About Michael Downey

Michael Downey is the founder of Downey Law Group LLC, a Saint Louis law firm devoted to legal ethics, attorney discipline, and the law of lawyering. Michael serves as outside general counsel to more than 50 law firms and represents lawyers and judges in litigation and discipline matters in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas.

For more than 20 years, Michael taught legal ethics and law firm practice as an adjunct at Washington University School of Law. He served on the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Regulation and chaired the ABA Law Practice Division. He has published 180 articles and presented more than 700 times on legal ethics. Michael has been named a “Best Lawyer in America” in Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law and a Super Lawyer “Top 50 Attorney in St. Louis.” In 2014, Missouri Lawyers Weekly named Michael a “Most Influential Lawyer” as the “go-to legal ethics lawyer in Missouri.”