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Seminar Title: Riveting Legal Ethics Issues and the Law
Instructor: William D. Brown, Ph.D.
2012 Seminar offered on site:
Memphis, TN: May 21, Nov 12, Dec 10
The Crescent Club, 6075 Poplar, (901) 684-1010; 8:45am - 12:00pm; business attire; continental breakfast ½ hour prior; Location: 2 lights east of I-240 in Memphis.
Offered live, on site/various locations:
Memphis, TN: May 21, November 12, December 10
Nashville, TN: May 22, November 14, December 11
Chattanooga, TN: May 23, November 15, December 12
Knoxville, TN: May 24, November 16, December 14
Jackson, TN: November 13
Johnson City, TN: December 13
Description:
An examination of legal ethics and constitutional issues focuses attention on the Westboro cause (sect demonstrations at military funerals), with a particularly close examination of the dissent in Snyder v. Phelps (US, 2011) and UPL challenges to Legal Zoom.com. Consequences of acting out by addictive personalities within the profession is considered, with an examination of addictive personalities and the reasons lawyers are prone to develop the classic addictive personality.
Credit Hours: 3 CLE Hours (Ethics/Professionalism/Elimination of Bias/Substance Abuse depending on jurisdiction)
Accreditation:
AL, AR, DE, IN, MS, MT, NJ, NM, NV, NY, PA, TX, WA, WI: 3 hrs. ethics
CA: 1 ethics/1 substance abuse/1 elimination of bias
OH: 1 ethics/1 professionalism/1 substance abuse
NC: 2 ethics/1 substance abuse
GA: 2 ethics/1 professionalism
CO, MO, WV: 3.6 hrs. ethics/general
OK, WI: 3.5 hrs. ethics/general
SC: 2 ethics/1 substance abuse or 3 ethics
TN: 3 hrs. dual
VA: 2 ethics/1 general
VT: 2 general/1 ethics
CPD – Canada – not approved
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. Legal ethics and constitutional issues
· Westboro cause (Snyder v. Phelps et al., 09-751, US, March 2, 2011)
· Majority’s opinion or Justice Alito’s dissent more in line with legal ethics?
· Accommodating blind bar applicant’s request for special equipment
· Modern Rules Preamble and Scope sections – expanded lawyer role
· Legal Zoom and UPL – a potentially imminent collision with MR 5.5
1.0 Hr. Interplay of legal ethics and ethics for practitioners
· Jury refuses to convict murderer of criminal homicide
· Grand jury indicts jury nullification advocate
· Revisiting Alexander Hamilton’s role in the trial of John Peter Zenger (1735) – when jury nullification was first addressed here
· Weighing profession’s response to life sentences for juvenile killers
· MR 1.4: Communication [Comment 7 – Withholding Information]
1.0 Hr. Consequences of acting out by addictive personalities
· Exploring addictions and lawyer culpability
· Traits of addictive personalities
· MR 8.3c: Reporting Professional Misconduct role
· Lawyer intervention; family first intervention program
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3.00 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, 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
