1800 M STREET, NW
SUITE 1000
WASHINGTON,
DC
20036-5807
202.778.1804
202.822.8106 fax
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Mark W. Foster represents and counsels a wide variety of law firms and lawyers on professional ethics and legal malpractice matters, disciplinary cases, bar admissions, unauthorized practice problems, partnership questions, real estate leases, and bank financing. He advises law firm managing partners, general counsels, and administrators concerning ethics compliance programs, conflicts of interest, trust accounting, lateral recruiting and hiring, and lawyer departures.
Mr. Foster has dealt extensively with ethics problems confronted by lawyers in large practices and small as a litigator, counselor, and expert witness. He is also experienced in complex issues such as alliances between law firms and non-lawyers, partnerships with non-lawyers, the rights and responsibilities of partners to each other, and the migration of partners and practices between law firms. Mr. Foster has served as a mediator and an arbitrator, typically in law firm disputes and dissolutions. His practice also includes commercial transactions, such as business formation and dissolution, financing, and related issues. He has decades of litigation experience in civil and criminal jury and non-jury trials. He has been a voting delegate to all of the District of Columbia judicial conferences, as well as to a number of federal judicial conferences.
Mr. Foster has taught at The George Washington University Law School, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and for the continuing legal education program of the District of Columbia Bar. His courses have included trial technique, conflicts, trust accounting, ethics, and advocacy.
Before entering private practice, Mr. Foster worked for the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia as a staff attorney for three years and as the chief of its Felony Trial Division for one year. He formed Moore & Foster, P.C., in 1976 and was a partner there until the firm merged with Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in 1983.
Experience
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Regularly counsels numerous law firms on wide range of ethics and professional responsibility issues.
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Represented law firms and lawyers in partner departures and law firm break-ups.
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Obtained dismissals of Bar Counsel investigations for dozens of lawyers accused of ethics violations.
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Litigated and advised lawyers and law firms in numerous disqualification and legal malpractice proceedings.
EDUCATION
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Harvard Law School,
J.D.,
1971
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Yale University,
B.A.,
1965
COURT ADMISSIONS
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Claims Court
- U.S. Tax Court
BAR ADMISSIONS
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- Connecticut
MEMBERSHIPS
- Former Member and Vice Chair, Legal Ethics Committee, District of Columbia Bar (1993-1999)
- Former Member, Committee to Study Revisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct, District of Columbia Bar (1992-1999)
- Former Member, Disciplinary System Review Committee, District of Columbia Bar (1992-1993)
- Former Chair, Board on Professional Responsibility, District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1984-1988)
- Former Member and Vice Chair, Board on Professional Responsibility, District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1982–1983)
- Former Member, Hearing Committee #6, Board on Professional Responsibility, District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1980-1982)
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