Events

Veterans Day CLE "Rules of Engagement and Why we Need Them" (8 a.m. - 9 a.m.)
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Veterans Day Ceremony (9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.)

Free Credit Available: 1 hour Substantive Pennsylvania CLE Credit

CLE Presenter: Jonathan Crisp

Registration for the CLE: commonwealthlaw.widener.edu/eventregistration
Students are welcome to register to attend this CLE event.

To understand the laws that govern our military throughout the globe, lawyers must have a grasp of what rules of engagement mean, on what they are based and what they are designed to accomplished. Participants in the CLE will gain a better understanding as to the effect the rules of engagement have on our nation’s national security and how they affect service members in the performance of their duty.

Questions: Please contact [email protected] with any questions. 

After the conclusion of this CLE lecture, attendees are encouraged to stay for our 2019 Veterans Day Ceremony at 9:15 a.m. in the same room. The ceremony will conclude by 10:15 a.m.

Jonathan Crisp is the founder and owner of Crisp and Associates, LLC, a law practice specializing in criminal defense in state, federal and military courts worldwide.  Mr. Crisp is a former active duty U.S. Army Judge Advocate and current holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard Judge Advocate General Corps.  He presently hold the billet of Regional Defense Counsel for the Northeast Region of the National Guard Trial Defense Service in the National Guard. 

He has personally litigated more than 100 cases to verdict and alternatively resolved numerous others all over the world, to include, Germany, Kosovo, Iraq and Japan.  Jonathan Crisp has extensive experience in all aspects of criminal practice and is similarly well-versed in military justice practice. 

He is admitted to practice in all state courts in Pennsylvania, the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, The District Court of Colorado, the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals for Veteran’s Claims, the Court of Federal Claims, all military trial courts and the Army Court of Criminal Appeals.  

Jonathan Crisp began his career as an Assistant Public Defender in Centre County, Pennsylvania. He left the Centre County Public Defender's Office to join the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. In the Judge Advocate General's Corps, he served in a variety of positions, to include the Chief of Legal Assistance at Patton Barracks in Heidelberg, Germany, a Defense Counsel in Ansbach, Germany, and also as a Senior Defense Counsel.  As a Defense Counsel and also as a Senior Defense Counsel, Mr. Crisp was specifically requested by accused to represent them. Two of the more high-profile cases in which Mr. Crisp was requested by name included a case involving charges of abuse against detainees at Abu Ghraib and a case involving the death of a detainee during an interrogation.