William H. Simon is an American legal scholar working as the Arthur Levitt Professor of Law and Everett B. Birch Professor in Professional Responsibility of Law at Columbia Law School.
Simon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1974.
[1] Simon's areas of expertise are professional responsibility and social policy.
He is best known for his public stance against unethical lawyers selling unjustified written legal opinions to clients who use such dubious advice to escape criminal consequences of their actions.
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