Via this article in Bloomberg News, I was pleased to discover that former SEC enforcement attorney David Smyth, now a partner at North Carolina-based law firm Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP, has developed a creative cartoon series that helps explain securities enforcement related issues. His work is “The Insider Trading Cartoon Series,” which is now a 10-part (and counting!) series of interesting lessons about the intricacies of insider trading law.
Back in 2012, I noted here that Smyth had published an interesting cartoon called “Whistleblower” in which robots discussed the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. Check out “Whistleblower” — which was cutting edge stuff back in 2012 — and then watch Smyth’s latest from The Insider Trading Cartoon Series to see how far Smyth’s talents (and mass-market animation tools such as the GoAnimate program Smyth now uses) have advanced in just four years.
