Mitt Regan

Professor Mitt Regan is a McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, Co-Director on the Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and faculty co-adviser to the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.

He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Adjunct Faculty Member at the Center for Military and Security Law at the Australian National University College of Law. His work focuses on international law, national security, international human rights, and legal and military ethics. Professor Regan received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and served as law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court and then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

 

Michael Frisch

Professor Michael Frisch is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown Law’s Ethics Counsel. He also acts as an ethics adviser to Georgetown Law’s clinical programs, advises students on bar admissions issues, teaches courses in professional responsibility and is faculty co-adviser to the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. Professor Frisch received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, was senior assistant and assistant bar counsel to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals from 1984 to 2001, served on the United States Court of Appeals Advisory Committee on Admissions and Grievances from 2008 to 2014 and is a member of the Maryland Bar Admissions Task Force. His Legal Profession Blog was named to the ABA Journal’s first blogging Hall of Fame.

 

Bruce Green

Professor Bruce A. Green is the Louis Stein Chair at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of legal ethics and criminal law, and is involved in various bar association activities. Professor Green chairs the ABA Criminal Justice Standards Committee and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination drafting committee, and is a member and past chair of the NY State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. He previously chaired the ABA Criminal Justice Section and the NYC Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics, served on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, was the Reporter to both the ABA Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege and the ABA Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice, and co-chaired the ethics committee of the ABA Litigation Section and Criminal Justice Section. Professor Green received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, where he served as Chief Appellate Attorney, and was a judicial law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall and Circuit Judge James L. Oakes.

 

Dolores Dorsainvil

Dolores Dorsainvil is Assistant Disciplinary Counsel with the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel where she investigates, and where necessary, prosecutes District of Columbia lawyers for ethical misconduct. Ms. Dorsainvil is also an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law where she teaches legal ethics to second year law students. She was Assistant Bar Counsel with the Attorney Grievance Commission in Maryland, is the immediate Past Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Maryland State Bar Association (2015-2015), is a member of the Maryland Bar Foundation, and is an appointed member of the Maryland State Bar Association Professionalism Committee. She teaches the mandatory Professionalism Course for new admittees in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and is the Past Co-Chair of the Ethics & Professionalism Committee of the ABA Young Lawyers Division. Ms. Dorsainvil received her J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law.

 

Elizabeth Simon

Elizabeth T. Simon is the Assistant General Counsel for Ethics at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. In her role, she advises on a wide range of ethics and compliance-related matters to support the firm’s offices worldwide. She resolves conflict-of-interest situations, advises on ethical questions and develops firm policies to support ethics and compliance best practices. She has counseled lawyers and bar applicants on legal ethics and professional responsibility obligations, including bar investigations, disciplinary proceedings, fee disputes and bar admissions. Ms. Simon is also an experienced litigator and legal ethics advisor, having spent her legal career representing clients in commercial and business litigation and appeals, including cases involving legal ethics. She speaks and writes extensively on ethics issues. She received her J.D. from Albany Law School.

 

Paul D. Paton

Dr. Paul D. Paton is the former Dean of Law and the Thomas W. Lawlor QC Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. He was previously Professor of Law and Director of the Ethics Across the Professions Initiative, and Vice Provost, at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Dr. Paton was appointed as Reporter to the American Bar Association’s Ethics 20/20 Commission to support its work on Alternative Business Structures, served two terms as Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, following two years as Vice Chair, and was a Member of the ABA Business Law Section Professional Responsibility Committee. He has recently been appointed as a member of the working group supporting the implementation of the recommendations by the Arizona Supreme Court for rule changes to permit innovation and “re-regulation.” Dr. Paton teaches Professional Responsibility/Legal Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Associations An expert on legal ethics, professional responsibility, the regulation of lawyers, and corporate governance, he has written and spoken extensively on these issues and in particular on the changing role of lawyers and accountants in corporate contexts post-Enron, and on the role of corporate counsel. Dr. Paton holds a B.A. and LL.B from the University of Toronto, an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge, and master’s and doctoral degrees in Law (JSM, JSD) from Stanford. In 2019-20, he is a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation and a Visiting Scholar at UConn Law (Fall) , and a CodeX Fellow at Stanford Law (Spring).

 

Tracy Kepler

Professor Tracy Kepler is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and an Adjunct Associate Professor at American University Washington College of Law. She is also a Risk Control Consulting Director for CNA’s Lawyers’ Professional Liability Program, where she designs and develops content and distribution of risk control initiatives relevant to the practice of law. Professor Kepler previously served as the Director of the American Bar Association’s Center for Professional Responsibility (CPR), as an Associate Solicitor in the Office of General Counsel for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and as Senior Litigation Counsel for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. Professor Kepler lectures frequently at CNA-sponsored events and at state and local bar associations and national seminars hosted by industry-leading organizations. She also writes articles focusing on law firm risk control and professional responsibility issues. She received her J.D. from New England School of Law.

 

Tigran Eldred

Professor Eldred is a Professor of Law at New England Law | Boston. He has taught at New York University Law School, Hofstra University School of Law, and Lewis & Clark Law School and has served as a public defender, civil rights lawyer, and human rights advocate. He was an attorney with The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (Human Rights First), including service as a consultant for the Policing Program and as national outreach director, and with the Criminal Appeals Bureau and Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York and Brooklyn, NY, respectively. Professor Eldred’s research explores the regulation and psychology of decision-making of lawyers in various contexts, including criminal law and legal ethics. He received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, clerked for the Hon. James L. Oakes, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was a Southern District pro se extern and litigation associate for Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He co-founded and regularly contributes to the Behavioral Legal Ethics blog (https://behaviorallegalethics.wordpress.com).

