Scroll down to view related recommended products.
Seminar Title: Sanctions – Wearing the Shoe that Fits
Instructor: Dr. William D. Brown
2012 Seminar offered via live, #800 Conference call 1-3 PM ET:
Jun 27, Jul 18, Aug 10, Aug 27, Sep 10, Sep 27, Oct 18, Nov 9, Nov 29, Dec 14, Dec 29 (4-6pmET)
Description:
This riveting seminar focuses on determining appropriate sanctions. Though you may never have been sanctioned, how would you respond as a panel member charged with deciding which sanction to recommend when it comes to attorney misconduct? Cases focus on class counsel breaching fiduciary duty; an attorney having sexual relations with a mentally ill client; a lawyer’s intentional misuse of funds, though he avoids disbarment; prosecutorial misconduct re. a jury transcript; reasonableness of nonrefundable engagement fees, to a supervisory attorney who fails to oversee properly subordinates carrying 500+ cases at a time.
Credit Hours: 2 CLE Hours (Legal Ethics, Professionalism)
Accreditation:
AL, AR, CA, CO, DE, IA, IN, KS, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI: 2 hrs ethics
GA: 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
Seminar Content:
1.00 hr. Determining between sanctions
ABA MR 8.4: MISCONDUCT
ABA Standards and how they work
A Lawyer’s Creed – “duty to the courts and other tribunals”
Causes for further inquiry into character and fitness
A Lawyer’s Aspirational Ideals – “To model for others respect due
our courts . . .”
Factors in weighing prior conduct
1.00 hr. Assigning sanctions to be imposed in given cases, where
Class counsel breaches fiduciary duty
Attorney defends having sexual relations with a mentally ill client
Lawyer intentional misuse of funds does not = disbarment
Prosecutorial misconduct re. a jury transcript
Reasonableness of nonrefundable engagement fees
ABA MR 5.1: RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARTNERS, MANAGERS
AND SUPERVISORY LAWYERS
_________
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)
