THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TEACHING
ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM (NIFTEP)
2005 Workshop: Speakers
Clark D. Cunningham
W. Lee Burge Professor of Law & Ethics
Georgia State University College of Law
P.O. Box 4037
Atlanta, GA 30302-4037
Phone: (404) 651-1242
Fax: (404) 651-2092
Email: cdcunningham@gsu.edu
Home Page: http://law.gsu.edu/ccunningham/
On June 1, 2002 Professor Cunningham became the first incumbent of the W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics at the Georgia State University College of Law, where he teaches Professional Responsibility: Heroes & Villains, Criminal Justice Fieldwork & Law Reform, Judicial Power, and the Criminal Justice Clinic. Professor Cunningham is a widely cited expert on the lawyer-client relationship and currently directs the Effective Lawyer-Client Communication Project, an international collaboration of law teachers, lawyers and social scientists. He has also consulted around the world on reform in legal education. He is a member of the Chief Justice of Georgia's Commission on Professionalism and the Fulton County Justice Commission. He chairs the Selection Committee for the National Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism, which is co-sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism and the Conference of Chief Justices. In 2004 he served as Co-Reporter to Georgia's Commission on Indigent Defense. He previously was a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1989-2002) and the University of Michigan (1987-89).
Daisy Hurst Floyd
Dean and Professor of Law
Walter F. George School of Law
Mercer University
1021 Georgia Avenue
Macon, GA 31207-0001
Phone: (478) 301-2602
Fax: (478) 301-2101
Email: floyd_dh@mercer.edu
Daisy Floyd has a long-standing interest in the development of professional identity, including work on three different projects of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: (1) a two-year study of legal education led by former AALS president Judith Wegner, (2) a course on advanced legal ethics developed while she was a Carnegie Scholar for 2001-2, and (3) as one of two law professors participating in a 12 faculty member "Cross-Professions Seminar" led by Dr. Lee Shulman, President of the Carnegie Foundation.
Tim Floyd, Visiting Professor
Georgia State University College of Law
P.O. Box 4037
Atlanta, GA 30302-4037
Phone: (404) 651-2705
Fax: (404) 651-2092
Email: timfloyd@gsu.edu
Tim Floyd is a visiting professor at Georgia State University where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and the Capital Punishment Clinic. In his previous position as the J. Hadley Edgar Professor of Law at Texas Tech, Tim Floyd taught professional responsibility, advanced legal ethics, legal practice, interviewing and counseling, and a variety of clinical and criminal law courses. He won three different university-wide awards for excellence in teaching and chaired the Supreme Court of Texas Grievance Oversight Committee for three years. Currently he is working on an article about legal ethics and moral imagination.
Sally Evans Lockwood, Executive Director
Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism
104 Marietta Street, NW Suite 620
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Phone: (404) 225-5040
Fax: (404) 225-5041 - fax
Email: SELockwood@CJCPga.org
[New contact information as of June 1, 2006:
Sally Evans Lockwood, Director
Office of Bar Admissions
Supreme Court of Georgia
244 Washington Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
(404) 656-3490
Lockwoods@gasupreme.us
www.gabaradmissions.org]
Sally Evans Lockwood is executive director of the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, the first body of its kind in the country when it was created in 1989 by the Georgia Supreme Court. After starting her legal career in private practice in Atlanta, Sally Lockwood later became an assistant attorney general for the state of Georgia and an administrative law judge. Active in the alternative dispute resolution movement, she has served as arbitrator and mediator in numerous cases in both court-annexed and private settings. A past president of the Emory Law School Alumni Association and member of the Law School Council, she currently serves on the Board of Governors of Emory Alumni. A member of the Lumpkin Inn of Court based at the University of Georgia School of Law, she has also served on the school's Board of Visitors.
Timothy Mahoney
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Providence College
549 River Avenue
Providence, Rhode Island 02918-0001
Phone: (401) 865-2335
Email: timothymahoney@cox.net
Tim Mahoney teaches business ethics in addition to traditional philosophy courses. Before receiving his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, he had earned an Masters in Management at Northwestern's Kellogg School and pursued successful careers in accounting and finance. For the past seven years he has served on the American team of examiners for the Chartered Financial Analyst Examination, administered to over 100,000 investment professionals in 150 nations each year.
Patrick Longan, William Augustus Bootle Chair in Ethics & Professionalism
Walter F. George School of Law
Mercer University
1021 Georgia Ave.
Macon, Georgia 31210
Phone: (478) 301-2639
Fax: (478) 301-2259
E-mail: longan_p@mercer.edu
Patrick Longan holds the William Augustus Bootle Chair in Ethics and Professionalism at Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law and is the Director of the Mercer Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and came to Mercer in 2000, after practicing law for seven years in Dallas, Texas and teaching at Stetson University College of Law for nine years. Professor Longan teaches legal ethics, professionalism, and related courses at the Law School. He also serves as a member of the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, as a member of the State Bar of Georgia's Standards of the Profession Committee, as an advisor to the State Bar of Georgia's Committee on Professionalism, and as Master and Administrator for the William A. Bootle Inn of Court in Macon. Professor Longan was the recipient of the 2005 National Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Professionalism.
Russell G. Pearce, Co-Director
Louis Stein Center for Law & Ethics
Fordham University School of Law
140 W. 62d St.
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 636-6834
Fax: (212) 636-6899 att: Prof. Pearce
Email: rpearce@law.fordham.edu
Russell Pearce is a professor at Fordham Law School where he teaches Professional Responsibility, Ethics in Public Interest Law, Remedies, and the Housing Rights Clinic. He has taught at Fordham since 1990. He previously served as General Counsel to the New York City Commission on Human Rights, as a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society; as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; and as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Jose A. Cabranes. He has written extensively about legal ethics and the relation between law and religion.
Roy Sobelson
Professor
Georgia State University College of Law
P.O. Box 4037
Atlanta, GA 30302-4037
Phone: (404) 651-2079
Fax: (404) 651-2092
Email: rsobelson@gsu.edu
Home Page: http://law.gsu.edu/rsobelson/
Roy Sobelson joined the GSU College of Law faculty in 1985. He teaches Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure and Evidence, and has long served as one of the College's Mock Trial team coaches. He currently serves as Associate Dean of Students and has also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Before entering academia, he served as Managing Attorney at the Brunswick office of Georgia Legal Services, the activities of which are chronicled in Melissa Fay Greene's award winning book, Praying for Sheetrock. Professor Sobelson lectures and writes widely on Ethics and Professionalism. He has served on the Georgia Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, the Formal Advisory Opinion Board and the Clients' Security Fund, as well as acting as reporter for the Georgia Chief Justice's Commission on the Evaluation of Disciplinary Enforcement. He is a regular instructor in trial techniques and served for a year as the Interim Director of the Kessler-Eidson Program for Trial Techniques at Emory.
Robert M. Wilcox, Director
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism
University of South Carolina School of Law
701 S. Main Street
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone: (803) 777-6112
Fax: (803) 777-8613
Email: robbie@law.sc.edu
Robert M. Wilcox is a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he has taught professional responsibility, property law, and trusts and estates since 1986. He is a member of the South Carolina Chief Justice's Commission on the Profession and director of the Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough Center on Professionalism at USC. He is also a former chair of the South Carolina Bar Ethics Advisory Committee and is the author or editor of several books on legal ethics including the Annotated South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct, which is co-authored with Professor Nathan Crystal. He practiced law with the firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta prior to returning to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina.