Program Details
2026-11-18 12:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-11-18 12:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ESTThis session examines the rise of informed trading on prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, where people now bet on elections, corporate events, government actions, and pop culture. Growth on these platforms has brought a wave of trades that appear to rely on classified, corporate, or other nonpublic information. The session draws on the speaker’s own study of Polymarket contracts, which flagged more than 210,000 suspicious bets with about 70% win rates and an estimated $143 million in profits. It explains why this activity is so hard to detect, how the same markets can be moved by false rumors and coordinated trading, and who has authority to police it: the CFTC, the states, or the platforms themselves. It also covers the new risk for companies whose employees can bet on their employer’s product launches, earnings, deals, or leadership changes. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for advising platforms, companies, and individuals in this fast-moving area.
Joshua Mitts 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm ESTThis session addresses how insider trading law is expanding past the traditional tipper–tippee case. Regulators and plaintiffs now pursue shadow trading, meaning trades in other companies’ stock based on confidential information from one’s own company. They are also looking closely at trades made under 10b5-1 plans and at unusual trading before cybersecurity breaches and activist campaigns. At the same time, statistical and machine-learning tools can spot suspicious trading patterns that would have gone unnoticed ten years ago. The session covers the legal theories expanding liability, what the data shows about informed trading in stock markets, how regulators and litigants use trading-pattern analysis as evidence, and how that evidence can be challenged in court. Attendees will leave with concrete steps for building insider trading compliance programs that hold up under this new level of data-driven scrutiny.
Joshua MittsJoshua Mitts is the David J. Greenwald Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he uses advanced data science to conduct research on corporate and securities law. His primary focus is informed trading in capital markets and related topics in law and finance. Employing empirical methods including statistical analysis and machine learning, Professor Mitts studies short selling, securities lending, informed trading on cybersecurity breaches, information leakage and hedge fund activism, insider trading on corporate disclosures, and information transmission in financial markets—work that has made him a leading and frequently cited authority on the intersection of technology, trading, and market regulation.
Joshua Mitts is the David J. Greenwald Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he uses advanced data science to conduct research on corporate and securities law. His primary focus is informed trading in capital markets and related topics in law and finance. Employing empirical methods including statistical analysis and machine learning, Professor Mitts studies short selling, securities lending, informed trading on cybersecurity breaches, information leakage and hedge fund activism, insider trading on corporate disclosures, and information transmission in financial markets—work that has made him a leading and frequently cited authority on the intersection of technology, trading, and market regulation.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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