James M. McCormack

  • Adjunct Professor
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James McCormack ’84 is the former general counsel and chief disciplinary counsel of the State Bar of Texas (1991-96) and a former managing attorney of the Civil Litigation Section of the Travis County Attorney’s Office in Austin. As the state bar’s chief disciplinary counsel, he served as the chief legal ethics enforcement officer for the attorney discipline system in Texas. He earned both his BBA with honors and his JD from the University of Texas at Austin.

As an adjunct professor at Texas Law, McCormack teaches professional responsibility. He is a regular lecturer on legal ethics and malpractice issues. His article in the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Management magazine titled “Good Ethics, Smart Tactics” was named by the magazine as one of the top five articles of 1995.