Roberta Cooper Ramo

Roberta Cooper Ramo is an American lawyer and President of the American Law Institute, the first woman to hold that position. She was also the first woman President of the American Bar Association, from 1995 to 1996. She is currently a shareholder at Modrall Sperling, a New Mexico law firm with offices in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

Ramo received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Colorado, and a J.D. at the University of Chicago School of Law.

In the early 1970s, Ramo took her enthusiasm about the need for automation and modern management techniques in law firms nationwide. In 1975, she wrote what one member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors later described as "a revolutionary book," titled, "How to Create a System for the Law Office" which became a bestseller. That work brought Ramo together with Miami lawyer Samuel S. Smith, who had been lecturing throughout the United States on similar themes. They, along with others, began traveling and lecturing together, doing so for seven years. They eventually cofounded the American Bar Association Economics of Law Practice Section which is today the American Bar Association Law Practice Division.

From 1977 to 1993, Ramo was a partner in the firm of Poole, Kelly & Ramo. In the fall of 1993, she moved to the Modrall Sperling law firm, the largest firm in Albuquerque. Her practice is focused on arbitration, mediation, business law, real estate, probate and estate planning. She also assists large corporations with strategic and long-term business planning.

Ramo was the first woman Chair of the Economics of Law Practice Section of the American Bar Association, from 1983-1984 and the first woman President of the American Bar Association, from 1995 to 1996. As President of the American Law Institute, Ramo heads "the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law." She has been a member of the ALI Council since 1997, and the Institute's President since 2008. She previously served as First Vice President from 2004 to 2008.

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