Raymond M. Brown Esq.
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 1974. 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.
For complete Curriculum Vitae updated June 2009
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 Wanda M. Akin Esq.
Wanda M. Akin, was formerly the Managing Attorney for
Chubb & Son, Inc.'s, New Jersey House Counsel law firm, Scanlon &
Akin, and a Senior Trial Attorney and Of Counsel to Podvey,
Sachs, Meanor, Catenacci, Hildner & Cocoziello from November
1994 through January 1998. Ms. Akin now maintains her independent
practice known as Wanda M. Akin & Associates in Newark, NJ
and is a Professor at Seton
Hall University School of Law and at Seton Hall
University's John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy And International
Relations., member Adjunct Faculty.
Akin has over 26 years of experience as a trial lawyer in a
wide variety of types of cases including criminal defense (in US and
International Courts), complex product liability, property claims,
construction accident litigation, catastrophic personal injury,
employment/labor, trademark and copyright, and other complex
litigation (Representing three New Jersey Municipalities and their
respective Police Departments and personnel in complex employment
and personal injury litigation). She has been trial counsel in
numerous cases in New Jersey State Courts and Federal Courts, New
York State and Federal Courts, Maryland and Pennsylvania State
Courts, and in many other Federal Court actions throughout the
United States. She served as co-counsel to an Accused at the UN
backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. She is a member of the List
Of Counsel eligible to represent accused and victims before the International
Criminal Court (ICC) and currently represents the first Darfurian
victims recognized by the ICC to participate in the Darfur
Situation.
She is a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Committee
on the Rules of Evidence, for 18 years was a Trustee of the Trial
Attorneys of New Jersey, a founding Master in the Seton Hall
Law School Alumni Association Inn of Court and served as a
Presidential Appointee to the New Jersey State Bar Association's
Committee on Judicial Administration. In 1999 she served as the President
of the Seton Hall Law School Alumni Association.
Akin has taught International Criminal Law in the Seton
Hall Law/American University In Cairo summer program in Cairo, Egypt
and teaches International Criminal Law and Peacemaking and
Peacekeeping In Contemporary World at the Seton Hall
University John C. Whitehead School where she was 2005
Adjunct Faculty Of The Year. She teaches Persuasion &
Advocacy and The Trial Of A Criminal Case at Seton Hall Law School
and has lectured and presented widely in the areas of trial
advocacy, international law, media and persuasion,
publishing/literary ventures and criminal trial preparation to
lawyers, students, bar groups and to a wide variety of businesses
and other citizens on various topics.
Ms. Akin is also a periodic guest commentator on Court
TV, MS-NBC, Inside The Law,(PBS) NJN (New Jersey Network); UPN 9
News and CN8 It's Your Call. She covered the delivery of the
acquittal of O.J. Simpson for America's Talking and discussed
the reaction of African American Women to the verdict on Rivera
Live. She was MS-NBC's political commentator during the 2000
Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the 2000
Presidential Election. She is a frequent panelist/lecturer
and seminar producer on issues concerning the trial bar and in
particular, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. Among
these recent engagements, Wanda, in conjunction with her husband and
co-counsel Raymond M. Brown, led panels on special challenges in
international law at the Arab Diplomat Training Program for UNITAR;
was a speaker on conflict resolution and peace building for Swiss
Peace in Entebbe, Uganda; lectured on victims participation in the
ICC and violence against women in Darfur at The United Nations
Association's International Women's Day; and the latest developments
in the Darfur Crisis and the recent decision of the ICC to issue an
arrest warrant for the President of Sudan at the New Jersey State
Bar Foundation's Rule of Law Conference. Wanda is also
counsel to three publishing houses as well as authors and writers in
literary matters. She has appeared on TODAY, Good Morning
America, Larry King Live, Entertainment Tonight and New York's
NewsChannel 4 with respect to cases and with clients on literary
matters.
Ms. Akin is the founding agent of the Akin &
Randolph Agency for representation of authors, artists and athletes.
The Agency represents numerous published authors and has provided
consultation to professional athletes, coaches and organizations
respecting communications, employment and motivational issues.
For complete Curriculum Vitae updated June 2009
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