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Professor Dorsainvil is a Senior Staff Attorney with the District of Columbia Office of Bar Counsel where she investigates and prosecutes allegations of ethical misconduct of District of Columbia lawyers. She received her Juris Doctor from American University’s Washington College of Law School in 2000, where she was a Recent Developments Editor of the Administrative Law Review. She is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Professor Dorsainvil serves as guest speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars in the District of Columbia and Maryland on ethical matters and is also an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she teaches Legal Ethics. She is Co-Editor of The Advocate, the publication of the Young Lawyers Section of the Maryland State Bar Association (2007-2010), and is the recipient of the Best Committee Award for her work on the newsletter (2008) and Most Industrious Committee Award (2009). She is also the former Chair of the Legislative Reception for the Women’s Bar Association of Maryland (2006-2008), where she organized an annual reception for the Maryland Legislators to meet the members of the Women’s Bar, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Judicial Selections Committee for the Women’s Bar Association (2009-2010). Professor Dorsainvil is also a Leadership Academy Fellow of the Maryland State Bar Association (2006).

She received an appointment as Assistant Editor for The Young Lawyer (2009-2010), the official publication of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association. She recently received the award for Best Work with Authors (Perfect Attendance with Deadlines) for the October 2009 Issue. Additionally, she wrote an article for the October 2009 issue of TYL on the ethical considerations of retainer agreements. She is also an ABA Young Lawyer Division Scholar this year (2009-2010).

In recognition of her commitment to Maryland’s legal community, Professor Dorsainvil was inducted into the Maryland Bar Foundation, a non-profit charitable corporation designed to maintain and honor the integrity of the legal profession in 2007. She is also an appointed member of the Professionalism Committee of the Maryland State Bar Association and has taught at the mandatory Professionalism Course for new admittees of the Maryland Bar.

• Selected Publications

  • Dolores Dorsainvil, You Can’t Get Around Mance, 25 Wash. Law. (Aug. 2011).
  • Dolores Dorsainvil, Diversion Agreements Provide Alternative to Attorney Discipline, Wash. Law. (April 2010).

• • More Publications...

• • Dolores Dorsainvil & Daniel M. Mills, Bar Counsel: Retainer Agreements & Rule 1.5(b), Wash. Law. 10 (Dec. 2008).