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39th ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility Speaker Bios

Daniel (Dan) J. Abrahams is the Manager of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Compensation Fund, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dan has been with the Law Society, which regulates Ontario’s lawyers and licensed paralegals, since 2002. Before assuming his current role in 2012, he was Senior Counsel to the Director of Professional Regulation. Dan is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Windsor. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1991. Prior to joining the Law Society, he was senior counsel and lead mediator at the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. He is a former Clerk to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Dan is also a long-time executive member and past-chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s Public Sector Lawyers section. He has been involved in a variety of community organizations and non-profits over the course of his career.

Tom Andrews is a Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law, where he has taught since 1985. He teaches courses in professional responsibility, property, trusts and estates, and community property. His principal research interests are the regulation of the legal profession; decedents’ estates; and marital property law. He is a co-author of The Law of Lawyering in Washington (2012). He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1979); holds a Master of Arts degree from Northwestern University (1973) (Philosophy/ethics); and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1969). Professor Andrews is a member of the Washington State Bar; a current member of the Washington Practice of Law Board, a former member of the Washington State Bar Disciplinary Board; an academic fellow of ACTEC; and a member of the Estate Planning Council of Seattle.

Lynn A. Baker holds the Frederick M. Baron Chair in Law and is Co-Director of the Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice, and the Media at the University Of Texas School Of Law in Austin, Texas. One of the nation’s leading experts on the professional responsibilities of lawyers in “aggregate” litigation and mass tort settlements, she has served as an expert and consultant to lawyers throughout the country on dozens of large- dollar, mass tort settlements, including the $4.85 billion nationwide Vioxx settlement in 2007.

At the University of Texas, Baker regularly teaches a survey course on Professional Responsibility and a seminar on “Mega-settlements.” Her recent publications include “The Politics of Legal Ethics: Case Study of a Rule Change,” 53 ARIZ. L. REV. 425 (2011), and “Fiduciaries and Fees: Preliminary Thoughts,” 79 FORDHAM L. REV. 1833 (2011) (with Charles Silver). Merri Baldwin represents both plaintiffs and defendants in complex litigation matters, including claims of breach of contract, fraud, and partnership disputes. Ms. Baldwin has tried cases to jury verdict and has significant arbitration experience. A significant part of her practice involves handling attorney liability and conduct issues, particularly claims of legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty, as well as motions to disqualify and for sanctions. She regularly counsels lawyers and law firms on legal ethics and law practice management issues. She represents


attorneys in disciplinary matters before the State Bar of California, and has significant experience handling attorney-client fee disputes. Ms. Baldwin also serves as an expert in the areas of legal ethics and attorney standard of care. Ms. Baldwin is a member of the State Bar of California Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Ms. Baldwin is co-chair of the Legal Malpractice Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. She is a committee co-chair for the American Bar Association Litigation Section Committee on Professional Liability Litigation. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco and as a vice-chair of the Attorney-Client Fee Dispute Program. Ms. Baldwin received an Award of Merit from the Bar Association of San Francisco for her role on the marriage fairness task force. She has been named by Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in Northern California every year since 2006. Ms. Baldwin frequently lectures to attorneys and professional organizations on issues related to litigation, legal malpractice and ethics issues, and she is an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University School of Law. Ms. Baldwin co-edited a book entitled The Law of Lawyers’ Liability (ABA/First Chair Press 2012) and has served as a consulting editor for the Attorney Fee Agreement Forms Manual, published by Continuing Education of the Bar, California. Prior to law school, Ms. Baldwin was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics. She is a magna cum laude with honors graduate of Smith College and earned a J.D. from University of California at Berkeley. Steve Bennett is executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of USAA. He and his staff provide legal counsel to the management of the association and its subsidiary companies in all areas of operations. He also is responsible for performing corporate secretarial duties, is USAA’s chief compliance officer and oversees government and industry relations which includes directing USAA’s governmental affairs and lobbying activities both in the states and in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining USAA in 2003, Bennett was a private practice attorney in Columbus, Ohio. Before that, he served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Cardinal Health, Inc. a Fortune 25 company headquartered in Dublin, Ohio. Before Cardinal Health, Bennett served as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Banc One Corporation until its merger with First Chicago Corporation in 1998. Bennett holds a juris doctor degree from the University of Kansas where he was associate editor of the Kansas Law Review. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Notre Dame where he received his bachelor’s degree. He is a member of the Texas and Ohio bar associations and is licensed to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States and a number of other courts. He is a fellow of the American Bar Association, among others. John T. Boese is a now Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. law office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where he represents defendants in civil, criminal, debarment and exclusion cases arising from Federal fraud investigations. Mr. Boese was a partner at Fried Frank for 30 years and a former managing partner of the DC Office.


Mr. Boese is a nationally-recognized expert on the civil False Claims Act. For over 30 years, he has represented defendants in numerous False Claims Act cases brought by qui tam relators or by the Department of Justice. His clients include corporations and institutions in a broad variety of industries. He has represented defense contractors, hospitals, churches, construction companies, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, oil & gas companies, major retailers, import/export firms, computer manufacturers, software and computer service providers, universities and airports in False Claims Act litigation. He has appeared in over 40 Federal district courts and argued in most of the Federal circuit courts of appeal. In February, 2008, Mr. Boese testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the proposed amendments to the False Claims Act. He is the author of the book, Civil False Claims and Qui Tam Actions (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Publishers 3d ed.), a comprehensive, two-volume treatise on the civil False Claims Act and qui tam enforcement at both the Federal and state levels. This book, updated bi-annually, was published originally in 1993, and the Third Edition was released in January 2006. The book is commonly cited as authority on this subject by courts at all levels, most recently by the Supreme Court, as well as by practitioners and academics. Mr. Boese lectures frequently to private and public groups on civil and criminal fraud issues. He is the co-chair of the biannual ABA National Institute on the Civil False Claims Act, and he moderates the "Qui Tam Lawsuits" session at the annual ABA National Institute on Healthcare Fraud and Abuse. He was co-chair of the Qui Tam Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Section of Criminal Justice from 1998 to 2006, and he is Vice-Chair of the Debarment and Suspension Committee of the Section on Public Contract Law. He has also lectured on the False Claims Act at the DOJ National Advocacy Center and at numerous law schools throughout the country. He is a member of the American Law Institute. Prior to joining Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Mr. Boese was a trial attorney with the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. He is a graduate of Washington University and St. Louis University Law School, where he served as an editor of the St. Louis University Law Journal and graduated magna cum laude. Karen Boxx is a Professor at the University of Washington School of Law, where she teaches in the areas of trusts and estates, estate planning, community property, conflicts of laws and professional responsibility. She is also of counsel at Keller Rohrback LLP, Seattle, Washington. She is Chair-Elect of the Washington State Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, Vice Chair of the Elder Law, Disability Planning and Bioethics Group of the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Section, ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Section liaison to the National Guardianship Network, member of the WSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee Task Force and member of the ACLU-WA budget committee. She has been active in legislative reform, including chairing a WSBA Task Force that drafted major revisions to Washington trust law enacted in 2011. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a member of its Elder Law Committee. She has run 16 marathons (so far). Susan Brotman represents lawyers in disciplinary and admission matters, provides ethics advice and opinions, and represents lawyers and law firms in civil litigation in New York and Texas.


Ms. Brotman is also counsel to Lione & Lee, P.C. in Austin, Texas. Lione & Lee concentrates in lawyer disciplinary and admission proceedings, legal ethics, and civil litigation. From 1981 to 1982, Ms. Brotman served as Law Secretary to the Honorable Justice Shanley N. Egeth, a New York Supreme Court Judge and the Administrative Judge of the New York City Civil Court. Thereafter, Ms. Brotman was Law Secretary to New York City Civil Court Judge Karla M. Moskowitz. From 1983 to 1988, Ms. Brotman was Associate Counsel to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, where she investigated and prosecuted attorney professional misconduct. From 1989 to 1998, Ms. Brotman was counsel to Gallop, Dawson, Clayman & Rosenberg, where she concentrated in lawyer admissions and disciplinary proceedings, legal ethics and litigation involving lawyers and law firms. In 1998, Ms. Brotman joined Gentile & Benjamin, where she continued her practice in admissions and disciplinary matters, ethics and litigation until she opened her own firm in 2006. Ms. Brotman is a Past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (“APRL”), a former member of the New York City Bar Association’s Lawyer’s Assistance Program Committee, Committee on Professional Discipline, Committee on Judicial and Legal Ethics, and Committee on Professional Responsibility. Ms. Brotman is also former Chair of the Professional Discipline Committee of the New York County Lawyers’ Association. Kathleen Clark practices law in Washington, DC, providing advice to companies, government agencies and individuals about anti-corruption standards and legal ethics. She is a leading expert on the law of whistleblowing and on the ethics standards that apply to lawyers, current and former government officials, and government contractors. She recently served as Special Counsel to the Attorney General of the District of Columbia, writing an Ethics Manual for the District’s 32,000 employees and advising the Attorney General on comprehensive ethics reform legislation that was enacted in 2012. Clark is Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of Government Ethics, and served as Research Consultant for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), writing a report that became the basis for ACUS and ABA House of Delegates recommendations that the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council apply government ethics standards to some service contractor personnel. Clark’s extensive academic work on ethics and corruption has been cited in hundreds of books and articles, and she teaches courses on legal and government ethics, the law of whistleblowing and national security law. Clark is the John S. Lehmann Research Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, and has also taught at the University of Michigan, Cornell University and Utrecht University. She has led legal and government ethics workshops in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. Clark graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale College; studied Russian in the Soviet Union and studied Spanish in Guatemala. After graduating from Yale Law School, Clark clerked for Judge Harold H. Greene, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where she worked on issues of white-collar crime.

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Nancy Cohen is a shareholder with the Denver-based law firm of MiletichCohen PC. In her civil litigation practice, Nancy handles professional liability, employment and complex commercial lawsuits. She represents law firms and lawyers in regulatory and grievance matters. She also represents other licensed professionals in regulatory matters. Before forming MiletichCohen, Nancy was of counsel with Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell and prior to joining that firm, was the Chief Deputy Regulation Counsel with the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation where she investigated and prosecuted lawyers for violations of ethical rules. Nancy has given numerous presentations to lawyers and other groups on ethics and legal malpractice issues and taught at NITA for many years. Nancy was the first recipient of the Alumni Professionalism Award from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She currently is a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Discipline. Nancy is Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated and has been recognized as a 2013 Super Lawyer in the area of Professional Liability-Defense. Eric Drogin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and a Diplomate and former President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology. Dr. Drogin currently holds faculty appointments with the Harvard Medical School and with the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and has chaired the American Psychological Association's Committee on Professional Practice and Standards and the ABA Committee on Legal Issues. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University. Dr. Drogin is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. His American Bar Association roles have included Chair of the Section of the Section of Science & Technology Law, Chair of the Committee on the Rights & Responsibilities of Scientists, and Commissioner of the Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. Dr. Drogin teaches on the adjunct faculty of the University of New Hampshire School of Law, participates as an Instructor in the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop, and lectures regularly for the Prifysgol Aberystwyth (formerly "University of Wales") as an Honorary Professor of Law. He received his law degree from the Villanova University School of Law. Dr. Drogin has authored or co-authored over 200 legal and scientific publications to date, including Mental Disability Law, Evidence, and Testimony (2007), Science for Lawyers (2008), Evaluation for Guardianship (2010), and the Handbook of Forensic Assessment (2011). Judith D. Equels is the Director of The Florida Bar’s Law Office Management Assistance Service (LOMAS). Ms. Equels has over 25 years of law office management experience. In her addition to her duties as LOMAS Director, Ms. Equels serves as a full-time LOMAS Practice Management Advisor. She assists law firms, solo practitioners, corporate legal departments, and government law offices in all aspects of law office management. Before joining LOMAS as a Senior Practice Management Advisor, Ms. Equels was with the consulting firm of Hildebrandt International (now Hildebrandt Baker Robbins). As a consultant with Hildebrandt, she consulted with law firms and corporate legal departments in both the United States and Canada. As a legal administrator, she managed law offices of varying sizes, from small firms to multiple branches of national and international law firms. Ms. Equels is an active member of the Association of Legal Administrators, and since 1982 has served in leadership roles at the national, regional, and local levels of ALA.


Ms. Equels is a regular presenter at continuing legal educational seminars and law firm retreats on behalf of The Florida Bar, and has lectured on law office management and law practice management related topics for state and local bars, inns of court, specialty bars, law schools, the general counsel offices for corporations and governmental agencies, as well as for the Association of Legal Administrators. Howard Erichson teaches civil procedure, complex litigation, and professional responsibility at Fordham Law School in New York City. One of the nation's leading experts on the procedure and ethics of complex litigation, Professor Erichson has published widely on such topics as class actions, mass tort litigation, aggregate settlements, and coordination among lawyers. He is the past chair of the Civil Procedure Section of the Association of American Law Schools, was an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, and has served on the District Ethics Committee and the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee. Erichson is author of the book Inside Civil Procedure and co-author of the casebook Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure. His articles have appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and other leading publications. Professor Erichson graduated from Harvard University and from New York University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. After law school, he clerked at the New Jersey Supreme Court and at the Second Circuit, and he practiced as a litigator with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York. In 1995, he joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School, where he was elected Professor of the Year and later was named the John J. Gibbons Professor of Law. He joined the Fordham Law School faculty in 2007 and was elected Professor of the Year in 2012. Sidney A. Fitzwater was appointed by President Reagan in 1986 as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas. At the time of his appointment at age 32 he was the youngest federal judge in the United States. He became Chief Judge of the Northern District of Texas in 2007. Judge Fitzwater currently serves by appointment of the Chief Justice of the United States as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He served from 2000 to 2007 by appointment of the Chief Justice on the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Judge Fitzwater has been a member of the District Judges Association of the Fifth Circuit since 1986, serving as President (2006-08), President-Elect (2004-06), Vice President (2002-04), and Secretary-Treasurer (2000-02). He is also a member of the State Bar of Texas, Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow), Dallas Bar Association, Federal Judges Association, and The American Law Institute. He was a member of the Fifth Circuit Judicial Council from 2002 to 2007. He became a Master of the Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court in 2008, and he was previously a Master of the W. M. “Mac” Taylor, Jr. American Inn of Court Master from 1990 to 1996. Before his appointment to the federal bench, he served from 1982 to 1986 as judge of the


298th Judicial District Court of Dallas County, Texas. He practiced law with Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Texas from 1976 to 1978, and with Rain Harrell Emery Young & Doke, Dallas, Texas, from 1978 to 1982. Judge Fitzwater is a 1976 graduate of Baylor Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Baylor Law Review and a member of the academic honor society and National Order of Barristers. He was chosen as the outstanding advocate in the 1976 state moot court competition and was a member of the champion team. He was a member of the champion teams in the Baylor Law School moot court and mock trial competitions. He is a 1975 graduate of Baylor University, where he received the Most Valuable Debater Award. In 2007 the Baylor University Alumni Association presented him the Price Daniel Distinguished Public Service Award. In 1985 it presented him the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. In 1983 Baylor University presented him the Young Graduates Award of Merit. The Fort Worth Independent School District, from which Judge Fitzwater graduated in 1971, presented him its Outstanding Alumni Award in 1986. Susan Saab Fortney serves as the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics at Maurice Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. Professor Fortney has conducted various empirical studies on law firm ethics, economics, culture, and liability. She also works with numerous bodies including THE PROFESSIONAL LAWYER, the Supreme Court of Texas Task Force on the Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, and the National Conference of Bar Examiners Committee that drafts the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination. Professor Fortney has earned recognition for her contributions as a teacher, scholar, and public servant. TEXAS LAWYER newspaper selected her as one of the Thirty Extraordinary Women in Texas Law. In 2010, the Texas Bar Foundation awarded her the Lola Wright Foundation Award for outstanding public service in advancing legal ethics. In 2011 she received a grant to develop a teaching module related to the Ethics of Diversity in the Legal Profession. In 2012 she served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Technology in Sydney, where she conducted an empirical study on the new regulatory regime for incorporated law firms in Australia. In 2013, Professor Fortney was selected to serve as the John Gregory Research Scholar. She is a member of the American Law Institute and American Bar Foundation. Henry L. Garza is the District Attorney for Bell County, Texas and is currently serving his third term. Before elected to the honor of serving as District Attorney, he worked in the Bell County Attorney's office and prosecuted misdemeanors from 1983 until 1986. He then worked as an Assistant District Attorney for Bell County for fourteen years.

Henry is a current member of the Board of Directors for the National District Attorney Association, and serves as a past vice-president for this organization. The NDAA is the "Voice of America's Prosecutors" and provides a vehicle for prosecutors throughout America to influence issues that impact criminal justice nationally.

Henry is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Texas District Attorneys Association (TDCAA). He serves as the District Attorney At-Large. The TDCAA serves as the training area for Texas Prosecutors, and facilities effective changes in Texas criminal justice issues.


In 2008, the Bell County Bar Association awarded Henry the honor of being chosen as the Public Sector Lawyer of the year for his efforts and service as District Attorney. In 2001, Henry was named by the Texas District and County Attorney's Association as the winner of the C. Chris Marshall Award. This award is given to the most distinguished faculty member and teacher of the year. Henry was honored for his training and speaking to Texas prosecutors across the state. He is a graduate of Austin College, and received his law degree from Texas Tech University. Bruce A. Green is the Louis Stein Professor 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, including many in these fields. Currently, Professor Green is a Council member and past chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section, serves on the Multistate Professional Bar Examination drafting committee, and is a member and past chair of the N.Y. State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. He previously 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. Since joining the Fordham faculty in 1987, Professor Green has also engaged in various part-time public service, including as a member of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board, as a member of the attorney disciplinary committee in Manhattan, as Associate Counsel in the office of the Iran/Contra prosecutor, and as a consultant and special investigator for the N.Y.S. Commission on Government Integrity. Previously, Professor Green was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, where he served as Chief Appellate Attorney, and he was a judicial law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall and Circuit Judge James L. Oakes. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. David A. Grenardo will be joining the St. Mary's University School of Law faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law in the fall of 2013. He teaches Professional Responsibility, along with Contracts, Business Associations, and Civil Procedure. He has presented on ethics on both a national and also a local level. He practiced law in California and Texas for three major law firms (Jones Day, DLA Piper, and King & Spalding) for nearly a decade before joining the legal academy in 2011 as a visiting assistant professor (and he was later promoted to Assistant Professor of Law) with the Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida. During his practice, he represented clients in a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters, including contract, tort and product liability cases. He dedicated a significant part of his practice to pro bono work, which included protecting the rights of, among others, domestic violence victims, the developmentally disabled and First Amendment litigants. He has received numerous awards for his pro bono efforts, including the Frank J. Scurlock Award, awarded by the State Bar of Texas, the Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law Pro Bono Panel Volunteer of the Year, the Wiley W. Manuel Award bestowed by the State Bar of California, the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Distinguished Service Award, and Texas Civil Rights Project Pro Bono Champion. He earned his B.A. from Rice University and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law. W. William Hodes is the president and owner of The William Hodes Law Firm, which was formed in July 1999 to provide representation, consultation, expert testimony, legal opinions, and other counsel and assistance to lawyers in the areas of the law of lawyering, and constitutional, appellate, Supreme Court, and other complex litigation. He is also Professor Emeritus of Law at Indiana University, where he taught professional responsibility, civil procedure, constitutional


law, and other subjects for 20 years before retiring to form his own law firm. An honors graduate of Harvard College (1966) and Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey (1969), he is admitted to practice in Indiana and Florida, having recently resigned long-term memberships in the Louisiana and New Jersey Bars. Professor Hodes is a co-author (with Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. and Peter R. Jarvis) of The Law of Lawyering (3d ed., 2000), a nationally recognized treatise that is updated annually. Mr. Hodes was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 1997, and was a member of the Advisory Council to the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission. Hodes served on the Drafting Committee for the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) from 1995 through 2001, and was a member of the APRL Board of Directors from 2002 through 2005. He served as one of the two Co-Reporters for the American Bar Association Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, from 2004 until the amended Model Code was adopted in February 2007. Kellie Johnson is an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel with the Oregon State Bar. Ms. Johnson graduated Cum Laude from Humboldt State University with a BA in Political Science. She achieved special certification while attending Guangxi University as an exchange student in the Peoples Republic of China in the political geography of China. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon Law School. After law school, Ms. Johnson was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Pierre Van Rysselberghe, Lane County Circuit Court Judge. Before prosecuting lawyers for violations of the Oregon Rules of Professional Conduct, she began her law career as a prosecutor in Lane County and recently ended a 13 year career as a prosecutor with Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. As a prosecutor she specialized in the prosecution of domestic violence and gang crimes. She is a national, state and local lecturer on criminal law, trial practice and lawyer ethics to numerous bar associations, law enforcement agencies and community groups. She was an instructor for the National District Attorneys Association National Advocacy Center in South Carolina. Ms. Johnson is an active member of the Oregon legal community having served as a former elected representative of Region 5 for the Oregon State Bar Board of Governors, Past President of Oregon Women Lawyers, Past President of the Oregon Chapter of the National Bar Association, Member of the Oregon State Bar Affirmative Action Committee, Board Member of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility Advisory Board and a host of other committees and boards. She is the 2007 recipient of the Women of Excellence Social Justice award. She was appointed by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden to serve on a 2009 selection committee for the US Attorney and US Marshall for the District of Oregon and the 2012 selection committee for a Federal Judicial Appointment for the Southern District of Oregon. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Oregon State Bar, Multnomah County Bar Association and The National Association of Black Prosecutors. Tracy L. Kepler is Senior Litigation Counsel for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC), where she concentrates her practice in the investigation and prosecution of attorney disciplinary matters. Ms. Kepler currently serves as Treasurer on the


