Lawton P. Cummings

Biography

Lawton Cummings joined the Washington and Lee faculty in 2007.  Before entering law teaching, Professor Cummings was a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, Slade & Associates in New York, and Wheeler Trigg Kennedy in Denver, and she was judicial law clerk to Federal District Court Judge Peter K. Leisure in the Southern District of New York. 

Professor Cummings teaches courses on legal ethics and criminal law, and her scholarship focuses on the application of moral philosophy to problems of legal ethics that arise in the practice of white collar criminal law and for corporate in-house counsel.

Assistant Professor of Law, Washington and Lee School of Law, 2007 - ; Litigation Associate, Wheeler Trigg Kennedy, 2006 - 2007; Adjunct Faculty, University of Denver, 2005 - 2007; Litigation Associate, Slade & Associates, 2003-2005; Adjunct Faculty, United States Military Academy at West Point, 2003 – 2005; Litigation Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell, 2001 - 2003; Judicial Law Clerk, Federal District Judge Peter K. Leisure, Southern District of New York, 2000 – 2001