Jeff Modisett

Jeffrey A. Modisett (born August 1954) is a former attorney general of Indiana and county prosecuting attorney of Marion County, Indiana who has worked as an independent legal consultant and CEO of a global legal referral network. He is currently a Special Counsel with a boutique law firm in California.

Early life Modisett received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles summa cum laude. He then received a J.D. from Yale Law School. (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).

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

As Marion County Prosecutor he led the investigation and prosecution of the former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. 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), and the Governor's Council of Impaired and Dangerous Driving (1989–2000). He also served as President of the Family Advocacy Center (Marion County, Ind.) (1991–1994), and the Hoosier Alliance Against Drugs (1993–95).

Corporate 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. 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.

Current Modisett was recently the CEO of Nextlaw Global Referral Network LLC, a free, non-exclusive legal referral network, 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. He also works as a Lecturer in Law at UCLA Law teaching The Legal & Political Importance of the State Attorneys General.

Publications and lectures "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; "The States and Gaming: A Brief Look at the Past, Present, and Future Through the Eyes of a Former Attorney General," 6 Gaming Law Review 197, 2002; "Cyberlaw and E-Commerce: A State Attorney General’s Perspective," 94 Northwestern L. Rev. 642, 2000; and "Discovering the Impact of the 'New Federalism' on State Policy Makers: A State Attorney General's Perspective," 32 Ind. L. Rev. 141, 1998. 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.