My husband shouted, “Take your kid and go to hell,” in court. He smirked as assets were listed—until a sealed will revealed a $32 million estate. When my name was read, everything changed, including custody.

had acted carelessly, maybe unethically, and regulators rarely distinguish good intentions. Clients were panicking. Employees were quitting. Competitors circled like sharks.

And in the middle of that chaos, someone from another company approached me with an offer—an obscene amount of money for information they could use to poach clients. The kind of continue reading …