Prof. Harriet Rubin Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas University School of Law where she teaches Business Associations, Agency & Partnerships, Professional Responsibility, Corporate Finance, and the Ethics of Corporate Practice. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a J.D. with honors from New York University School of Law. As an attorney in private practice in New York at Shearman & Sterling and at Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, she specialized in various areas of complex corporate transactional practice including inter alia, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, securities regulation, asset securitization and international project finance. At Shaw Pittman she was the New York liaison for the firm’s legal opinion committee. She has been engaged on behalf of The Florida Bar and on behalf of private plaintiffs and the State Attorney of Florida, as a legal ethics consultant and expert witness in lawyer disciplinary matters and in cases of lawyer misconduct or malpractice, particularly in the context of complex corporate and commercial matters, to testify and render legal ethics opinions in state and federal court. Before entering the legal profession, Professor Roberts was Assistant Political Editor and Senior Researcher at CBS News serving as Anchor Researcher to Walter Cronkite and on assignment to the CBS Evening News, CBS Morning News and documentary units including CBS Reports and 60 Minutes.