The Keys to Practicing Law as a Practicing Catholic

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Featuring Professor David Grenardo, School of Law

Date & Time:

Wednesday, October 26, 2022
12:30 PM - 1:25 PM

Location:

MSL 244

 

 


Join Professor Grenardo as he discusses three main aspects that every individual who is Catholic and practicing law should understand and live by, including service, civility, and human dignity.
 
CLE
1.0 CLE credit approved.  Event code 470986.     

Speaker
David A. Grenardo, professor of law and associate director of the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions. Professor Grenardo joined St. Thomas Law in 2022. Grenardo was previously a professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law (Texas) where he taught Professional Responsibility, Contracts, Sports Law, Business Associations, Civil Procedure, and International Sports Law.

He has presented on professionalism and ethics multiple times locally, statewide and nationally, including at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting and the ABA’s Annual National Conference on Professional Responsibility. He has also been quoted in the ABA Journal on the topic of civility. He practiced law in California and Texas for three large law firms – Jones Day, DLA Piper, and King & Spalding – for nearly a decade before joining the legal academy in 2011.

St. Mary’s University School of Law’s Phi Delta Phi chapter (which consists of students in the top 20 percent of their class) honored Grenardo as the Faculty Member of the Year in 2017, and he was also selected as the Professor of the Year by the Student Bar Association at St. Mary’s Law School in 2014. He was also selected as the recipient for the law school of the 2022 Distinguished Faculty Award bestowed by the St. Mary’s Alumni Association. He earned his B.A. from Rice University where he played football and was a four-year letterman. He earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law.

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