James D. Daines III

James D. Gordon III is Assistant to the President for Planning and Assesment at Brigham Young University. At the time of this conference, he was Interim Dean and Marion B. and Rulon A. Earl Professor of Law at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. He received a BA in political science at BYU in 1977 and a JD at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. He clerked for Judge Monroe G. McKay of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and then practiced law in Salt Lake City. He joined the BYU law faculty in 1984. He has served as Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty at BYU. Gordon teaches contracts, professional responsibility, professional seminar, and securities regulation.