Steven Lubet

Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Professor of Law
Director, Fred Bartlit Center for Trial Strategy

Phone: (312) 503-6605
E-mail: slubet@law.northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Steven Lubet is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University. As Director of the Law School's Program on Advocacy and Professionalism, he teaches courses on Legal Ethics, Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Litigation, and Negotiation. In addition to over 50 books and articles on legal ethics and litigation, he has published widely in the areas of international criminal law and dispute resolution.

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Professor Lubet is the author of Modern Trial Advocacy (2nd ed., 1997), which has also been published in Canadian and Israeli editions. Modern Trial Advocacy has been adopted by over 60 United States law schools as well as the major law schools of Canada and Israel.

Professor Lubet is co-author of Judicial Conduct and Ethics (1990)(with Jeffrey Shaman and James Alfini), which has been called the nation's leading authority on the subject judicial ethics. He has consulted with judicial conduct organizations in Illinois, Washington, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Professor Lubet's other books include Evidence in Context, Exercises and Problems in Professional Responsibility and Problems and Materials in Evidence and Trial Advocacy, all co-authored with Professor Robert Burns, as well as Arbitration Advocacy, coauthored with John Cooley. His most recent book is Expert Testimony: A Guide for Expert Witnesses and the Lawyers Who Examine Them (1998)

Professor Lubet has taught "in-house" programs on litigation, dispute resolution, and ethics at many of the nation's most prominent law firms, as well as for government agencies, corporate legal departments, and legal service organizations. In conjunction with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, he has organized litigation programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Professor Lubet frequently consults with law firms and institutions on cases and issues involving professional responsibility.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Trial Advocacy
Trial Strategy

Legal Ethics
Professional Responsibility

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn From Card Players, (Oxford University Press 2006)
Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp, (Yale University Press 2004)
Nothing But the Truth: Why Trial Lawyers Don't, Can't, and Shouldn't Have to Tell the Whole Truth, (New York University Press 2001)
Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis and Practice (National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 3rd Edition 2004; other editions in Canada, Israel, Republic of China (Taiwan), and Peoples Republic of China)
Judicial Conduct and Ethics, (Lexis Law Publishing, 3rd Edition 2000, with Jeffrey Shaman and James Alfini)

Recent Publications

The Importance of Being Honest: How Lying, Secrecy, and Hypocrisy Collide with Truth in Law, 2008
On Israel, Obama Has Taken a Stand, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 2008
The Citizenship Test: New, Improved and Wrong , SALON, 2007
Stewart’s Sanctimony: Despite Her Proclamations From the Courthouse Steps, Lynne Stewart is No Martyr , AMERICAN LAWYER, 2007
Cutting Choices , AMERICAN LAWYER, 2007

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EDUCATION

BA, Northwestern University
JD, University of California, Berkeley

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Class of 1940 Research Professor, 1997-98
Associate Professor of Law, 1978-81
Assistant Professor of Law, 1976-78
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 1975-76
Instructor, DePaul University School of Law, 1974-75
Staff Attorney, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, 1973-75