William J. Wernz is an Of Counsel member of the Trial Department at Dorsey & Whitney LLP. He was Ethics Partner and a member of the Trial Department at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis 1992–2009. He practices in the areas of attorney ethics, malpractice and fiduciary law. He is the author of Minnesota Legal Ethics (2011), an online treatise, hosted by the Minnesota State Bar Association. From 1985 to 1992 Mr. Wernz was the Director of the Minnesota Lawyers Board. In 1998–99 he was the president of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, a nationwide group of over 200 lawyers. Mr. Wernz received the Minnesota Lawyer 2009 Outstanding Service to the Profession Award. In 1991 Mr. Wernz received the Minnesota State Bar Association Award of Excellence. In 2003 Mr. Wernz received the Minnesota State Bar Association President’s Award, for his work as chair of the Task Force that proposed changes in the Rules of Professional Conduct. In 2005 Mr. Wernz received the Hennepin County Bar Association Attorney Professionalism Award. Mr. Wernz has been an adjunct professor, teaching legal ethics, at the University of Minnesota and William Mitchell College of Law. Mr. Wernz is a summa cum laude graduate (1977) of the University of Notre Dame law school and has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Iowa.

David L. Sasseville is General Counsel of the 190-lawyer Minneapolis-based firm Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P., where he is a partner and member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Sasseville represents lawyers and law firms on professional responsibility and liability matters. Mr. Sasseville lectures and writes frequently on topics of professional responsibility, legal ethics, loss prevention and professional liability. He has served for the past eighteen years as Lindquist & Vennum’s Ethics, Loss Prevention and Claims Partner. Mr. Sasseville served on the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board from 2003 to 2009; he served as chair of the Board’s Rules Committee. Mr. Sasseville has been an Adjunct Professor at William Mitchell College of Law since 2000, where he co-teaches a course on Professional Responsibility with his law partner, Terrence J. Fleming. Mr. Sasseville is the Chair of the Professionalism and Professional Conduct Section of the Hennepin County Bar Association. He served for six years as a member of the Hennepin County District IV Ethics Committee. Mr. Sasseville is a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, and the Minnesota State Bar Association Rules of Professional Conduct Committee. He is a member of the Hennepin County, Minnesota State and American Bar Associations. Mr. Sasseville is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Sasseville is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Minnesota and before the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals. He attended American University in Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (B.A. American Studies), and William Mitchell College of Law (1984).

Charles E. Lundberg has been a member of Bassford Remele for more than 30 years, practicing primarily as a “lawyer’s lawyer” – advising attorneys and law firms on matters involving legal malpractice, legal ethics, and other areas of the law of lawyering. He served for 12 years on the Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board, including six years as Board Chair. He also devotes much of his time to appeals and has been recognized as one of the leading appellate attorneys in Minnesota and elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers – an invitation-only group of outstanding lawyers whose practice focuses substantially on appeals. Mr. Lundberg has been named a Top 100 Super Lawyer, Top 10 Appellate Super Lawyer, and a Leading American Attorney and one of the Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Appellate Law and Legal Malpractice Law. He received the Minnesota State Bar Association Professional Excellence Award in 2005.

Ken Jorgensen is the Ethics Partner at Dorsey & Whitney where he advises lawyers in Dorsey’s 19 offices in the U.S, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Before joining Dorsey, Ken was a trial court judge in Washington County, presiding over all types of cases including criminal, family, juvenile and civil litigation. Prior to becoming a judge, he was the Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility. During his more than 20 years with the Director’s Office he handled thousands of ethics investigations involving lawyer misconduct and created the Office’s telephone advisory opinion service. Ken is an adjunct faculty member at William Mitchell, a frequent CLE lecturer and has written numerous Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics articles. He received the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Professional Excellence Award in 2006.

Kent Gernander is a general practice and trial lawyer in the Winona law firm Streater & Murphy, PA, where he advises and represents individuals and business and nonprofit entities. He has been involved in many professional organizations, including terms as President of the Minnesota State Bar Association, Chair of Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, and Chair of the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board. He has served on advisory committees related to the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Code of Judicial Conduct. He is consulted as an expert on ethics and malpractice matters, and has written and lectured on a variety of legal topics. He is the author of Minnesota CLE’s Client Relations Formbook, containing forms and commentary for practice management and ethical compliance.

Eric T. Cooperstein has a solo practice devoted to ethics consulting and representation, a product of his work as a former Senior Assistant Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility, where he worked from 1995 to 2001. Eric defends lawyers against ethics complaints, provides advice and expert opinions, and represents lawyers in fee disputes and law firm break-ups. He is also a frequent writer and speaker on ethics and law practice issues. Eric is Chair of the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee for the Minnesota State Bar Association, a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and served from 2007 to 2008 on the Supreme Court Advisory Committee to Review the Lawyer Discipline Process. Eric joined the executive committee of the Hennepin County Bar Association in 2010 and will serve as its President in 2013–2014.

Martin A. Cole is the Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility and the Minnesota Client Security Board. He has been employed in the lawyer disciplinary system for over 25 years and has been Director since April 2006. He is an honors graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was an editor of the Minnesota Law Review. In addition to prosecuting 100s of public discipline matters and providing over 5000 telephone advisory opinions over the years, Marty has been a director at large of the National Client Protection Organization, chair of the MSBA Public Lawyers Section Ethics Committee and a member of the ABA’s Advisory Commission on Lawyers’ Funds for Client Protection. He is a frequent CLE speaker and author in the areas of professional responsibility and law client protection.

Nancy Zalusky Berg is a founder of Walling, Berg & Debele, P.A., a thirteen lawyer firm limiting its practice to family, juvenile and adoption law. Ms. Berg has limited her practice to family law since 1985. She is certified by the National Board of Trial Examiners as a Family Law Litigation Specialist. She is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and President of the IAML – USA Chapter. She sits on the Minnesota Lawyers Board of Professional Responsibility; she has been listed in the “Best Lawyers in America” and has been identified as one of Minnesota’s “Super Lawyers” of Law & Politics, Minnesota Monthly and Mpls-St. Paul magazines since 1993. She has been listed as one of the top 100 lawyers in Minnesota for several years and is one of the top 40 lawyers in the Family Law practice area by Law & Politics.