Wendy J. Muchman

Wendy Muchman is Chief of Litigation and Professional Education at the Illinois Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Ms. Muchman regularly lectures and presents workshops regarding professional responsibility and disciplinary law to various bar association groups, law firms, judges and law schools. She also investigates and prosecutes lawyer disciplinary cases, including cases involving allegations of conversion, billing fraud, conflicts of interest, public corruption and also handled the matter of In re Rinella, 175 Ill.2d 504, 677 N.E.2d 909 (1997). Her job responsibilities include supervision and training of the litigation attorneys and staff at the ARDC.

Since fall 2000, she teaches legal ethics courses at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and teaches in the law school’s ITA course. She also taught ethics and advocacy as well as intensive trial advocacy at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She is a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) for the regional and national trial advocacy, and deposition programs, and serves as a team leader for the Midwest Regional Trial Program. Since 2013, she has been on the Programming Committee of the National Organization of Bar Counsel and in August 2016 she was elected as an officer on the Board of that organization and currently serves as its president-elect.

Between 2012 and 2018, she served as an elected member-at-large to the Council of the American Bar Association Government and Public Lawyers Division and she now serves as the Treasurer. Between 2009 and 2011, she served as the Vice-Chair, then Chair, of the Chicago Bar Association Committee on Professional Responsibility. In 2018, Ms. Muchman, with the assistance of a Northwestern law student, Alexander Bai, served as a chapter author to update the First Edition of the ABA Annotated Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions which will be published in Spring 2019 as the second edition of publication of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. In 2018- 2019, Ms. Muchman served as a subject matter expert for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam. In 2013, she was selected to participate as a fellow in the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professional Responsibility.