Professor
Myles V. Lynk is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of
Law and the Legal Profession at the Arizona State University
College of Law, and a Faculty Associate of ASU’s Center
for the Study of Law, Science and Technology. He teaches
administrative law, business organizations, civil procedure
and professional responsibility. After 9/11, he organized
a series of special programs at the law school, entitled,
”Challenges,” which examined the various responses
of the American legal system to that awful tragedy. Professor
Lynk is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
He has served as a law clerk to Judge Damon Keith on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a
Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare, and, in 1979-80, an Assistant Director on the
White House Domestic Policy Staff. In 1983-84, Professor
Lynk served on the legal staff of the Special Counsel to
the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of the U.S.
House of Representatives, investigating allegations of improper
conduct involving Congressmen, staff and teenagers serving
as House pages. Professor Lynk was a partner in the Washington,
D.C., office of a national law firm from 1985 through 1999,
where he advised companies on governance and regulatory
issues and litigated in federal and local courts. Before
coming to ASU Professor Lynk was a visiting professor of
law at George Washington University Law School and a lecturer
in law at the University of Maryland School of Law. He recently
served as co-chair of the State Bar of Arizona’s Task
Force on Multi-jurisdictional Practice, and was a member
of the State Bar’s Task Force on the Future of the
Legal Profession.
Professor Lynk was appointed by
the Chief Justice of the United States to two terms on the
Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference
of the United States, and is currently chair of the Advisory
Committee’s Discovery Subcommittee.
In the American Bar Association
("ABA") Professor Lynk serves as a Business Law
Section Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. He is a
member of the American Law Institute’s (“ALI”)
governing Council and a past President of the District of
Columbia Bar. He has also served on the Civil Rules Advisory
Committee from 1998 to 2004. |
