John Netto

Founder and Managing Attorney of Unit of Risk Legal Advisors LLC, a boutique law practice integrating legal strategy with market-informed risk architecture. I represent clients in matters where law, finance, and incentives intersect, bringing a disciplined, analytical approach shaped by twenty years in global macro trading, derivatives strategy, and risk-model design. My prior professional background includes Series 3 and Series 65 registrations, operating multiple entities, and being profiled as a featured trader in Jack Schwager’s Unknown Market Wizards. Practice areas include: • Derivatives trading and capital-markets disputes. • VA disability claims and benefit strategy, including evidence development, narrative structuring, ancillary-benefit reviews, and Chapter 31 guidance. • Estate planning (wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, POAs, and healthcare directives). • Business and transactional matters, including entity formation, operating agreements, contracts, and governance. • Discovery strategy drawing on externship experience with the Eighth Judicial District’s Discovery Commission. • Structured finance coordination—conduit vehicles, forward flow purchase arrangements, warehouse facility documentation, and alternative asset securitization structures including REMIC and debt-for-tax frameworks. • ASC 450 loss-contingency matters, including exposure evaluation, disclosure accuracy, and market-behavior analysis based on MBA graduate work and ongoing research. • Application of legal-research and drafting skills developed through externship experience with the Nevada Supreme Court. My goal is to provide clients with clarity, precision, and incentive-aligned legal structure in matters where financial and legal complexity intersect.

I passed the July 2025 administration of the Nevada Bar exam with an MBE scaled score of 151.8 (top quartile nationally).

Judicial Extern to ADR/Discovery Commissioner Adam Ganz. Focus on family law and civil discovery issues.

Judicial Extern in the chambers of The Honorable Justice Kristina Pickering

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Boutique consulting firm with subject matter expertise in a range of topics pertaining to the financial markets.

Focus Areas: • M&A structuring • Financial statement analysis • Entity taxation • Data Modeling & Analysis : Applied econometrics and forecasting, with emphasis on AI integration, R programming, and real-time economic data modeling

- Elected Student Representative to the Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA), 2024–2025 - Voted 2025 Outstanding Student Mentor of the Year (shared among top student mentors) - CALI Excellence Awards in: 1. Civil Procedure 2. Advanced Federal Income Tax 3. Negotiating & Drafting Practicum - Emcee of the 2025 Barristers Ball Superlative Awards - Authored capstone on youth addiction and Section 230 liability in social media litigation - Full-ride recipient of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs educational scholarship - Treasurer, Trust & Estate Planning Society

Students in the program hone their legal skills in arbitration and conflict mediation. As the need for conflict resolution and negotiation skills increases, a formal educational background in dispute resolution is an optimal choice for many corporate professionals. Dispute resolution courses are taught through Pepperdine Law’s Straus Institute, ranked number one for dispute resolution by U.S. News & World Report.

Majored in Japanese, Chinese, and Asian Studies.

While stationed as a Marine in Japan (Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and US Embassy Tokyo) took core undergrad classes along with Japanese language courses.