Scott Kozlov is currently the Chief Ethics Officer and Legal Counsel for Cook County Clerk’s Office, where he oversees ethics and compliance efforts, policy enforcement, and investigations of statutory and ordinance violations, among other legal matters. From 2000-2020, he was counsel with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (“ARDC”), investigating and prosecuting hundreds of attorney misconduct matters, assisting in drafting Supreme Court Rule amendments, presenting at attorney ethics seminars, and participating in public outreach programs.

While at the ARDC, he was promoted to Senior Counsel and, for the last five years, served as Director of Unauthorized Practice of Law Litigation (“UPL”). From 1996-2000, he was an Assistant Public Guardian in Cook County, representing abused and neglected children. Early in his career, he was an Investigator with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Court Coordinator for Cook County Judge William Maki, and an associate with a general practice law firm in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Mr. Kozlov has also been extremely active with professional organizations. He chaired the Chicago Bar Association’s Government Service Committee (2004), and its Unauthorized Practice and Multidisciplinary Practice Committee (2007-2023). He has been appointed to the Illinois State Bar Association’s Task Force on the UPL (2009-2023), and the American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) Standing Committee on Client Protection (2014-2018). On three occasions (2015, 2017, & 2022), Mr. Kozlov was Chair of the ABA’s UPL School, a national conference that educates attorneys on unauthorized practice matters. Since 2019, he has served as Chair of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Continuing Legal Education Committee. In addition, he has been Chair of the Northwest Suburban Bar Association’s Ethics Committee, a Judicial Evaluation Committee Investigator for the Suburban Bar Coalition, and a member of the National Organization of Bar Counsel’s Committee on the Future of the Legal Profession. Finally, Mr. Kozlov has been an Adjunct Professor teaching professional responsibility for the UIC/John Marshall Law School in Chicago (2016) and the Loyola University School of Law (2018 to date). On a personal note, Mr. Kozlov was a nationally ranked competitive figure skater and has been a professional skating instructor for several suburban park districts over the last 25 years.