminar

• Bond Dealers of America's Annual Municipal Market Seminar on Securities Regulation, Compliance, and Enforcement
• Business Law Training: Crisis Communications: Finding Out What Happened and Controlling Your Message in the Face of Intense Media or Other Scrutiny
• The Legacy of the Madoff Ponzi Scheme: A Decade Later