How To Be A Civil Rights Activist

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1 Raymond M. Brown is a partner in the Litigation Department of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP and is the Chair of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Compliance Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in internal investigations, corporate compliance and all other aspects of white collar criminal defense. Mr. Brown has been a trial lawyer, teacher and legal journalist since He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. He is a past president of the Association of Criminal Trial Lawyers of New Jersey and former member of the Board of Directors and former Parliamentarian of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has handled a wide variety of US criminal and civil matters representing individuals and corporations. He has appeared in high profile trials such as the nine-month trial involving former Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan and the successful eight-year defense of senior executives of a major multinational corporation charged with environmental violations. Brown has also represented corporations and government entities in complex commercial litigation. He has appeared in courts in 12 states and conducted investigations throughout the US as well as in Kenya, El Salvador, the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, the Bahamas, Colombia, and Sierra Leone. Mr. Brown is a member of the New Jersey and New York Bars. Brown also has significant international experience qualifying as Counsel before the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and having served as Co-Lead Defense Counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He is the Host of the Emmy Award winning New Jersey Network Program "Due Process and has provided legal analysis and coverage for many broadcast venues. Mr. Brown has taught International Criminal Law in the Seton Hall/American University Program at Cairo, Egypt and at Seton Hall University s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. In addition to teaching International Criminal Law at Seton Hall University School of Law where he is a Visiting Professor and Research Scholar, he has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Professional Responsibility and Advanced Criminal Procedure. He has spoken on over 200 occasions to criminal and civil lawyers, law enforcement personnel and judges, students and a variety of citizen groups. His subjects have included trial advocacy, ethics, race, human rights and international law, the art of persuasion, and educational policy. Mr. Brown was recently quoted on the Council on Foreign Relations web site regarding Hamden v. Rumsfeld, the landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the military commissions do not comply with U.S. military law, the laws of war, or the Geneva Conventions, which protect the rights of detainees during wartime. Mr. Brown is a graduate of Columbia University and received his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

2 C O N T E N T S Page BIO IN BRIEF... Cover PERSONAL AND CAREER INFORMATION...1 PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES...3 TRIAL EXPERIENCE...5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE...6 PUBLICATIONS...7 SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS...10 MEDIA EXPERIENCE i -

3 BORN August 24, 1946 Jersey City, New Jersey CHILDREN Chad Brown dob 1/15/75 Elena Brown dob 5/7/77 PERSONAL & CAREER INFORMATION EDUCATION B.A Columbia University J.D Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley BAR ADMISSIONS New Jersey 1974 New York 1983 Special Court for Sierra Leone 2004 International Criminal Court 2006 EMPLOYMENT Partner, Chair White Collar Crime Practice Group Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP P.O. Box 5600 Woodbridge, NJ to Present Law Offices Raymond M. Brown 50 Park Place, Suite 1400 Newark, NJ Phone Brown & Brown One Gateway Center Newark, NJ VISITING PROFESSOR & RESEARCH SCHOLAR Seton Hall University, School of Law Newark New Jersey present ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF LAW Seton Hall University, School of Law American University Cairo International Law Program

4 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR Seton Hall University, School of Diplomacy and International Relations present HOST "DUE PROCESS" New Jersey Network 50 PARK PLACE Newark, NJ Present HOST "INSIDE THE LAW" Syndicated Public Television Program (1997) LEGAL ANALYST MSNBC ( ) ANCHOR Court TV REPORTER Amsterdam News ( ) Jersey Journal (Summers ) - 2 -

5 Fellow of The American College Of Trial Lawyers PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Fellow of The American Board of Criminal Lawyers Van Y. Clinton Award For "...Excellence as a tireless advocate for just causes." From The Garden State Bar Association (NJ) Macon B. Allen Recognition Award From The Macon B. Allen Black Bar Association (Queens NY) Distinguished International Award National Council of Women of the USA Humanitarian Award Minority Task Force, New Jersey State Bar Association Garden State Bar Association > Vice President 1979 Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey > Founding member > Vice President > President National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers 1 > Member Board of Directors > Parliamentarian Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey > Vice President > Trustee , 2006-Present Fellow, American Bar Foundation Member, Board of Directors, The American Judicature Society, 1999 Member, Board of Directors, Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) Present Member Board of Directors Interfaith Center of New York Present - 3 -

