Wendy Muchman is Chief of Litigation and Professional Education at the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. She investigates and prosecutes lawyer disciplinary cases, including In re Rinella, 175 Ill.2d 504, 677 N.E.2d 909 (1997). Her job responsibilities also include supervision and training of all litigation attorneys and staff at the ARDC. Ms. Muchman regularly lectures and presents workshops regarding professional responsibility and disciplinary law to various bar association groups, judges and law schools. Since the fall of 2000, she teaches legal ethics as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University School of Law. She also teaches at Chicago-Kent, and taught at De Paul University College of Law in fall 2001. She serves as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) both for the trial advocacy, regional and national programs, and deposition training. She serves as an assistant team leader for the NITA Trial Advocacy Midwest Regional Program. She has participated as faculty in a NITA trial program for Bar Counsel throughout the country and is the program director of an upcoming session in October 2013. In 2012 she was elected member-at-large to the Council of the American Bar Association Government and Public Lawyers Division. Between 2009 and 2011, she served as the Vice-Chair, then Chair, of the Chicago Bar Association Committee on Professional Responsibility. Prior to 1989 when she started her employment at the Commission, Ms. Muchman litigated in the state and federal courts. Areas of practice included insurance litigation, civil rights, age discrimination and aviation defense work. Ms. Muchman received her JD from DePaul University College of Law and her BA from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana.