Biography

James E. Moliterno is the Vincent Bradford Professor of Law and joined the Law School in 2009. One of the nation's leading educators in experiential learning and legal professionalism, Moliterno was the architect of William and Mary law school's award winning ethics, skills, and professionalism program, which won the 1991 American Bar Association Gambrell Professionalism Award, as the best law school or bar association program for the teaching of ethics and professionalism.

Professor Moliterno is the author of numerous works examining legal education and professional responsibility, including The Law of Professional Responsibility, Cases and Materials on the Law Governing Lawyers and Ethics of the Lawyers Work. Among his recent projects, Professor Moliterno has worked with USAID Rule of Law project in Serbia to establish legal skills training programs. At W&L, Professor Moliterno will teach all sections of Professional Responsibility and a third-year practicum course. He will also have a leadership role in guiding the school through the implementation of its new third-year curriculum. 

Admitted to practice in West Virginia; Staff Attorney and Prison Project Coordinator, West Virginia Legal Services Plan, Inc., 1980-82; Instructor, Seattle University School of Law (formerly University of Puget Sound), 1982-85; Clinical Instructor and Lecturer, West Virginia University College of Law, 1985-86; Faculty Supervisor, Federal Inmate Assistance Program, 1986-87; Director of Legal Writing and Clinical Instructor, 1986-87; Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Tech University, 1987-88; Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills, College of William and Mary, 1988-91; Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills, 1991-93; Director of Center for Teaching Legal Ethics, 1995-98; Vice Dean, 1997-2000; Director of Clinical Programs, 2002-07; Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills, 1993-2009; Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law, 2003-09; Vincent Bradford Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, 2009—.