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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

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