Jeffrey G. Brown—Managing Partner

Email address:  jeff@brownanddoherty.com | Phone: 727-299-0099

Areas of practice

  • Federal criminal defense
  • Selective state criminal trial law
  • Selective state civil trial law
  • Appellate practice

Admitted to practice

  • Florida, 1989
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 1991
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1992
  • Colorado, 1996

Awards

Education

  • Stetson University, J.D., cum laude, 1989
    • Order of Barristers, 1989
    • Member: American Bar Association Southeast Regional Moot Court Champion Team, 1989
    • Florida Bar State Mock Trial Champion Team, 1989
    • American Bar Association Southeast Regional Mock Trial Team, 1989
    • International Law Moot Court Board, 1989. Recipient: Victor O'Wehle Trial Practice Award, 1989
    • Torts I Book Award, 1986
    • Criminal Law I Book Award, 1987
  • Principia College, B.A., History, 1986
  • UCLA, 1984
  • Boston College, 1982–1983

Professional memberships

  • Federal Bar Association, Tampa Bay Chapter
    • Member, 2000–2008, 2010–present
    • President, 2004
  • Herbert G. Goldburg Criminal Inn of Court, 2000–present
  • Pinellas County Trial Lawyers Association, 1994–2000
  • Barney Masterson Inn of Court, 1992–1995
  • Florida Association of Criminal Trial Lawyers

Appointments

  • Appointed by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals as the sole lawyer representative for the Middle District of Florida on a committee of all the districts of Florida to report to the Eleventh Circuit on the retention of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Florida, 2007–present
  • Appointed by the Chief Judge of the Middle District of Florida to serve as the sole lawyer representative on a three-panel committee to report on the CJA plan for the Tampa Division of the Middle District of Florida, 2006–2008
  • Appointed as the CJA representative for the Tampa Division of the Middle District of Florida, 2006–2008
  • Appointed as the CJA representative for the Middle District of Florida, 2009–2011
  • Appointed by the Chief Judge of the Middle District of Florida as a Panel Member, Middle District of Florida Bench and Bar Committee, 2004
  • Vice Chair, Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association Meeting / Stetson Law School, Delegation to St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004
  • Appointed Committee Member, Florida Bar Grievance Committee 6E, 2002–2005
    • Chairman, 2005

In the media

  • Television Legal Panelist/Analyst - legal commentary re Scott Peterson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson, Natalie Holloway, Martha Stewart, Duke Rape scandal, Jessica Lundsford, Michael Vick, Casey Anthony, and various other legal topics
    • On The Record with Greta Van Susteren
    • Nancy Grace
    • O'Reilly Factor
    • Issues With Jane Valez Mitchell
    • Glenn Beck
    • TRU TV (previously Court TV) with Ashleigh Banfield and Jack Ford
    • FOX NEWS
    • CNN
    • CNN Headline News
    • MSNBC
    • NBC
    • BBC
    • The Kathy Fountain Show
    • The Lightning Round
    • FOX13
    • News Channel 8
    • Tampa Bay 10
    • ABC Action News
  • Producer/Author:
    • "Video Media Conference I," Middle District of Florida Panel Discussion, 2000
    • "Video Media Conference II," Middle District of Florida Panel Discussion, 2001
    • Author, A Mock Trial of United States v. Defendant John Doe (a technological showcase of a federal trial for visiting Russian Judges), 2004

Speaking engagements

  • Speaker: The Art of Voir Dire, Stetson College of Law, 1992
  • Speaker: A Prosecutor's View, Stetson College of Law, 1993
  • Speaker: How to Cross Examine a DUI Cop, Stetson College of Law, 1994
  • Speaker: Selective Rules of Florida Criminal Procedure, Stetson College of Law, 2000
  • Speaker: Media and the Law, Leadership Institute, Hillsborough County Bar Association
  • Vice Chair, Open World/Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar/Middle District of Florida/Stetson College of Law Delegation to St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004
  • Panel Member: Law and the Media, Hillsborough Inn of Court, 2006

Certifications

  • Board Certified Criminal Trial Lawyer, Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education
  • Board Certified by the National Trial Advocacy

Teaching experience

  • Adjunct Professor, Trial Practice, Stetson College of Law (Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2004)
  • Adjunct Professor, Federal Criminal Law Seminar, Stetson College of Law (Fall 2005)
  • Homicide and Child Abuse, St. Petersburg Junior College Police Academy, 1993

Previous work experience

  • Brown & Doherty, PA, 2003–present
  • Jeffrey G. Brown, PA, 1997–2003
  • Partner, Taracks & Brown, PA, 1994–1997
  • Associate, Carey & Florin, PA, 1993–1994
  • Assistant State Attorney, 6th Judicial Circuit, Pinellas and Pasco Counties, 1989–1993, prosecuted over 100 jury trials for capital murder, capital child abuse, homicide, arson, kidnapping, sexual battery, RICO, and various other felony and misdemeanor crimes

 

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