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Michael P. Downey

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Michael P. Downey

Michael P. Downey

Partner
 
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
701 Market Street, Suite 1300
St. Louis, Missouri  63101-1843
(Independent City)

Telephone: 314-241-2600
Facsimile: 314-241-7428; 314-421-2880
Telex: 880248
http://www.hinshawlaw.com



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Practice AreasAccountants Liability; Professional Liability Defense; Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility; Legal Malpractice Defense; Commercial Litigation
 
EducationWashington University School of Law, J.D., 1998; George Washington University, Graduate Certificate, Law Firm Management, Georgetown University, B.A., cum laude, Classics (Humanities) 1992
 
Admitted1998, Missouri and U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit; 1999, Illinois; 2000, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois; 2003, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois; 2004, U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri and U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; 2005, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas and U.S. Supreme Court
 
MembershipsBar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis; The Missouri Bar (Appointed to: Special Committee on Lawyer Advertising; Ethics 2005 Committee); Illinois State (Appointed Chair, Standing Committee on Professional Conduct, 2008-2009) and American (Section Council, Law Practice Management Section, 2008—; Chair, CPR Ethics and Technology Committee, 2007-2008) Bar Associations; Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers; Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; Defense Research Institute.
 
BornSt. Louis, Missouri, July 27, 1970
 
BiographyOrder of the Coif. Recipient, Alumni Award. Executive Articles Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly, 1997-1998. Law Clerk to the Hon. Pasco M. Bowman II, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1998-1999. Adjunct Professor, Washington University School of Law, 2000. Appointed Hearing Officer, Lawyer Disciplinary Cases, Missouri Supreme Court, 2005-2008.
 
ISLN913488742
 

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More on Conflicts - in Business and Medicine
Michael P. Downey, June 4, 2009
The chairman of the Federal Reserve of New York, Stephen Friedman, resigned recently after he faced questions regarding how he could simultaneously sit in a "public" seat and chair the New York Fed (including while it approved Goldman Sach's request to become a bank holding company),...

A National Code for Business Ethics?
Michael P. Downey, April 29, 2009
Would a national code of business ethics make business people more ethical? Evan Charkes has proposed such a code in the New York Law Journal.

Beware Trust Account Overdrafts
Michael P. Downey, April 29, 2009
If a lawyer's trust account becomes overdrawn, this may trigger an automatic investigation by disciplinary counsel into the status of that lawyer's trust account.



 

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