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Roy D. Simon is the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Legal Ethics at Hofstra University.

He was the 2008 Democratic Party nominee for the New York State Senate, running against then-Republican State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. He resides in West Hempstead and ran to be the State Senator representing the Ninth District in Long Island. Some of these communities include the Five Towns, Valley Stream, Rockville Centre, and others. Political pundits acknowledged that it would be difficult to oust Dean Skelos. [1]

Education and career

Simon attended Williams College for his undergraduate degree and NYU Law School for his JD. He started his academic work as an instructor at the Washington University School of Law before being appointed to the post of professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law nine years later where he served as Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics from 2003 to 2011. An author of New York Rules of Professional Conduct Annotated, Simon serves as editor-in-chief of the New York University Law Review. He also served as a clerk to the U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. in Richmond, Virginia and then practiced law at Jenner & Block in Chicago. Simon served as monthly columnist for the New York Professional Responsibility Report, from 1998 to 2011 and prior to it served as chairman for the Nassau County Bar. Simon is a member of the NY State Bar since 1995. He currently serves as chairman of the NY State Bar's Committee on Standards of Professional Conduct, and prior to it held the same position for its Committee on Professional Ethics from 2008 to 2011. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Republican Dean Skelos vs. Democrat Roy Simon". The Jewish Star . October 16, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Roy D. Simon". Hofstra University . Retrieved November 21, 2019.


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