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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 Georgia Law faculty in the fall of 2002, and he is now the holder of 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.

Brown's research concentrates primarily on legal ethics in the adversary system. Most recently, he examined the problems created by courts using “officer of the court” status as a reference point for determining the bounds of appropriate lawyer advocacy in “Civility and Collegiality—Unreasonable Judicial Expectations for Lawyers as Officers of the Court?” in the St. Mary’s Journal of Legal Malpractice and Ethics (Symposium Issue, forthcoming 2012).

His scholarship also involves biographical research on former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and, to date, includes: "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).

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 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 currently serves on the Drafting Committee for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam and on the State Bar of Georgia’s Formal Advisory Opinion Board.  He was also recently selected by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia as the Principal Substantive Consultant for the Court’s Local Rules Revision Project. In addition, he has been a member of the Executive Committee for the Professional Responsibility Section of the Association of American Law Schools, 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.

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 five-time recipient of the Student Bar Association's Professionalism Award and has been twice selected as an honorary faculty marshal by graduating classes.  At the University level, Brown has served as a Senior Teaching Fellow and was recently inducted into the UGA Teaching Academy.

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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