Alexea Ringo Juliano provides in-house counsel to lawyers and management firm wide regarding conflicts of interest, risk management, legal ethics, and professional responsibility. Alexea identifies and resolves conflicts of interest stemming from new work, lateral portable business, former representations, outside counsel guidelines, past employment, and more. She drafts conflict waivers, retainers, joint representation agreements, formal ethical screens, Rule 1.11 notices, end-of-representation letters, and serves as a go-to resource for newly integrated lateral partners and lawyers. In addition, as a member of the firm’s Ethics and Practice Committee, she advises firm lawyers regarding multi-jurisdictional rules of professional conduct, the unauthorized practice of law, revolving door issues, and other ethics and compliance related concerns. Alexea is currently serving a second term as an appointed member of the D.C. Bar Legal Ethics Committee.
Alexea's pro bono practice focuses on attorney ethics. In particular, Alexea helped draft an amicus curiae brief for the United States Supreme Court in Hood v. Texas on behalf of 30 leading ethicists, and a Report and Recommendation seeking an attorney's disbarment on behalf of an Ad Hoc Hearing Committee for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Board of Professional Responsibility.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1998
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New Jersey
- New York
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Activities
- Appointed Member, D.C. Bar Legal Ethics Committee, July 2020 – Present
- Member, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers
- Member, American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility
- Member, New Jersey Bar Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association