- William H. Simon
William H. Simon is the professor of Law at
Columbia Law School holding the "Arthur Levitt Professor of Law"; and "Everett B. Birch Professor in Professional Responsibility" chairs. Simon's areas of expertise areProfessional responsibility andSocial Policy . Simon holds a bachelors degress fromPrinceton University and a JD fromHarvard University . [cite web | title= Columbia Law School - Full Time Faculty - William H. Simon | url=http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/William_Simon
accessmonthday=May 30 | accessyear=2008 ] Simon is best known for his public stance against unethical lawyers selling unjustified written legal opinions to clients who use such dubious advice to escape criminal consequences of their actions. [cite web | title= Blowing the whistle on unethical lawyers ; Fortune Magazine | url=http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/28/news/newsmakers/legal_opinions_for_sale.fortune/index.htm
accessmonthday=May 30 | accessyear=2008 ]Recent publications
*"The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as An Example," [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1025984#PaperDownload] Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2008);
* "Wrongs of Ignorance and Ambiguity: Lawyer Responsibility for Collective Misconduct," Yale Journal of Regulation (2005);
* "Destabilization Rights: How Public Law Litigation Succeeds," Harvard Law Review (2004) (with Charles Sabel).References
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