Securities Law Techniques

Alphonse Adam Sommer, Jr. (1924-2002) was the General Editor of the Securities Regulation Series: Federal Securities Act of 1933, Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Securities Primary Law Sourcebook,and of Securities Law Techniques and Blue Sky Regulation, all from Matthew Bender.

Mr. Sommer was a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973-1976. Since 1994, Mr. Sommer has been Counsel to Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington D.C. Prior to that, he was a partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (1979-1994), Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (1977-1979), Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (1976-1977), and Calfee, Halter, Calfee, Griswold & Sommer (1950-1973).

Mr. Sommer was the Chairman of the Public Oversight Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Deputy Chairman, Capital Markets Forum, International Bar Association; and Member, Board of Governors, NASDR.

He received an A.B. from Notre Dame, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He received an LL.D. from Cleveland State University in 1976.

Mr. Sommer participated in programs with respect to capital formation in Manila, Phillippines; Jakarta, Indonesia; Seoul, South Korea; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Tokyo, Japan. In addition, he served as consultant to the governments of many countries, including Jordan, Taiwan, Egypt, and the People's Republic of China, with respect to securities regulation. He served as consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank with respect to the organization of a securities regulatory body in Trinidad and Tobago. He sits on the Advisory Board of several publications, including Securities Regulation and Law Report (BNA), Journal of Corporation Law, The Corporate Director, Corporate Accounting, and The Review of Securities Regulation. In addition, he served on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California SEC and Financial Reporting Institute.