Mark L. Tuft

MARK TUFT


LEGAL PRACTICE

Partner with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP; principally engaged in professional liability, media law, civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts. State-wide practice as ethics counsel to lawyers and law firms on professional responsibility, professional liability, law firm mergers and dissolutions and lawyer discipline.

•  LL.M., George Washington University, June 1972. Graduated with highest honors.
• J.D., Hastings College of the Law, June 1968. Order of the Coif, Thurston Law Society, Hastings Law Journal.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND AWARDS

• Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice Law Member, American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility, Policy Implementation Committee and Editorial Board
• American Law Institute
• Vice Chair, State Bar of California Commission for the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct
• Former Chair, State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Bar Association of San Francisco
• Former Chair, Bar Association of San Francisco Legal Ethics Committee
• President, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
• Bar Association of San Francisco Certificate of Merit Award
• Recipient, Spirit of the CEB Award, 2005