He teaches courses on Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Conflict of Laws, and Advanced Legal Ethics. His research and scholarship have primarily focused on questions concerning the professional, ethical, and moral responsibilities of lawyers, including Virtue Ethics, Earnestness, and the Deciding Lawyer: Human Flourishing in a Legal Community, 87 N.D. L. REV. 19 (2011), Virtue and Advice: Socratic Perspectives on Lawyer Independence and Moral Counseling of Clients, 1 TEX. A&M L. REV. 1 (2013) (lead article), and Breaking Faith: Machiavelli and Moral Risks in Lawyer Negotiation, 91 N.D. L. REV._(2015)(forthcoming).