6 Member, Editorial Board, New Jersey Law Journal, Member, NJ Supreme Court Special Committee to Assess Criminal Division Needs Member, NJ Supreme Court Task Force on Sanctioning and Probation, Committee on Sanctioning Member, NJ Supreme Court Ad Hoc Committee on Jury Selection Member, NJ Supreme Court Board on Trial Attorney Certification Master, C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court, Rutgers University Faculty, National Criminal Defense College, Mercer Law School, Macon, Georgia 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997 Faculty, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, New York, New York 1993, 1994, 1996 Appearances, Hitler s Courts Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany, 2006 Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Narrator & Co-Author 2, "Lawyers Can Make a Difference" Video for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, October 1997 Faculty, International Law Program, American University-Cairo & Seton Hall Law School, Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, June-July 1998 & 1999 Narrator, "The State of Punishment - Sentencing Policy in America", Video for the American Judicature Society, 1998 Campaign Manager Countywide and Municipal political campaigns in New Jersey 1978 & 1988 Board Member, Fair Share Housing Inc Present Member, Citizens Advisory Committee, New Jersey Conference on Minority Males 1992 Co-Chair, Criminal Justice Task Force, New Jersey Black Issues Convention Member, Board of Directors, National Council on Crime and Delinquency Co-Chair, Legal Track, Seventh International Conference on Drug Policy Reform

7 TRIAL EXPERIENCE CRIMINAL DEFENSE Concerning Serious Violations of international humanitarian law; violations of domestic law including inter alia, murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, drug violations, gambling, bank fraud, official misconduct, prison escape, bribery, extortion, sexual offenses, child abuse, IRS violations, RICO violations, environmental pollution, etc. including numerous multi-defendant cases and matters of considerable complexity and length. CIVIL MATTERS Including internal investigations, administrative law (e.g., first Contested Casino License Procedure in New Jersey), educational matters, disciplinary matters for lawyers, doctors, dentists, personal injury claims, civil rights violations, medical malpractice, land use, and arbitrations of significant commercial claims between public entities and victim representation before the International Criminal Court. JURISDICTIONS Trials in state Courts of New Jersey, New York and Maryland; Federal District Courts in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Delaware, Special Court for Sierra Leone -- appearances in state courts of Delaware, Georgia and Massachusetts; Federal District Courts in Florida, California, Texas, Virginia, Maryland and numerous appellate court appearances. INVESTIGATIONS Conducted throughout the United States and in Kenya, El Salvador, Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Bahamas, United Kingdom, Colombia, and Sierra Leone

8 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Visiting Professor And Research Scholar At Seton Hall University Law School present- Subjects Taught: Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, Death Penalty Seminar, Advanced Criminal Procedure Adjunct Professor Of Law at Seton Hall University, School Of Law American University Cairo Program Taught "International Criminal Law" 3 Adjunct Professor Seton Hall University School Of Diplomacy And International Relations Spring "International Criminal Law" Spring 2005 Peacemaking and Peacekeeping - 6 -

9 PUBLICATIONS L e g a l W r i t i n g s A Nontoxic Ounce of Prevention, Notes on Handling Enron-era Environmental Investigation, New Jersey Law Journal, Vol. CLXXXVI-No. 10, Index 924, December 4, 2006 When the Government Knocks Biz India, May/June 2007 Debate About Department of Justice and Attorney-Client Privilege Continues What s Brewing, January, 2007 The Significance of the Kidnapping/Murder of Defense Counsel, Essay, The Grotian Moment: The Saddam Hussein Trial Blog, October 25, reproduced in Saddam On Trial, Understanding and Debating the Iraqi High Tribunal, Edited by Michael P. Scharf and Gregory S. McNeal 2007 Cascading Ironies: The American Perspective on Nuremberg, The Nuremberg Trials International Criminal Law Since 1945, Die Nürnberger Prozesse Völlerstrafrecht seit 1945, Edited by Herbert R. Reginbogin and Christoph J. M. Safferling, 2006 K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Munchen I Into Thou: American Resistance to Narratives of International Humanitarian Law Violations Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Law Review, Fall 2005 The American Taliban versus the Junior Beltway Sniper: Toward Understanding Death, Brainwashing, Terror, and Race in the Court of Public Opinion De Paul Law Review, Vol. 53, Summer 2004, Symposium Issue Dangerous Books: The Perils in Black-on-Black Opinion, Angela Dodson [One of six commentators asked to respond to whether Ward Connerly s Creating Equal, My Fight Against Race Preferences is dangerous to our community. ] Black Issues Book Review, January-February 2001 A Ransom Note From The Opposition To The Proposed Rules Of Ethics For Legal Commentators [Comment on Professors Levenson & Chemerenskys' Advocacy of A Code of Ethics for Legal Commentators] Mercer Law Review, Vol. 50, No 2, Spring 1999, Symposium Issue The "Good Person" Question: Valid Query or Hobson's Choice? [Comment on Professor Steve Gillers' Draft Paper "Can a Good Lawyer Be a Bad Person?"] Hofstra School of Law Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics, Vol. 2, Spring 1999, Symposium Issue - 7 -

10 A Fronte Praceipitium A Tergo Lupi: 5 Toward an Assessment of the Trial of Dusko Tadic before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 3, No. 2, Winter 1997 A Plan to Preserve an Endangered Species: The Zealous Criminal Defense Lawyer Symposium - Responsibilities of the Criminal Defense Attorney Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, November 1996 Peremptory Challenges as a Shield for the Pariah, American Criminal Law Review, 31 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1203, Summer 1994 At The Bar "Raymond M. Brown on Criminal Defense Openings and Closings," an interview by Judy Usdan, Trial Briefs February 2000 (Published by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers) HOLLYWOOD v THE TRIAL BAR Hudson Headnotes, Fall 1994 Adieu Nixon, A Dark Day is Done! The Champion, Informal Opinion, Vol. XVIII, No. 7, August 1994 It s Just Not Right: Reflections on Rodney King and His Case The Champion, Vol. XVI, No. 6, July 1992; reprinted, CACJ Forum, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1992 NACDL, The Black Community and the War on Drugs The Champion, Vol. XIV, No. 9, November 1990; reprinted, National Conference on Sentencing Advocacy (Litigation and Administrative Practice Series, Criminal Law and Urban Problems Course Handbook, Series Number 159, Practicing Law Institute, 1991) The Black Community and the War on Drugs in The Great Issues of Drug Policy, Edited by Arnold S. Trebach, Kevin B. Zeese (Drug Policy Foundation 1990) B o o k R e v i e w s Review: No Equal Justice Race and Class in the American Justice System by David Cole, Black Issues Book Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, May/June 1999 Review: Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester by Derrick Bell, African American Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 1996 Letting Go: Christopher Darden Looks Back Through His Angst Review: In Contempt, by Christopher Darden with Jess Walter, QBR: The Black Book Review, Vol. 3, No.4, May/June

11 Epistle from Hell Review: Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu Jamal, QBR: The Black Book Review, Vol. 3, No.1, Sept/Oct 1995, reprinted, In Defense of Mumia Edited by S.E. Anderson, Tony Medina (Writers and Readers Publishing, 1996) Robes on, Gloves Off Review: Black Judges on Justice: Perspectives from the Bench by Linn Washington, Black Issues in Higher Education Vol. 12, No. 9, June 29, 1995 Review: Race Matters, by Cornel West The Champion, Vol. XVII, No. 9, November 1993 General Musings The Right to Silence: Striking Down Miranda Will Not Help the Search for Truth Newark Star Ledger, June 11, 2000 Who Will Speak for Amadou Diallo? MSNBC.COM, January 2000 The Political Economy of Race, Class and Social Death Souls, A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter Challenging the New Eugenics: Can College Presidents Be Taught to Read? Black Issues in Higher Education, Forum, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 9, 1995 Race, Sex and I.Q.-Hyping the New Eugenics Drumbeat, Vol. 7, No. 2, February 1995 Columbia, Seven Interviews Partisan Review, Stephen Donadio, Summer

12 PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS 7 Trainer with W.Akin, Evidence Analysis of the Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court: Issues Arising from the Victim Application Process. Seventh Seminar for Counsel, Registry, International Criminal Court Hague, Netherlands, May 2009 Speaker with W.Akin, The Darfur Crisis and the International Criminal Court Central New Jersey Chapter of The United Nations Association of the United States of America and The Riverside Club for the Second Annual International Women s Day Observance Somerset Hills Hotel, Warren, New Jersey, March 2009 Dinner Speaker, Death at the Hands of Parties Uknown Commemoration of the NAACP s 100 th Anniversary, Middlesex County Bar Association and Foundation, Edison January 2009 New Jersey Lecturer with W.Akin, Changes in International Legal Norms, Arab Diplomats Training Programme, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) (Nigeria House New York, September 12, 2008 Lecturer with W.Akin, Representing Darfurian Victims Before the ICC in the Hague Learning about Conflict Resolution & Peace-building: A Training Course for the Sudanese Liberation Movement Swiss Peace and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Entebbe, Uganda, July 2008 Presenter with W. Akin, The Existence of a Duty to Prevent Genocide Under the Language of the Convention, The Darfur Situation The United Nations Genocide Convention: A 60 th Anniversary Commemoration, Rutgers Law Review, April 2008 Rutgers Law School, Newark, Moderator, Panel on Gang Violence, panelists Cumberland County Prosecutor Ronald Casella, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Sweeney Hayden, former Attorney General Peter C. Harvey, Deputy Public Defender Michael J. Marucci, former Newark Chief Municipal Judge Julien X. Neals, Aidan O'Connor from the U.S. Attorney's Office, First Assistant Attorney General John Vazquez, and Essex County Criminal Division Presiding Judge Donald Volkert, Conference on Gang Violence II, New Jersey State Bar Association. March 2008 New Brunswick New Jersey Lecturer, Makin Sure the First Shot Hits the Mark Winning Open Statements, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Midwinter Seminar, Tucson, Arizona, February

13 Moderator, Race and Religion in 2008, Diversity Day, Seton Hall Law School, February 2008, Newark, New Jersey Keynote Speaker, The New Jersey State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, Somerset, NJ, January 2008 Speaker, Darfur, Sierra Leone and Beyond, Latino History Month Celebration, Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility, Bordentown, New Jersey, December 2007 Lecturer w/w. Akin, Darfur Victim Participation Before the International Criminal Court, Council meeting and General Assembly, International Criminal Bar (Barreau Pénal International), Association of the Bar of the City of New York, December 2007 Commentator w/w. Akin on War Crimes Research Office s Report on Victim Participation Before the International Criminal Court New York, NY December, 2007 Speaker w/b. Goldstein, Note to General Counsels: McNulty Made your Jobs Harder, New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association, Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, New Jersey, November 2007 Panelist, Courage and Commitment: What are our responsibilities to our students? Annual Meeting MSCROA (Middle States Association of Collegiate Registrars and Officers of Admission) Atlantic City, New Jersey, November, 2007 Lecturer, w/w. Akin, Women Acting for Peace and Justice in Darfur, Amnesty International Group 13, University of Connecticut-Stamford, October, 2007 Luncheon Speaker, Prosecutors, Power, and Professional Ethics: From the Thompson Memorandum to the International Criminal Court & the Special Court for Sierra Leone Lawyering At the Edge, Unpopular Clients, Difficult Cases, Zealous Advocates, Hofstra Law School Legal Conference, Hofstra University School of Law, Long Island, New York, October 2007 Lecturer, w/w. Akin, Special Problems in International Criminal Law, Arab Diplomat Training Program UNITAR, Nigeria House, New York, September 2007 Panelist, International Crisis in Darfur: What Young People Can Do Right Now, Tavis Smiley Foundation 2007 Leadership Institute, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, August 2007 Panelist, The Iraq War and The USA Patriot Act; Developing a Civil Rights International and Domestic Law Practice and More! The National Bar Association, 82 nd Annual Convention and Exhibits, Atlanta, GA, August

14 Remarks, Newark Reentry Legal Services (ReLeSe) Network, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ, May 2007 Moderator, Urban Gun Violence A Time for Solutions, BlueWaveNJ, CeasefireNJ, NJ Million Mom March, Rutgers Law School, Newark, NJ, May Moderator, From Wannabees to Youth Offenders: How Gangs Are Permeating New Jersey Communities And What Intervention Efforts Can Stem The Violence, Annual Meeting, New Jersey State Bar Association, Atlantic City, NJ, May 2007; Panelists: inter alia Hon. Cory Booker, Hon. Peter C. Harvey, Hon. Katherine Sweeney Hayden 9 Moderator, Hostile Educational Environment the Supreme Court s Decision in L.W. v. Toms River Regional Schools: Is School Bullying Really a Problem That Can Be Addressed By the NJ Law Against Discrimination? Annual Meeting, New Jersey State Bar Association, Atlantic City, NJ, May Speaker, Investigations by Outside Counsel (Thompson, McNulty, U.S. v. Stein), 20 th Annual Corporate Counsel Conference, National Bar Association, Commercial Law Section, Miami, FL 2007 Moderator, Jamestown Years in Retrospect: A Cross-Cultural Look at the First Settlement, The College of William & Mary, Williamburg, VA, Feb. 2007; Panelist: inter alia Ira Berlin, Cornel West 11 Lecturer, w/w. Akin, Tolerance, Peace, Right Action, & Yoga, The Hard & Soft Astanga Yoga Institute, March 2006, Eleuthra, Commonwealth of the Bahamas Lecturer, w/w. Akin, Humanity on Trial: Sierra Leone, Darfur and Beyond. Americans for Informed Democracy & Student Forum of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy; Baker Institute, Rice University, Houston Texas, February 2006 Lecturer, w/w. Akin, Humanity on Trial: Sierra Leone, Darfur and Beyond. Americans for Informed Democracy, Union of the Politically Progressive, St. Joseph s University, Houston Texas, February 2006 Lecturer, w/w. Akin, Humanity on Trial: The Tragedy of Sierra Leone, Faculty & Student Presentations; South Texas College of Law, Houston Texas, February 2006 Panelist, State of the Black Union VII: Covenant with Black America, Tavis Smiley Group/ Live C-Span, February 2006, Houston Texas Keynote Speaker, Just Beyond the Horizon: African Americans and the Longest Journey Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs, Opening Ceremony, African American History Month, Essex County College, New Jersey, February

15 Special Reflections and Remarks on Dr. King, Interfaith Service Honoring Dr. King, Salem Baptist Church, Jersey City, New Jersey, January 2006 Panelist, Comparison of Common Law & Civil Law Sytems & Advocacy before the International Criminal Court: Evidential Issues Hague Course, Advocacy Before the ICC International Criminal Bar & National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & International Criminal Defense Attorneys Association Universiteit Leiden, Campus Den Haag, Netherlands, November 2005 Presenter, Nuremberg Principles Today and in the International Criminal Court, 60 Years After the Nuremberg Trials: A Conference Commemorating the Living Legacy of Robert Jackson, - The Chautauqua Institution & The Robert H. Jackson Center & The State University of New York at Fredonia, Chautauqua, NY, September 2005 Breakfast Speaker, The Art of Advocacy in the 21 st Century, NJ Office of the Public Defender Annual Training Conference, Atlantic City, NJ, September, 2005 Speaker, The American Perspective on Nuremberg, Judging Nuremberg: The Laws, The Rallies, The Trials, Touro Law Center, Courtroom 600, Justice Palace, Nuremberg, Germany, July, 2005 Special Guest Speaker, The American Jury: We the People in Action, Law Day Luncheon, Mercer County Bar Association, Trenton, May 2005 Keynote Speaker, Challenge of a Changing World: Women in the Workplace Corporate Distinguished Leadership and Humanitarian Awards Luncheon, National Council of Women of the United States, January 2005, New York, New York Speaker, You Have 48 Hours to Turn Yourself In A Meditation on Choice, Otherness and Atrocities, Conference on Representations of the Holocaust, Genocide and other Human Rights Violations, Thomas Jefferson School of Law & Law and Humanities Institute, January 2005, San Diego Ca Panelist, Ensuring Ethical Representation at the International Criminal Court (A panel discussion on the draft Code of Professional Conduct for counsel) The Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Human Rights First and the International Criminal Bar- November 2004, New York, New York Moderator, In Pursuit of Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo representatives of the Association Africaine de Défense des Droits de l Homme (ASADHO) & Jose Campino UN Department of Political Affairs - Human Rights First- June 2004, New York, New York

16 Moderator, Recent Developments in Electoral Policy: EEO or Disenfranchisement of the Economically Disadvantaged and Minority Communities, Diversity Committee, New Jersey State Bar Association, May 2004, Atlantic City, NJ Moderator/Speaker, A Nation Acts, Now Let Me Fly, An Exploration of Brown v. Bd. of Education, National Constitution Center, April 2004, Philadelphia, PA Lecturer, Understanding Brown v Bd of Education, Philadelphia School System, Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development, National Archives Eastern Regional Office & National Constitution Center, April 2004, Philadelphia, PA Speaker, Fifty Years Later, Brown v Bd of Education, New Jersey Network Foundation Luncheon, March 2004, Newark, NJ Moderator, Second Annual Symposium on Civil Rights Striving for Justice and Equality, Islamic Society of Central Jersey, February 2004 [Zu lhijjah 1424], Monmouth Junction, NJ Panelist, Experiences in International Law, Graduate Diplomacy Council, Seton Hall University, School of Diplomacy, September 2003, South Orange, NJ Speaker, A Symposium on Civil Rights, Islamic Society of Central Jersey, February 2003, Monmouth Junction, NJ Moderator, State of the Black Union: Black Think Tank IV [Symposium] The Black Church Paticipants inter alia Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network; Cornel West, Author and Professor, Princeton 12 Moderator, Refugee s Rebels and the Quest for Justice, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, November 2002, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 13 Moderator, God s Justice (Discussion of Justice Scalia s article God s Justice and Ours, First Things, May 2002), Interfaith Center New York, November 2002, New York, NY 14 Lecturer, Ethics for the Practicing Attorney, What it Takes to Win Your Case, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Fall Meeting & Seminar, October 2002, Chicago, IL Commencement Speaker, Sixteenth Annual Celebration for Graduating Students of African American Heritage, Concerned Black Personnel of Kean University, April 2002, Union, NJ Speaker, The Color of Reality: An Historical Look at Representation and Stereotyping in America, The New Jersey Historical Society, April 2002, Newark, NJ

17 Moderator, Capital Punishment: History, Law and Religion, [Participants] inter alia Retired New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice Alan Handler 15 ; February 2002, New Brunswick, NJ Moderator, State of the Black Union: Black Think Tank III [Symposium] Where Do We Go From 9-11: Chaos or Community? [Participants] inter alia Michael Eric Dyson, Author and Professor, DePaul University; Rev. Lani Guinier, Professor, Harvard Law School; Cornel West, Author and Professor, Harvard; 16 Tavis Smiley Group/ Live C-Span, February 2002, Philadelphia, PA Moderator, Dialogue on Religion, Media, and Bias Attacks After World Trade Center Attack, 17 Interfaith Center of New York, October 2001, New York, NY Speaker, Political Overview: Terrorism Campaign and World Trade Center Attack, Youth 2 Leaders Conference, Tavis Smiley Foundation, John Jay College of Criminal Law, September 2001, New York, NY Panelist, Charitable Choice & Beyond, The 2 nd Annual New Jersey Faith Based Regional Conference, New Jersey Faith Based Training Institute & New Jersey Faith Based Community Development Initiative, June 2001, Newark, NJ Moderator, The Explosion of Reparations Litigation and its Global and Local Consequences, 26 th Annual Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia, 18 June 2001, Washington DC Moderator, Death Is Different: A Continuing Debate, Minority Task Force Luncheon [Panelists] inter alia Hon. Alan Handler, former Justice New Jersey Supreme Court, currently, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer; Dale Jones, Asst. Public Defender; Trenton; 19 New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Conference, May 2001, Atlantic City, NJ Panelist, Forum on the Death Penalty, Seton Hall University Democratic Party, March 2001, South Orange, NJ Keynote Speaker, Afro-American Black History Breakfast, General Usher Board, Salem Baptist Church, February 2001, Jersey City, NJ Moderator, State of the Black Union: Black Think Tank II [Symposium] [Participants] inter alia Michael Eric Dyson, Author and Professor, DePaul University; Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network; J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State; Alcee Hastings Congressman D-Fla; Bishop T.D. Jakes, Pastor, Potter s House; Aaron McGruder, creator Boondocks ; 20 Tavis Smiley Group/ Live C-Span, February 2001, Washington DC Moderator, Perspectives on the Role of Cooperators and Informants, Conference on the Cooperating Witness Conundrum: Is Justice Attainable? 21 Jacob Burns Ethics Center & Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School Law Review, November 2000, New York, NY

