Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school and active law license.
Minimum of eight years of significant legal experience in professional responsibility law.
Strong legal research, writing, and analytical skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
Experience working independently and collaboratively in a team.
Proficient in Word and Adobe products.
Active law license in Illinois or eligibility for admission via Rule 705.
Responsibilities
Produce high-level written material for treatises on professional responsibility law.
Conduct in-depth legal research and analysis on professional responsibility and regulation.
Continuously review court cases and ethics opinions to identify legal trends.
Maintain and update research files on professional responsibility law.
Manage the collection and summarization of state and local ethics opinions for publication.
Provide critical analysis of colleagues' work and external legal documents.
Perform additional related duties as required.
Benefits
Opportunity to contribute to authoritative legal treatises.
Engagement with leading professionals in the field.
Collaborative work environment with a focus on legal scholarship.
Access to ongoing professional development in legal ethics.
Flexible work arrangements with minimal travel requirements.
Full Job Description
Job Summary/General Purpose of Job:
Serves as legal counsel and provides expertise in the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility professional responsibility law and professional regulation.Develops high-level substantive legal resources for the ABA's premier scholarly treatises on lawyer ethics and regulation that are relied on and cited as authoritative by courts, regulators, scholars and practitioners.Responsible for producing a large volume of high-level, publishable material based on in-depth substantive legal research, writing, and analysis. Reviews court cases, ethics opinions, law review articles, news sources, etc., to keep abreast of changes in the law and identify emerging trends in the field of professional responsibility law. Maintains and updates the Center's research files on professional responsibility and regulation; manages the Center's system for researching and collecting state and local ethics opinions and prepares summaries of opinions for publication.
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:
Responsible for producing a large volume of high-level professionally written material for the Center's treatises on professional responsibility law that are relied on by experts in the field.
Engages in in-depth, independent legal research, writing and analysis on professional responsibility and professional regulation, legal malpractice, and related issues.
Reviews, on an on-going basis, a significant volume of court and ethics opinions, law review articles, news sources, etc. to keep abreast of changes in the law and identify emerging trends in the field of professional responsibility law and incorporate new material into treatises and research files.
Management duties include: maintaining and updating the Center's research files on professional responsibility law and regulation; managing the Center's system for researching and collecting state and local ethics opinions and preparing summaries for publication within deadlines; providing critical analysis of the work of colleagues and outside lawyers.
Collects, analyses, and produces digests of state and local ethics opinions for publication.
Performs other related duties as required.
Required Education, Qualifications, Experience:
Possession of a Juris Doctorate degree from an ABA-accredited law school and an active law license.
A minimum of eight years of significant professional legal experience with a demonstrated knowledge of professional responsibility law and a willingness to develop additional expertise in relevant subject-matter.
Highly-developed legal research, writing, analytical skills are essential.
Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and meet all deadlines.
Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative team environment.
Well-developed and demonstrated skills in working with professionals, editing on a peer basis, and interacting with leaders of the profession.
Proficiency in Word and Adobe products.
Member in good standing in possession of an active license to practice law in the State of Illinois, or eligible to obtain admission in Illinois via Illinois Supreme Court Rule 705 Admission on Motion.
Preferred Education, Qualifications, Experience:
At least 10 years of significant professional legal experience and knowledge of professional responsibility law preferred.
Physical Requirements
Typical office work environment.
Extent of Travel Required in the Job
As a normal course of business, this job will typically require travel of less than 15% of the time.
