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Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Mar 3, 2022

Memphis lawyer Lucian T. Pera is the 2022 recipient of the Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award, one of the top ethics honors of the American Bar Association. The award honors an individual whose contributions in the professional responsibility field reflect the highest level of dedication to legal professionalism. Pera, a former Tennessee Bar Association president and partner at Adams and Reese, is recognized nationally for his work on ethics in the legal profession as well as media law and transparency issues in government, particularly in Tennessee where he also served as president of the Tennessee Open Government Coalition. He has written extensively about ethics and lawyer regulation nationally and for the ABA, including an ethics column for Law Practice, a magazine of the ABA Law Practice Division. Read more from the ABA Journal