18 Moderator, Roundtable - Perspectives on Justice: Across Religious Traditions, The Sixth Marshall Meyer Working Retreat, 22 Urban Religious Leadership Initiative & Interfaith Center of New York, November 2000, Briarcliff Manor, NY Moderator, Megan s Law in Cyberspace: Privacy vs. Public Safety, 23 Seton Hall Law School Criminal Law Society & Legislative Bureau, November 2000, Newark, NJ Debate with Attorney General of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Mike Fisher, Should There be a Moratorium on Capital Punishment in Pennsylvania? Temple Issues Forum & WHYY Radio, Temple University, October 2000, Philadelphia, PA Moderator, Africa Panel: The HIV/AIDS Pandemic A Crisis in Africa & the Diaspora, Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust [Panelists] inter alia Sandy Thurman, Presidential Envoy for AIDS Co-operation and Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy; Chatinkha Nkhoma, AIDS activist, Malawi; Dr. Peter Lampty, Family Health International; Tom Bombelles, Director, International Government Relations, Merck, Inc; 24 Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, September 2000, Washington D.C Moderator, Advocacy in the New Millenium- New Paradigms for Progress, [Day long Symposium] [Panelists] inter alia Danny Glover, Actor and Activist; Earvin Magic Johnson, Entrepreneur; Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network; Maxine Waters, Congresswoman D-CA. 25 Tavis Smiley Group/Tape Delayed C-Span, June 2000, Los Angeles, CA Lecturer, Prospects for the International Criminal Court, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Palestinian National Authority, June 2000, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Israel Lecturer, Opening Statements, Anatomy of a Murder, Spring Meeting, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, May 2000, Tucson, AZ Moderator, Symposium: Racial Profiling - Law Enforcement at What Price? [Daylong symposium featuring 5 panels; Panelists included Superintendent New Jersey State Police, Asst. New Jersey Attorney General, Asst. US Attorney General, Professors, Litigators, Journalists, students & citizens] Rutgers Journal of Race and the Law, April 2000, Newark, NJ Speaker, The Idea of the "Other" "Hate Crime Symposium," Seton Hall Legislative Bureau, Seton Hall School of Law, April 2000, Newark, NJ Moderator, Straight UP! Behind the Media "Youth: Roots of Violence & Pathways to Peace" 26 Museum of Natural History, Fountain for Youth & The Interfaith Center of New York, Museum of Natural History, March 2000, New York, NY

