lmagine the following: lt is the morning of a normal workday for you and millions of others who live in New York City. You go to the gym for a workout and run some errands before heading to the office. Unexpectedly, two FBI agents approach you on the sidewalk, flash their badges - in public view - and begin questioning you about activity at your job. The agents begin spitting out details about your personal life - they know where you were last weekend, they know private details about your family. Your heart is racing, confusion sets in - what is happening?

This scenario may sound like a scene from a movie, but this exact situation happened to Tom Hardin. A former hedge fund trader, Tom turned FBI lnformant as the result of "Operation Perfect Hedge", a Wall St. house-cleaning operation that turned into the largest insider trading investigation in a generation. The series of events that led up to Tom's arrest and conviction for insider-trading would change his life forever.

ln this eye-opening CLE with Lawrence D. Eichen, Esq., Tom shares his journey down the slippery slope into criminal activity and the impact it had on friends and family. Tom and Lawrence discuss the psychological traps which pulled Tom into a spiral of rationalization for poor decision-making and unethical behavior.

Tom takes the audience on an authentic journey of opportunity and temptation, one that mirrors so many professionals who have found themselves employed in high pressure careers. They also discuss several SEC cases filed against attorneys and employees of law firms and legal departments who embarked on insider trading stemming from authorized and unauthorized access to confidential client information.

*This course qualifies as a Transitional course and can be taken by both Experienced and Newly Admitted attorneys in NY. For information about permissible formats for Newly Admitted attorneys, please click here.