SPEAKER

Andrew Perlman is a nationally recognized voice on the future of legal education and law practice. In 2024, National Jurist named him as one of the top-20 most influential people in legal education.   Among other leadership roles, Andy has served as an Advisory Council member of the American Bar Association Task Force on the Law and Artificial Intelligence; the inaugural chair of the governing council of the ABA’s Center for Innovation; the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services; and the chief reporter of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which was responsible for updating the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to reflect changes in technology and increased globalization (including a new provision emphasizing that competent lawyers should remain aware of the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology).   

Andy's service also has focused on national and local reform efforts ranging from police practices and access to justice to developing alternate paths to law school and bar admission. For example, he has served as a founding dean for the ABA-Legal Education Police Practices Consortium; a member of the Law School Admission Council’s Legal Education Program Advisory Committee, which is developing an alternate pathway to law school admission; a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Access to Justice Advisory Committee; a co-chair of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Subcommittee on Alternative Paths to Licensure; and a member of the Content Scope Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), which helped to identify content for the next generation of the bar exam.  Andy’s scholarship has included numerous articles on professional responsibility and legal innovation that have appeared in some of the nation’s leading law reviews. 

He also co-authored a civil procedure casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (with Professors Joseph W. Glannon and Peter Raven-Hansen) that has been adopted at more than 80 law schools.  Andy has served as a presenter or panelist at more than 100 academic, judicial, and other professional programs in more than 20 U.S. jurisdictions, three continents, and six countries.  Prior to entering academia, Andy clerked for a federal district court judge in Chicago and practiced as a litigator there. He is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and he received his LL.M from Columbia Law School.