Richard Underwood
Edward T. Breathitt Professor of Law
Edward T. Breathitt Professor of Law
Professor Underwood began teaching at the University of Kentucky in 1980. Prior to that he clerked for U.S. District Judge David S. Porter (1976-78) and practiced at the Columbus, Ohio firm of Vorys, Sater Seymour and Pease. Professor Underwood served as the Chairman of the Kentucky Bar Associations Ethics Committee (1984-1998), Chairman of the Unauthorized Practice Committee (1984-1996), and Chairman of the KBA Model Rules Committee (1988-1989). He was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (2011-2014). He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Life Fellow of the Kentucky Bar Foundation. He served in the Army from 1969 to 1973, and he is a Viet Nam War Veteran.
Specialties
- Legal Ethics
- Evidence
- Insurance
- Remedies
- Trial Advocacy
Courses
- Law 890 Evidence
- Law 887 Insurance
- Law 835 Professional Responsibility
- Law 818 Remedies
Books & Book Chapters
- CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads (Shadelandhouse 2016).
- Kentucky Evidence Courtroom Manual (LexisNexis) (annual publication) (with Glen Weissenberger).
- Kentucky Legal Ethics Deskbook (Univ. of Ky. CLE, 5th ed., 2016) (with Todd B. Eberle, Timothy S. Chase, Kurt X. Metzmeier & Tracy J. Taylor).
- Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility (Little Brown & Co. / Aspen 1996) (with William Fortune & Edward Imwinkelreid).
- Medicine and the Law, in Professional and Practice Development (Emery A. Wilson & L. Reed Polk eds., 1990).
- Trial Ethics (Little Brown & Co. 1988) (with William Fortune).
Scholarly Articles
Scholarship is available for download at Richard H. Underwood's SelectedWorks page.
- A Riff on Billy the Kid, 32 Touro L. Rev. 225 (2016).
- Something Bad in Your Briefs, 37 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 369 (2013).
- Ringers Revisited, 37 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 129 (2013).
- Following the Rules: Exclusion of Witness, Sequestration, and No-Consultation Orders, 35 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 523 (2012).
- Making Stuff Up, 34 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 151 (2010).
- The Sad, Sad Story of Lula Viers, 15 J. S. Legal Hist. 259 (2007) (with Sharon Ray).
- Stella Kenney: A Little Problem in Evidence, 14 J. S. Legal Hist. 119 (2006).
- Crimesong: Some Murder Ballads and Poems Revisited, 12 J. S. Legal Hist. 5 (2004) (with Carol J. Paris).
- What I Think That I Have Learned about Legal Ethics, 39 Idaho L. Rev. 245 (2003).
- What Gets Judges in Trouble, 23 J. Nat'l Ass'n Admin. L. Judges 101 (2003).
- Not So Great Moments in Trial Advocacy: Clement Vallandigham, 13 Widener L.J. 185 (2003).
- The Attorney-Client and Work Product Privileges: The Case for Protecting Internal Investigations on the University Campus, 90 Ky. L.J. 531 (2001-2002) (with Virginia H. Underwood).
- Administrative Adjudication in Kentucky: Ethics and Unauthorized Practice Considerations, 29 N. Ky. L. Rev. 359 (2002).
- Evaluating Scientific and Forensic Evidence, 24 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 149 (2000).
- Book Review, 29 N. Ky. L. Rev. 237 (2002) (reviewing John Evangelist Walsh, Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial (2000)).
- The Professional and the Liar, 87 Ky. L.J. 919 (1999).
- Perjury! The Charges and the Defenses, 36 Duq. L. Rev. 715 (1998).
- The Limits of Cross-Examination, 21 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 113 (1997).
- Genetics, Genetic Testing, and the Specter of Discrimination: A Discussion Using Hypothetical Cases, 85 Ky. L.J. 665 (1997) (with Ronald C. Cadle).
- Perjury: An Anthology, 13 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 307 (1996).
- "X-Spurt" Witnesses, 19 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 343 (1995).
- Logic and the Common Law Trial, 18 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 151 (1994).
- False Witness: A Lawyer's History of the Law of Perjury, 10 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 215 (1993).
- Part-Time Prosecutors and Conflicts of Interest: A Survey and Some Proposals, 81 Ky. L.J. 1 (1992).
- Confessions of an Ethics Chairman, 16 J. Legal Prof. 125 (1991).
- Comments on Professor Rotunda's Essay, 76 Ky. L.J. 733 (1988).
- Taking and Pursuing a Case: Some Observations Regarding "Legal Ethics" and Attorney Accountability, 74 Ky. L.J. 173 (1985).
- Kentucky Law Survey, Insurance, 72 Ky. L.J. 403 (1984).
- Discovery in Kentucky: An Overview, 72 Ky. L.J. 727 (1984).
- Kentucky Law Survey, Evidence, 71 Ky. L.J. 287 (1983) (with Carolyn M. Geisler).
- Legal Ethics and Class Actions: Problems, Tactics and Judicial Responses, 71 Ky. L.J. 787 (1983).
- Adversary Ethics: More Dirty Tricks, 6 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 265 (1982).
- Kentucky Law Survey, Insurance, 70 Ky. L.J. 255 (1982).
- Curbing Litigation Abuses: Judicial Control of Adversary Ethics—The Model Rules of Professional Conduct and Proposed Amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure, 56 St. John's L. Rev. 625 (1982).
- The Doctor and His Lawyer: Conflicts of Interest, 30 U. Kan. L. Rev. 385 (1982).
Links
- Scholars@UK
- Underwood - CV.pdf (137.86 KB)