Board of the National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC), a non-profit organization of legal professionals whose members enforce ethics rules that regulate the professional conduct of lawyers who practice law in the United States and abroad. She has previously served as the NOBC’s Secretary from 2011-2012, and as Director-at-Large from 2009-2011. Ms. Kepler is the NOBC Liaison to the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism and CPR-SOC, and has previously served as Liaison to the ABA Standing Committee Ethics & Professional Responsibility and to the ABA Standing Commission on Legal Assistance Programs (CoLAP). She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of CoLAP. Ms. Kepler is a member of the ABA and its Center for Professional Responsibility and a frequent presenter of ethics related topics to various national, state and local organizations. Prior to joining the ARDC in 2000, Ms. Kepler served as Regional Counsel for the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services. She is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and received her law degree from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. James B. Kobak, Jr. is a partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP where he chairs the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group as well as its Practice Standards and Ethics Committee. He is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. magna cum laude 1966) and the University of Virginia Law School (LL.B. 1969) where he was the Associate Editor of the Law Review. Mr. Kobak currently serves as lead counsel to the SIPA Trustee for the liquidations of Lehman Brothers Inc. and MF Global, Inc. Mr. Kobak has lectured and written widely and taught seminars on antitrust/intellectual property issues for over a decade at Fordham and University of Virginia Law Schools and formerly chaired the Intellectual Property Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section. He was editor of the ABA Antitrust Sections’ publication Intellectual Property Misuse: Licensing and Litigation and received the Rossman Memorial Award from the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Society. Mr. Kobak is the immediate past president of the New York County Lawyers Association, a Fellow of the American and New York State Bar Associations and a member of the American Law Institute. He is a member of the Ethics Institute and Ethics Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Mr. Kobak serves as one of two editorial advisors to the New York ethics treatise published by Oxford University Press. He was a founder of NYCLA’s American Inn of Court and is a past President of the NYCLA Foundation. Mr. Kobak was awarded NYCLA’s Boris Kostelanetz President’s Medal in 2006. Arthur J. Lachman practices in Seattle, Washington, focusing on legal ethics, professional liability, and law firm risk management issues. A 1989 graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, he clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, has practiced as a commercial litigation attorney, and has taught civil litigation and ethics subjects at both Puget Sound area law schools. Art is currently President-Elect of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and chairs the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s National Conference Planning Committee. He is co-author of The Law of Lawyering in Washington, recently published by the Washington State Bar Association, and served as chair of the WSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee from 2008 to 2010. Art formerly served as Chair of the


Ethics/Loss Prevention Committee and Director of Professional Development at Graham & Dunn in Seattle. He holds bachelor’s and graduate degrees in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Simon M. Lorne has served in a wide variety of public sector, academic and private sector positions during the course of his career. In the public sector, he was General Counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 to 1996. In the academic sphere, he is currently the co-director of Stanford Law School’s Directors’ College, and is an adjunct professor at the New York University Law School and the NYU Stern School of Business, where he has taught the professional responsibility course. He has previously held positions on the faculties at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Southern California Law School.

In the private sector, Mr. Lorne is currently the Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer of Millennium Management LLC, an alternative asset manager responsible for over $17 billion in assets under management, with offices throughout the world. He has held that position since 2004. Prior to joining Millennium he was a partner in the Los Angeles-based law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (from 1972 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2004); the global head of internal audit at Salomon Brothers (now a unit of Citigroup) (from 1996 to 1998); and the global head of Compliance at Citigroup (1998-1999). He also serves on the Board of Directors and audit committee of Teledyne Technologies, Inc.

Mr. Lorne has authored two books (“Acquisitions and Mergers: Negotiated and Contested Transactions,” and “A Director’s Handbook of Cases”), three practitioner-oriented monographs and a number of articles in law reviews, magazines and other publications. He is a frequent speaker at academic and industry symposia dealing with issues in the areas of securities regulation, securities law more broadly, and internal controls.

Mr. Lorne is a graduate of Occidental College, with an A.B. (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., magna cum laude).

Donald R. Lundberg is a partner in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where he is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department and serves as the firm’s deputy general counsel.

Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg in 2010, Mr. Lundberg was the longtime executive secretary of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, a post he occupied since 1991. Prior to his work at the Indiana Supreme Court, Mr. Lundberg served for 15 years in a number of positions for Legal Services Organization of Indiana, Inc., ultimately as director of litigation.

Mr. Lundberg represents judges, lawyers and other professionals in disciplinary and licensing matters, ethics issues, malpractice cases and other matters of professional responsibility. In his role for the Indiana Supreme Court, he led the agency that investigates and prosecutes claims of Indiana attorney misconduct.

As deputy general counsel to the firm, Mr. Lundberg helps lead Barnes & Thornburg’s internal professional responsibility initiatives.


Mr. Lundberg is a frequent speaker on professional responsibility and legal ethics topics. He also writes a monthly ethics column in the Indiana State Bar Association magazine. He is admitted to practice law in the State of Indiana and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.

Mr. Lundberg earned his J.D. summa cum laude in 1976 from The Maurer School of Law at Indiana University – Bloomington, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and a recipient of the West Hornbook Award for top GPA for three consecutive years. He served for many years as an adjunct faculty member for his alma mater. In 2006, he was selected as one of 25 Inaugural Fellows of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism.

Mr. Lundberg is a member of the American (Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, 2011-present; Editorial Board, ABA/BNA Lawyers Manual on Professional Conduct; (2007-2010); Governing Council, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, 2003-2006), Indiana State (Chair, Lawyer Wellness Committee, 2011-2012; Legal Ethics Committee, 1980-1991 and 2010-present; Board of Governors, 2005-07; General Chair, 2008 Annual Meeting), and Indianapolis (Board of Managers, 2005-06) Bar Associations; a Master of the Indianapolis American Inn of Court (President, 2008-10); a Fellow and current Secretary of the Indiana Bar Foundation; a Fellow of the Indianapolis and American Bar Foundations. He is a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, a Founder’s Circle member of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, and an Honorary Member of the Wilkie Inn of Phi Delta Phi. He was formerly a member and past-president (2007-08) of the National Organization of Bar Counsel.

Janet Green Marbley is the Administrator for the Supreme Court of Ohio Clients’ Security Fund (CSF). The Clients' Security Fund was established by the Court to reimburse victims of attorney theft. Ms. Green Marbley was appointed by the Supreme Court in March, 1995, and her responsibilities include managing the Fund’s office operations, staff, and serving as Secretary to the CSF Board of Commissioners.

