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John Sahl

University of Akron School of Law

• Professor of Law
• Faculty Director of the Miller/Becker Institute for Professional Responsibility
• Intellectual Property Fellow
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Professor John P. Sahl serves as Faculty Director of the Joseph G. Miller and
William C. Becker Institute for Professional Responsibility, and is a fellow of both the
Intellectual Property and Constitutional Law Centers. His research includes professional
ethics, legal malpractice, lawyer discipline, judicial ethics and administration, and
sports and entertainment law. He is a frequent national and international speaker,
consultant and expert witness on professional responsibility matters. Professor Sahl
received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston College; J.D. from Vermont Law School;
LL.M. from Yale University; and DAAD Certificate from Christian Albrechts University in
Kiel, Germany. He served as senior counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights. Sahl clerked for the
chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and managed business and
legal affairs for Ambience, Inc. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty in 1991, he was
deputy dean of the University of Bridgeport School of Law (now Quinnipiac University
School of Law). He has also served as an adjunct professor at Yale University and the
Touro College Law School, as well as a visiting professor at CEIDA Institute in Rome,
Italy. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut and Ohio, as well as the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Sixth and Tenth Circuits. Professor Sahl’s memberships include the
American, Ohio, Cleveland and Akron Bar Associations, as well as the OSBA Future of the
Legal Profession Advisory Committee. He was recently appointed for a three-year term to
the ABA Standing Committee on Professional Discipline and is also a member of the
Executive Committee of the AALS Professional Responsibility Section. Professor Sahl is
Chair of the Publications Board of Editors for the ABA Center for Professional
Responsibility and serves on the Center’s Michael Franck Professional Responsibility
Award Selection Committee. His most recent book contribution is A 2009 Update: What Every
Entertainment Lawyer Needs to Know - How to Avoid Being the Target of Legal Malpractice
Claim or Disciplinary Action, COUNSELING CLIENTS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY 2009,
11-50 (2009). He also recently published, Thinking About Leaving? The Ethics of Departing
One Firm for Another, 13 Prof. Law 2. (2008). 

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