Seminar Title: Legal Ethics in a Changing Landscape
Instructor: William D. Brown, Ph.D.
2012 Seminar offered on site in Washington, DC: December 18
The City Club at Columbia Square, 555 13th Street NW, (202) 347-0818; 1:00pm – 5:15pm; lunch provided; business attire is required by this club.
2012 Seminar offered: Live, on-site, various locations:
Washington, DC: December 18
Wilmington, DE: December 20
Description:
“How will rule changes proposed by the Ethics 20/20 Commission affect you?” This is one of many interesting questions explored in this riveting seminar examining the future of outsourcing and whether new rules are needed when representing sophisticated clients. Other arresting topics in include the future of legal education and how this will affect future and present practitioners as well as professionalism. Will more attorneys work for free – some already are and not just in pursuit of pro bono. Additionally, this session examines the impact of mental illness on the profession, especially depression, and its accompanying melancholy.
Credit Hours: 4 CLE Hours (Legal Ethics, Professionalism, Elimination of Bias, Substance Abuse – depending upon jurisdiction)
Materials: Cases, Opinions and articles relating to seminar topic, please 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 Publishing, 2007
Dissemination: Materials distributed on-site
Seminar Content:
1.0 hr. Rule changes examined by the Ethics 20/20 Commission
· ABA MR 7.1: Communications Concerning a Lawyer’s Services
· Matter of Keller (IN, 2003)
· ABA MR 1.1: Competence – new Comment 6
· Outsourcing – gone for good or returning soon?
· New Rules for sophisticated clients
1.0 hr. Legal Education – wither thou goest?
· Rising costs
· Slimmer pickings
· ABA MR 5.7: Responsibilities Regarding Law-Related Services
· Legal Scholarship – who pays?
· The future: No paycheck at the end of the road?
1.0 hr. Was Heraclitus right – “Nothing is permanent but change”?
· Law stagnation here to stay?
· How we got from there to here
· Interconnected forces affecting change
· A Lawyer’s Aspirational Ideas – As to the courts – a)1) avoiding nonessential litigation
· ABA Preamble: A Lawyer’s Responsibilities (1-5)
· A Lawyer’s Creed – to the Profession I offer . . .assistance . . .calling
· Impact on professionalism
1.0 hr. Impact of mental illness on the profession
· Discrimination against depressed lawyer
· ABA MR 8.3: Reporting Professional Misconduct
· Waking to reality - a real bummer
· Dealing with depression – substance abuse as a correlate
· Treatment of substance abuse as a contributing factor
· A terrible melancholy for practitioners
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4.0 hrs = Total CLE Credit
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, Dr. William D.
Board of Directors – Corporate Governance Lapdog or Watchdog?, Leesburg, VA;
Wyclliff 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)
