Richard W. Painter
S. Walter Richey Professor, Corporate Law
- Law and Policy
- Civil
Introduction
Richard W. Painter is the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
From February 2005 to July 2007, Painter was associate counsel to the president in the White House Counsel’s office, serving as the chief ethics lawyer for the president, White House employees, and senior nominees to Senate-confirmed positions in the executive branch.
Painter has also been active in law reform efforts aimed at deterring securities fraud and improving ethics of corporate managers and lawyers.
Painter’s book Getting the Government America Deserves: How Ethics Reform Can Make a Difference was published by Oxford University Press.
He has written op-eds on government ethics for various publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and he has been interviewed several times on government ethics and corporate ethics by national news organizations.
Painter is the coauthor of two casebooks: Securities Litigation and Enforcement (with Margaret Sachs and Donna Nagy) and Professional and Personal Responsibilities of the Lawyer (with Judge John T. Noonan Jr.).