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Lonnie T. Brown Jr.

A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism

B.A., Emory University 
J.D., Vanderbilt University

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Courses

Civil Procedure I
Civil Procedure II
The Law and Ethics of Lawyering
Ethics in Litigation
Conflict of Laws

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Biographical Information

Lonnie T. Brown Jr. joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2002 and, eight years later, was appointed the A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism. He teaches courses in civil procedure, the law and ethics of lawyering, ethics in litigation and conflict of laws.

His recent scholarship has focused on the professional life of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and includes the following works: "A Tale of Prosecutorial Indiscretion: Ramsey Clark and the Selective Non-Prosecution of Stokely Carmichael" in the South Carolina Law Review (2010), "Ramsey Clark" in the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009) and "Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark" in the Georgia Law Review (2007).

Brown's research concentrates primarily on legal ethics in the adversary system and currently on examining the problems created by the trial courts’ confusing perceptions of litigators’ dual roles as "officers of the court" and "zealous client advocates."

Prior to joining UGA, Brown was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and served as a visiting assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. In addition, he taught at Emory University as an adjunct professor. He also served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable William C. O'Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. From 1991 to 1999, he practiced law as an associate and a partner at Alston & Bird in Atlanta.

Brown was appointed by the Supreme Court of Georgia in 2004 to a three-year term as a member of the Review Panel of the State Disciplinary Board for the State Bar of Georgia, serving as the vice chair of that body during his final year. In addition, he has been a member of the Executive Committee for the Professional Responsibility Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance, the American Bar Association's Center for Professional Responsibility and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. He is also a master in the Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court.

In 2007, Brown was the recipient of the inaugural C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching, formerly the Student Bar Association Faculty Book Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is also a four-time recipient of the Student Bar Association's Professionalism Award.  Most recently, he was selected as a Senior Teaching Fellow for the 2011-12 academic year by UGA’s Center for Teaching and Learning and was chosen by the 2011 graduating class to serve as an honorary marshal at its commencement ceremony.

Brown earned his Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University, where he was a Patrick Wilson Scholar and editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He earned his bachelor's degree from Emory University, where he was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar, student body president and a recipient of the Marion Luther Brittain Award, Emory's highest student honor.

He and his wife, Kim, have two daughters, Sophie and Olivia.

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