William Hornsby

William Hornsby is counsel in the American Bar Association's Division for Legal Services, where he staffs the Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services.  Since joining the ABA staff in 1988, he has provided support to the Standing Committee on Professionalism, the Commission on Responsibility in Client Development, the Committee on Research on the Future of the Law and the ABA Presidential Commission on Access to Lawyers.

Will has written several articles on technology, law firm marketing and legal ethics for publications such as the National Law Journal, the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and the ABA Law Practice Management magazine. He authored the ABA book Lawyer Advertising at the Crossroads and the third edition of the ABA Law Practice Management Section book Marketing and Legal Ethics: The Boundaries of Promoting Legal Services. His most recent law review article is entitled Clashes of Class and Cash: Battles from the 150 Years War to Govern Client Development, and appears in the Arizona State Law Review. He is a frequent speaker at bar association conferences and has participated in programs at Fordham University, the University of Richmond and the Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.

Will is currently a chair of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Hearing Panel, a Cook County arbitrator and an adjunct faculty member of the John Marshall Law School, where he teaches the first law school course on the professional responsibility of a technology-based law practice, in the LL.M. program in Information Technology and Privacy Law. In 2007, Will was inducted as a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.