Nancy J. Moore

Professor of Law

Nancy E. Barton Scholar

BA magna cum laude, Smith College
JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia University

Areas of Interest
Legal Ethics, Torts
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Biography

Professor Nancy Moore is a nationally recognized leader in the field of professional responsibility, an area in which she first became interested while working as a prosecutor in Philadelphia. Before joining Boston University School of Law in 1999, Professor Moore taught at Rutgers University School of Law, where she offered the school’s first course in professional responsibility. “Now is an exciting time to be teaching legal ethics,” she says. “Multi-disciplinary practice, multi-jurisdictional practice, lawyers and corporate scandals-lawyering in the 21st century raises a host of new challenges for our students.”

Professor Moore has written numerous articles on attorney ethics. Her most recent include “Who Should Regulate Class Action Lawyers?” (University of Illinois Law Review), “What Doctors Can Learn From Lawyers About Conflicts of Interest” (Boston University Law Review), “Ethics Matters, Too: The Significance of Professional Regulation of Attorney Fees and Costs in Mass Tort Litigation” (University of Pennsylvania Law Review) and “The Ethical Role and Responsibilities of Lawyer-Ethicist: The Case of the Independent Counsel’s Independent Counsel” for a 1999 symposium issue of the Fordham Law Review on “The Independent Counsel Investigation, the Impeachment Proceedings, and President Clinton’s Defense.” She was chief reporter for the ABA Commission on Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (“Ethics 2000”) and is chair of the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Examination Test Drafting Committee. She has served twice as chair of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Professional Responsibility and was an adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers.

