Lucian Pera is a partner with the Memphis, Tennessee, office of Adams and Reese LLP.  His practice is composed primarily of civil trial work, including a wide variety of media, health care, personal injury, and general commercial litigation, and he also counsels and represents lawyers, law firms, and others in the area of ethics and professional responsibility. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt University School of Law, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Tennessee Ethics Handbook (now in its fourth edition) and one of two co-authors of an email newsletter on ethics, Ethics and Lawyering Today, hosted at his website, <www.ethicsandlawyering.com>. He served for five years as a member of the ABA Special Commission on the Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (also known as “Ethics 2000”), which proposed significant changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct that were approved by the ABA in August 2002.  He has served for more than six years as Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, which developed and proposed to the Supreme Court of Tennessee new legal ethics rules for Tennessee based on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which the Court adopted effective in March 2003. He currently chairs the Media Law Resource Center Defense Counsel Section's Ethics Committee and the ABA Section of Business Law's Committee on Professional Conduct. From 1990 through 1994, and from 2000 to the present, he has represented the TBA in the ABA House of Delegates.  From 1994 through 1997, he served as one of two Young Lawyer Members-at-Large of the ABA Board of Governors and, during 1996 through 1997, he became the only young lawyer to Chair the Board's Finance Committee and was a member of the ABA's eight-person Executive Committee. He is a member of the American Law Institute and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

 

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