Richard Zitrin is Director of the Center. A graduate of Oberlin College and New York University Law School, Mr. Zitrin has taught ethics as an adjunct professor at USF since 1977. He has served as coordinator of USF's ethics seminar curriculum since 1991. Professor Zitrin's course book, Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law (LexisNexis, 2nd edition, December 2001), co-authored with fellow USF adjunct professor Carol M. Langford, was adopted at over 60 law schools in its first edition.

He and Professor Langford also wrote the 1999 Ballantine/Random House book The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer, a book for the general public that has also been adopted by several law schools for orientation and other introduction-to-law programs.

Professor Zitrin has published approximately 50 articles on ethics in the last 15 years, including the American Law Media column "The Moral Compass" in 1999-2000. He speaks locally and nationally on a wide range of ethics issues. In 2001, among other engagements, he delivered the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professorship Lecture on Legal Ethics at Hofstra University Law School and served as the featured ethics speaker at the ABA Annual Education Conference for Appellate Judges. In 1993-1996, he served as Special Advisor, Chair, and Vice Chair of the California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct.

Professor Zitrin's teaching methods, in both seminars and orientation programs, have been used as models in other schools' curricula. Among his particular interests are ethical issues confronting government lawyers, including whistleblowing, client-identification, and misconduct by prosecutors; preventing secrecy in settlements; client-protective and loyalty-driven conflicts of interest rules; and the ethical unbundling of low- or no-cost legal services. He maintains a private practice at San Francisco's Zitrin & Mastromonaco, LLP.

Joshua P. Davis is Chair of the Center's Faculty Legal Ethics Committee and Associate Professor of Law. He graduated from Brown University and NYU School of Law, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and served as Senior Articles Editor on the N.Y.U. Law Review. He was a law clerk to the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a partner at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP.

In 2001, the Chief Justice appointed Professor Davis to serve as Reporter for the California Supreme Court Advisory Task Force on Multijurisdictional Practice, and in 2002 appointed him to serve as Reporter for the committee charged with recommending how to implement the Advisory Task Force Report.

Prof. Davis scholarly interests include Civil Procedure, Ethics, Remedies and Jurisprudence. He writes articles that combine litigation practice, doctrinal analysis, law and economics, political theory and jurisprudence.

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