Greenbaum partner Mary E. Toscano, Co-Chair of the firm’s Criminal Defense & Regulatory Compliance Practice Group, will be a speaker for a seminar on “Financial Fraud,” which will be presented on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 from 9:00am – 11:00am at the New Jersey Law Center. The program will be hosted by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the New Jersey Society of CPAs and will also be available for viewing online.

While we often think financial fraud only happens in high-profile cases (i.e. Bernie Madoff), small and mid-sized businesses are frequent targets of white-collar crime. In 2023 alone, New Jersey residents lost $251.7 million to financial fraud.

This presentation will feature a roundtable of prominent attorneys and forensic accountants who will share their vantage points of a financial fraud case.

Topics to be discussed include:

• If a client comes to you and suspects that they are a victim of fraud, what should you do?
• What legal issues should accountants be aware of that will help them optimize their investigation
  and report?
• When a criminal investigation involving a fi nancial crime goes overt, what steps should an accountant
  take to protect himself/herself as well as the client?
• What are the legal issues of which accountants should be aware that will help them optimize their
  investigation and report?
• What do attorneys want accountants to know about being an expert witness that will help their cases?
• What do expert accountants want attorneys to know and what kinds of questions should they ask to
  ensure a successful litigation?
• Innovative cost-saving measures that will allow attorneys to engage experts early without incurring
  outsized expenses;
• Loss calculations are the driving force of any financial fraud: what can attorneys and accountants do to
  best position their clients?
• Have a client selling a business? Beware of what dangers may lurk in the shadows.

Ms. Toscano focuses her practice on white collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations and complex civil litigation. Her work encompasses the defense of clients in criminal investigations, RICO actions, contract and business disputes, and allegations of legal malpractice. She is experienced in all aspects of litigation, including internal investigations on behalf of financial institutions and other corporate entities, pre-trial motions and plea negotiations, and trial and post-trial proceedings, and has tried numerous cases to verdict.

Additional program details and registration on the NJICLE website.