Expert Legal Ethics Advice for a Virtual World with Jan Jacobowitz

<p>Jan Jacobowitz serves as owner and founder of the ethics consulting group, Legal Ethics Advisor, and Director of the Professional Responsibility & Ethics Program (PREP) at the University of Miami’s School of Law (UM Law).</p> <p>Jan holds decades of experience teaching and practicing law, equipping her to advise on ethics and risk management in law, specifically with conflicts of interest, advertising, attorney fees, and alternative business strategies. She also offers special expertise on how technology and social media play into modern litigation. Jan began teaching at UM Law in 2007, co-developing and teaching a course called Mindful Ethics: Professional Responsibility for Lawyers in the Digital Age. Under her direction, the program received the 2012 Smythe Gambrell Award from the American Bar Association (ABA).</p> <p>Jan has co-authored two books–<em>Mindfulness & Professional Responsibility: A Guide Book for Integrating Mindfulness into the Law School Curriculum</em> in 2012, and <em>Legal Ethics and Social Media: A Practitioner's Handbook</em> published by the ABA in 2017. She also frequently publishes journal articles, her most notable piece title “Happy Birthday Siri! Dialing in Legal Ethics for Artificial Intelligence, Smart Phones, and Real Time Lawyers.”</p> <p>Before teaching at UM Law and founding her consulting service, Jan spent decades in private practice, specializing in commercial litigation. However she began her career at Legal Aid in Washington D.C., and later served in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Special Investigations prosecuting Nazi war criminals.</p> <p>Jan maintains the title of Former President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) and serves as co-chair of the APRL’s Future of Lawyering Committee (FOL). She also served as APRL’s 2019-2020 liaison to the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility Coordinating Counsel. Jan also received the American Bar Foundation’s 2018 Foundation Fellow and continues actively speaking on law ethics and s