Most recently, Ms. Green Marbley, in collaboration the Court’s Commission on Professionalism, drafted a pamphlet entitled “A Consumer’s Practical Guide to Managing a Relationship with a Lawyer.” The pamphlet has been approved for publication by the Supreme Court of Ohio. Since her appointment 17 years ago, Ms. Green Marbley has become a national advocate for law client protection, and she has recently completed a 2-yr. term as President of the National Client Protection Organization (NCPO). She currently serves as Chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Standing Committee on Client Protection, and is a former chair of the ABA Advisory Commission on Client Protection. She has been a frequent speaker at the ABA National Forum on Client Protection and has written several articles in this area. Ms. Green Marbley also serves as a member of the ABA House of Delegates, which is the policy-making body of the Association. In addition to the ABA, Ms. Green Marbley recently joined the Advisory Board of the Miller-Becker Institute for Professional Responsibility at the University of Akron School of Law. The


Institute develops initiatives and activities aimed at enhancing the ethical awareness among those who practice, adjudicate, teach and study the law. Ms. Green Marbley was selected as the Capital University Law School African American Law Alumni Association’s David D. White Award Winner for 2012. She was also the recipient of the Isaac Hecht Law Client Protection Award for 2012. Prior to her appointment as CSF Administrator, Ms. Green Marbley was Deputy Chief Counsel of Business Regulations for former Attorney General Lee Fisher. She was also Associate Counsel with The Huntington National Bank. Ms. Green Marbley is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where she received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice and Corrections in 1976. She received her law degree in 1979 from Capital University Law School. Ms. Green Marbley is licensed to practice in the states of Ohio and Illinois. Ms. Green Marbley is also very active in the local Columbus Community, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Child Development Council and the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation. She is a former member of the Board of Directors for The Legal Aid Society, Gladden Community House, Southside Settlement House, and Buckeye Ranch. She is also the former chair of the Columbus Bar Association’s Women and the Law Committee, and former member of the Board of Editors for the Ohio State Bar Association. Ms. Green Marbley is an ordained Deacon and serves as chair of the Deacon Board and as a member of the Board of Directors of Advent United Church of Christ. James M. McCauley is the Ethics Counsel for the Virginia State Bar, and manages the staff counsel serving the Standing Committees on Legal Ethics and the Unauthorized Practice of Law. Mr. McCauley and his staff write the draft advisory opinions for these Standing Committees and provide informal advice over the telephone to members of the bar, bench and general public on matters involving legal ethics, lawyer advertising and the unauthorized practice of law. Mr. McCauley frequently lectures and publishes articles on matters relating to legal ethics and the unauthorized practice of law. He teaches Professional Responsibility at the T.C. Williams School of Law in Richmond, Virginia, and served on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Legal Ethics and Professionalism from 2008-2011. Prior to assuming his duties as Ethics Counsel, Mr. McCauley was an Assistant Bar Counsel for the Virginia State Bar for six years, prosecuting cases of attorney misconduct before the District Committees, Disciplinary Board, and Three-Judge Courts. Before his employment with the Virginia State Bar, Mr. McCauley was in private practice for seven years. Mr. McCauley graduated cum laude from James Madison University in 1978. He received his law degree from the T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, in 1982 and was a member of the staff of the University of Richmond Law Review. Mr. McCauley served as a member on the Virginia State Bar’s Mandatory Professionalism Course Faculty from 2004-2010. He is also a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. Mr. McCauley also served on the Board of Governors of the Real Property Section of the Virginia State Bar from 2004-2010. Mr. McCauley is a member of the John Marshall Inn of Court in Richmond, Virginia. Janis M. Meyer was a partner in the Litigation Department and the General Counsel of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and its predecessor Dewey Ballantine LLP and advised the firm on a variety of professional responsibility, conflicts and employment issues. She was also a member of the


firm's Diversity and Women's Initiative Committees. Prior to serving as the General Counsel, she represented clients in a variety of industries including banking (U.S. and international), financial products, insurance, and investment banking and litigated cases in both state and federal courts throughout the United States.

Ms. Meyer was also the chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Lawyers, and is an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University School of Law where she teaches a course on the business of lawyering.

Most recently, Ms. Meyer served as a member of the Wind-Down Committee of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, which filed for bankruptcy in May 2012 and wound up its business this year.

Alice Neece Mine is the Assistant Executive Director of the North Carolina State Bar. Bachelor of Social Work, 1981 summa cum laude, North Carolina State University; J.D., 1985, The University of North Carolina. Ms. Mine practiced law in Durham, North Carolina from 1985 until 1993, concentrating in the areas of employment law and transactions. She joined the staff of the North Carolina State Bar in 1993 as Assistant Executive Director. In this capacity, she is staff counsel to the Ethics Committee, Director of Board of Legal Specialization, Director of Board of Continuing Legal Education, and Director of the Board of Paralegal Certification. From 1995 until 1997, she served as staff counsel to the ad hoc Committee to Review the Rules of Professional Conduct. She also served as staff counsel to the State Bar committee appointed in 2001 to study and report on the recommendations on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct of the ABA Ethics 2000 Commission. Ms. Mine is also an adjunct professor at Duke University School of Law where she has taught professional responsibility since 2001. Ronald C. Minkoff is a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC. He is one of New York State’s leading practitioners in the field of attorney ethics and professional responsibility. Mr. Minkoff represents attorneys in a wide variety of matters, including partnership disputes, disciplinary cases, and malpractice and intentional tort actions. He has also represented corporate law departments in internal and government investigations and other compliance matters. Mr. Minkoff was recently named a fellow of the prestigious Litigation Counsel of America, and was appointed by the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals to serve on the newly created Task Force on Commercial Litigation in the 21st Century. Mr. Minkoff was named the Best Lawyers' 2011 New York Ethics and Professional Responsibility Lawyer of the Year, and has been named a New York-area “Super Lawyer” for Professional Liability: Defense Work and Business Litigation by Law and Politics magazine for seven consecutive years. Mr. Minkoff is an Adjunct Professor of Professional Responsibility at New York University School of Law. He is also a member of several Bar Committees, including the Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct and the Special Committee to Review the Code of Judicial Conduct of the American Bar Association. He is also Chair of the Task Force on Professionalism of the New York County Lawyers Association, a former member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professionalism, and a past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He is a member of the Media Law Resource Center (MLRC) ethics committee and has written extensively for the New York