19 Panelist, IS IT A ROLE OF THE COURTS TO HELP THE PUBLIC UNDERSTAND & VALUE THE INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL SYSTEM? "Judges and Lawyers, What We Expect from Each Other" 59th Judicial Conference, Third Judicial Circuit of the United States, October 1999, Pittsburgh, PA Lecturer, YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM TV, & Member, CRITIQUE PANEL: OPENING STATEMENT, DEMONSTRATIVE EXHIBIT, AND CLOSING ARGUMENT DEMONSTRATIONS AND CRITIQUES "The Art and Science of Persuasion," The Defense Research Institute's Trial Tactics and Techniques Committee, September 1999, Chicago, IL Panelist, GENOCIDE OF BLACK PEOPLE AND THE UNITED NATIONS TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA (ICTR), 74th Annual Convention, National Bar Association, July 1999, Philadelphia, PA Lecturer, ETHICS OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS: GOOD IDEAS & BAD IDEAS, "Why We Do What We Do and How" Annual Meeting, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, July 1999, Washington DC Moderator, THE EFFECT OF MODERN MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT ON PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE COURTS, Conference on the Future of the American Jury System, 27 The American Judicature Society & The McCormick Tribune Foundation, Cantigny 28 Conference Center, June 1999, Wheaton, IL Moderator, "ASSIMILATION CLINIC" PANEL, European Basketball Summer League [Panelists] Nate Archibald, 14 years-nba; Mike Bantam, 10 years-nba, 7 years-italian League; Darnelle Valentine, 10 years-nba, 3 years-italian League; Johnnie Cochran; Robert Kloppenberg, 18 years-assistant NBA Coach. Akin and Randolph Agency, June 1999, Palasport, Florence, Italy Speaker, 42nd Annual Awards Breakfast, Frontiers International, Newark Club, May 1999 Newark, NJ Speaker, THE 21ST CENTURY LAWYER -- HOW CAN PROFESSIONALISM SURVIVE? [Responding to Comments by Justice Rosalie Abella of the Ontario Court of Appeals] Presidential Showcase Program, Annual Meeting, New Jersey State Bar Association & New Jersey Commission on Professionalism, May 1999, Atlantic City, NJ Moderator, BARRIERS TO INTERSTATE PRACTICE: SHOULD WE BE BUILDING THEM OR TEARING THEM DOWN 29, Committees On "Professional Responsibility " & "Professional Discipline" & "Symposia", of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York [Panelists] inter alia Hon. Norman Krivosha, former Chief Justice, Nebraska Supreme Ct.; 30 May 1999, New York, NY Speaker, (Plenary Session) "IN DEFENSE OF MUMIA," THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER AND SOCIAL DEATH," & Panelist, RACE AND THE DEATH PENALTY, Conference - Race-ing Justice: Black America vs The Prison Industrial Complex, Institute For

20 Research in African-American Studies & Souls, "A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society," 31 Columbia University, April 1999, New York, NY Lecturer, A PLAN TO PRESERVE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE ZEALOUS CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER Ninth Annual 'Law and All That Jazz Seminar, Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, April 1999, New Orleans, LA Panelist & Demonstrator (w/ T. Ashley) Cross Examination Workshop 1999 Conference, A Partnership for the New Millennium, Garden State Bar Association, April 1999, New Brunswick, NJ Keynote Speaker, Seventh Annual Awards Banquet, Black Law Students Association of Seton Hall, April 1999, Newark, NJ Speaker, IMPEACHMENT CONTROVERSY AND ITS LEGACY FOR BILL CLINTON AND THE PRESIDENCY -- Forum, Seton Hall Law School Law Review, April 1999, Newark, NJ Panelist, MEDIA COVERAGE OF HIGH PROFILE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS & TRIALS, Twenty-Third Annual United States Judicial Conference for the District of New Jersey, Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey, March 1999, South Orange, NJ Lecturer, A PLAN TO PRESERVE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE ZEALOUS CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER WinterSeminar, Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, January 1999, The Depot, Underground, Atlanta, GA Panelist, THE ETHICS OF LEGAL COMMENTATORS Symposium, Mercer Law Review, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, January 1999, Macon, GA Panelist, REPORTING THE COURTS - YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW, Seminar, The Historical Society of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, November 1998, Newark, NJ Speaker, CROSSING THE CIVIL RIGHTS BRIDGE: , Annual Freedom Fund and Awards Banquet, Rahway Branch, NAACP, November 1998, Rahway, NJ Discussion w/robert Friedman [Senior Editor Life Magazine] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: THE PROTESTS OF '68 - MEDIA COVERAGE, Freedom Forum, Newseum, October 1998, New York, NY Panelist, RACISM IN ESSEX COUNTY, CAN WE TALK? Essex County Commission on Unity & Seton Hall University & Seton Hall University School of Law, October 1998, South Orange, NJ Moderator, CAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SURVIVE THE 21ST CENTURY?: IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PAST ITS PRIME? 32 New Jersey State Bar Association Diversity Task Force & NJSBA