James J. Grogan, Esq., Adjunct Professor, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, and ARDC Chief Counsel
James Grogan is the Deputy Administrator and the Chief Counsel of the
Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme
Court of Illinois (ARDC). He has investigated and prosecuted hundreds of
charges of lawyer misconduct over the course of the past thirty years and
argued dozens of disciplinary cases in the Supreme Court of Illinois. He has
taught legal ethics at the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law for
twenty-one years and is an Adjunct Professor there. He also taught for many
years at the DePaul University College of Law. He is a Past-President of the
National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC), the association of lawyer
regulators, and is the Current Developments editor for the NOBC’s twice-annual
compilation of lawyer disciplinary case law. Mr. Grogan has presented hundreds
of speeches, lectures or workshops to law firms, bar associations, corporations
and judicial and governmental groups and agencies on various professional
responsibility and lawyer regulatory topics.