 

Jerome Organ

Jerome Organ is the Bakken Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, MN, where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2005-2009.  Along with Co-Director Neil Hamilton, he has helped develop the Learning Outcomes Database — https://www.stthomas.edu/hollorancenter/resourcesforlegaleducators/learningoutcomesdatabase/ — and the Professional Development Database — https://www.stthomas.edu/hollorancenter/resourcesforlegaleducators/professionaldevelopmentdatabase/ — open source resources designed to support robust professional formation learning outcomes.  He has published an article summarizing the empirical data generated between the 1980s and 2000s regarding lawyer satisfaction and was one of the co-investigators with David Jaffe on the Survey of Law Student Well Being, results of which were summarized in an article in the Journal of Legal Education in 2016.  He also has written articles and blog posts focused on trends in legal education, including enrollment, conditional scholarships, transfer students, net tuition trends and employment outcomes.

 

David B. Jaffe

Dean David B. Jaffe is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the American University Washington College of Law. He oversees all aspects of the Office of Student Affairs, which includes support for JD students from Orientation, through academic and personal counseling, organization development, to Commencement. Dean Jaffe also serves on the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLAP) as co-chair of the Law School Assistance Committee, and in 2015, he received the CoLAP Meritorious Service Award in recognition of his commitment to improving the lives of law students. He received his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law.

 

George R. Clark

George R. Clark is an Attorney at Law. He represents other lawyers and law firms on issues of ethics, professional responsibly, and the law of lawyering with respect to lawyers. He provides legal opinions, serves as an expert witness, defends lawyers in disciplinary cases, helps attorneys get admitted to the bar, and consults on matters such as conflicts of interest and disqualification. While his focus is primarily on serving lawyers and law firms, Mr. Clark also represents clients who have had negative experiences with other attorneys. He is a Past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, the leading organization of lawyers who represent clients on ethics and related matters. He is also a member of the DC Bar Legal Ethics Committee and served for three years as chair of the DC Bar’s Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee. Mr. Clark received his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law and served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable William B. Jones in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

 

Susan Saab Fortney

Professor Fortney is a Professor of Law and Director of the Program for the advancement of Legal Ethics at Texas A&M University School of Law. Her teaching and scholarship focus on legal ethics and malpractice issues. Fortney is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation and is one of the seven members of the National Conference of Bar Examiners Committee that drafts the Multi-state Professional Responsibility Examination. She is a contributing editor for Jotwell, serves as a member of the Board of Editors for the ABA Journal of the Professional Lawyer and the Professional Lawyer, and is a co-editor of the New York Legal Ethics Reporter. Professor Fortney previously served as the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics at the Maurice Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and taught at Texas Tech School of Law, where she was the Interim Dean and a Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished University Professor. She has recently completed a study on the new regulatory regime for incorporated firms in Australia, and is currently assisting bar groups and regulators in the U.S. and Canada interested in implementing proactive regulatory measures that focus on risk management and practice assistance. Professor Fortney received her J.D. from Antioch School of Law and her Master of Laws and Doctor of the Science of Law from Columbia University School of Law.

 

Joan Howarth

Professor Howarth is the Interim Associate Dean for Experiential Legal Education and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. She previously served as dean of the Michigan State University College of Law. She has taught a variety of courses, including clinical classes, Torts, , Constitutional Law and seminars on gender, race, and sexuality. Her latest scholarship focuses on attorney licensing and legal education; her earlier publications were on LGBT legal history and capital punishment, especially as related to gender and sexuality. Professor Howarth received her J.D. from the University of Southern California and practiced with California’s Office of the State Public Defender and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.

 

Leslie Levin

Professor Levin is a Joel Barlow Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and previous dean for academic affairs. She served as the first director of the Law School’s Lawyering Process Program and as the first faculty pro bono coordinator. She has also taught at the New York University School of Law and the University of Haifa (as a Fulbright Specialist) and served as a visiting research fellow at the University of Queensland. She currently serves on the Board of Connecticut Legal Services and previously served as secretary to the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the New York City Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association’s Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession and on the Connecticut Joint Task Force on Attorney Trustee Accounts. Professor Levin is an expert on the legal profession, ethical decisionmaking and lawyer discipline, and has examined these subject in numerous scholarly articles and book chapters and presentations, as well as in her role as co-editor (with Lynn Mather) of Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decisionmaking in Context. She was also the principal investigator on a study funded by the Law School Admissions Council of the predictive value of the bar’s character and fitness inquiry, and co-authored a report and recommendations about access to justice for self-represented litigants. Professor Levin received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and clerked for Judge Robert W. Sweet in the Southern District of New York. She subsequently practiced for fourteen years at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, where she represented media clients, engaged in commercial litigation and served on the firm’s Ethics Committee.

 

Laurel Terry

Professor Terry is a Professor of Law at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law. She is a three-time Fulbright recipient who writes and teaches about the impact of globalization on the legal profession, especially with respect to regulatory issues. Her scholarship has identified emerging issues for the legal profession and urged stakeholder engagement, new initiatives, and regulatory reform. Her recent scholarship has focused on the need for regulatory objectives, proactive lawyer regulation, and an international network of lawyer regulators. She also has written about the impact on the legal profession of the GATS, FATF, the Bologna Process, antitrust initiatives, and UK and Australian reforms. Professor Terry received her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, served as a law clerk for the Hon. A.T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as an extern for the Hon. J.L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and practiced in the litigation department of a large law firm in Portland, Oregon.