OCU LAW - Faculty - Lawrence K. Hellman

Photo of Lawrence K. Hellman Lawrence K. Hellman
Dean and Professor of Law

Courses:
Legal Profession

Education:
B.S., Washington & Lee University; J.D., M.B.A., Northwestern University

Background:
Dean Hellman practiced law with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and was a member of the faculty at Washington & Lee University School of Law before joining the faculty at OCU School of Law in 1977. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the Oklahoma Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. He is co-chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s (OBA) Rules of Professional Conduct Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, the National Advisory Council of the American Judicature Society, and the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Professionalism Committee. Dean Hellman was a member of the ALI’s Members Consultative Group on the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers and the Advisory Council for the American Bar Association’s Ethics 2000 Commission. He is a recipient of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Award for Legal Ethics and the Presidents’ Awards for Service from the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Oklahoma County Bar Association, and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg American Inn of Court. He was appointed dean in 1998.

Selected Publications: (Click here for full list of publications.)

The Oklahoma Supreme Court's New Rules on Attorneys' Trial Publicity: Realism and Aspiration, 51 Okla. L. Rev. 1 (1998)
A Better Way to Make State Legal Ethics Opinions, 22 Okla. City. U. L. Rev. 973 (1997)
The Effects of Law Office Work on the Formation of Law Students' Professional Values: Observation, Explanation, Optimization, 4 GEO. J. LEG. ETHICS 537 (1991)