6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Zoom
The Growing Salience of Professionalism
Register on our Eventbrite page to attend this virtual event. 1 ethics CLE credit available in Pennsylvania (subject to approval)
This keynote advances the premise that the successful practice of law depends upon a dogmatic emphasis of professional behavior.
About this Event
Blake D. Morant is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California Irvine School of law and the Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law and former Dean of The George Washington University Law School. Prior to serving as Dean of GW Law, he served as Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Law, where he built a national reputation as an exceptional law school administrator, tireless advocate for students, and respected legal scholar. He speaks around the globe on pressing issues in legal education, and has published extensively in his areas of scholarly focus, including contract theory, media law, and administrative law. Dean Morant has served in numerous national leadership positions at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and the American Bar Association (ABA), including as AALS President in 2015. He has recently served as a member of the ABA’s Commission on the Future of Legal Education and is president emeritus of the AALS Fellows.
Among his many professional honors, Dean Morant was named the John R. Kramer Outstanding Law Dean by Equal Justice Works and was recognized four times by National Jurist magazine as one of the most influential people in legal education. He was twice named professor of the year by the Women Law Students Organization at Washington and Lee University and received five awards for outstanding teaching at the University of Toledo College of Law. Most recently, he received the “Attorney of the Year” Award from the National Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Herman Marion Sweatt Award from the National Bar Association. He has taught at the law schools of American University, University of Toledo, University of Michigan, University of Alabama, and Washington and Lee University. He also served as a visiting fellow of University College, Oxford. Prior to becoming a legal academic, he served in the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps, as a senior associate with a Washington, D.C., law firm, and as an Assistant General Counsel for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
