Milan Markovic

Director

Corporate & Securities

Dallas

214.420.2170

[email protected]

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[email protected]

214.420.2170

How do I help clients with their corporate governance, fiduciary duties and professional responsibility issues?

I help in-house legal departments become more effective strategic partners within their organizations. By understanding each client’s business, I’m able to translate complex legal concepts into practical business guidance. I make it a priority to help legal teams navigate challenges with confidence while advancing their organization’s objectives.

Counseling legal departments on maximizing their strategic impact

Rather than offering one-size-fits-all advice, Milan Markovic takes the time to understand each client’s industry, organizational structure and overarching goals, enabling him to tailor advice accordingly. He works alongside in-house counsel to attend to governance questions, due diligence considerations, acquisition strategies and other corporate matters while helping legal teams communicate risk and opportunity in language that resonates with business executives.

Applying deep knowledge and extensive experience to secure resolutions

Drawing on a rare combination of corporate practice, litigation experience and nationally recognized scholarship, Milan advises clients on sophisticated questions involving fiduciary duties, corporate governance and professional responsibility. He also serves as a consultant in matters involving these issues, offering nuanced analysis informed by years of research, teaching and practical experience. Whether addressing emerging challenges or helping organizations anticipate legal risks before they become business problems, Milan focuses on pragmatic solutions grounded in today’s rapidly evolving legal landscape.

Communicating complex issues with clarity

As a law professor for 15 years, Milan has developed an exceptional ability to explain complicated legal issues in a clear, concise and actionable way. Clients value his talent for mastering highly technical subjects, distilling the issues that matter most and providing counsel that empowers decision-makers to act with creativity. His academic work also keeps him at the forefront of developments affecting corporate law, legal ethics, emerging technologies and the changing role of legal departments.

Exploring the future of the legal profession

Milan’s scholarship examines how the legal profession continues to evolve, particularly as technology, artificial intelligence and new business models reshape the contours of legal services. Widely recognized as one of the country’s foremost authorities on private equity and other forms of non-lawyer investment in the legal market, he closely follows the legal, regulatory and business implications of these developments for law firms, investors and corporate legal departments alike. He also advises organizations on the ethical considerations surrounding technology adoption, helping clients position themselves for long-term success in an increasingly dynamic legal environment.

Credentials

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2006
  • New York University, M.A., 2003
  • Columbia University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2001

  • Texas
  • New York

Publications & Media

  • “Gold Rush: Lawyers are flocking to Arizona to take advantage of new rules resulting in a flood of outside investments in law firms,” Business Insider, October 19, 2022
  • “Has Deregulation Actually Improved the Legal Market?” Law360 Pulse, October 5, 2022
  • Nuno Garoupa and Milan Markovic. “Deregulation and the Lawyers’ Cartel” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law Vol. 43 Iss. 4 (2022) p. 1 – 56
  • “Protecting the Guild or Protecting the Public? Bar Exams and the Diploma Privilege” Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics Vol. 35 Iss. 2 (2022) p. 163 – 202
  • Milan Markovic and Gabrielle Plickert. “The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession” Law & Social Inquiry Vol. 47 Iss. 3 (2022) p. 1 – 32
  • “The Law Professor Pipeline” Temple Law Review Vol. 92 Iss. 4 (2020) p. 813 – 835
  • Milan Markovic and Gabrielle Plickert.”The Paradox of Minority Attorney Satisfaction,”  International Review of Law and Economics Vol. 60 (2019) p. 1 – 12
  • “Rise of the Robot Lawyers?” 61 Ariz. L. Rev. 325 (2019)
  • “Attorneys’ Career Dissatisfaction in the New Normal,” 25 Int’l J. Legal Prof.
    142 (2018) (co-authored with Gabriele Plickert) (peer-reviewed)
  • “Justice Triage,” 29 Stan L. & Pol’y Rev. Online 3 (2017)
  • “How Cosmopolitan Are International Law Professors?” 38 Mich. J. Int’l L. 119
    (2017) (co-authored with Ryan Scoville)
  • “Lawyers & the Secret Welfare State,” 85 Fordham L. Rev. 1845 (2016)
  • “Juking Access to Justice,” 29 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 63 (2016)
  • “Of Monsters and Lawyers,” 34 Crim. Just. Ethics 248 (2015) (peer-reviewed)
  • “Subprime Scriveners,” 103 KY.L.J. 1 (2014)
  • “International Criminal Trials and the Disqualification of Judges on the Basis of
    Nationality,” 13 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 1 (2014)
  • “The Sophisticates: Conflicted Representation & the Lehman Bankruptcy,” 2012
    Utah L. Rev 903 (2012)
  • “The ICC Prosecutor’s Missing Code of Conduct,” 47 Texas Int’l L.J. 201
    (2011)
  • “Advising Clients after Critical Legal Studies and the Torture Memos,” 114 W.VA.
    L. Rev. 109 (2011)
  • “Can Lawyers Be War Criminals?” 20 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 347 (2007)
  • “Vessels of Reproduction: Forced Pregnancy & the ICC,” 16 Mich. St. J. Int’l L.
    439 (2007)
  • “In the Interests of Justice? Assignment of Counsel to Slobodan Milosevic,” Note,
    18 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 947 (2005)

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