Jan Jacobowitz

Legal Ethics Advisor

Jan is a legal ethics, social media, and technology expert who is the founder and owner of Legal Ethics Advisor.  Jan provides legal ethics consulting, expert testimony, opinion letters, and CLE training to law firms and legal organizations.  She is a Past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers and the co-chair of its Future of Lawyering Committee. She has presented at hundreds of Ethics CLE Seminars, has authored numerous journal articles, and is widely quoted in the media on legal ethics issues. Jan has been writing, speaking, and thinking about AI and legal ethics for several years. She is an adjunct professor at University of Miami School of Law and teaches professional responsibility for lawyers in the digital age. Prior to devoting herself to legal ethics consulting and legal education, Jan practiced law for over twenty years. She began her career as a Legal Aid attorney in the District of Columbia; prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Office of Special Investigations of the U.S. Department of Justice; served as inhouse counsel at an international specialty insurance company; and was in private practice with general practice and commercial litigation firms in Washington and Miami.