Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism

Service to the Bar

Mercer law faculty regularly render service to various bar organizations in connection with ethics and professionalism. These activities include the following:

Professor Jack Sammons

• Member, State Bar of Georgia Tash Force on Lawyer Advertising
• Member, Georgia Committee on Ethical Judicial Campaigns
• Member, Georgia Death Penalty Assessment Team (part of ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project)
• Vice Chair, Formal Advisory Opinion Board of Georgia
• Reporter, Standards of the Bar Committee, State Bar of Georgia
• Consultant, Board of Bar Examiners, Georgia
• National Professionalism Website Advisory Board
• Ethics 2000 Advisory Committee
• Former Member, Georgia Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism

Professor Patrick Longan

• Reporter, State Bar of Georgia Commision of Judicial Service
• Member, State Bar of Georgia Foundation of Freedom Commission
• Member, State Bar of Georgia Formal Opinion Advisory Board
• Advisor, State Bar of Georgia Professionalism Committee
• Member, Georgia Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism
• Reporter and Member, State Bar of Georgia Multijurisdictional Practice Committee, 2001-2002
• Reporter, State Bar of Georgia Court Futures Committee
• Master and Administrator, William Augustus Bootle Inn of Court
• Member (ex officio), State Bar of Georgia Standards of the Profession Committee
• Co-reporter, American Bar Association Section of Tort and Insurance Practice Task Force on Contingent Fees

Professor David Hricik

• Chair, 2005-2006, American Intellectual Property Law Association Committee on Professionalism and Ethics
• Chair, 2002-03, American Bar Association Intellectual Property Section Committee on Professional Responsibility
• Vice-Chair, 2002, American Bar Association Intellectual Property Section Committee on Professional Responsibility
• Member, Professionalism & Ethics Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, 2003-06
• Master, William Augustus Bootle Inn of Court
• Member, Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee of the Texas State Bar, 1997-2002; Member, drafting subcommittee 1999-2002
• Member of the special joint subcommittee which drafted the Texas advertising rules regulating the Internet
• Member, Texas Appellate Lawyer's Creed Drafting Committee (1998)

Professor D. Christopher Wells

• Reporter, State Bar of Georgia Multidisciplinary Practice Committee
• Co-reporter, American Bar Association Section of Tort and Insurance Practice Task Force on Contingent Fees
• Reporter, State Bar of Georgia Corporate and Banking Law Section, Engagement Letter and Professionalism Project, 1997-99