Professional Responsibility Report, The Professional Lawyer, The New York Law Journal, and other publications. Mr. Minkoff is a frequent lecturer on the law of lawyering -- including the attorney-client privilege, New York Judiciary Law § 487 claims, the ethical duties of lawyers serving as directors, multijurisdictional practice, and the obligations of departing law partners. Mr. Minkoff is a graduate of Columbia Law School (JD, 1980). He was an attorney at the Nassau County Legal Aid Society (1980-83), and was associated with Obermaier Morvillo & Abramowitz, P.C. (1983-85) and Owen & Fennell (1985-87). Mr. Minkoff was a member of Fennell & Minkoff (1987-94) and Beldock Levine & Hoffman ( 1994-2001) b e f o r e j o i n i n g Frankfurt Kurnit. J. Charles Mokriski is Professional Responsibility Counsel at Proskauer Rose, LLP, resident in its New York City office. Prior to joining Proskauer, beginning in 1971 he practiced with Day Berry & Howard, first in Hartford, moving to its Boston office in 1991. As a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Department, he counseled and represented clients in business disputes, including those involving IP as well as defamation and other First Amendment issues. He has also counseled and represented clients before state ethics, campaign finance, and similar regulatory agencies, and served as a lobbyist for companies and trade associations. More recently his practice has focused on providing professional responsibility advice to Proskauer as well as to other lawyers and law firms, and he has served as an expert witness in disputes involving lawyers and the law of lawyering. He was the long time chair of the Day Berry & Howard ethics committee. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Courts of Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts, the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, and Federal Circuits. In 2012 Mr. Mokriski was appointed to a three year term on the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He served as a Member of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers from 2005 through 2008, and on the Board of Editors of the Boston Bar Journal from 2001 through 2006. He is a past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) and chaired its last two foreign meetings, in Amsterdam in 2008 and Istanbul in 2012. He is a member and former chair of the Boston Bar Association Ethics Committee, and he taught Professional Responsibility at Boston College Law School from 2000 to 2010. His civic and community involvement has included service as Chair of the Hartford Housing Authority Board of Commissioners; Board and Executive Committee Member of the Connecticut Opera Association; Chair of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford Office of Arbitration; and President of the Board of Trustees of St. Thomas More Corporation, the Catholic Chapel and Student Center at Yale University. He served on the Board for 35 years concluding in May of 2012. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale College, Mr. Mokriski also earned MA and MPhil degrees in history from the Yale Graduate School and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Nancy J. Moore is Professor of Law and Nancy Barton Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where she teaches Professional Responsibility and Torts. She has been teaching and writing in the Professional Responsibility field for over thirty years and is the author of numerous


articles on attorney ethics. Recent articles include “Regulating Conflicts of Interest in Global Law Firms: Peace in Our Time?” 80 Fordham. L. Rev. 2541 (2012) (co-authored with Janine Griffiths-Baker); “Who Will Regulate Class Action Lawyers?”, 44 Loy. U Chi. L. J. 577 (2012); “Mens Rea Standards in lawyer Disciplinary Codes,” 23 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1 (2010); “The American Law Institute’s Draft Proposal to Bypass the Aggregate Settlement Rule: Do Mass Tort Clients Need (or Want) Group Decision-making?” 57 DePaul L. Rev. 395 (2008); and “Regulating Law Firm Conflicts in the 21st Century: Implications of the Globalization of Legal Services and the Growth of the ‘Mega Firm’” 18 Georgetown J. Legal Ethics 521 (2005). Professor Moore was Chief Reporter for the ABA Commission on Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (“Ethics 2000") and is Chair of the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination Drafting Committee. She has served twice as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Professional Responsibility and was an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers. Margaret Raymond was named Dean of University of Wisconsin Law School in July 2011. As Dean, she serves as the chief academic and executive officer of the school, with responsibility for faculty and staff development, personnel oversight, fundraising, budget planning and management, curriculum and student academic affairs. Dean Raymond received a bachelor's degree from Carleton College and earned her J.D. at Columbia University School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review. She served as a law clerk to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and the late Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her clerkships, she practiced as a commercial litigator and a criminal defense lawyer. She was a member of the faculty at the University of Iowa from 1995-2011, where she was named the William G. Hammond Professor of Law and was honored with the law school's Collegiate Teaching Award. While at Iowa, Dean Raymond held a number of campus leadership roles, including president of the University Faculty Senate. Dean Raymond's scholarship focuses on constitutional criminal procedure, substantive criminal law, and the professional responsibility of lawyers. She is the author of a Professional Responsibility casebook, The Law and Ethics of Law Practice. Dennis A. Rendleman is Ethics Counsel in the Center for Professional Responsibility at the American Bar Association where he provides expertise and research on legal and judicial ethics and professional responsibility law and professionalism. He is counsel to the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Prior to joining the ABA, Rendleman was Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield and spent twenty-three years at the Illinois State Bar Association leaving in 2003 as General Counsel. Rendleman has engaged in the private practice as a consultant and expert witness in professional responsibility and discipline matters. He is a former member of and current liaison to the Illinois Supreme Court’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and has been a member of the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee since its founding in 1998. From February 2005 through June


2012, Dennis was one of the actors portraying “Thomas” in the “Ghosts of the Library” at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL. Allison Rhodes focuses her practice in legal ethics and risk management, including attorney disciplinary defense. As part of this focus, she advises both lawyers and law firms in matters involving lawyer mobility, partnership and corporate structuring, lawyer dissociation and lateral hiring. In addition, Ms. Rhodes litigates law firm dissolution, fiduciary duty matters and lawyer separations. She advises individual practitioners and large law firms and in-house legal departments in professional responsibility matters for a variety of legal fields, including transaction and litigation practices. Ms. Rhodes also represents lawyers in white collar criminal investigations at both the state and federal levels. She has a general commercial litigation practice and also represents professionals such as accountants, social workers and real estate agents and brokers in their professional liability matters. Ms. Rhodes joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in December 2005. Previously she was a deputy district attorney with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, where she was assigned to the Gang Crimes Unit with liaison responsibilities with both the Portland and Gresham police departments. Ms. Rhodes is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, where she teaches legal ethics. Ms. Rhodes graduated fourth in her law school class. She is a member of Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL), where she served as a member of its board of directors (2010 – 2012). Her professional memberships include the Oregon Women Lawyers, Oregon Hispanic Bar Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association. She is fluent in Spanish. Since 2008, Ms. Rhodes has been named annually to the Rising Stars list in the area of Professional Liability: Defense, by Oregon Super Lawyers & Rising Stars magazine. Ms. Rhodes frequently speaks at national conferences and is a regular speaker for the Oregon State Bar Association on legal ethics matters. She also writes on the topic of legal ethics and professional responsibility. Mary Robinson is a principal in RobinsonNiro LLC, and provides representation, consultation, and expert witness services in matters involving lawyer ethics and professional responsibility, including defense of lawyer discipline cases. She also serves as Compliance Administrator for Cook County, Illinois, by appointment of the federal court overseeing implementation of decrees which prohibit unlawful political employment practices by the County. Ms. Robinson began her legal career in 1975 as an assistant defender for the office of the State Appellate Defender in that agency’s Third District Office and was later promoted as Deputy for the Agency’s Second District Office. In 1982, she entered private practice as a solo practitioner


and then, with Josette Skelnik, founded the first all-female law firm in Kane County. The firm concentrated in appellate, criminal and family law practice. In 1989, Ms. Robinson was appointed to the volunteer position of Commissioner of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC), the board that oversees the Illinois lawyer disciplinary agency. In 1992, she was appointed as the ARDC’s Administrator, responsible for managing the agency and supervising its investigative and prosecutorial work. She served as Administrator for fifteen years, until 2007, when she left to start her own practice. Ms. Robinson is a frequent speaker for national, state and local bar association programs on ethics and professional responsibility issues. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Kane County Bar Association, and the Appellate Lawyers Association. She has taught Professional Responsibility at Northwestern University Law School and Northern Illinois University School of Law. She received her law degree from the University of Southern California, and is licensed in Illinois and California. Bruce S. Ross received his A.B. degree (cum laude) from Oberlin College in 1968 and his law degree (Order of the Coif) from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1971. A Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law (California Board of Legal Specialization), Bruce is a former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law Section of the State Bar of California. Bruce is Past President and Regent Emeritus of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel. Bruce is a member and past Chair of ACTEC's Fiduciary Litigation Committee, a past member of the Editorial Board and a member and past Chair of ACTEC's Professional Responsibility Committee. The Reporter for the Third Edition of the ACTEC Commentaries on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (1999) and a contributing Editor to the Fourth Edition (2006), Bruce is the Co-editor of the Guidebook to the California Rules of Professional Conduct for Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Counsel (1997) and a contributing editor of the Second Edition (2006) of this work. Bruce is a former member of the Supervisory Council of the Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association and past Chair of its Estate and Trust Litigation Committee. Bruce has published numerous articles in various professional journals and has appeared as a lecturer and panel member at many different local, state, national and international institutes and continuing legal education programs. Bruce is also an Academician in the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and a past member of the Academy's Executive Council. The author of the two-volume treatise, California Practice Guide: Probate (The Rutter Group), Bruce specializes in estate, trust, conservatorship and professional responsibility litigation and is the Chair of Holland & Knight's Private Wealth Services National Dispute Resolution Group. Paula Schaefer is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Her scholarship considers issues of attorney confidentiality ethics and fiduciary duty, particularly in the representation of business clients. Professor Schaefer’s articles have been published in various journals including Maryland Law Review, Florida State University Law Review, American Business Law Journal, and Yale Law Journal Pocket Part. Prior to teaching, she practiced at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP and Bryan Cave LLP. At the University of Tennessee,


she teaches Business Associations, Civil Procedure, E-Discovery, Legal Profession, and Pre-Trial Litigation. Wallace E. “Gene” Shipp, Jr. joined the District of Columbia Office of Bar Counsel in 1980 where he has served as an Assistant Bar Counsel for 3 years, Deputy Bar Counsel for 22 years and Bar Counsel since 2005. A 1972 graduate of Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC, he engaged in private practice in the Washington area from 1973 - 1980, handling more than 80 civil and criminal jury trials and now has argued more than 80 cases before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He is a past President of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, a former member of the American Bar Association=s Standing Committee on Lawyer Responsibility for Client Protection and a current member of the American Bar Association’s Policy Implementation Committee. Gene is currently serving as a liaison between the NOBC and the ABA 20/20 Commission. In 1998, Gene was elected an ABA Fellow; and in 2002 Gene received the NOBC Presidential Award for lifetime achievement. In 2008, Gene was named one of the 30 “Champions in the Law” by the Legal Times. He has had the opportunity to speak to various international legal organizations, including a trip to Prague to address an eight-nation group on ethical/disciplinary issues. He lectures frequently on ethics before DC Bar, ABA, local law schools and public service groups, and has been an adjunct professor at The David Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia, George Washington University Law School and Washington College of Law at American University. Gene has made over 150 presentations on ethics and the disciplinary system as part of the Mandatory CLE Course to over 40,000 new members of the District of Columbia Bar. Mitchell Simon is a Professor at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) School of Law. UNH Law was formerly known as Franklin Pierce Law Center. He has taught there for over 25 years. In addition to his yearly Professional Responsibility and torts courses, he has taught Legal malpractice, Health Law, Mental Health Law and a variety of courses designed to explore the legal process in the context of practical lawyering skills. Professor Simon also is Of Counsel to the Manchester, New Hampshire law firm of Devine, Millimet and Branch. At the firm, he is Co-Chair of the firm’s Attorney Conduct, Liability, and Professionalism Practice Group, where he represents bar applicants, lawyers involved in discipline and malpractice matters, and law firms seeking counsel on the gamut of professional conduct and business issues. Professor Simon’s scholarship has a broad range. In addition to his extensive work in the bar admission field and other professional conduct issues, such as privilege and lawyer morality, he has written extensively on guardianship and other health issue. His most recent articles are: Mitchell M. Simon, What’s Remorse Got to Do, Got to Do With It? Bar Admission for Those With Youthful Offenses, 2010 MICH. ST. L . REV. 1001 (2011); Mitchell M. Simon, Nick Smith & Nicole Negowetti, Apologies and Fitness to Practice Law: A Practical Framework for Evaluating Remorse in the Bar Admission Process, 2012 Prof. Law. 37 (2012). Prior to entering academia, Professor Simon was a litigator with, and subsequently Litigation Director for, New Hampshire Legal Assistance. In these roles, he tried many complex class action cases and handled appeals before the state and federal courts. His work focused on


institutional litigation, including cases dealing with the rights of women prisoners and individuals with developmental disabilities. Professor Simon is past Chair of the New Hampshire Ethics Committee, a member of the NH Supreme Court’s Judicial Ethics Committee and the NH Supreme Court’s Committee to Revise the Rules of Professional Conduct. He is a frequent speaker on legal ethics before bar association and court groups, including most recently the Federal Bar for the District of Puerto Rico. He is a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and has been selected as New Hampshire’s Best Communicator of the Law, a New England Super Lawyer (for defense of professional discipline cases), and a Fellow by the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism. Nick Smith is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. A graduate of Vassar College, he earned a law degree from SUNY at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University. Before coming to UNH, he worked as a litigator for LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene, and MacRae and as a judicial clerk for the Honorable R.L. Nygaard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He specializes in the philosophy of Law, Politics, and Society and he also writes on and teaches aesthetics. Smith published I Was Wrong: On The Meanings of Apologies with Cambridge University Press in 2008. In 2013 Cambridge University Press will publish his book The Penitent and the Penitentiary, which applies his framework for apologetic meanings to examples in criminal and civil law. His writings have appeared in journals such as New Criminal Law Review, Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, ABA Journal of the Professional Lawyer, Criminal Justice Ethics, Continental Philosophy Review, Social Theory and Practice, The Journal of Social Philosophy, Culture, Theory & Critique, The Rutgers Law Journal, and The Buffalo Law Review. Visit his web pages at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~nicks/ for additional materials, including interviews with Diane Rehm, Philosophy Talk, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR, BBC, CBC, CNN, Fortune, Guardian UK, and others. Rod Smolla is the President of Furman University, in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Yale in 1975 and Duke Law School in 1978, where he was first in his class. He has been a professor of law at numerous law schools, and was Dean of the University of Richmond and Washington and Lee Law Schools. His writing interests are eclectic, including law review scholarship, law school casebooks, legal treatises, university press books, trade books published for general audiences, magazine and newspaper articles, on-line publications, and fiction, including short stories and plays. Smolla is the author or co-author of many books. His latest book, The Constitution Goes to College, was published in 2011 by New York University Press. It deals with constitutional principles and ideas that have shaped American higher education. His book Free Speech in an Open Society (Alfred A. Knopf 1992) won the William O. Douglas Award as the year’s best monograph on freedom of expression. He was the Editor of A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court (Duke University Press, 1995), which won an ABA Silver Gavel Award. His book Suing the Press: Libel, the Media, and Power (Oxford University Press 1986) won the ABA Silver Gavel Award Certificate of Merit. He is also the author of Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial (St. Martin’s Press 1988), and Deliberate Intent (Crown Publishers 1999), which describes Smolla’s involvement in the notorious Hit Man case, in which he successfully represented the families of three murder victims in a suit against the publisher of a murder instruction manual used by a hit man for instructions in carrying out the

