John R. Price is a graduate of the University of Florida and the New York University School of Law where he was a Root-Tilden Fellow, an editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He is Professor of Law Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the University of Washington School of Law where he was a member of the faculty in 1969-1997 and Dean in 1982-1980. He is a member of the bars of Washington and California (inactive) and from 1976-2004 was Of Counsel to Perkins Coie, LLP, Seattle, Washington. Professor Price has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Florida (1989) and the University of Michigan (1982), and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Miami Graduate Program in Estate Planning (1994, 2003, 2004). In 1995 Professor Price was Christensen Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford.

Professor Price is the author of Contemporary Estate Planning (1982, 1992, and 2000) and co-author, with Sam Donaldson, of Price on Contemporary Estate Planning (2006-2011). He is the author of a BNA portfolio, "Conflicts, Confidentiality, and Other Ethical Considerations in Estate Planning" and co-author of a portfolio on "Community Property." He was the Reporter for, and the principal author of, the 1993 and 1995 editions of the ACTEC Commentaries on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Professor Price is a fellow and former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of the American Law Institute, a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an Emeritus member of the Advisory Committee for the Heckerling Institute.