Publications
  1. Nancy Moore, "Forming Start-Up Companies: Who’s My Client?" 88 Fordham Law Review 1699 (2020).
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  2. Nancy Moore, "The Future of Law as a Profession," in Symposium on the Future of the Legal Profession, 20 Chapman Law Review 255 (2017).
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  3. Nancy Moore, "Restating Intentional Torts: Problems of Process and Substance in the ALI's Third Restatement of Torts," in Symposium Appraising the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Intentional Torts to Persons, 10 Journal of Tort Law (2017).
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  4. Nancy Moore, "Foreword," in Symposium Lawyering in the Regulatory State, 84 Fordham Law Review 1811 (2016).
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  5. Nancy Moore & Kathleen Clark, "Financial Rewards for Whistleblowing Lawyers," 56 Boston College Law Review 1697 (2015).
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  6. Nancy Moore, "Why is There No Clear Doctrine of Informed Consent for Lawyers?" 47 University of Toledo Law Review 133 (2015-16).
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  7. Nancy Moore, "Ethical Issues in Mass Tort Plaintiffs' Representation: Beyond the Aggregate Settlement Rule," 81 Fordham Law Review 3233 (2013).
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  8. Nancy Moore, "Who will Regulate Class Action Lawyers?" 44 Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal 577 (2013).
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  9. Nancy Moore, "Implications of Globalization for the Professional Status of Lawyers in the United States and Elsewhere," 40 Fordham Urban Law Journal 217 (2012).
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  10. Nancy Moore & Janine Griffiths-Baker, "Regulating Conflicts of Interest in Global Law Firms: Peace in Our Time?" 80 Fordham Law Review 2541 (2012).
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  11. Nancy Moore, "The Complexities of Lawyer Ethics Code Drafting: The Contributions of Professor Fred Zacharias," 48 San Diego Law Review 335 (2011).
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  12. Nancy Moore, "The Absence of Legal Ethics in the ALI's Principles of Aggregate Litigation: A Missed Opportunity - And More," 79 George Washington Law Review 717 (2010).
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  13. Nancy Moore, "Is the Appearance of Impropriety an Appropriate Standard for Disciplining Judges in the Twenty-First Century?" 41 Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal 285 (2010).
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  14. Nancy Moore, "Mens Rea Standards in Lawyer Disciplinary Codes," 23 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1 (2010).
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  15. Nancy Moore, "Choice of Law for Professional Responsibility Issues in Aggregate Litigation," in Symposium Complexity and Aggregation in Choice of Law, 14 Roger Williams University Law Review 73 (2009).
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  16. Nancy Moore, "Litigators and the Public: The Evolving Role of Ethics Codes," in A Century of Legal Ethics: Trial Lawyers and the ABA Canons of Professional Ethics 223, L. J. Fox, S. R. Martyn & A. S. Pollis, eds., ABA Section of Litigation (2009).
  17. Nancy Moore, "The American Law Institute's Draft Proposal to Bypass the Aggregate Settlement Rule: Do Mass Tort Clients Need (or Want) Group Decision Making?" in Symposium Challenges to the Attorney-Client Relationship: Threats to Sound Advice, 57 DePaul Law Review 395 (2008).
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  18. Nancy Moore, "Mr. Prinzo's Breakthrough and the Limits of Confidentiality," 51 St. Louis Law Journal 1059 (2007).
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  19. Nancy Moore, "Informed Consent in the Practice of Law," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2d ed., Macmillan Reference USA, 680 (2006).
  20. Nancy Moore, "Regulating Law Firm Conflicts in the 21st Century: Implications of the Globalization of Legal Services and the Growth of the 'Mega Firm’," review of Janine Griffiths-Baker, Serving Two Masters: Conflicts of Interest in the Modern Law Firm, Hart Publishing (2002), 18 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 521 (2005). HeinOnline (BU) | HeinOnline
  21. Nancy Moore, "Not Quite a Client: New Ethics Rule Provides Guidance on a Lawyer's Duty to Prospective Clients," 90 American Bar Association Journal 50 (Jan. 2004).
  22. Nancy Moore, "Regulating Self-Referrals and Other Physician Conflicts of Interest," 15 HEC Forum 133 (2003).
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  23. Nancy Moore, "Who Should Regulate Class Action Lawyers?" in Symposium Ethics 2000 and Beyond: Reform or Professional Responsibility as Usual? 2003 University of Illinois Law Review 1477 (2003).
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  24. Nancy Moore, "'In the Interests of Justice': Balancing Client Loyalty and the Public Good in the Twenty-First Century," 70 Fordham Law Review 1775 (2002).
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  25. Nancy Moore, "Lawyer Ethics Code Drafting in the Twenty-First Century," 30 Hofstra Law Review 923 (2002).
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  26. Nancy Moore, "Revisions, Not Revolution: Targeting Lawyer/Client Relations, Electronic Communications, Conflicts of Interests," 88 American Bar Association Journal 48 (Dec. 2002).
  27. Nancy Moore, "Lawyering for the Middle Class," in Symposium Lawyering for the Middle Class, 70 Fordham Law Review 623 (2001). [Forward]
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  28. Nancy Moore, "What Doctors Can Learn from Lawyers About Conflicts of Interest," 81 Boston University Law Review 445 (2001).
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  29. Nancy Moore, "Ethics Matters, Too: The Significance of Professional Regulation of Attorney Fees and Costs in Mass Tort Litigation - A Response to Judith Resnik," in Symposium Mass Torts, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2209 (2000). [Judith Resnick, "Money Matters: Judicial Market Interventions Creating Subsidies and Awarding Fees and Costs in Individual and Aggregate Litigation," 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2119 (2000).]
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  30. Nancy Moore, "The Case Against Changing the Aggregate Settlement Rule in Mass Tort Lawsuits," 41 South Texas Law Review 149 (1999).
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  31. Nancy Moore, "The Ethical Role and Responsibilities of a Lawyer-Ethicist: The Case of the Independent Counsel's Independent Counsel," 68 Fordham Law Review 771 (1999).
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  32. Nancy Moore, "Conflicts of Interest For In-House Counsel: Emerging Issues in the Expanding Role of the Attorney-Employee," 39 South Texas Law Review 497 (1998).
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  33. Nancy Moore, "The Ethical Duties of Insurance Defense Lawyers: Are Special Solutions Required?" in Symposium Liability Insurance Conflicts and Professional Responsibility, 4 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 259 (1997-98).
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  34. Nancy Moore, "Ethical Issues in Third Party Payment: Beyond the Insurance Defense Paradigm," in Symposium Conflicts of Interest: Ethics, Law, and Remedies, 16 Review of Litigation 585 (1997).
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  35. Nancy Moore, "Restating the Law of Lawyer Conflicts," 10 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 541 (1997).
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  36. Nancy Moore, "Conflicts of Interests in the Representation of Children," in Symposium Conference on Ethical Issues in the Legal Representation of Children, 64 Fordham Law Review 1819 (1995-96).
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  37. Nancy Moore, "Implications of Circle Chevrolet for Attorney Malpractice and Attorney Ethics," 28 Rutgers Law Journal 57 (1996).
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  38. Nancy Moore, "Entrepreneurial Doctors and Lawyers: Regulating Business Activities in the Medical and Legal Professions," in Conflicts of Interest in Medical Practice 171, R. Spence & R. Shimm, eds., Oxford University Press (1995).
  39. Nancy Moore, "Expanding Duties of Attorneys to 'Non-Clients': Reconceptualizing the Attorney-Client Relationship in Entity Representation and Other Inherently Ambiguous Situations," 45 South Carolina Law Review 659 (1994).
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  40. Nancy Moore, "Intra-Professional Warfare Between Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys: A Plea for an End to the Current Hostilities," 53 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 515 (1992).
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  41. Nancy Moore, "Professionalism: Rekindled, Reconsidered or Reformulated?" 19 Capital University Law Review 1121 (1990).
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  42. Nancy Moore, "Author's Response," in Symposium The Proceedings and Papers of the Conference on Legal Ethics: The Social Responsibility of the Lawyer, 1989 Annual Survey of American Law 37 (1989). [Response to Judge Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., "Comments on Professor Moore's Paper," 1989 Annual Survey of American Law 23 (1989).]
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  43. Nancy Moore, "The Usefulness of Ethical Codes," in Symposium The Proceedings and Papers of the Conference on Legal Ethics: The Social Responsibility of the Lawyer, 1989 Annual Survey of American Law 7 (1989).
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  44. Nancy Moore, "'Two Steps Forward, One Step Back': An Analysis of New Jersey's Latest 'Right-To-Die' Decisions," 19 Rutgers Law Journal 955 (1988).
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  45. Nancy Moore, "Professionalism Reconsidered," 1987 ABF Research Journal 773 (1987).
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  46. Nancy Moore, "Commentary," 4 Business & Professional Ethics Journal 83 (1985).
  47. Nancy Moore, "Limits to Attorney-Client Confidentiality: A Philosophically Informed and Comparative Approach to Medical and Legal Ethics," 36 Case Western Reserve Law Review 177 (1985-86).
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  48. Nancy Moore, "Conflicts of Interest in the Simultaneous Representation of Multiple Clients: A Proposed Solution to the Current Confusion and Controversy," 61 Texas Law Review 211 (1982).
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  49. Nancy Moore, "Disqualification of an Attorney Representing Multiple Witnesses Before a Grand Jury: Legal Ethics and the Stonewall Defense," 27 UCLA Law Review 1 (1979).
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