The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court recently announced the appointment of Suffolk University School of Law Professor Andrew M. Perlman, a resident of Sharon, and Attorney Regina E. Roman, a resident of Winchester, with the Boston law firm of Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. to the Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct for a three-year term.

           The Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct is responsible for reviewing issues and proposals concerning the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct and making recommendations to the Rules Committee of the Supreme Judicial Court. The Committee is composed of the Commonwealth’s Bar Counsel, attorneys who work in a wide variety of settings and practice areas, and law professors with expertise in professional ethics.

           Ms. Roman, who joined Sugarman, Rogers in 1979, concentrates on litigation involving professional responsibility, insurance issues and business disputes. As managing partner since 1999, she has been responsible for internal ethics advice, risk management and prevention of conflicts. Since 2007, she has been co-chair of the Boston Bar Association (BBA) Ethics Commission. She is a former co-chair of the BBA Professional Liability Committee. In 2006, she served on the BBA’s Ad Hoc Committee on Bar Discipline, and from 1998-2004 as a hearing officer for the Board of Bar Overseers. She is also a member of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts. Ms. Roman has lectured and written extensively on attorney ethics issues. She holds a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and an A.B. degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Brown University.

           Professor Perlman has been a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School since 2001. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Boston University School of Law, as an associate-in-law at Columbia Law School, and as a teaching fellow at Harvard College. His has written a number of articles about legal ethics, and since 2008, he has been a co-author (with Professors Stephen Gillers and Roy Simon) of the widely used and annually updated book, Regulations of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards. He is also a co-author of a forthcoming civil procedure case book and a co-contributor to a legal ethics blog, www.legalethicsforum.com, which the American Bar Association Journal has twice recognized as one of the top 100 law-related blogs in the country. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Professional Responsibility Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a past member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Judicial Administration Section Council as well as its Jury Communications Task Force. Professor Perlman holds an L.L.M. degree from Columbia Law School; a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School; and a B.A. degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale College.

           Members of the Standing Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct: