OTHER ETHICS FACULTY

USF is blessed with a highly trained and experienced group of individuals who serve as the law school's ethics faculty, and who are increasingly becoming involved in the work of the CALE. These faculty members include:

Judith Epstein, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the USF Law School. In 2002, Professor Epstein was named a California State Bar Review Court judge. She has served as regional counsel for The Nature Conservancy, executive director of the East Bay Initiative of the Commonwealth Club of California, and a board member of Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.

Richard Heafey is of counsel at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May where he engages in product liability litigation. He is the co-author of Products Liability: Winning Strategies and Tactics (Law Journal Seminars Press 2000).

Carol M. Langford a graduate of San Diego State University and USF Law School, is, except for Professor Zitrin, the school's senior ethics faculty member. She has co-authored two books with Professor Zitrin, The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer and Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law, and served as Special Advisor Chair, and Vice-Chair of the California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Professor Langford has worked for two of California's largest firms--Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro LLP and O'Melveny & Meyers LLP. She is currently a sole practitioner specializing in professional responsibility and legal malpractice.

Todd L. Peterson is a partner of Dryden, Margoles, Schimaneck & Wertz and specializes in the practice area of products liability. Professor Peterson is a member of the Defense Research Institute and the North American Society of Scaffold Professionals. Before attending the University of Nebraska School of Law, Professor Peterson spent six years teaching junior high school American History in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Mark L. Tuft is a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and the recipient of an LLM from George Washington University. Professor Tuft is a managing partner and trial lawyer with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP. He has served as a Special Advisor, Chair, and Vice-Chair to the California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Professor Tuft co-authored the California Guide on Professional Responsibility for Lawyers (The Rutter Group 1997), as in 2001 was appointed a member of the California State Bar's Commission for Revision of the Rules.