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Seminar Title: Compatibility of Legal and Judicial Ethics
Instructor: Dr. William D. Brown
2012 Seminar offered via live toll-free conference call 1-3pm ET (unless otherwise noted):
Jun 14, Jul 11, Aug 1, Aug 23, Sep 17, Oct 5, Oct 25, Nov 15, Dec 10, Dec 28 (4-6pmET)
Description:
This seminar examines multiple cases, including conflict issues where counsel sleeps with his client’s wife during his client’s trial and where two juvenile court judges received kickbacks for incarcerating more youth in a privately owned facility. How should legal and judicial ethics apply when a former court appointed attorney – now a sitting judge – billed the county for what amounts to two and a half full-time jobs while serving as appointed defense counsel? What are distinguishing differences between lawyer and judicial ethics or should the two be equivalent?
Credit Hours: 2 CLE Hours (Ethics)
Accreditation:
AL, AR, CA, CO, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI: 2 hrs ethics
MO, WV: 2.4 hrs ethics
OK: 2.5 hrs ethics
TN: 2 hrs dual
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 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. Comparing MR of Professional Conduct with MC of Judicial Conduct
ABA MR 8.2; MR 8.3 and MR 8.4
ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct - Canons 1; 2 and 4
Increase for court appointment death penalty lawyers
Judicial Hearing Officers – stay on, but no pay
1.00 hr. Examining Lawyer and Judge Misconduct
Jailed WI lawyer retains license
Busy judge bills county for 2 ½ full time jobs
Official oppression – teen truants jailed
Client’s wife sleeps with husband’s counsel throughout trial
Conflict issues: judges receive kickbacks from juvenile detention centers
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2.00 hrs. = Total CLE Credit (Legal Ethics)
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)
