Adams and Reese Partner Lucian Pera has been elected to the board of directors of Responsive Law, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that works to improve accessibility, accountability, and affordability in the civil justice system.
By engaging in policy research in support of advocacy efforts before state legislatures, bar associations, and supreme courts, Responsive Law advocates for more competition in the provision of legal services, better self-help options for the legal system’s customers, and improved legal literacy for those customers.
At Adams and Reese, Pera has enjoyed a close to 40-year legal career, primarily representing clients in legal ethics, media law, and commercial litigation. In addition to representing corporate clients in various practice areas, Pera represents lawyers, law firms, and others on issues of legal ethics and lawyer professional responsibility.
The ABA Center for Professional Responsibility bestowed upon Pera the Michael Franck Award, their highest award for work in the field of ethics and professional responsibility over his career. He served for five years on the ABA “Ethics 2000” Commission, which rewrote the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. From 1995 through 2009, he led the Tennessee Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
Pera formerly served as president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers (ARPL), the national membership organization of lawyers who work in the legal ethics area. He has chaired the governing board of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility.
Pera is a former Treasurer of the American Bar Association and has served as a member of its Board of Governors, Executive Committee, and House of Delegates. He is also a past president of the Tennessee Bar Association.
A Memphis native and Partner in the Adams and Reese Memphis office, Pera is a graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt University School of Law and served as a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Judge Harry W. Wellford.