Lucian T. Pera
Business Law Section (2023 – 2026)
Adams and Reese LLP, Memphis
Vanderbilt University School of Law, J.D., 1985
Lucian is a partner in Adams and Reese LLP and a lifelong Memphian. His practice includes legal ethics, media law, and commercial litigation. He represents lawyers, law firms, and others on issues of legal ethics and lawyer professional responsibility. The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility recently bestowed on him the Michael Franck Award, their highest award for work in the field of ethics and professional responsibility over a career. He served for five years on the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission, which rewrote the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He has chaired the editorial board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct, and served as president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He speaks and writes extensively on the ethical and regulatory aspects of the rapidly-changing legal services market. He is a founding chair of the Practising Law Institute’s annual full-day program, “The Ethics of NewLaw.” He also has served for a number of years as the President of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government.