[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 40 (Monday, March 7, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E219]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               CONGRATULATING MEMPHIS LAWYER LUCIAN PERA

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                            HON. STEVE COHEN

                              of Tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 7, 2022

  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Lucian T. 
Pera, a Memphis lawyer and specialist in legal ethics and media law, 
who has just been named the winner of this year's American Bar 
Association Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award. The award 
is named in honor of Michael Franck, the late director of the State Bar 
of Michigan and long-time champion of improvements in lawyer regulation 
in the public interest. Mr. Pera, a partner in the Memphis office of 
the law firm Adams and Reese and a former President of the Tennessee 
Bar Association, has written extensively on ethics issues, including in 
a column for the magazine of the ABA's Law Practice Division. He has 
recently served as Chairman of the ABA's Center for Professional 
Responsibility, and has served as the ABA's Treasurer, on its House of 
Delegates, and as a member of the Board of Governors. He 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. A graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt 
University Law School, Pera will receive the Franck award at a ceremony 
in Baltimore on June 3. Mr. Pera is an outstanding lawyer and 
upstanding citizen, and I commend him for receiving this prestigious 
award.

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