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Seminar Title: Noxious Causes – Poisoning the Well of Professionalism?
Instructor: Dr. William D. Brown
2012 Seminar offered via live toll-free conference call 1-3pmET (unless otherwise noted):
Nov 26, Dec 19, Dec 30
Description:
Have you ever been asked, “How could you (or one of your peers) possibly represent _____________
(fill in a person or cause)?” Even in Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, antagonists can be found in both camps. Then when it comes to “loser pays” there are those who argue no one should expect to file a frivolous action and suffer no consequences. Come and explore where a line should be drawn in examining perplexing cases of wrongful conviction, a firm’s foreclosure debacle, a mistrial resulting from lawyer incompetence and a prominent firm’s withdrawal from a contentious representation.
Credit Hours: 2 CLE Hours (Ethics, Professionalism)
Accreditation:
AL, AR, CO, DE, IN, KS, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI: 2 hrs ethics
CA: 1 hr ethics/1 hr elimination of bias
IA: 1 hr ethics/1 hr general
GA, OH: 1 hr ethics/1 hr professionalism
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 as
Seminar Content:
1.00 hr. Legal ethics – noxious and not so noxious causes
ABA MR 6.2 ACCEPTING APPOINTMENTS
Revisiting “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Mattel v. MGA (2011) – loser pays examined
Jeffrey Paul Gioglio (2011) – duty breached to noxious client
1.00 hr. Role of professionalism – where should a line be drawn?
ABA MR 8.4 MISCONDUCT
A Lawyer’s Creed – “To the public and our system…”
The Alton Logan Case of wrongful conviction (IL)
David J. Stern firm’s foreclosure debacle (FL)
Judge declares mistrial: lawyer competence questioned (DC)
King and Spalding DOMA withdrawal sparks ethics debate
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2.00 hrs. = Total CLE Credit (2 hrs. - Legal Ethics and Professionalism)
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)
