Roy D. Simon is the Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Legal Ethics at Hofstra University.
He resides in West Hempstead and ran to be the State Senator representing the Ninth District in Long Island.
[1] Simon attended Williams College for his undergraduate degree and NYU Law School for his JD.
He started his academic work as an instructor at the Washington University School of Law before being appointed to the post of professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law nine years later where he served as Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professor of Legal Ethics from 2003 to 2011.
He also served as a clerk to the U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. in Richmond, Virginia and then practiced law at Jenner & Block in Chicago.