Traversing the Ethical Minefield, Fourth Edition

Lawrence J. Fox

Lawrence J. Fox is a Partner and former Managing Partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Philadelphia. He is also the I. Grant Irey Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Fox is a trial lawyer specializing in securities litigation and the representation of lawyers. He was an advisor to The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers project. He is a former member and Chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He was a member of the American Bar Association Ethics 2000 project which rewrote the Model Rules, and he has written and spoken extensively on the subject of lawyers’ professional responsibility, giving lectures at more than thirty law schools. Mr. Fox is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and The American Bar Foundation, a former Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, a former Chair of the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project, and is a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates.

Mr. Fox is the author of Legal Tender and, with Susan Martyn, has written a case book, Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility and The Law Governing Lawyers: National Rules, Standards, Statutes, and State Lawyer Codes, principal texts for this course. Mr. Fox and Professor Martyn also wrote Red Flags: Legal Ethics for Lawyers and Your Lawyer, A User’s Guide.

Mr. Fox graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from the Law School. He was Managing Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and clerked for Samuel J. Roberts, Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Before joining Drinker Biddle & Reath he was a legal services lawyer at Community Action for Legal Services in New York City.

Susan Martyn

Professor Susan R. Martyn, a faculty member at the University of Toledo College of Law since 1980, is a graduate of St. Olaf College and Marquette University Law School. She teaches Torts, Legal Ethics and Bioethics, and also serves as Adjunct Professor of Law and Medical Humanities at the University of Toledo College of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Martyn was Assistant Dean and Associate Professor at Wayne State University Law School.

Professor Martyn is a national authority on issues of legal ethics and has served on two of the most important national bodies to shape the law governing lawyers in the past twenty years. She was an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers from 1987 until its publication in 2000, and she served on the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission from 1997 through 2002. Since 2002 she has contributed as a member of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Task Force on the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Professor Martyn is a member of the Ohio, Michigan and Supreme Court Bars. She is a frequent speaker on issues of legal ethics, and co-chairs ALI-ABA’s annual Legal Ethics Update.