Andrew M. Perlman

Biography

Andrew Perlman is a nationally recognized voice on the future of legal education and law practice. In 2024, National Jurist named him as one of the top-20 most influential people in legal education.

Among other leadership roles, Dean Perlman has served as an Advisory Council member of the American Bar Association Task Force on the Law and Artificial Intelligence; as the inaugural chair of the governing council of the ABA's Center for Innovation; as the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services; and as the chief reporter of the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which was responsible for updating the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to reflect changes in technology and increased globalization.

Dean Perlman's service also has focused on national and local reform efforts ranging from police practices and access to justice to developing alternate paths to law school and bar admission. For example, he has served as a founding dean for the ABA-Legal Education Police Practices Consortium; as a member of the Law School Admission Council's Legal Education Program Advisory Committee; as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Access to Justice Advisory Committee; as a co-chair of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Subcommittee on Alternative Paths to Licensure; and as a member of the Content Scope Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE).

Dean Perlman's scholarship has included numerous articles on professional responsibility and legal innovation that have appeared in some of the nation's leading law reviews. He also co-authored a civil procedure casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (with Professors Joseph W. Glannon and Peter Raven-Hansen) that has been adopted at more than 80 law schools.

Dean Perlman has served as a presenter or panelist at more than 200 academic, judicial, and other professional programs in more than 20 U.S. jurisdictions, three continents, and six countries.

Prior to entering academia, Andy clerked for a federal district court judge in Chicago and practiced as a litigator there. He is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and he received his LL.M from Columbia Law School.

Education

• BA, Yale University
• JD, Harvard University
• LLM, Columbia University

Selected Publications

Representative Articles

Media

Dean Perlman is regularly quoted on matters related to legal ethics and the future of the legal profession. He has been quoted in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. He also has appeared as a commentator concerning legal ethics issues on WBZ (CBS News in Boston) and New England Cable News.

Honors and Awards

• National Jurist, Top-20 Most Influential People in Legal Education (2024)
• 2015 Fastcase 50 Honoree (“honoring the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders”)
• Inducted into the Warren E. Burger Society, National Center for State Courts (November 2019)
• Fellow, College of Law Practice Management (inducted October 2014)

Bar Admittance

• United States Supreme Court (Since 2019)
• Massachusetts (since 2008)
• Illinois (1996-2008) (retired as of January 1, 2009)