Peer Recognition

Life Member, Million Dollar Advocates’ Forum

Million-Dollar Advocates ForumMembership is limited to trial lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional skill, experience, and excellence in advocacy by achieving a verdict, award or settlement in the amount of one million dollars or more.

Featured Speaker at Conferences and Meetings

The WikiLeaks Controversy: Julian Assange – Enemy of the State or Hero? Remarks delivered to the Southeast Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, July 28, 2011, Hilton Head, S.C.

Natural Rights and the American Constitutional Experience, Panelist, Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. January 30-31, 2009

Natural Disaster; Unnatural Deaths: The Killings on the Life Care Floors at Tenet’s Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina, Panelist, 2007 Annual Meeting, University Faculty for Life, Villanova University

“Living in the Twilight Zone: A Roundtable Discussion Regarding Presidential Power, the Rule of Law, and Warrantless Wiretaps in the War Against Bin Laden,” January 27, 2006, Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

“Cruelty to Animals: Empathy, Ethics and Experimentation,” February 3, 2005, St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, Florida

“Conforming to the Rule of Law,” June 3, 2005, Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, Michigan

As Guest Panelist, presented lecture “Mocking the Rule of Law: A Kangaroo Court for Aussie David Hicks” at Symposium “Balancing Security and Liberty in the New Century:” hosted by the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, October 15, 2004 Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Respecting Human Life in the 21st Century” Invited oral presentation of paper presented by DVD at the First Legal Medical Congress of Islamic Countries, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, June 25-27, 2004

“Killing One to Save the Other: Lessons from the Case of Rose (Mary) and Gracie (Jodie), the Conjoined Twins from Malta” Guest Lecture, Bioethics Forum, Sponsored by the Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities, University of Iowa, May 7, 2002

“Medical-Legal Considerations of New Developments in Biotechnology and Bioethics,” invited conference speaker, keynote address delivered to the Annual General Meeting, Real Women of Canada, Richmond, B.C. 1993

  • Charles Lugosi
    Charles Lugosi

    Dr. Lugosi was admitted to practice on April 9, 1981, and has been licensed to practice for over 38 years, not just in Ontario, but British Columbia, and in the United States, including the United States Supreme Court. Dr. Lugosi has authored three pro bono Amicus Briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and significantly contributed to a fourth. He has appeared as lead counsel in several important cases in the Supreme Court of Canada.