Aviva Meridian Kaiser

State Bar of Wisconsin Madison

Aviva Meridian Kaiser is Ethics Counsel at the State Bar of Wisconsin. Prior to joining the State Bar in 2013,
she taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School for 25 years. She taught Professional Responsibilities,
Ethical and Professional Considerations in Writing, Problem Solving, and Risk Management. From 1992
until 2002, she was the Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program. Aviva received her B.A. in
Chinese from the University of Pittsburgh and her J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law
School. She clerked for the Honorable Louis B. Garippo in People v. John Wayne Gacy and clerked for the
Honorable Maurice Perlin in the Illinois Appellate Court. She practiced law in Chicago before beginning her
full-time teaching career at IIT Chicago/Kent College of Law. Aviva is a member of the State Bar of
Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Law Fellow, an American Bar Foundation Fellow, and a frequent speaker on
matters of professional ethics.