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Seminar Title: Bench and Bar Substance Abuse and Other Misjudgments
Instructor: Dr. William D. Brown
2012 Seminar offered via live toll-free conference call 1-3pmET (unless otherwise noted):
May 24, Jun 18, Jun 29, Jul 25, Aug 16, Sep 5, Oct 1, Oct 31, Nov 30, Dec 12, Dec 28, Dec 31
Description:
Content in this seminar focuses on the toll depression takes on lawyers, with emphasis on Alzheimer’s. Cases include lawyers involved in hit and run accidents; what happens when a helping hand is extended from the bench; the impact of alcohol on attorney conduct, and how courts respond to attorney addiction to illegal drugs. A pivotal point examines what should happen to a lawyer who takes sexual advantage of a client with diminished capacity.
Credit Hours: 2 CLE Hours (Ethics, Substance Abuse)
Accreditation:
AL, AR, CO, DE, IA, IN, KS, MS, NJ, NM, NV, NY, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI: 2 hrs ethics
SC: 2 hrs ethics or 2 hrs substance abuse
CA, NC: 1 hr ethics/1hr substance abuse
GA: 1 hr ethics/ 1 hr professionalism
MO, 2.4 hrs ethics
OH, VT: 1 hr general/1 hr ethics
OK: 2.5 hrs ethics
TN: 2 hrs. dual
WV: 2.4 hrs ethics
NJ: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2 hours of total CLE ethics credit.
This program has been accredited by the Law Society of Upper Canada for 2 Professionalism Hours and 2 New Member CPD Hours
Materials: Cases, opinions, and articles relating to seminar topic, plus appropriate correlating selections from –
The Ethics of Legal Ethics (Vol. I)
William D. Brown, Ph.D.
Washington: The Wayne Smith Company, 1995
Board of Directors – Lapdog or Watchdog?
William D. Brown, Ph.D.
Leesburg, VA: Wycliff Publishers, 2007
Dissemination: Materials sent via e-mail
Seminar Content:
1.00 hr. Impact of depression/substance abuse on lawyers
Depressed MD lawyer defrauds client
Detecting substance abuse as contributing factor/cause
of depression
Providing treatment of depression to prevent “self-
medication”
Chicken or egg: reasons for substance abuse in attorneys
PREAMBLE – ABA Rules on Professional Conduct
County Clerk forced out over Alzheimer’s charge
KS lawyer involved in hit and run accident
1.00 hr. Where is the line to be drawn on professionalism?
Associate takes rap for NJ lawyer
A Lawyer’s Creed – duty owed colleagues
Factors contributing to lawyer alcoholism
ABA MR 1.8 (j) and MR 8.4 MISCONDUCT
Lawyer has sex with client suffering from diminished capacity
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2.00 hrs. = Total CLE Credit (Legal Ethics, Substance Abuse)
Presenter:
William D. Brown, Ph.D.
mailto:wdb@trtcle.com
Education
Ph.D. - Florida State University
M.Th. - Texas Christian University
B.D. - Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
B.A. - Lynchburg College
Positions
Chairman and presenter, TRT, Inc. (1990 - present)
President, The Ethics Institute (1992 - present)
Private Practice (Clinical Psychology) (1970 - present)
Academic Appointments
Chair, Dept. of Family Psychology and Community Development, University of Maryland Department Head, Dept. of Child Development & Family Relations, and Associate Professor, Human Factors Research Laboratory, Colorado State University
Professor of Family Life, Stephens College
Psychology Instructor, United States Armed Forces Institute
Publishing/Writing
Brown, William D. Board of Directors – Corporate Governance Lapdog or Watchdog?, Leesburg, VA: Wycliff Publishers, 2007
__________________ The Ethics of Legal Ethics (Vol. 1), Washington: The Wayne Smith Company, 1995
__________________ The Right Thing: ethics inaction/ethics in action, Washington: The Wayne Smith Company, 1991
__________________ Welcome Stress! It Can Help You be Your Best, Minneapolis: CompCare Publishing Co., 1983
__________________ Families Under Stress, Washington: Prentice Hall (Brady Division), 1977
__________________ “A Social-Psychological Conceptual Framework of the Family,” (Chapter VIII) in Emerging Conceptual Frameworks in Family Analysis, F. Ivan Nye and Felix M. Berardo (eds.) New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966
Affiliations
American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility
American Psychological Association
Potpourri
Married to Nett Brown
Two children
Seven grandchildren
Veteran, United States Navy (Submarines)
