Mr. Hayden is a member of the International Academy of Trial Attorneys and is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Hayden is a magna cum laude graduate of Rutgers Law School. He served for one year as a law secretary to the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars.He served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Organized Crime and Special Prosecution Section of the Division of Criminal Justice, where he tried the first wiretap case brought by the State in 1970. He served as counsel to the Essex County Democratic Party as well as counsel to the campaign of Mayor Glenn Cunningham of Jersey City. He was also a member of the Rules Committee at the 2008 Democratic Convention. He is a past president of the Association of the Federal Bar. He was a founder and first President of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey. He served on the New Jersey State Bar Association Judicial Prosecutorial Appointments Committee. He was appointed to the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was appointed by the chief judge of the United States District Court of New Jersey to the District Court's Lawyers Advisory Committee. He is also an editor of the New Jersey Law Journal.Mr. Hayden concentrates his practice on complex criminal and civil litigation in state and federal courts. Many of his cases have received attention on television or print media, but some of his best results have been cases where a client was investigated but never prosecuted.