Dr. Margaret Raymond

Biography

Margaret Raymond is a member of the law faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches courses in Professional Responsibilities and Insurance Law. From 2011 to 2020, she served as the Fred W. Vi Miller Dean of the Law School, overseeing faculty development, strategic planning, fundraising, budget management, and student affairs. She earned her B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review and received the John Ordronaux Prize. Raymond completed clerkships with Justice Thurgood Marshall at the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge James L. Oakes at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit before practicing as a commercial litigator and criminal defense lawyer. Prior to her tenure at Wisconsin, she was the William G. Hammond Professor of Law at the University of Iowa from 1995 to 2011, where she received the Collegiate Teaching Award. With a focus on legal ethics and professional responsibility, she co-authored a casebook on Professional Responsibility, titled 'Law Ethics Law Practice' (3rd ed. 2023). Her professional contributions include serving on the Standing Committee on Professional Ethics of the Wisconsin State Bar and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company. In 2024, she was appointed to a three-year term on the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.

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