2003-2004 Sullivan Lecture
Thomas D. Morgan
Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust & Trade Regulation Law
The George Washington University Law School

Thomas D. Morgan

Thomas D. Morgan has been Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law at The George Washington University Law School since 1989. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, he has taught at the University of Illinois College of Law, served as Dean and then Professor at the Emory University School of Law, and was the first Rex E. Lee Professor of Law at Brigham Young University. In 1990, he served as President of the Association of American Law Schools.

Professor Morgan has taught and written in the field of professional responsibility for almost 30 years. In addition to many articles, he is co-author of the widely-used “Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility” (8th Edition 2003), and an accompanying annual Standards Supplement. He served as one of two Associate Reporters for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers, and as one of two Associate Reporters for the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission.

Among recent programs in which Professor Morgan has participated are “Ethics for Corporate In-House Counsel,” “Treading Water: A Young Lawyer’s Guide to Ethics in Varying Practice Environments,” “Future Regulation of Securities Lawyers,” “Ethics in Representing Organizational Clients After Sarbanes-Oxley,” and “Corruption in the Executive Suite: The Nation Responds.”

Professor Morgan has testified as an expert witness in nineteen contested trials or hearings involving issues of lawyer discipline, disqualification, right to fees and malpractice, submitted affidavits in eighteen additional cases, typically in connection with motions for summary judgment or to disqualify, and given discovery depositions in twenty cases resolved prior to trial.

He is a member of the American Bar Association, American Law Institute, American Judicature Society, Illinois State Bar Association, and the American Law & Economics Association, as well as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an Honorary Fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation. He is a consultant on loss prevention issues for the Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society (ALAS).

He and his wife Kathryn have four children and six grandchildren.