Jayne provides ethics and regulatory advice to lawyers and legal service providers and serves as Deputy General Counsel to FisherBroyles LLP, a distributed global law firm. An experienced commercial trial lawyer, Jayne is a highly sought after arbitrator and mediator on the national rosters of the American Arbitration Association for Commercial and Consumer Arbitration proceedings.

Jayne is a nationally renowned expert on legal ethics and professionalism. Prior to joining FisherBroyles, she served as Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism and as disciplinary counsel for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. Jayne draws on her extensive experience as trial lawyer, legal ethics expert, and professionalism advocate as she advises, writes, and speaks on lawyer regulatory issues, professional responsibility, and increasing the effectiveness and efficiency in the legal system.

Jayne has been frequently honored for her leadership, including by appointments to Chair the ABA’s Standing Committee on Professionalism for three consecutive terms, being named an ABA Legal Rebel, and by receiving the Center for Professional Responsibility’s highest lifetime honor: The Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award.

Jayne is active in many bar associations at the local state and national levels, including the Association for Professional Responsibility Lawyers and the American Bar Association.

E-mail: jayne.reardon@fisherbroyles.com