1/16/13: Spring 2013 Professionalism Series

Release Date: 1/16/2013

The Professionalism Series began with the opening of the Charleston School of Law in 2004 and has continued ever since. This series allows law students to hear firsthand accounts of professionalism in various facets of the practice of law from some of the leading attorneys and judges in the region.

This semester’s series begins with a lecture from J. Rutledge Young Jr. and M. Dawes Cooke Jr., Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Young and Cooke are speaking at the Charleston Music Hall Thursday, Jan. 17 at noon. There are five other lectures scheduled for the series.

The series is hosted by the Department of Student Affairs and aims to reinforce the role of professionalism in the field of law. For more information please call the Department of Student Affairs at 843.377.1106.  

Full Schedule:

Thursday, Jan. 17: Mark C. Tanenbaum, Esquire, J. Rutledge Young, Jr., Esquire and M. Dawes Cooke, Jr., Esquire - Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers
Location: Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.
Time: 5 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 31: The Honorable J. Michael Baxley, The Honorable R. Markley Dennis, Jr., The Honorable Deadra L. Jefferson, The Honorable Stephanie P. McDonald and The Honorable Roger M. Young, Sr. -  South Carolina Circuit Court Judges
Location: The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting St.
Time: Noon

Thursday, Feb. 7: Nathaniel Burney, Esquire of The Burney Law Firm, LLC: Award-winning New York criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor in the Manhattan DA’s Rackets Bureau and blog writer of The Criminal Lawyer           
Location: Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.
Time: 5 p.m.   

Thursday, Feb. 21: The Honorable Alexander M. Sanders Jr., Chairman of the Board of Directors, Charleston School of Law, LLC; former President of the College of Charleston and former Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals “Psychodrama in the Courtroom: A New View of Professionalism”   
Location: The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting St.
Time: Noon

Thursday, March 7: The Honorable Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court and The Honorable Stephanie P. McDonald, South Carolina Circuit Court Judge “Professionalism in the Courthouse”
Location: Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.
Time: 5 p.m.

Thursday, March 21: Parks N. Small, Federal Public Defender for the District of South Carolina “Ethics of Criminal Prosecutions”
Location: The Charleston Museum, 360 Meeting St.
Time: Noon