Jan L. Jacobowitz is a legal ethics, social media, and technology expert who is the founder and owner of Legal Ethics Advisor. Jan provides legal ethics consulting, expert testimony, opinion letters, and CLE training to law firms and legal organizations. Recently, she has been involved in cases involving issues such as attorney fees, conflicts of interest, the unauthorized practice of law, and has also been consulting on innovative tech collaborations to provide legal services.
For over a decade, she was the Director of the Professional Responsibility and Ethics Program (PREP) at the University of Miami’s School of Law. Under Jan’s direction, PREP was a 2012 recipient of the ABA’s E Smythe Gambrell Award—the leading national award for a professionalism program. She continues to teach Mindful Ethics: Professional Responsibility for Lawyers in the Digital Age as part-time lecturer at Miami Law.
Jan has presented at hundreds of Ethics CLE Seminars and has been a featured speaker or panelist on topics such as Legal Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, Legal Ethics in Social Media and Advertising, Lawyer’s First Amendment Rights, Cultural Awareness in the Practice of Law, Cybersecurity, Outsourcing, Mindful Ethics, Litigation Funding, eDiscovery, Conflicts of Interest, the Unauthorized Practice of Law, Attorney Fees, Lawyer Well-Being, and Cannabis Law. She has also authored law review and journal articles in many of these areas and is frequently quoted by journalists who cover legal ethics news stories.
Jan is a Past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) and the past co-chair of its Future of Lawyering Committee (FOL). As a continuing member of FOL, Jan participates in the ongoing national conversation concerning rethinking attorney regulation to address issues of access to legal services, the unauthorized practice of law, and lawyers partnering with nonlawyers. She is also a member of APRL’s public statements committee and one of the co-authors of APRL’s recent reports and recommendations to amend both ABA Rule 5.5 Unauthorized Practice of Law: Multijurisdictional Practice of Law, and ABA Rule 5.4 Professional Independence of a lawyer.
Prior to devoting herself to legal education and legal ethics consulting, Jan practiced law for over twenty years. She began her career as a Legal Aid attorney in the District of Columbia; prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Office of Special Investigations of the U.S. Department of Justice; and was in private practice with general practice and commercial litigation firms in Washington and Miami.
Jan can be contacted through her website https://legalethicsadvisor.com or at [email protected]
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