Michele DeStefano

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Michele DeStefano
Associate Professor of Law
J.D. 2002, Harvard Law School
B.A. 1991, Dartmouth College

Telephone: 305-284-2411   |   Office: G284
E-mail: mdestefano@law.miami.edu
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Recent Research and Scholarship

NonLawyers Influencing Lawyers: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen or Stone Soup? (80 Fordham. L. Journal 2791 (2012)

Hiring Teams, Firms and Lawyers: Evidence of the Evolving Relationships in the Corporate Legal Market (co-author with John Coates, David Wilkins, and Ashish Nanda), 36 Law & Soc. Inquiry 999 (2011).

Advocacy in the Court of Public Opinion Installment II: How Far Should Corporate Lawyers Go?, 23 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1119 (2010)

Taking the Business out of Work Product, 79 FORDHAM. L. REVIEW 1869 (2011)

The Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: Third Rate Doctrine for Third Party Consultants, 62 SMU L. Rev. 727 (2009)

Advocacy in the Court of Public Opinion Part I: Broadening the Role of Corporate Attorneys, 22 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1259 (2009)

If Multidisciplinary Partnerships Are Introduced into the United States, What Could or Should Be the Role of General Counsel?, 9 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 1 (2003)

Forthcoming Publications and Works in Progress

Transitioning Corporate Governance to Compliance

The Government's Unofficial Stance on Compliance Departments: To Comply or Not To Comply?

Copy-Cat Compliance

Claim Funders and Commercial Claim Holders: A Common Interest or a Common Problem?

Active Claim Funding vs. Passive: The Value of a[n] Invested Relationship

A World of Difference or A World Apart?: If Law Firms Were Managed and Organized Like Advertising Firms (co-author with David B. Wilkins)

The Eclipse of Evidentiary-Based Fact-finding and its Unintended Consequences (co-author with Honorable William G. Young, United States District Court, District of Massachusetts)

Advocacy in the Court of Public Opinion: Is it Commercial Speech?

A Corporate Lawyer's Corporate Social Responsibility (co-author with Sung Hui Kim)