Steven C. Krane
Steven C. Krane is a partner in Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City, concentrating in representing lawyers and law firms in legal ethics and professional liability matters. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s Law Firm Advisory Practice Group, and serves as General Counsel. A 1981 graduate of the New York University School of Law, he served as law clerk to Judge Judith S. Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals from 1984 to 1985.
Mr. Krane was the Chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He was President of the New York State Bar Association during 2001-02, and has been chair of the NYSBA Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct and its predecessor since 1995. Mr. Krane served as a member of the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics, the New York City Bar’s Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, including three years as Chair. He is a member of the Policy Committee of the Bar Issues Commission of the International Bar Association, and is Vice-Chair of the IBA Committee on Multidisciplinary Practices.
Mr. Krane has been both member and Chair of Hearing Panels of the First Judicial Department in New York, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is currently a Special Referee for disciplinary cases in the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department. He has written and lectured extensively on attorney ethics issues, and taught professional responsibility at the Columbia University School of Law from 1989 to 1992.