Alton B. Harris is a founding partner of Ungaretti & Harris, a Chicago-based law firm with approximately 100 lawyers. He concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate finance and financial regulation, focusing particularly on the federal regulation of financial institutions, products and services. The National Law Journal named him as one of the 50 outstanding securities lawyers in the United States. Harris graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern University Law School, where he teaches courses on the regulation of derivative products and the financial markets. He served as a consultant to the Reporter for the American Law Institute's Federal Securities Code. Harris was a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers. He is a member of the American Law Institute and the Committee on Securities Regulation of the American Bar Association. He is a Life Trustee of the American Bar Foundation. He served for 14 years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Columbia College Chicago, and he remains a Life Trustee of this 10,000-student college. He is a past chairman of the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Wine and Foods.
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