Courses Offered:

Civil Procedure
Complex Litigation
Georgia Practice and Procedure
Legal Profession

Professional Biographical Information:

C. Ronald Ellington, Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism, joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in 1969. He specializes in the areas of civil procedure, Georgia practice and procedure, complex litigation and legal profession. He served as dean of the law school from 1987 to 1993. In 2006, he was one of three professors campus wide to be named a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, UGA's highest honor for teaching excellence.

Ellington currently serves as reporter/consultant for the State Bar of Georgia Committee on Standards of the Profession, where he is playing a major role in the development and implementation of the State Bar's mentor/mentee program for newly admitted lawyers, the Transition Into Law Practice Program, which is being considered by other states as a model to implement. In 2000, he was appointed as a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Formal Advisory Opinion Board. Ellington previously chaired the State Bar of Georgia Judicial Procedure and Administration Committee and served on the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism. He is also a member of the American Law Institute.

A respected teacher and scholar, Ellington has been presented with the Faculty Book Award for Excellence in Teaching by Georgia Law students and has received the Professional Responsibility Award, both on multiple occasions. In 1994, he served as a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Georgia and, in 2000, he was inducted into UGA's selective new Teaching Academy.

Ellington earned his undergraduate degree from Emory University and his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he served on the managing board of the Virginia Law Review. He received his Master of Laws from Harvard, after being awarded a Fellowship in Law and the Humanities for graduate studies at that institution. Then, he practiced with the law firm Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan in Atlanta for three years before joining the UGA law faculty.