2015 NOBC Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois July 30 - August 1, 2015 Speaker Biographies

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1 2015 NOBC Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois July 30 - August 1, 2015 Speaker Biographies Mark A. Armitage (MI) Mark A. Armitage is the Executive Director & General Counsel of the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board, the adjudicative arm of the Michigan Supreme Court for lawyer discipline. He is a graduate of Albion College and of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Prior to working in the field of attorney regulation, he clerked for Judge John H. Shepherd of the Michigan Court of Appeals and engaged in a broad and general private practice. Mr. Armitage is a past president of the National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) which consists of discipline counsel and lawyer regulators from over 75 agencies in the United States, Canada, and Australia. He has lectured in law schools, at conferences, and at continuing legal education seminars on legal ethics, and has taught Professional Responsibility at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Wayne State University Law School, and Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Mr. Armitage has served on various boards, including those of the Birmingham Area Cable Board, Preservation Detroit, and the Metropolitan Detroit Fair Housing Center, and on various committees, councils and sections of the State Bar of Michigan and the American Bar Association. He is a fellow of the Michigan and American Bar Foundations. Amber Bevacqua-Lynott (OR) Amber Bevacqua-Lynott is the Chief Assistant Disciplinary Counsel and Deputy Director of Regulatory Services for the Oregon State Bar. She has been with the Disciplinary Counsel s Office since Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott received her B.A. from the University of Redlands (1993) and her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law (1996). She is a member of the Oregon Bar (1999) and an inactive member of the Florida (1998) and California (1996) State Bars. In addition to investigating and prosecuting disciplinary matters, Ms. Bevacqua-Lynott is a regular speaker on professional responsibility and ethics issues. She is the developer and co-moderator of Legal Ethics-Best Practices (started in 2011), a semi-annual daylong ethics school providing a comprehensive review of the ethics rules using interactive hypotheticals. Melinda J. Bentley (MO) Melinda J. Bentley serves as Legal Ethics Counsel, and provides oral and written informal advisory opinions to attorneys on issues related to the Missouri Rules of Professional Conduct. In that position, she also serves as administrator and counsel to the Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court of Missouri. She began serving in that position in July Ms. Bentley graduated from Augustana College in Illinois with her B.A. in Political Science and East Asian Studies, and obtained her J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana. She is admitted to practice in both Missouri and Illinois. Ms. Bentley previously served the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) as Assistant Counsel starting in 2001, became First Assistant Counsel in 2003, and was also named as Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs in Her prior responsibilities included providing educational information to ISBA member attorneys on professional conduct matters, serving as a speaker for ISBA continuing legal education programs on professional conduct topics, acting as an in-house counsel on a variety of legal issues, serving as staff liaison to several committees, and representing the ISBA before the Illinois General Assembly.

2 John T. Berry (FL) John T. Berry serves as The Florida Bar s Legal Division Director supervising the lawyer regulation and professionalism efforts. Prior to returning to The Florida Bar, he served as Executive Director of the State Bar of Michigan from Before joining the State Bar of Michigan in November 2000, he served as Director of the Center of Professionalism at the University of Florida s Levin College of Law. He has held previous positions as Assistant Executive Director of the State Bar of Arizona ( ), and as Staff Counsel and Legal Division Director of The Florida Bar ( ). Staff Counsel duties included supervision of lawyer regulation, unauthorized practice of law, ethics, professionalism and the advertising departments. He served for seven years as Florida Assistant State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Fraud Division, Orlando, Florida handling white collar and organized crime cases. Mr. Berry was trained and approved by the Florida Supreme Court as an instructor for judicial education. He is a frequent lecturer throughout the nation and the world, on ethics and professionalism. In addition, Mr. Berry is responsible for the establishment of The Florida Bar s and the State Bar of Arizona s Professional Enhancement Program (ethics school) where he participated as a main lecturer. He also was a member of over 15 consulting teams to other states evaluating their ethics and professionalism efforts. He served as liaison for the State Bar of Arizona to the ABA Ethics 2000 Commission and ABA Multijurisdictional Practice Commission. Mr. Berry served as chair of the ABA s Professionalism Committee ( ) and has served on the McKay Commission that evaluated lawyer regulation nationwide. He also has served on the ABA s Discipline Committee, Model Definition of Law Task Force and Bioethics Committee. Mr. Berry has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates since 1990.He is an Officer of the National Organization of Bar Counsel and served as the organization s president in Mr. Berry was the 2001 recipient of the American Bar Association s Michael Franck Award. This award is the highest award given nationally by the ABA for achievement in the field of lawyer ethics, professionalism and conduct. In 2002 Mr. Berry was part of a two person Justice Department team sent to Nigeria to aid the country in dealing with corruption within its government, corporations and businesses. Mr. Berry received his B.A., magna cum laude, in political science from the University of Florida in 1973 and his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in Renu M. Brennan (VA) Renu M. Brennan is Assistant Bar Counsel at the Virginia State Bar. She started in June of Her previous experience includes: Vandeventer Black, LLP as an equity partner where she dealt in professional liability defense, including legal and accounting malpractice, and construction and commercial litigation, Wright, Robinson, Osthimer & Tatum, LLP, where she was a partner from 2003 to 2005 and worked within civil and commercial litigation and professional liability defense, and as an associate at Epport & Richman, LLP. She received her BA from University of Virginia and her JD at Boston University School of Law. Paul J. Burgoyne (PA) Paul J. Burgoyne graduated from La Salle College in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in The Christian Brothers have since had the good sense to gain University status, if only to try to eliminate any association with him. He then earned his Juris Doctor degree at Rutgers University School of Law - Camden in Well, earned is a bit misleading. They gave him the sheepskin so he would leave. Due in no small part to his mother s lighting candles and making novenas, he passed the bar exam and entered private practice. After five years in private practice limited to criminal defense, his partners grew weary of accounts receivable financing and cheese steaks, and suggested he move on. Legal Aid of Chester County, Pa. in West Chester hired him to try major cases on the recommendation of a college classmate who immediately left LACC. After the election of 1980, the Executive Director of

