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80 Monroe Ave Ste 700
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: (901)524-5278
Email: lucian.pera@arlaw.com
Firm: Adams & Reese LLP |
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Lucian T. Pera is a partner with the Memphis, Tennessee, office of Adams and Reese LLP. His practice includes civil trial work, including commercial litigation and media law, and he counsels and represents lawyers, law firms, and others on questions of legal ethics and the professional responsibility of lawyers. A Memphis native, he is an honors graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt University School of Law. He served for five years on the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission, which rewrote the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. From 1995 through 2009, he led the TBA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Under his leadership, the committee developed and successfully proposed to the Tennessee Supreme Court new legal ethics rules for Tennessee based on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He also served on the TBA committee whose worked led to the adoption by the Tennessee Supreme Court in 2012 of a thoroughgoing revision of the Tennessee Code of Judicial Conduct and a new procedural rule governing judicial recusal. He has chaired the editorial board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct, has served as president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Miller-Becker Institute for Professional Responsibility of the University of Akron. He also currently serves as Treasurer of the American Bar Association and as a member of its Board of Governors, Executive Committee, and House of Delegates.
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