Helen W GunnarssonHelen W. Gunnarsson is an associate counsel for the American Bar Association's Center for Professional Responsibility in Chicago, where she is a member of the team that reports, writes, and edits articles and chapters on lawyer ethics and professionaism for the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual On Professional Conduct, a joint publication of the American Bar Association and Bloomberg BNA. Before joining the ABA, she was a freelance contributing writer on substantive and timely law practice topics for the Illinois State Bar Association, pioneering ISBA's nightly e-mail case digests and other e-mail newsletters and writing the LawPulse feature in the Illinois Bar Journal, ISBA's flagship monthly publication, from its inception in 2001 and most of the IBJ's cover stories from late 2005 through February, 2012. She was an online CLE presenter for MentorCLE.com and has trained employers in anti-harassment practices.

Helen has published extensively and is a frequent presenter on lawyer ethics and the business of law. Her professional experience includes nearly ten years as an administrative law judge for the Illinois Human Rights Commission as well as positions as an assistant state's attorney for Peoria County, a solo practitioner and special assistant state's attorney in Galesburg, IL, and a Reginald Heber Smith staff attorney for West Central Illinois Legal Assistance (now part of Prairie State Legal Services) in Galesburg. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Illinois College of Law.

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