About Dennis
Dennis Lilly pursued an extended legal education in the 1960s and early 1970s. He earned a B.S. from Georgetown University in 1964, followed by an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1967. He later completed an LL.M. at New York University School of Law in 1973. Those credentials bookend a career that crosses practice and teaching.
He has served as an adjunct law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. In that capacity he has taught law students while maintaining ties to the bar. His time in the classroom reflects a professional life spent in and around legal practice rather than a move to full-time academia.
Across decades he has kept active in professional organizations. He holds memberships in the San Diego County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Virginia State Bar and the New York State Bar. He is also a member of the International Fiscal Association. Those memberships indicate participation in both local and international legal communities.
Lilly’s career path shows steady continuity. He completed his primary law degree in the late 1960s and added advanced study in the early 1970s. Since then he has balanced practice and professional involvement alongside periodic teaching. Colleagues and students have encountered him in courtrooms, meetings of professional associations and on the USD campus.
He has kept a presence in more than one legal market. Memberships in New York and Virginia bars sit alongside an active association with San Diego’s legal community. That geographic spread mirrors the sequence of his education and later professional choices. It also means he has worked within different bar frameworks and professional cultures.
In recent years he has combined part-time teaching at USD School of Law with ongoing participation in bar and professional organizations. He continues to engage in legal work while contributing to legal education and association activities. He splits his time between the classroom and practice, handling matters that relate to his longstanding involvement in the bar and his professional associations.
