| William H. Simon | |
| Education: | Princeton University (AB) Harvard University (JD) |
| Discipline: | Law |
| Workplaces: | Columbia Law School Harvard Law School Stanford Law School UC Berkeley School of Law |
| Sub Discipline: | Professional responsibility Social policy Regulatory law Legal profession |
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. From 1981 to 2003, he was a professor at Stanford Law School. Simon was also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the UC Berkeley School of Law. He joined Columbia Law School as a visiting professor in 2001 and became a full professor in 2003.
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.[2]