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Legal ethics are principles of conduct that members of the legal profession are expected to observe in their practice. They are an outgrowth of the development of the legal profession itself.
Peggy Ann Lautenschlager was an American attorney and Democratic politician who was the first chair of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission from 2016 to 2017,the 42nd Attorney General of Wisconsin from 2003 to 2007,the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1993 to 2001,a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for the 52nd district from 1989 to 1993,and the Winnebago County District Attorney from 1985 to 1989. Lautenschlager was the first woman to serve as Attorney General of Wisconsin.
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New York Law School (NYLS) is a private law school in Tribeca,New York City. NYLS has a full-time day program and a part-time evening program. NYLS's faculty includes more than 50 full-time and over 100 adjunct professors. Notable faculty members include Penelope Andrews and Lenni Benson,founder of the Safe Passage Project.
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David B. Wilkins is an American legal scholar who is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law and faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is a senior research fellow of the American Bar Foundation,the Harvard Law School's vice dean for global initiatives on the legal profession,and a faculty associate of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
Barbara Allen Babcock was the Judge John Crown Professor of Law,Emerita,at Stanford Law School. She was an expert in criminal and civil procedure and was a member of the Stanford Law School faculty from 1972 until her death.
Deborah Lynn Rhode was an American jurist. She was the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the nation's most frequently cited scholar in legal ethics. From her early days at Yale Law School,her work revolved around questions of injustice in the practice of law and the challenges of identifying and redressing it. Rhode founded and led several research centers at Stanford devoted to these issues,including its Center on the Legal Profession,Center on Ethics and Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship;she also led the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. She coined the term "The 'No-Problem' Problem".
Tania Christina Tetlow is an American lawyer and law professor who is president of Fordham University since July 1,2022. Previously,she was president of Loyola University New Orleans. She is the first woman and the first layperson to hold each of those positions at those two Catholic universities.
Dana Ann Remus is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel for U.S. President Joe Biden from January 2021 to July 2022. Prior to her appointment as White House counsel,Remus was general counsel for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Earlier in her career,she was deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel for ethics during the presidency of Barack Obama,was general counsel for the Obama Foundation from 2017 to 2019,and was counsel to Michelle Obama.
Susan Poser is the current and first female president of Hofstra University,having succeeded retiring president Stuart Rabinowitz on August 1,2021. Before being named to the Hofstra post,she was chief operating officer,provost,and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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