J.B. Heaton

J.B. Heaton is a finance and legal scholar and proprietary trader in Chicago, Illinois. He received his MBA and PhD in financial economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, all in 1999. He then joined Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, where he was a litigation partner from 2004 to 2017, leading corporate, securities, and transactional litigation.  J.B. writes and has published extensively in finance and law. His research has been cited by courts and scholars around the world. He has taught at the law and business schools of the University of Chicago and Duke University and Northwestern University’s law school. He is admitted to the bar in Illinois and New York and is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Finance Association, the American Law and Economics Association, and the American Statistical Association.”