Bar Admissions and Lawyer Discipline

On February 8, Associate Dean Leslie Levin will be a presenter for "The Relationship Between Bar Admissions Standards and Subsequent Lawyer Discipline" at the 2013 Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers' Mid-Year meeting in Dallas.

Associate Dean Levin teaches Legal Profession, Evidence, and Media & the Law. She previously worked at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, a New York law firm, for 14 years, where she represented media clients and engaged in commercial litigation. She also served on the law firm's Ethics Committee and as secretary to the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Associate Dean Levin is co-editor of Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Practice with Lynn Mather. The book was recently released by University of Chicago Press. Read a recent review in the Law and Politics Book Review.




Additional Homepage Highlights


  • Classes Resume Tues, 2/12
    The Law School will return to normal operations on Tuesday, February 12. Classes will resume as scheduled.

  • Lunar New Year
    Members of the Law School community are invited to a Lunar New Year Celebration on Wednesday, February 13. RSVP is required.

  • Certificate Programs
    The Law School offers certificate programs in Intellectual Property, Tax Studies, Law and Public Policy, and Human Rights. The Law School's Center for Energy and Environmental Law also offers a certificate program in energy and environmental law.

  • New Class Action Landscape
    On February 11, Professor Alexandra Lahav will be a featured speaker at "The New Class Action Landscape," a continuing legal education course being offered by the Boston Bar Association.

  • Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights
    On February 9, Richard Wilson will deliver a keynote address at a conference on "Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights: Framing the Field" at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

  • Promoting Innovation
    On February 9, Professor Hillary Greene will present 'The Role of the Competition Community in Promoting Innovation" at an international conference at Nagoya University entitled International Issues Relating to a Pro-Innovation Patent System and Competition Policy.

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