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Shepard Broad
College of Law
College of Law
Professor - Law
JD Program
Shepard Broad College of Law
Professor Randolph Braccialarghe joined Nova Southeastern University’s law faculty in 1983. He currently teaches Evidence and Professional Responsibility. He has also taught Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Trial Advocacy, and was Co-Director of the Criminal Clinic for 13 years.
After receiving his B.A. (1970) from the University of Michigan and J.D. (1977) from the University of Miami School of Law, Professor Braccialarghe practiced law in Fort Lauderdale, first as an assistant state attorney (1977-1981) and then as a commercial litigator (1981-1983) with English, McCaughan & O’Bryan.
In addition to consulting and testifying on ethics issues, Professor Braccialarghe has represented applicants before the Florida Board of Bar Examiners, lawyers in Florida Bar discipline matters, and judges before the Judicial Qualifications Committee.
Raised in Recife, Brazil, Decatur, Illinois, and Córdoba, Argentina, Professor Braccialarghe has also lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Boston, Massachusetts, and Rome, Italy
3 four-year terms as one of Florida’s three Commissioners
Professor Braccialarghe has taught continuing legal education seminars for lawyers on Ethics, Evidence, and Criminal Law, for U.S. Magistrates on Judicial Ethics, and he has taught at trial training programs for prosecutors, public defenders and civil litigators.
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (Uniform Law Commission)
Code and Rules of Evidence Committee of the Florida Bar - 1987-1990
Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Grievance Committees
Special Committee on Perjured Testimony - 1987-1989
Special Counsel for The Florida Bar in a disbarment proceeding
Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee
Florida Bar Ethics 2000 Review Panel - 2001-2002
Special Committee to Review the ABA Model Rules 2002 - 2002- 2005
Criminal Procedure Rules Committee
Expert Witness for the Florida Bar
Expert Witness for the Judicial Qualifications Commission
“A Rose By Any Other Name: A Lawyer’s Ethical Duty When A Client Is Prosecuted Under A False Name” (Dec. 14, 2021)
“Disallowing Guns Doesn’t Improve Safety” – Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (May 7, 2015)
“Guns Belong on Campus” – Miami Herald (May 3, 2015) – reprinted in America’s First Freedom as “Why Guns Belong on Campus” (July 2015)
“‘Gun-Free Zones’ Are Wishful Thinking” – Tallahassee Democrat (April 28, 2015)
“Why Were Perry Mason’s Clients Always Innocent? The Criminal Lawyer’s Moral Dilemma - The Criminal Defendant Who Tells His Lawyer He Is Guilty,” 39 Valparaiso L. Rev. 65 (2004).
“Response [to The Florida Bar’s Petition -- A Client’s Use of an Alias is a Fraud on the Tribunal].” Criminal Law Section Newsletter, Oct. 1993 at 9.
“Having It All -- Offering Criminal and Civil In-house and Extern Programs,” The Florida Bar Journal, 65 no. 7 (July/Aug. 1991): 39-40 (with Messing, Howard R., and Adams, William, Jr.).
“What a Lawyer is Ethically Required to do when Representing a Criminal Defendant Who Intends to Lie at Trial,” Criminal Law Section Newsletter, Nov. 1989 at 40 (with Duncan).
“Client Perjury: The Law in Florida,” 12 Nova L. Rev. 707 (1988); reprint in edited
form in
The Advocate, December 1988.
“Defense Attorneys & Perjured Testimony,” Miami Herald (March 27, 1988).
“Bad Role Models For Law Students,” Miami [& Broward] Review (August 3, 1987).
“Representation of a Criminal Defendant Who Intends to Lie -- Another View,” Fla. Bar J., July 1987 at 29.
“Pretrial Preparation by the Prosecution,” book chapter, Florida Pretrial Practice in Criminal Cases (1987).
“A Lawyer’s Duty To Disclose His Client’s Intention To Lie,” Florida Bar News (Nov. 15, 1986).
“Florida Reverses Its Per Se Reversal Rule on Improper Prosecutorial Comments on a Defender’s Right to Remain Silent,” 13 Fla.St.U.L. Rev. 1119 (1986) (with DeFoor).
Professor Braccialarghe is the Faculty Adviser to the following Student Groups: