Distinguished Lecturer Series

Thomas D. Morgan

Thomas D. Morgan
Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law The George Washington University Law School

“The Changing Face of Legal Education:
Its Impact on What it Means to Be a Lawyer”
Friday, Oct. 28 at 4 p.m.

Professor Morgan’s lecture will focus on the changes the ABA has proposed in accreditation rules, what difference we may predict in the kind of graduates produced, and what those differences may make to potential clients and to others who became lawyers under different standards.

Professor Morgan has been the Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law at The George Washington University Law School since 1989. He has also served as Dean at the Emory University School of Law, and on the faculties of Brigham Young University and the University of Illinois. Professor Morgan has taught and written in the field of professional responsibility for more than 35 years and is co-author of the widely-used casebook “Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility” (11th ed. 2011). He served as one of two Associate Reporters for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers, and as one of two Associate Reporters for the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission. In 1990, Professor Morgan served as president of the Association of American Law Schools and he is currently chair of an AALS special committee reviewing proposed changes in the ABA standards for the accreditation of law schools. His book, “The Vanishing American Lawyer,” was published in February 2010 by Oxford University Press.

The event is offered with support from the Joseph G. and Sally A. Miller Family Foundation, Jones Day Foundation and Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust.

Friday, Oct. 28 at 4 p.m.
Room 151 at the School of Law
150 University Ave., Akron, Ohio

One hour of free CLE offered.
Reception to follow the lecture.

To register:
Phone: 330-972-6363
E-mail: manovac@uakron.edu
Online Registration

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