Lessons in Ethics from the Lincoln Assassination Trials

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Overview

Speaker Billy Newman has spent the last 30 years exploring the murky events following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.  A number of alleged conspirators were convicted under questionable circumstances for complicity in the President's death.  One of them was a country physician from Maryland, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who set the broken leg of assassin John Wilkes Booth the night of the assassination.  The Mudd family has spent the past 150 years attempting to legally exonerate Dr. Mudd, and Mr. Newman speaks of his personal meetings with Dr. Mudd's grandson and of Newman's own limited involvement in the family's crusade.

Out of these experiences, Mr. Newman realized that the legal maneuverings of the Mudd family over the past century and a half provide a perfect lesson on the lawyer's ethical duty of zealous advocacy.  In addition to a history lesson on the Lincoln and Mudd stories, Newman also looks at two other famous (or infamous) lawyers and examines the way in which lawyers often misconstrue what it means to be a zealous advocate for your client.

Speakers

William R Newman of The University of Southern Mississippi

Agenda for Monday, the 14th of December 2015

1:00pm Central Time - Webcast Begins 

(Please be sure to register and tune into the website at least 10 minutes before start time)

Agenda is Approximate and Tentative

1:00pm -  1:30pm - The Legal Aspects of the Lincoln Assassination and the Trials of the Alleged Conspirators

1:30pm - 2:15pm - How Lawyers Today Misinterpret the Ethical Duty of Zealous Advocacy

2:15pm - 3:00pm -  What the Lawyers in the Lincoln Assassination Trials Teach Us about the Real Meaning of Zealous Advocacy