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Kevin H. Michels
Assistant Professor of Management, Marketing & Interdisciplinary Business
Kevin Michels teaches courses and conducts research on business law and ethics. His most recent article, which proposes a new legal standard to analyze attorney third-party liability based on the attorney-ethics rules, will appear in Volume XXII of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. His current research concerns the ethical obligations of counsel who conduct internal corporate investigations. This fall he is teaching the Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business. In the spring, he will also teach Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.
He is the author of New Jersey Attorney Ethics (Gann 2008), a comprehensive treatise on the law of lawyering in New Jersey, now in its tenth edition, which has been cited in the published opinions of state and federal courts in New Jersey. Prior to joining the faculty at TCNJ, he was a director of the law practice Michels & Hockenjos, P.C., where he represented clients on a range of corporation, business law and intellectual-property issues, and served as expert witness, consultant and counsel on matters involving attorney ethics and liability, often in the corporation-law setting. He has lectured on ethics for the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association, bar associations, the New Jersey Institute on Continuing Legal Education, New Jersey's in-house corporation counsel, and in a variety of other settings.
He received his B.A. with honors from Rutgers College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and he received his J.D. from Rutgers Law School-Newark, where he was Research Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. He served as law clerk to Justice Robert L. Clifford, New Jersey Supreme Court, for the 1986-87 term. He served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Commission on the Rules of Professional Conduct, which advised the Court on the 2004 revision of the attorney-ethics rules.
