Hal R. Lieberman

Hal Lieberman is a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP. He is the former Principal Trial Attorney and Chief Counsel for the Departmental Disciplinary Committee in New York's First Department. Over more than two decades in private practice, he has defended hundreds of lawyers and law firms before disciplinary and grievance committees in connection with lawyer discipline complaints, formal disciplinary prosecutions, reciprocal discipline proceedings, post-conviction disciplinary proceedings, reinstatements, and matters related to bar admissions before the New York character and fitness committees, and has served as an expert witness on legal ethics and legal malpractice. He is the past partner-in-charge of the New York office of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP. Lieberman is co-author of New York Attorney Discipline Practice and Procedure and a longtime columnist for the New York Law Journal on professional discipline.