Nick Langer: $559K Complaint Against LPL, Ex-JP Morgan Advisor

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin financial advisor Nick Langer (CRD# 5054905) recently received an investor complaint alleging that his conduct resulted in damages of more than $500,000. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority records show that he is registered as a broker and an investment advisor with LPL Financial, having previously been registered with JP Morgan Securities.

Mr. Langer’s BrokerCheck report discloses one investor complaint. Filed in Filed in October 2025, it alleges that as a representative of JP Morgan Securities, he “affixed the electronic signature of a contact person to a document without authorization.” The pending complaint alleges damages of $559,055.

A second disclosure on his BrokerCheck report concerns his termination from JP Morgan Securities. Filed in July 2025, it states that he was fired in connection with allegations that he affixed “a third-party legal representative’s electronic signature to a document without authorization.”

As a FINRA Regulatory Notice issued in 2022 explains, brokers like Mr. Langer are forbidden from forging or falsifying signatures without authorization, whether their customers’ or those of third parties. “Signing someone else’s name to a document violates FINRA rules when it is a forgery or falsification,” the notice explains. “Forgery occurs when one person signs or affixes, or causes to be signed or affixed, another person’s name or initials on a document without the other person’s prior permission.” Such actions violate FINRA Rule 2010, under which brokers must observe high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade in the conduct of their business.

According to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Nick Langer holds 19 years of securities industry experience. Based in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, he has been registered as a broker and an investment advisor with LPL Financial since October 2025. His past registrations include JP Morgan Securities and Chase Investment Services. His credentials include the passage of five securities industry qualifying exams: the Securities Industry Essentials Examination, or SIE; the General Securities Representative Examination, or Series 7; the Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Representative Examination, or Series 6; the Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination, or Series 65; and the Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination, or Series 63. He is licensed in Kansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. (Information current as of November 22, 2025.)

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