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murders. The book was made into a television movie by Fox and the FX Cable Network. He is the author of four treatises: Smolla and Nimmer on Freedom of Speech (West Group, 3 volumes, 1996); Federal Civil Rights Acts (West Group, 2 volumes, 1994); Law of Defamation (West Group 2nd Edition 2000, two volumes); and Law of Lawyer Advertising (2 volumes, West Group 2006). He is the author of a casebook on the First Amendment, entitled: The First Amendment: Freedom of Expression, Regulation of Mass Media, Freedom of Religion (Carolina Academic Press 1999), and co-author of a casebook on constitutional law: Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System (With William Banks, 6th Edition, Lexis Publishing 2005). He edits annual anthologies of articles on First Amendment Law and Copyright Law. He is a frequent law review author, and has contributed on several occasions to the New York Times Book Review, on-line magazine Slate.com and The Huffington Post. He is admitted to the Illinois and Virginia state bars, and has been active in litigation matters involving constitutional law, civil rights, mass media, advertising, lawyer advertising and marketing, defamation, and privacy law. He has participated as counsel or co-counsel in litigation matters in state and federal courts throughout the nation, and is a frequent advocate, having presented oral argument in numerous state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Mark E. Steiner is Godwin Lewis PC Research Professor and Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law where he teaches American Legal History, Consumer Transactions, Internet Legal Research, Texas Pretrial Procedure, and Torts. He has twice been designated a Fulbright Scholar. In 2005, he taught at the College of Law at National Taiwan University. In 2011, he taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of Latvia. He also has taught at the University of Houston Law Center and William Mitchell College of Law. He is a former associate editor of the Lincoln Legal Papers. Steiner is the author of An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, which was named among the “Best of the Best” for 2007 by the Association of American University Presses and given a superior achievement award by the Illinois Historical Society. His articles about lawyer Lincoln have appeared in the ABA Journal, Marquette Law Review, and the Texas Bar Journal. His articles about legal education and American legal history have appeared in such journals as Missouri Law Review, Journal of Legal Education, Wisconsin International Law Journal, and the Illinois Historical Journal. He frequently presents talks about Lincoln’s legal career before bar, civic, and academic groups. Lisa M. Tatum is the founder, owner and manager of LM Tatum, PLLC, also known as The Tatum Law Practice, a San Antonio based law practice. Practice includes the areas of Commercial Transactions, Education, General Civil Practice, Employment, Litigation and Public Finance. Ms. Tatum, a 2007 Texas Rising Star by SuperLawyers, was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1995 after receiving her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1991 and her Juris Doctorate Degree from Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, California, in 1994. She was sworn in as President-Elect of the State Bar of Texas during the State Bar’s Annual Meeting June 14-15, 2012 and will serve as President of the State Bar from June 2013 until June 2014. Anne E. Thar is the Conflicts of Interest Partner for Winston & Strawn LLP. In that capacity, Ms. Thar is in charge of the Firm's Conflicts Department and the opening of all new clients and


matters. Ms. Thar also monitors compliance with the Firm's conflicts procedures and assists partners in analyzing and resolving conflict of interest issues. Ms. Thar is a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Professional Responsibility and was a member of the ISBA/CBA Joint Committee on Ethics 2000. Before joining Winston & Strawn LLP, Ms. Thar was Vice President and General Counsel for the Illinois State Bar Association Mutual Insurance Company (ISBA Mutual). At ISBA Mutual, Ms. Thar was in charge of ISBA Mutual's loss prevention program and lectured and wrote frequently on loss prevention topics. Ms. Thar also practiced privately for several years, primarily at Hopkins & Sutter. She received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1979 and her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1983. Aaron D. Twerski is the Irwin and Jill Cohen professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. He has co-authored casebooks in torts and products liability with Professor James A. Henderson, Jr. and has published over seventy articles in the fields of torts , products liability and conflict of laws. He served as co-reporter with Professor Henderson for the Restatement, Third, of Torts: Products Liability. Since 2006 he served as a special master with Professor Henderson in the 9/11 mass tort litigation brought by first responders against the City of New York for injuries suffered due to their exposure to toxins at the World Trade Center site. He continues to serve as a special master in the litigation brought by clean-up workers against the owners of buildings surrounding the WTC site for injuries they suffered as a result of exposure to toxins that migrated to those buildings. Jennifer Verkamp is a principal at Morgan Verkamp LLC, a practice focused on False Claims Act litigation. For the past 16 years, Ms. Verkamp has developed intensive expertise in the interaction between the False Claims Act and federal healthcare program requirements, including the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark laws. She also has extensive experience in military-hardware and other procurement cases, and in managing and executing protracted discovery in both intervened-in and declined False Claims Act cases. She is co-author of a journal article discussing the relationship between relator’s counsel and government counsel. In October 2009, she was honored as a “Lawyer of the Year” by Taxpayers Against Fraud for her work in the healthcare litigation, United States ex rel. Pogue v. DTCA, et al. (D.D.C), a precedential case in establishing the principle that claims submitted to federal healthcare programs pursuant to illegal kickbacks are a basis for False Claims Act litigation. Among other matters, she was lead counsel in United States ex rel. Hutcheson v. Blackstone Medical, the subject of the 2011 First Circuit decision debunking the premise that “certification” is required to hold defendants liable for their false claims. Relevant to this panel, Ms. Verkamp has spoken frequently at conferences and symposiums for practitioners and compliance professionals, and has been honored to be a recurring guest teacher for students of Business Ethics at a local university.


In 2006, she was named an Ohio Super Lawyer "Rising Star" and in 2003, was inducted into the Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers. Ms. Verkamp received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate degree from Xavier University. Maret Vessella is the Chief Bar Counsel at the State Bar of Arizona. Ms. Vessella graduated from Duquesne University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. She received her Juris Doctor in 1992 from Ohio Northern University College of Law. In November 1992, Ms. Vessella was admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and began her practice in a small firm concentrating in the areas of criminal defense and domestic relations. In 1994, Ms. Vessella was hired as Disciplinary Counsel for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania where she prosecuted cases involving violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct. In October 1998, Ms. Vessella was licensed in Arizona and took a position with the State Bar of Arizona as Bar Counsel where she represented the State Bar in various disciplinary matters. Ms. Vessella was named Deputy Chief Bar Counsel in September 2002 and became Chief Bar Counsel in August 2009. The State Bar of Arizona is responsible for the regulation and discipline of persons engaged in the practice of law. Ms. Vessella is responsible for overseeing and administering the regulatory process. Ms. Vessella is a member of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association, has participated on several Judicial Performance Review teams, and has been a regular presenter at the National Organization of Bar Counsel conferences. In addition, she has taught numerous continuing legal education seminars, has presented to various law schools, has served on many State Bar Committees, and has designed and participated in programs focused on enhancing the legal profession. Ellen Yaroshefsky is Clinical Professor of Law and the director of the Jacob Burns Ethics Center at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. She teaches a range of ethics courses, organizes symposia, and writes and lectures in the field of legal ethics. Ms. Yaroshefsky also counsels lawyers and law firms and serves as an expert witness. She is co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Ethics, Gideon and Professionalism Committee of the Criminal Justice Section, chair of the Ethics Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and serves on ethics committees of state and local bar associations. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, she was an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. She began her career as an attorney for the Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma, Washington and subsequently was a criminal defense lawyer in Seattle, Washington. She has received a number of awards for litigation and received the New York State Bar Association award for “Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Criminal Law Education.”

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