Former professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of Law and University Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Georgetown University, Michael Kelly has published on the significance of the organizational structures of law practices (Lives of Lawyers and Lives of Lawyers Revisited), and has been a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a senior fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has served for seven years on the Board of Directors, including two years as chairman, of the National Senior Citizens Law Center.