PROFESSOR EMERITA TERRY SPEAKS AT THE ABA’S ANNUAL LEGAL ETHICS CONFERENCE

ConferenceJune 2022 — Professor Emerita Laurel S. Terry recently spoke at the 47th ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility sponsored by the ABA Center on Professional Responsibility. She moderated a panel entitled, Exploring New Models of Legal Services Regulation: What Makes Sense in Our Changing World?, and spoke at two additional events.

The speakers at the Exploring New Models of Legal Services Regulation panel, which Professor Terry helped organize, included Janet Welch, Darrel Pink, and Rebecca Durcan. Janet is the recently retired Executive Director of the State Bar of Michigan and co-chairs the regulatory reform committee of the Michigan Supreme Court’s Justice for All Commission. Darrel Pink is the former Executive Director of the lawyer regulatory body in Nova Scotia and was appointed as the founding CEO for the newest legal services regulator in Canada — the College of Patent Agents and Trademark Agents. Rebecca Durcan is co-managing partner of Steinecke Maciura LeBlanc; her practice is limited to representing regulators. Professor Terry provided the introductory remarks for this program and moderated the ensuing discussion. The Exploring New Models program materials included excerpts from several of Professor Terry’s articles, as well as information about the Michigan Commission and the influential Canadian Cayton and Haddock reports. The panel’s slides will be posted on the ABA’s conference website.

During the conference, Professor Terry was invited to attend the Can-Am regulators’ roundtable and spoke at a second panel, filling in on short notice for a U.S. Department of the Treasury official who had to cancel because of COVID. The second program at which Professor Terry spoke was entitled Different Goals, Conflicting Interests? Regulation of Lawyers by Government Agencies vs. Regulation of Lawyers by State Supreme Courts. Among other things, Professor Terry addressed the topic of due diligence anti-money-laundering rules, which is a topic about which she recently had submitted comments to the ABA in response to a discussion draft of possible amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Professor Terry joined panelists Jim Moliterno, who is the Vincent Bradford Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Myles Lynk, who is a Professor of Law Emeritus at Arizona State University and Senior Assistant Disciplinary Counsel in the District of Columbia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, and Dixie Johnson, who is a partner at King & Spalding, and has a securities law practice.


Professor Emerita Laurel S. Terry, who held the inaugural H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Chair in Law and was Dickinson Law’s inaugural Associate Dean for Research and New Faculty Development, is a three-time Fulbright recipient who writes and speaks about the impact of globalization on the legal profession, especially with respect to regulatory issues. Her scholarship has identified emerging issues for the legal profession and urged stakeholder engagement, new initiatives, and regulatory reform. In addition to speaking at academic and professional conferences, she has been invited to speak about her scholarship to organizations that include the Conference of Chief Justices, the National Conference of Bar Examiners, the National Organization of Bar Counsel, the National Conference of Bar Presidents, the CCBE, which represents EU’s legal profession and legal regulators, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the International Institute of Law Association Chief Executives, the International Bar Association, and the International Conference of Legal Regulators.