Jeff Modisett

Modisett received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles summa cum laude.{{Cite web |title=Modisett, Jeff {{!}} UCLA Law |url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jeff-modisett |access-date=2022-05-23 |website=law.ucla.edu |language=en}} He then received a J.D. from Yale Law School. He also received a M.A. from the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar in 1978.

Modisett was attorney general for the State of Indiana[http://stic.neu.edu/In/modtestimony.htm Prepared Testimony of Jeffrey A. Modisett Attorney General of Indiana before the House Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Environment Monday, December 8, 1997] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121214201618/http://stic.neu.edu/In/modtestimony.htm |date=December 14, 2012 }}{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_58454667 |title=TechNet Names New Vice-President and General Counsel - Indiana Attorney General Jeff Modisett |work=Business Wire |date=January 5, 2000 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (1996–2000), Marion County (IN) Prosecuting Attorney (1991–1994), and Deputy Chief of the Public Corruption & Government Fraud Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California (1982–88).{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DF1E31F931A15752C0A961948260 | work=The New York Times | title=Brothers Indicted In Sale Of Copters To North Korea | date=January 22, 1987 | access-date=May 6, 2010}}

Elected as Indiana attorney general in November 1996, Modisett became involved in two national efforts: the states’ legal battle against the country’s top cigarette manufacturers and the investigation of the sweepstakes industry.

He was a member of the 1997 states' negotiating team that reached a preliminary settlement, the Master Settlement Agreement with the tobacco industry, which called for historic changes in the conduct of tobacco advertising in the United States. He was chairman of the 1998 Allocation Committee, which was responsible for devising a formula for distributing the $205 billion settlement to each of the participating states and territories.

In 1998 and 1999, Modisett helped lead the state’s effort to reform the sweepstakes industry to better protect consumers, especially the elderly. He was voted one of the top lawyers in Indiana by Indianapolis Monthly magazine and, more recently, one of California’s "Superlawyers" by Los Angeles and Law & Politics magazines.{{cite web|url=http://www.superlawyers.com/california-southern/lawyer/Jeffrey-Modisett/66d40b24-8971-4c3c-a1e2-f2f4bec199af.html|title=Top Rated Los Angeles, CA State, Local & Municipal Attorney - Jeff Modisett - Super Lawyers|access-date=20 November 2016}}

As Marion County Prosecutor he led the investigation and prosecution of the former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson.{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1DC163BF933A2575AC0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | title=BOXING; Tyson Indicted on Rape Count; Bout Is Still On | first=Don | last=Terry | date=September 10, 1991 | access-date=May 6, 2010}} Other major prosecutions include U.S. v. Althea Flynt (wife of Hustler Magazine publisher; assault).

Modisett was Chairman of the Governor’s Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana (1989–2000),{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMlA_KAQ_3AC&q=commision%20for%20a%20drug-free%20indiana%20modisett&pg=PA124|title=National Drug Control Strategy (1994): Reclaiming Our Communities from Drugs & Violence|first=DIANE Publishing|last=Company|date=1 April 1994|publisher=DIANE Publishing|access-date=20 November 2016|via=Google Books|isbn=9780788107054}} and the Governor’s Council of Impaired and Dangerous Driving (1989–2000).https://archives.iupui.edu/bitstream/2450/48/1/1997%20IUSM%20news%20releases.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} He also served as President of the Family Advocacy Center (Marion County, Ind.) (1991–1994), and the Hoosier Alliance Against Drugs (1993–95).

Modisett resigned his position of attorney general in 2000 to become the Deputy CEO & General Counsel of the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles and co-CEO of TechNet, a political lobbying organization.{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HWW/is_/ai_66672343 |work=The Industry Standard |title=How Green Is His Valley |first=Scott |last=Harris |year=2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011210606/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HWW/is_/ai_66672343 |archive-date=2008-10-11 }} Modisett was the Chief Legal Officer (2011–15) at LOYAL3, a fintech company in San Francisco that provided a technology platform for online consumer stock ownership and that created the Social IPO to allow everyday Americans to invest in IPOs at the same price as the big Wall St. banks.

Modisett was recently the CEO of Nextlaw Global Referral Network LLC, a free, non-exclusive legal referral network,{{cite news|url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/dentons_launches_free_legal_referral_network_that_relies_on_new_technology|title=Dentons launches free legal-referral network that relies on new technology }}|title=Dentons launches free legal-referral network that relies on new technology. and Sr. Counsel at the international law firm of Dentons. He recently joined the Santa Monica, CA office of Sullivan & Triggs, where he serves as an advisor to Fortune 500 and high-technology companies on a number of issues, including antitrust, consumer protection, privacy and political relationships. Modisett specializes in resolving complex legal problems prior to litigation and has worked as an independent consultant specializing in state and federal government relations.[https://web.archive.org/web/20020815205856/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_24/b3787089.htm BW Online | June 17, 2002 | Commentary: The Best Defense: A Former AG] He also works as a Lecturer in Law at UCLA Law teaching The Legal & Political Importance of the State Attorneys General. {{cite web | url=https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jeff-modisett | title=Modisett, Jeff | UCLA Law }}

• "Prosecuting Mike Tyson: Boxing with the Media," Ethnographies of Law and Social Control: Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 6, pp. 145–163 (ed., Dr. S. L. Burns) 2005;{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf5qZbc_EfUC&q=modisett%20elected%20marion%20prosecuting%20attorney&pg=PA145|title=Ethnographies of Law and Social Control|first=Stacy Lee|last=Burns|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Elsevier JAI|access-date=20 November 2016|via=Google Books|isbn=9780762311286}}
• "The States and Gaming: A Brief Look at the Past, Present, and Future Through the Eyes of a Former Attorney General,"[http://www.igcouncil.org/content/view/140/99/ The Interactive Gaming Council - The IGC Presents a Case for Regulation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627004119/http://www.igcouncil.org/content/view/140/99 |date=2009-06-27 }} 6 Gaming Law Review 197, 2002;{{cite journal|title=The States and Gaming: A Brief Look at the Past, Present, and Future through the Eyes of a Former Attorney General|first=Jeffrey A.|last=Modisett|date=1 June 2002|journal=Gaming Law Review|volume=6|issue=3|pages=197–206|doi=10.1089/109218802760019628}}
• "Cyberlaw and E-Commerce: A State Attorney General’s Perspective," 94 Northwestern L. Rev. 642, 2000;{{cite journal|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-68445205|title=Cyberlaw and E-Commerce: A State Attorney General's Perspective|date=1 January 2000|access-date=20 November 2016}} and "Discovering the Impact of the ‘New Federalism’ on State Policy Makers: A State Attorney General’s Perspective," 32 Ind. L. Rev. 141, 1998.{{cite web|url=http://indylaw.indiana.edu/ilr/titles.cfm?ltr=D|title=Indiana Law Review Author Index|access-date=20 November 2016}}
• In 1999, he was the McGovern Lecturer at Ball State University, where he spoke on "The Ethics of Tobacco Lawyering: Evaluating the Hunter and the Hunted," April 13, 1999.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bsu.edu/news/article/0,1370,-1019-883,00.html |title=State attorney general to give McGovern lecture |access-date=2008-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605030554/http://www.bsu.edu/news/article/0,1370,-1019-883,00.html |archive-date=2010-06-05 |url-status=dead }}

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