3 LACC advised the staff raises will probably not be forthcoming for four to eight years. With a small son toddling around and a daughter on the way, he sought other employment. In a colossal, if momentary, lapse of judgment, the late Allan B. Zerfoss hired him and on December 7, 1981, he joined The Office of Disciplinary Counsel. Mr. Zerfoss often commented how prophetic Franklin Roosevelt had been about that date in history. Because of The Peter Principal and various mishaps befalling those above him in the chain-of-command, he was named Counsel-in-Charge of the Philadelphia Office in May In January 1991, he was named Deputy Chief Disciplinary Counsel, the second-ranking position in the statewide Office of Disciplinary Counsel. He has served two non-consecutive terms as a Directorat-Large of the NOBC ( ; ), was its handwriting impaired Secretary ( ); math challenged Treasurer ( ), and is currently President-Elect ( ). He will become President of NOBC on August 1, If The Peter Principal had not already been written, it would no doubt be called The Paul Principal. He is the Immediate Past President of the La Salle University Alumni Association and Chair of the Council of Past Presidents. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In 2009, he was honored, shocked and humbled to receive the NOBC President s Award. He has conducted seminars and participated in numerous panels discussing legal ethics and professional respon sibility before such groups as the National Organization of Bar Counsel, the Association of Profess ional Responsibility Lawyers, the Pennsyl vania Associa tion of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Defender Association of Philadelphia, the Conference of County Bar Leaders, the National Association of Legal Secretaries and the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals. He has also written in the area of professional responsibility, though most of the scrolls have been lost. He has been married for more than 40 years to the ever-understanding and patient Peggy Burgoyne. We are the parents of cinematographer, Brian, who with wife, Lauren Burns, gifted us with Millie, age 5, and Jude, 5 months, and Special Education Teacher, Madelyn, who with husband Ed Norris, brought Gavin Michael into the world on the palindromic Charles Centinaro (NJ) Charles Centinaro is the Director of the Office of Attorney Ethics of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which is the investigative and prosecutorial arm of the Supreme Court in discharging its constitutional authority to supervise and discipline New Jersey attorneys who engage in unethical conduct. Mr. Centinaro began his legal practice after graduating from Rutgers University and the J. Reuben Clark Law School in Brigham Young University in Utah. He was named Assistant County Counsel for Hudson County in 1991 and left that post to join the Hudson County Prosecutor s Office as an Assistant Prosecutor from 1992 to From August 1999 to July 2001, Mr. Centinaro served as an Assistant Counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel to the Governor, first for Gov. Christie Whitman and then for acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco. Mr. Centinaro left the Governor s Counsel s Office in 2001 to become the First Assistant Deputy Public Defender for the Mercer Trial Region of the Office of the Public Defender, serving in that capacity until 2007 when he was appointed Director of Juvenile Defense Services for the Office of the Public Defender. Gawain Charlton-Perrin (IL) Mr. Charlton-Perrin has a strong background in Professional Liability claims, ethics and risk management. At The Hanover, Gawain focuses on claims and risk management for Professional Liability Programs (Lawyers, Accountants, Architects & Engineers, Real Estate Agents & Brokers, Mortgage Field Services, Home Inspectors, Property Management Firms, Debt Collectors and Title Agents). Prior to joining The Hanover in November of 2012, Gawain was a Consulting Directorin the CNA Risk Control Department focusing on risk management for attorneys and law firms. Gawain also handled lawyers claims at CNA. Formerly, Gawain prosecuted attorneys for ethical violations for the State of Illinois and later defended attorneys for a Chicago law firm in legal malpractice cases and ethics complaints. He is a nationally recognized author and lecturer on professional liability, ethics and risk management. Gawain is an Advisory Member for the annual Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois, the Federal Northern District court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

4 George R. Clark (DC) George R. Clark is a solo practitioner in Washington, D.C. who represents lawyers, law firms, and their clients. With more 30 years of experience in professional responsibility matters (over 20 of them as inside ethics partner at a 1000 lawyer firm), he advises law firms and lawyers on the full range of ethics and practice issues, including conflicts and disqualification. A trial lawyer for over 30 years, he frequently consults on litigation-related ethics matters. Clark also serves as an expert witness, and lectures regularly on ethics issues. He also often advises clients on their dealings with their lawyers, and acts for lawyers in discipline and admission matters. Mr. Clark is past Chair ( ) of the District of Columbia Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee. He has been selected for inclusion in 2012 through 2015 Washington DC Super Lawyers. He is a 1969 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (B.S. Physics), and has his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law (1972), and began his legal career as law clerk to the late Judge William B. Jones of the U.S. District Court in Washington. He is a member of the Center for Professional Responsibility and the Business Law Section (Firm Counsel Connection and Professional Responsibility Committee) of the American Bar Association and Treasurer of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He and his wife Mary live in Washington, D.C., where he was Chair of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City ( ) and three time past President of the Federation of Citizens Associations of DC. William Covey (USPTO) Mr. Covey is the Deputy General Counsel and Director for Enrollment and Discipline (OED). In this role, he manages an office of attorneys, paralegals, and support staff which is responsible for registering patent attorneys and agents to practice before the USPTO, overseeing the Law School Clinic Certification Program, and investigating grievances alleging misconduct by practitioners authorized to practice before the USPTO. To do so, OED evaluates the credentials of applicants for registration, develops and administers a registration examination to determine if applicants have the necessary knowledge of patent law and practice to render patent applicants valuable service, maintains a public roster of attorneys and agents recognized to practice before the office in patent matters, and conducts surveys of active registered practitioners. Previously, Mr. Covey served as the USPTO s Deputy General Counsel for the Office of General Law for over four years. Mr. Covey was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in Before joining the USPTO in 2000, Mr. Covey served at the Pentagon in the U.S. Army s Judge Advocate General s Corps. He serves in the Army Reserve and has completed combat tours in Iraq (2007) and Afghanistan (2011). He served as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and is currently assigned to the Office of the Army General Counsel. Mr. Covey received his undergraduate degree from Fordham University (magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa) and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in He graduated from Harvard University s John F. Kennedy School of Government (Senior Executive Fellowship) in 2005 and received a Master of Science degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College in James C. Coyle (CO) James C. Coyle is Attorney Regulation Counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court. In that capacity, Jim assists the Supreme Court with regulating the practice of law in Colorado, including attorney admissions, registration, discipline, disability, diversion, mandatory continuing legal and judicial education, unauthorized practice and inventory counsel functions. Jim s office also acts as counsel for the Attorneys Fund for Client Protection and the Commission on Judicial Discipline. Jim has been the Attorney Regulation Counsel since March 2013, but served under previous Attorney Regulation Counsel John Gleason from 1999 to February 2013 and previous Attorney Disciplinary Counsel Linda Donnelly from 1990 to Jim graduated from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1985 and became a licensed Colorado lawyer in November Jim was in private practice until November 1990 when he started working for the Supreme Court Office of Disciplinary Counsel, now known as office of Attorney Regulation Counsel.

5 Jim is an active member of the American and Colorado Bar Associations, National Conference of Bar Examiners, National Organization of Bar Counsel, ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, National Client Protection Organization, National Continuing Legal Education Regulators Association, Association of Judicial Discipline Counsel and ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs. Jim s recent committee work includes acting as co-chair and organizer of the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection s First UPL School in Denver, CO, in August 2013, and program committee member for the Second UPL School in Chicago scheduled for April Jim is a Director-at-Large for the National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC), and is an active member of the NOBC Program Committee, International Committee, and Subcommittee on Entity Regulation (Chair). Jim recently served on the NOBC Special Committee on Permanent Retirement, NOBC Aging Lawyer Committee and NOBC GATS Subcommittee. Jim is the NOBC liaison to the ABA Policy Implementation Committee and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) Regulation of Lawyer Advertising Committee. Jim is also on the Chief Justice Commission on Professional Development and the Advisory Committee s subcommittee exploring Navigator programs and Limited Licensed Legal Technician (LLLT) programs. Dolores Dorsainvil (DC) Dolores Dorsainvil is a Senior Staff Attorney with the D.C. Office of Bar Counsel where she investigates and prosecutes District of Columbia lawyers for ethical misconduct. She is formerly an Assistant Bar Counsel with the Attorney Grievance Commission in Maryland. Dolores is also an Adjunct Professor at American University s Washington College of Law where she teaches legal ethics to second year law students. Dolores is licensed in both the District of Columbia and Maryland. Dolores is a member of the Maryland Bar Foundation, is the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Maryland State Bar Association and is an appointed member of the Professionalism Committee, teaches the mandatory Professionalism Course for new admittees in the District of Columbia and Maryland Bar, and is the Past Co-Chair of the Ethics & Professionalism Committee of the ABA Young Lawyers Division. Dolores serves in leadership roles within local and national bar associations, including her service as an appointed member of the Standing Committee on Professional Discipline for the ABA, Past Fellow of the Maryland State Bar Association Leadership Academy (2006), former Co-Chair of the Judicial Selections Committee of the Women s Bar Association of Maryland ( ), and Past President of the Black Women s Bar Association of Suburban Maryland ( ). Dolores has received significant recognition for her work and dedication and is the recipient of the Finalist award for the ABA Young Lawyer s Division National Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year 2011, the ABA s Center for Professional Responsibility Rosner and Rosner Young Lawyers Professionalism Award 2012, the 2012 Edward F. Shea Professionalism Award given by the Maryland Bar Foundation, and the Daily Record s Maryland Top 100 Women awards, May 2013 & June Douglas J. Ende (WA) Douglas J. Ende has been employed by the Washington State Bar Association for more than 17 years. He has served as a staff disciplinary counsel, assistant general counsel, professional responsibility counsel, and, for the last eight of those years, as Chief Disciplinary Counsel. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington School of Law. Prior to joining the WSBA staff, Mr. Ende served as a law clerk at the Washington State Court of Appeals, as a litigation lawyer at a large Seattle law firm, as an appellate attorney at a public defense agency, as a partner in a small criminal defense firm, and as a member of the faculty of the University of Washington School of Law, where he was voted Professor of the Year in In 2010 he returned to the U.W. School of Law as a part-time lecturer on Professional Responsibility. He has served as a member of the WSBA Board of Bar Examiners, the ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission Work Group on Uniformity, Choice of Law, and Conflicts of Interest, and the National Conference of Bar Examiners Multistate Essay Examination/Performance Test Committee. He was a 2009 recipient of the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs Meritorious Service Award. He is currently in the second year of a two-year term as an at-large director of the National Organization of Bar Counsel. He has never run a marathon.

6 Matthew Ferguson (DOJ) Matthew Ferguson is a Legal Advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice s Professional Responsibility Advisory Office (PRAO), where he advises and trains Department of Justice attorneys about their obligations under the rules of professional conduct. Matt has taught numerous courses on professional responsibility at the Department s National Advocacy Center, at Department of Justice components, and at U.S. Attorney s Offices throughout the country. He has also been an adjunct professor teaching legal ethics at American University s Washington College of Law. Prior to joining the Department, he worked as a litigation associate at Sidley Austin LLP in New York, where he focused on commercial, white-collar, and securities enforcement matters, and clerked for the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Matt graduated from the University of Southern California School of Law, where he was the managing editor of the Southern California Law Review. He holds a master s degree in applied ethics from the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven and a bachelor s degree in philosophy from Princeton University. Margaret Funk (CO) Margaret Brown Funk is Deputy Regulation Counsel with the Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation. Ms. Funk assists in the supervision of the regulation intake division, attorney admissions, continuing legal and judicial education, attorney registration and human resources. Ms. Funk graduated from the University of Denver College of Law in 1994 after graduating from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in She was a member of the employment law firm King & Greisen, LLP, when in 2006 she left private practice to join the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel as a Trial Attorney. Ms. Funk is a member of the National Organization of Bar Counsel, the Colorado and American Bar Associations, the National Conference of Bar Examiners, and the National Continuing Legal Education Regulators Association. She serves on the Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice s Commission on Professional Development. She is the primary instructor of the office s Trust Account School and regularly teaches at Colorado Supreme Court Ethics School and Professionalism School. She regularly lectures on the topics of law office management, trust accounts, fees and fee agreements, serving moderate-income clients and ethics for lawyers in small firms or solo practice. While in private practice, she served as President and Vice President of the Colorado Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Association ( PELA ). Between 1998 and 2005, she served as a member of the PELA board of directors and was assigned the duties of chair of the legislative committee and liaison to the Colorado Bar Association. She published several articles in the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association s monthly magazine, Trial Talk, and lectured extensively on the topics of employment law, civil rights, and litigation. Alan Gershel (MI) Alan Gershel is the recently appointed Grievance Administrator of the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission. He is a graduate of Northeastern University, Indiana State University, and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Immediately preceding his appointment, Mr. Gershel served for 20 years as the chairperson of a hearing panel of the Attorney Discipline Board, and was a tenured professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School since Mr. Gershel s professional career as a prosecutor began in the United States Attorney s Office, Eastern District of Michigan where he rose to the Chief of the Criminal Division, First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Acting U.S. Attorney. Mr. Gershel has also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Mark W. Gifford (WY) Mark W. Gifford is Bar Counsel for the Wyoming State Bar. He is a Wyoming native who received his bachelor s degree in accounting from the University of Wyoming in 1978 and his law degree from Stanford University in After thirty years of practice as a trial lawyer and mediator, Gifford took the position of Bar Counsel on a part-time basis in 2011 and became full-time in October In addition to attorney discipline, Gifford s responsibilities include Unauthorized Practice of Law, Fee Dispute Resolution and Clients Security Fund. He was instrumental in getting Wyoming s Lawyer Assistance Program launched in 2014.

7 James J. Grogan (IL) James J. Grogan is both the Deputy Administrator and the Chief Counsel (DACC) of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC). For more than 34 years, he has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of charges of lawyer misconduct and has argued dozens of disciplinary cases in the Supreme Court of Illinois. He is a Past President of the National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC), the bar association of lawyer regulators. For almost 30 years, Mr. Grogan has taught legal ethics, first at the DePaul University College of Law and then at the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, where he is an Adjunct Professor. He has presented hundreds of speeches, lectures and workshops to law firms, bar associations, corporations and judicial and governmental groups and agencies on various professional responsibility and lawyer regulation topics. Robert Hawley (CA) Robert Hawley is currently Deputy Executive Director of the State Bar of California. His areas of responsibility for the State Bar, among other things, include oversight of the State Bar s Professional Competence Unit which administers the Ethics Hotline, the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC), the State Bar s professional responsibility publications and other functions related to the development of California s Rules of Professional Conduct. He also is the State Bar s employee relations officer and oversees all labor and employment functions. He received his Juris Doctorate (J.D.) degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and his Masters in Law (LL.M) from New York University, School of Law. Mr. Hawley began his legal career as a disciplinary prosecutor for the State Bar. He then entered private practice for over ten years representing management in labor and employment matters before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He served as a member of the State Bar s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) as well as its Chair and Special Advisor. Prior to rejoining the State Bar s staff, he served as Risk Management Chair and Deputy Managing Partner for a major Bay Area law firm. Mr. Hawley has taught Professional Responsibility and labor law at various Bay Area law schools for the past twenty years, and is currently on the adjunct faculty of Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Mr. Hawley is the recipient of the National Organization of Bar Counsel s 2014 President s Award, recognizing lifetime achievement in attorney regulation and service. Alan P. Kelley (ME) Alan P. Kelley has served as an Assistant Bar Counsel since February of Prior to working for the Board of Overseers, Mr. Kelley was the Deputy District Attorney for Kennebec and Somerset Counties for more than 30 years before serving as the Acting District Attorney in In addition to his duties as a prosecutor, he served as an instructor in trial advocacy courses for the National Association of District Attorneys at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the College of William & Mary, Marshall -Wythe School of Law. Adam Kilgore (MS) Adam Kilgore is General Counsel for The Mississippi Bar where his duties include reviewing all Bar complaints, conducting investigations regarding Bar complaints, prosecuting attorney discipline cases, handling appeals before the Supreme Court of Mississippi, and serving as Bar liaison for the Board of Bar Commissioners, Committee on Professional Responsibility, and the Ethics Committee. Adam is a member of The Mississippi Bar, National Organization of Bar Counsel, Capital Area Bar Association and the Professional Responsibility Section of the American Bar Association. Adam earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Communications from Mississippi College in 1992, and graduated from Mississippi College School of Law in 2000 where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. Upon graduation Adam served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Mississippi for Chief Justice Edwin Lloyd Pittman. Adam has worked at The Mississippi Bar since 2002, serving as Assistant General Counsel for two years prior to becoming General Counsel in 2004.

8 Scott Kozlov (IL) Scott Kozlov is a 1992 graduate of Valparaiso University School of Law. He completed his undergraduate studies at Eastern Illinois University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He has been an Investigator with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Court-Coordinator for Judge William Maki in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Juvenile Division, and an associate with a general practice law firm in Arlington Heights, Illinois. From , he was an Assistant Public Guardian in Cook County, representing abused and neglected children, and, in 2000, he joined the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission as litigation counsel. He currently holds the position of Senior Counsel for the Administrator with the ARDC. As an attorney with the Commission, Mr. Kozlov has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of cases of attorney misconduct. As of December 2011, when the Illinois Supreme Court delegated power to the ARDC to pursue action against non-attorneys involved in the unauthorized practice of law, he has been the primary prosecutor for the ARDC in such matters. He is also active in the Chicago Bar Association, where he has chaired the Government Service Committee in 2004, and the Unauthorized Practice and Multidisciplinary Practice Committee from , as well as the Illinois State Bar Association, where he has been appointed to the Task Force on the Unauthorized Practice of Law since He has served as Chair of the American Bar Association s 2015 Unauthorized Practice of Law School to train attorneys on the investigation and prosecution of unauthorized practice of law issues. On a personal note, Mr. Kozlov was a nationally ranked competitive figure skater and has been a professional skating instructor for several suburban park districts over the last 22 years. Stark Ligon (AK) Stark Ligon has been Chief Disciplinary Counsel of the Arkansas Supreme Court Office of Professional Conduct and Executive Director of the Committee on Professional Conduct since January 1, A graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (1968, B.A. - History) and the UALR Law School (1975), licensed in Arkansas (1975) and in the Supreme Court of the United States, he served as a chancery judge and later as a circuit judge in the Tenth Judicial District in southeast Arkansas ( ), chief legal counsel to a governor, general counsel to a state agency, deputy prosecuting attorney, State Judge Advocate (Colonel, Retired) in the Arkansas Army National Guard, in private law practice in Warren and Little Rock, and as a mediator and arbitrator in private practice. He is a frequent presenter of continuing legal education programs, especially in the areas of the rules of attorney conduct, attorney trust accounts, fees, and the Arkansas attorney disciplinary system. Stacy Ludwig (DOJ) Stacy Ludwig is the Deputy Director and current head of the United States Department of Justice Professional Responsibility Advisory Office which provides advice and training to Department attorneys about how to carry out their duties in compliance with the professional conduct rules. Previously, Ms. Ludwig served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and was appointed Senior Litigation Counsel. She has been a member of the faculty at Georgetown University Law School, George Washington University Law School and American University s Washington College of Law where she taught professional responsibility courses, and she has lectured on professional responsibility issues at Catholic University s Columbus School of Law. She is a member of the D.C. Bar s Rules Review Committee and previously served on the D.C. Bar s Legal Ethics Committee, and she has taught the D.C. Bar s mandatory course on ethics for government lawyers. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin. Wendy J. Muchman (IL) Wendy J. Muchman is Chief of Litigation and Professional Education at the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. She investigates and prosecutes lawyer disciplinary cases, including In re Rinella, 175 Ill.2d 504, 677 N.E.2d 909 (1997). Her job responsibilities also include supervision and training of all litigation attorneys and staff at the ARDC. Ms. Muchman regularly lectures and presents workshops regarding professional responsibility and disciplinary law to various bar association groups, law firms, judges and law schools. Since fall 2000, she teaches legal ethics at Northwestern University School of Law. She has taught ethics and advocacy and intensive trial

9 advocacy at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She serves as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) for the regional and national trial advocacy, deposition and National Organization of Bar Counsel programs. She serves as an assistant team leader for the NITA Trial Advocacy Midwest Regional Program. In 2013, she was selected to participate as a fellow in the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professional Responsibilty. In 2012 she was elected member-at-large to the Council of the American Bar Association Government and Public Lawyers Division where she stills serves. Between 2009 and 2011, she served as the Vice-Chair, then Chair, of the Chicago Bar Association Committee on Professional Responsibility. Prior to 1989 when she started her employment at the Commission, Ms. Muchman litigated in the state and federal courts. Areas of practice included insurance litigation, civil rights, age discrimination and aviation defense work. Ms. Muchman received her JD from DePaul University College of Law (1981) and her BA from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. (1978) Maureen E. Mulvenna (IL) Maureen E. Mulvenna is Counsel for Adjudication for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC). She served as the Director of Adjudication from 2001 to Before joining the ARDC in 2001, Ms. Mulvenna was an Assistant State s Attorney for Cook County, Illinois from 1991 to She has been a member of the National Council of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards (NCLDB) since its inception in Ms. Mulvenna has served as Director and currently serves as Treasurer for the NCLDB. She earned her B.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana and her law degree from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Sharon D. Opryszek (IL) Sharon D. Opryszek, RN, JD is Senior Litigation Counsel at the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC). Ms. Opryszek obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Illinois in 1982 and has been licensed as a registered nurse since From 1982 through 2000, Ms. Opryszek practiced as a critical care nurse, nurse educator and assistant nurse manager at the University of Illinois Hospital. After receiving her law degree from DePaul University College of Law, Ms. Opryszek joined the Cook County State s Attorney s Office in 1993 where she remained until As an Assistant State s Attorney (ASA), Ms. Opryszek prosecuted cases in juvenile court, the felony trial division, gangs and narcotics. From 2005 through 2007, Ms. Opryszek served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in a joint federal and state wiretap investigation of narcotics and gangs entitled Operation Street Sweeper. In her last four years as an ASA, Ms. Opryszek practiced in the civil division of the State s Attorney s Office where she defended Cook County in medical malpractice, torts and civil rights cases as a deputy supervisor. In 2011, Ms. Opryszek joined the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission s Chicago office as litigation counsel. In 2014, she was promoted to senior litigation counsel where she investigates and prosecutes attorney misconduct. Ms. Opryszek has lectured regarding professional responsibility and disciplinary law to bar association groups, government agencies, law firms and law schools. Andrew Perlman (Suffolk University Law School-MA) Andrew Perlman is the incoming dean at Suffolk University Law School, where he teaches professional responsibility and civil procedure and directs the Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation. Andy also created and directs Suffolk s concentration in Legal Technology and Innovation. The concentration, which is similar to a major, prepares students for 21st century legal employment with specialized courses in important legal innovations and technologies, such as automated document assembly, expert systems, legal project management, process improvement, and virtual lawyering. Andy is the Vice Chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, and he was the Chief Reporter for the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which successfully proposed numerous amendments to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to address increased globalization and technological change. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court s Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct and the 2014 chair of the Section on Professional Responsibility of

10 the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to entering academia, Andy clerked for a federal district court judge in Chicago and practiced as a litigator there. He is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and he received his LL.M from Columbia Law School. Paul Philip (SRA) Paul Philip took up his post as Chief Executive of the SRA on 1 February He was previously the Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer of the General Medical Council (GMC), where he was responsible for leading all corporate work programs, as well as delivering all the organization s core regulatory work. Prior to becoming the Chief Operating Officer at the GMC, Paul led the GMC s medical ethics and disciplinary functions, reforming fundamentally the way in which the organization conducts its business in these areas. Paul has previously held senior roles in both the Legal Services Commission and the NHS. Darrel I. Pink (Nova Scotia Barrister s Society) Darrel I. Pink is Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society, a position he has held since He is responsible for carrying out the Society s Strategic Framework and currently is leading the initiative to transform the regulation and governance of the legal profession in Nova Scotia. Darrel has been a regular lecturer on professional responsibility at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, and a frequent presenter to other law societies across Canada and internationally. In 2010, he spent six months on a consultancy with the Tanganyika Law Society in Tanzania, East Africa, assisting in its efforts to strengthen capacity in governance and regulation. From 2005 to 2007, he participated with the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and law society partners in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, in a program aimed at improving access to justice through legal sector development in Eastern Africa. He regularly participates in the work of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. He is currently a member of the Federation s Model Code of Conduct Committee and the National Admission Standards Steering Committee. In 2012, he co-edited a book, Why Good Lawyers Matter (Toronto: Irwin Law), with the Hon. Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, Supreme Court of Canada, and David L. Blaikie, Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law. Charles Plattsmier (LA) Charles Plattsmier attended Louisiana State University Law Center from 1975 thru 1978 and became licensed to practice law in Louisiana in October of He entered the private practice of law in the law firm of Hunter and Plattsmier in Morgan City, Louisiana where the firm s emphasis was on maritime litigation. On February 1, 1996 he became the Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the State of Louisiana and today stands as the longest serving Chief Counsel with the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board. Mr. Plattsmier has authored amendments to both the Rules of Professional Conduct as well as Supreme Court Rule 19; was a member of the Ethics 2000 Committee which updated and amended Louisiana s ethics rules; and has served on countless committees of both the Louisiana Supreme Court and the Louisiana State Bar Association. He is an active speaker having provided over 500 lectures and presentations on ethics and professionalism nationally and across the state. He was a 2002 nominee for the ABA Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award for outstanding contributions to the field of Professional Responsibility. In 2009 he was the recipient of the ABA CoLap Meritorious Service Award. Julia Porter (DC) Julia Porter is a Senior Assistant Bar Counsel with the District of Columbia Office of Bar Counsel, where she investigates and prosecutes lawyers for violations of the ethical rules. Julia graduated from George Washington University Law School in After law school, Julia clerked for Judge Harold Greene of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and then worked at Caplin & Drysdale, a

11 D.C. law firm, doing primarily civil litigation. Since 2005, Julia has shared responsibility supervising the other litigation lawyers in the Office of Bar Counsel. Julia has taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School for many years, taught numerous CLE courses sponsored by the DC Bar, and served as part of the faculty for the NOBC s NITA training program in Boulder, Colorado. Tammy Pruet Northrup (LA) Tammy Pruet Northrup, a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana is a 1988 graduate from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a 1991 graduate of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University. After receiving her law degree, she served as a judicial law clerk for the State of Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal for two years. Following her clerkship, she served as staff and later senior attorney for the Louisiana State Police. She authored the original version of the Louisiana CODIS law, the first piece of legislation in the country to authorize DNA sampling of arrestees, as well as the expansion of that law authorizing the collection of all convicted offenders and arrestees for felony offenses. In June 2001 she was promoted to Manager of the DNA Unit for the Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory. Ms. Northrup left the Louisiana State Police in November 2006 to serve as Executive Director of the St. Tammany Parish Forensic Center, a position she held until March Ms. Northrup currently serves as a Deputy Disciplinary Counsel for the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board. Dennis A. Rendleman (ABA) 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 He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and its College of Law. Scott Renfoe (IL) Scott Renfoe is a 1985 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law. He currently holds the position of Chief, Supreme Court Practice with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois, where he supervises a group of attorneys and handles a caseload that includes matters involving allegations of conversion, billing fraud, and conflicts of interest. He has taught deposition and trial skills as a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Mr. Renfoe is currently a member of the Illinois State Bar Association s Standing Committee on Professional Conduct, and has spoken on issues of attorney discipline and professional responsibility before law firms, bar associations, law schools, the National Organization of Bar Counsel and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Ellyn S. Rosen (ABA) Ellyn S. Rosen, Deputy Director of the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility also serves as Regulation Counsel for the Association. She advises the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Discipline, whose mission is to assist the judiciary and the bar in the development, coordination, and strengthening of disciplinary enforcement throughout the United States, including the assessment of the regulatory ramifications of global legal practice developments. Ms. Rosen was Counsel to the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 ( ), which reviewed and recommended changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the U.S. system of lawyer regulation in response to the challenges that globalization and advances in technology present to clients, lawyers, law firms, and

12 the public. She advises the ABA Task Force on International Trade in Legal Services, which monitors the free trade agreement negotiations affecting legal services and provides input to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. She liaises with the Conference of Chief Justices, National Organization of Bar Counsel, National Council of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards, and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. She speaks frequently at international, state and local bar programs regarding ethics and the regulation of the legal profession. Prior to joining the Center in 1996, Ms. Rosen was a senior litigation counsel with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. She currently serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of the Chicago Council of Lawyers, and was a member of the International Bar Association s Professional Ethics Committee ( ). She co-chaired the Chicago Bar Association s Young Lawyers Section Professional Responsibility Committee ( ), and served as an investigator and interviewer for the Illinois Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Evaluations ( ). The Alliance evaluates and rates candidates seeking judgeships in Illinois via appointment or election. Ms. Rosen is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In 1989, Ms. Rosen received her J.D. with honors from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. Barbara Seymour (SC) Barbara Seymour is the Deputy Disciplinary Counsel to the Supreme Court of South Carolina where she investigates and prosecutes grievances filed against lawyers. In 1990, she earned her Bachelor s degree in Management and Marketing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Georgia School of Law in Barbara worked as a trial lawyer from 1993 to She served as an adjunct instructor in the Professional Legal Assistants Program at Converse College and currently teaches as an adjunct in the Paralegal Degree Program at Midlands Technical College. Her courses have included Civil Litigation, Legal Research and Writing, Business Law, Torts, Ethics, and Law Office Management. Barbara is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the Georgia Bar (inactive), and the National Organization of Bar Counsel. She currently serves on the Law Related Education Committee at the South Carolina Bar, which named her the 2006 Law Related Education Lawyer of the Year. She was a 2006 and 2011 Fellow of the National Institute for the Teaching of Ethics and Professionalism. Barbara is also the creator and coordinator of the Legal Ethics and Practice Program (LEAPP), which includes ethics, advertising, trust account, and law office management schools sponsored by the Supreme Court and the South Carolina Bar. Wallace E. Gene Shipp, Jr. (DC) Wallace E. Gene Shipp, Jr. Gene 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 A 1972 graduate of Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC, he engaged in private practice in the Washington area from , 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 served 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 175 presentations on ethics and the disciplinary system as part of the Mandatory CLE Course to over 60,000 new members of the District of Columbia Bar.

13 William D. Slease (NM) William D. Slease is Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the New Mexico Supreme Court Disciplinary Board. In addition to his duties as Chief Disciplinary Counsel, he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law where he has taught employment law, ethics and trial practice skills. He also chairs the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico s Lawyer s Succession and Transition Committee and serves on the State Bar of New Mexico Professionalism Commission which is responsible for operating and administering the Bridge the Gap: Transitioning Into the Profession Program for new lawyers in New Mexico. He is a member of and the Board Treasurer, and Board Secretary, for the National Organization of Bar Counsel. He is a frequent moderator, lecturer and panelist at both state and national continuing education seminars. Prior to his appointment as Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Bill was in private practice with an emphasis in civil rights, employment and tort litigation. Melissa A. Smart (IL) Melissa A. Smart is Litigation Group Manager and Senior Counsel at the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (ARDC) where she supervises a group of litigation attorneys and staff, investigates charges of lawyer misconduct and prosecutes disciplinary cases. Ms. Smart obtained her B.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. She received her law degree from The John Marshall Law School, graduating cum laude. Ms. Smart began working at the ARDC as a law clerk in 1997 and became Counsel for the Administrator in As a member of the Commission s staff for over fifteen years, she has investigated thousands of charges of professional misconduct and has been responsible for over 100 different formal disciplinary proceedings filed in the Supreme Court of Illinois or before various Commission Boards. She has tried dozens of matters before the Commission Hearing Board. Ms. Smart is past Chair of the YLS Professional Responsibility Committee of the Chicago Bar Association and currently serves on the Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. She has lectured and presented workshops regarding professional responsibility and disciplinary law to numerous bar association groups, government agencies, law firms, private organizations and law schools. She has appeared as a guest on various radio programs to discuss her knowledge of the Rules of Professional Conduct and issues related to professional responsibility. She has been selected to work on pilot programs for the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, which have developed model courses on professional responsibility and CLE course facilitation. She was named a Member of the Joint Illinois State Bar Association/Chicago Bar Association Special Committee on Ethics 2000 which reviewed existing Illinois ethics guidelines and suggested changes to the Illinois Supreme Court which formed the basis for the New 2010 Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct. James Sudler (CO) James Sudler has worked in the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel since He is currently Chief Deputy Regulation Counsel in charge of the Litigation Division of that office. He was licensed to practice law in Early in his career he worked as a Deputy District Attorney in Denver. He also was an associate in the firm of Rothgerber, Appel & Powers. He later was the First Assistant in charge of the Special Prosecutions Unit of the Colorado Attorney General s Office. His undergraduate degree is from the University of California at Berkeley, and his law degree from the University of Denver. He also has a Masters Degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Jamie regularly teaches lawyers about various issues including conflicts, confidentiality, trust accounts, fees and fee agreements. He has also taught professionalism and legal ethics at the University of Denver. Recently he has taught a national webinar for the ABA and the National Organization of Bar Counsel about the practice of law and the legalization of marijuana.

14 During 2010 and 2011, James co-chaired an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct in Phoenix, Arizona. The Office of Attorney Regulation in Colorado was appointed to investigate and, if necessary prosecute the former Maricopa County Attorney and two of his deputies for ethical violations over a period of years. The investigation led to a 26-day trial which resulted in the disbarment of Andrew Thomas who was Maricopa County Attorney, and his deputy Lisa Aubuchon. Another deputy, Rachel Alexander was suspended for 6 months. Ari Telisman (IL) Ari Telisman serves as Litigation Counsel for the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. His duties include investigating and prosecuting lawyer misconduct. Previously, Mr. Telisman served as a prosecutor in Indiana and Florida as well as an Assistant Attorney General in Illinois, where he pursued involuntary commitments of sexually violent offenders. He has tried nearly 100 cases involving a wide variety of crimes (including violent felonies, drug and gun prosecutions, and complex economic crimes) as well as many civil trials. Mr. Telisman is an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he teaches trial advocacy and expert witness theory and practice. He also is a faculty instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy s Midwest Building Trial Skills Program. Laurel S. Terry (Penn State s Dickinson Law) Laurel S. Terry is the Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Penn State s Dickinson Law, which is the older of Penn State s two ABA-accredited law schools. She is a three-time Fulbright grant recipient who writes and teaches about legal ethics and the international and interjurisdictional regulation of the legal profession. Her recent research has focused on global regulatory initiatives, including structural reforms in Australia, Canada, and the UK; the application of the World Trade Organization s GATS agreement to legal services; lawyer confidentiality and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations; and trends in global lawyer regulation, including proactive regulation and the use of regulatory objectives. She teaches Professional Responsibility, a seminar on international Cross-Border Legal Practice, and will soon teach two new courses called Practicing Law in a Global World: Contexts and Competencies. Laurel is active in international, national, and state organizations that address lawyer regulation issues and her service has included participating on committees that address all three stages of lawyer regulation: admissions, conduct rules, and discipline. She currently is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) s International Trade in Legal Services Working Group, the ABA Task Force on International Trade in Legal Services, the ABA Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Legal Profession, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association s legal ethics committee. She also serves on the board of the International Association of Legal Ethics and on the advisory board of LawWithoutWalls. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Order of the Coif, and the American Law Institute, Laurel is a former law clerk for the Hon. Alfred T. Goodwin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before her academic career, she was a litigation associate at Stoel Rives in Portland, Oregon. She received a B.A. in Literature (English & Greek) from the University of California, San Diego and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. Mark L. Tuft (Cooper, White & Cooper LLP-CA) Mark L. Tuft is a partner with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP in San Francisco. He serves as counsel to lawyers and law firms on professional responsibility, professional liability, law firm mergers and dissolutions and State Bar disciplinary matters. Mr. Tuft is certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in legal malpractice law. His practice includes legal malpractice defense, media law and defense of individuals and businesses in civil and criminal matters. He also serves as an arbitrator, mediator and special master in lawyer-client and law firm disputes. Mr. Tuft is a co author of The California Practice Guide on Professional Responsibility (The Rutter Group, a division of Thomson Reuters). Mr. Tuft obtained his J.D. degree with honors from Hastings College of the Law in He also received an LL.M. degree with highest honors from George Washington University in 1972.

15 Mr. Tuft is a member of the California State Bar Commission on the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct and a former chair of the California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Mr. Tuft is a member of the ABA Center on Professional Responsibility and is a member of the Center s policy implementation committee and editorial board. Mr. Tuft is a past president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He has taught courses on legal ethics as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law and is a frequent lecturer and writer on professional responsibility. Mr. Tuft has received several teaching and bar association awards for his work in legal education. Kathleen M. Uston (VA) Kathleen M. Uston is an Assistant Bar Counsel with the Virginia State Bar in Alexandria, Virginia, and an adjunct professor of law at American University Washington College of Law teaching Ethics for Trial Lawyers. She received her J.D. from George Mason University School of Law in 1991 where she served as President of the Student Bar Association and as a Justice on the Moot Court Board. Ms. Uston was previously in private practice focusing in the areas of attorney ethical defense work, GAL representation, and civil litigation. While in private practice, she also served as a Commissioner in Chancery for the Circuit Court for the City of Alexandria. Ms. Uston is a past President of the VSB Young Lawyers Conference during which time she served on the VSB Council and Executive Committee. She also served as vice-chair of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Solo and Small Firm Committee. Ms. Uston is a former President of the Alexandria Bar Association, and is currently serving as Board Secretary for the National Organization of Bar Counsel. Ms. Uston has lectured extensively on the subject of attorney ethics, and co-authored the updated edition of Lawyers and Other People s Money with Frank Thomas, Esquire. Constance V. Vecchione (MA) Constance V. Vecchione is bar counsel at the Office of Bar Counsel of the Board of Bar Overseers. Ms. Vecchione was appointed to this position in She has been with the Office of Bar Counsel since 1980, originally as an assistant bar counsel and then as first assistant bar counsel. Ms. Vecchione is a 1970 graduate of Brandeis University and a 1974 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. She was previously a law clerk with the Massachusetts Superior Court ( ) and in private practice ( ). Ms. Vecchione taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University School of Law from 1988 through 1995 and served on the council of the small firm management practice section of the Massachusetts Bar Association from 1994 through She is the author of numerous articles on ethics for Massachusetts bar journals and is a frequent lecturer at CLE programs. She is also an active member of the National Organization of Bar Counsel. Maret Vessella (AZ) 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 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 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 that regulatory process. Ms. Vessella has served on many State Bar Committees and participated in programs designed to enhance the legal profession.

16 Mark Weber (NE) In July of 2014, the Nebraska Supreme Court announced the appointment of Mark A. Weber of Omaha, Nebraska, as Nebraska Counsel for Discipline. He began his work with the Judicial Branch in September He is a graduate of Creighton University and Creighton School of Law. Weber was a trial attorney for nearly 30 years, focusing his practice on personal injury, criminal cases, insurance litigation, and commercial work. He tried approximately 25 jury trials involving both civil and criminal cases, and had a significant civil and criminal appellate practice which included many capital cases. He represented death row inmates at trial and on appeal such as John Joubert, Clarence Victor, Arthur Lee Gales, and Roy Ellis. In 1994, he argued the case of Victor v. Nebraska, 511 U.S. 1 (1994), before the United States Supreme Court. Eventually, Mr. Weber s appeals lead to the removal of Clarence Victor from death row in 2000 after proving Victor s mental retardation. Weber served as a member of the Nebraska Supreme Court Advisory Committee (which advises on attorney ethics issues) since 2004, and chaired the committee from 2007 until his current appointment. His professional associations and memberships include the American Bar Association, the Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, and the Omaha Bar Association. At the time of his appointment, Chief Justice Mike Heavican commented that, Mark Weber is an outstanding attorney. His work on the ethics advisory committee of the Nebraska Supreme Court has been exemplary since his initial appointment in His service as chair of the committee has greatly benefited the judicial system and it will be good to have him handling the day-to-day operations of the Office of the Counsel for Discipline. As Counsel for Discipline, Weber directs the operations of the regulation and discipline functions of the Nebraska lawyer disciplinary system under the supervision of the Nebraska Supreme Court. Weber has volunteered his time and expertise both inside and outside of the legal community. He is a Past President of the Nebraska Criminal Defense Attorneys Association ( ), he served on the Nebraska State Bar Association House of Delegates for seven years and on the Board of Advisors of the St. Augustine Indian Mission from 2006 to He also served on the St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church Pastoral Council from 2000 to 2006, and he was President of the Council from Michael Witte (IN) G. Michael Witte is the Executive Secretary of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission. Witte was the first Asian American to serve as judge in the State of Indiana. His 25 year judicial career included service as Judge of the Dearborn County Court, Lawrenceburg, IN ( ); Judge of the Dearborn Superior Court No. 1 ( ); and Judge of the Wayne Superior Court No. 1, Richmond, IN (2009) Witte received both his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Indiana University, served as President of the IU McKinney Law School s Alumni Board in 2009, and was honored in 2008 by the I.U. Alumni Association as its Distinguished Asian Alumni. In 2011 he received the IUPUI Marynard K. Hine medal for significant contributions to campus and alumni programs. He also received from Equal Justice Works the law school s 2012 Public Interest Recognition. He is a 1991 graduate of the Indiana Judicial College, the 2002 class of the Graduate Program for Indiana Judges, and a former member of the Indiana Commission on Courts. Witte served as Chair of the ABA Judicial Division in 2011 and served as Chair of the ABA National Conference of Specialized Court Judges in He currently serves on the ABA Standing Committee on Gavel Awards. From , Witte served as Co-chair of the ABA Judicial Division s Standing Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary. He received his community s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award in In addition, Indiana Minority Business Magazine named Witte a 2010 Champion of Diversity. Witte has been a panelist at many national programs on diversifying the judiciary and improving diversity pipelines to a judicial career, including a 2009 program at the Harvard Law School.

17 Witte served as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Region 5 Judicial Outreach Liaison in , the NHTSA Judicial Fellow from , and served on the U.S. Congressional Advisory Committee for Commercial Driver s License, Judge Witte has performed NHTSA impaired driving compliance audits for Hawaii, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Kansas, Maryland, Washington, Vermont, Idaho and North Carolina. Witte joined The National Judicial College faculty in Additionally, he has taught for the American Bar Association, NHTSA, the National Center for State Courts, the National Criminal Justice Association, the Indiana Judicial Center, the Indiana State Bar Association and the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum. He teaches primarily in the fields of impaired driving, traffic court administration, and professional responsibility. His legal teaching assignments have occurred in more than 20 states.