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Lonnie T. Brown Jr.
Professor of Law
B.A., Emory University
J.D., Vanderbilt University
Courses
Civil Procedure I
Civil Procedure II
Legal Profession
Ethics in Litigation
Conflict of Laws
Biographical Information
Lonnie T. Brown, Jr., joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2002 and teaches courses in civil procedure, legal profession and conflict of laws.
His recent scholarship includes: "Ramsey Clark" in the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009), "Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark" in the Georgia Law Review (2007) and "'Lawyers' not 'Liars': A Modified Traditionalist Approach to Teaching Legal Ethics" in the Saint Louis University Law Journal (2007). He is currently continuing his biographical research regarding former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
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 law clerk for Judge 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 served on the Executive Committee for the Professional Responsibility Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and is currently a member of the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance as well as a member of 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 three-time recipient of the Student Bar Association's Professionalism Award.
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. At Emory, Brown was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar, student body president and a recipient of the Marion Luther Brittain Award.
He and his wife, Kim, have two daughters, Sophie and Olivia.
ARTICLES
Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark, 42 Ga. L. Rev. 47 (2007).
“Lawyers” Not “Liars”: A Modified Traditionalist Approach to Teaching Legal Ethics, 51 St. Louis U. L.J. 1119 (2007).
A Teacher's Teacher, 39 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 1405 (2006).
Reconsidering the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: A Response to the Compelled-Voluntary Waiver Paradox, 34 Hofstra L. Rev. 897 (2006); reprinted in the Corporate Practice Commentator (Thomson/West, forthcoming) .
'May It Please the Camera ..., I Mean the Court'--An Intrajudicial Solution to an Extrajudicial Problem, 39 Ga. L. Rev 83 (2004); also published in A Century of Legal Ethics: Trial Lawyers and the ABA Canons of Professional Ethics (Lawrence J. Fox, Susan R. Martyn & Andrew S. Pollis, ed.) (ABA Publishing, 2009).
Ethics 2000 and Beyond: Reform or Professional Responsibility as Usual?: Foreword, 2003 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1173 (2003)
Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: Professional Misconduct, Not Legitimate Advocacy, 22 Rev. Litig. 209 (2003).
Ending Illegitimate Advocacy: Reinvigorating Rule 11 Through Enhancement of the Ethical Duty to Report, 62 Ohio St. L.J. 1555 (2001).
"Ramsey Clark" in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (R. Newman, ed.) (Yale University Press, 2009).
A Practitioner's Perspective on Academia, Nat'l Association for Law Placement Bulletin, Vol. 12, No. 3 (March 1999).
Contact Information
University of Georgia
School of Law
327 Rusk Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-1675
Fax: (706) 542-7404
Email: ltbrown@uga.edu
Administrative Support
Shawn Lanphere
Phone: (706) 542-9357
Email: shawlan@uga.edu
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