Members of the Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice

Chair:  Sherwin P. Simmons, a partner and chair of the Tax Department in the Miami, Florida law firm of Steel, Hector & Davis, and a past chair of the ABA Section of Taxation and former member of the ABA Board of Governors.

Other Members:

Carl O. Bradford, a judge of the Maine Superior Court and a past member of the ABA Board of Governors.

Paul L. Friedman, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and a past chair of the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty;

Phoebe A. Haddon, Philadelphia, PA, a Professor at Temple University School of Law and a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism.

Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Philadelphia, Penna., a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, director of the American Law Institute and the reporter for the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct;

Roberta Reiff Katz, Mountain View, Calif., senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Netscape Communications Corp. and author of Justice Matters: Rescuing the Legal System for the 21st Century;

Carolyn Lamm, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm of White & Case and a member of the ABA House of Delegates;

Robert H. Mundheim, New York, N.Y., senior executive vice president and general counsel of Salomon Smith Barney Holdings, Inc., and a member of the Council of The American Law Institute;

Steven C. Nelson, a partner in the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, Minn., and a past chair of the ABA Section of International Law and Practice;

Burnele V. Powell, dean of the School of Law of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and chair of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Governing Committee;

Michael Traynor, a member of the San Francisco law firm of Cooley Godward, 2nd Vice President of the American Law Institute and Fellow of the American Bar Foundation; and

Herbert S. Wander, a partner in the law firm of Katten Muchen & Zavis, Chicago, Ill., and a past chair of the ABA Section of Business Law.

Reporter:  Mary C. Daly is a Professor of Legal Ethics at Fordham University School of Law and the Director of the law school’s Stein Institute of Law and Ethics.