This lecture will focus on thoughts about lawyer discipline generated by his examination of the ABA’s national registry of reported incidents of disciplinary actions taken against lawyers in relation to suggestions about what the legal profession might do differently to increase ethical lawyer behavior.
Title:
What Counts When We Count on Lawyers Being Good?
Preliminary Thoughts on the ABA National Lawyer Regulatory Data Bank
Friday, April 8 at 4 p.m.
The Universty of Akron
302 Buchtel Common. Akron, OH 44325
Speaker:
Burnele Venable Powell is the Miles and Ann Loadholt Professor at Law of the University of South Carolina School of Law. Prior to his current position, he served as Dean at the University of South Carolina School of Law and Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Law. Prior to UMKC, he was Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, where he taught legal ethics and administrative law. Before joining the North Carolina faculty in 1979, Powell was a Graduate Law Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he received his LL.M. degree. Powell also holds a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Powell’s current professional activities include ex officio membership on the South Carolina Board of Governors and chairmanship of the ABA Consortium on the Delivery of Legal Services, in connection with which he recently chaired the ABA Commission on Access to Lawyers. Powell is also a member of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s Admissions Committee.
The event is offered with support from Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, Joseph G. and Sally A. Miller Family Foundation and United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio.
One hour of free CLE offered.
Reception to follow the lecture.
To register:
Online Registration
Phone: 330-972-6363
E-mail: manovac@uakron.edu
http://www.uakron.edu/law/millerbecker/distinguishedlecturerseries.dot
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