Elizabeth T. Simon
Assistant General Counsel for Ethics
- Has extensive experience advising on issues of professional responsibility, risk management and compliance.
- Has represented clients in ethics investigations and proceedings.
Elizabeth T. Simon advises on a wide range of ethics and compliance-related matters to support the firm’s offices worldwide.
Liz is involved in issues impacting firm risk management and client relations. These include resolving conflict-of-interest situations, advising on ethical questions and developing firm policies to support ethics and compliance best practices.
Liz is an experienced litigator and legal ethics advisor, having spent her legal career representing clients in commercial and business litigation and appeals, including cases involving:
- Legal ethics
- Insurance coverage
- Lawyer professional liability
- Intellectual property
- Business torts.
As a legal ethics advisor, she has counseled lawyers and bar applicants on legal ethics and professional responsibility obligations. These include bar investigations, disciplinary proceedings, fee disputes and bar admissions.
Liz has represented attorneys in disciplinary investigations and proceedings in the District of Columbia and Maryland and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of Enrollment and Discipline, and in District of Columbia fee dispute arbitrations. She speaks and writes extensively on ethics issues.
EducationJ.D., Albany Law School, cum laude, 1998
M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1993
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1990
J.D., Albany Law School, cum laude, 1998
M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1993
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1990
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
New York
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
New York
Maryland
Virginia
- DC Bar Rules of Professional Conduct Review Committee, 2019 to present.
- Member, American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Professionalism, 2021 to present.
- Chair, DC Bar Legal Ethics Committee, 2018 to 2019.
- Vice-Chair, DC Bar Legal Ethics Committee, 2017 to 2018.
- Member, DC Bar Legal Ethics Committee, 2013 to 2019.
- Member, Committee on Professional Discipline, New York State Bar Association, 2006 to present.
- Member, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, 2012 to present; Webinar Committee, 2020 to present; Membership Committee, 2014 to 2019.
- Volunteer, University of Pennsylvania Alumni Interview Program, 2013 to present.
- Chair, Board of Education Ethics Panel, Montgomery County, Maryland, 2018 to 2021.
- Panelist, “Derivatives and Professional Responsibility: The Ethics of Negotiation,” Advanced Swaps & Other Derivatives 2022, November 19, 2022.
