Dane Ciolino - Metairie Ethics & Professional Responsibility Lawyer Reviews & Ratings

Dane S. Ciolino serves as the Alvin R. Christovich Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. His current CV is here: .pdf. Prof. Ciolino's current scholarly and teaching interests at Loyola include Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Advocacy and Criminal Law. Professor Ciolino graduated cum laude from Rhodes College in 1985, and magna cum laude from Tulane Law School in 1988, where he was inducted into Order of the Coif and selected as Editor in Chief of the Tulane Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, and practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City, and Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC, in New Orleans.. He has served as reporter to the Louisiana State Bar Association Ethics 2000 Committee, as chairperson of a Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee, as Chair of the Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and as a member of various Louisiana State Bar Association committees including the Professionalism Committee, the Lawyer & Judicial Codes of Conduct Committee, and the Ethics Advisory Service Committee. His weblog, Louisiana Legal Ethics, is located at .. Prof. Ciolino engages in a limited law practice and in law-related consulting, principally in the areas of legal ethics, lawyer discipline, judicial discipline and federal criminal law. He represents clients in disciplinary matters before the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board and the Louisiana Judiciary Commission. He also handles legal malpractice cases, lawyer disqualification motions and lawyer fee disputes. He also consults and serves as an expert witness in the fields of legal ethics, legal fees and the standards of conduct governing lawyers.