Andrew Russell ’11 has joined Lathrop & Gage LLP as an associate in the Century City office. His practice focuses on wage and hour violations, employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims.
In Memoriam William F. Adams ’75 Phillip S. Althoff ’85
Liu Chi ’12 and his wife Gu Mengxi are very proud to announce the birth of their daughter Laura Yiran Liu on May 27, 2014. Liu is a senior partner at Dacheng Law Offices in Beijing, China, the largest China-based law firm.
John R. Benson ’64 Cruger L. Bright ’71 Raymond Cardenas ’59 Magara L. Crosby ’82 Maria D. De Luna ’90 Jon Gallo ’67 Edward P. George, Jr. ’59 Peter Grosslight ’71 Harold J. Hertzberg ’58
LAURA YIRAN LIU
Janet A. Kobrin ’84 Emmet G. Lavery, Jr. ’53 William A. Masterson ’58
Jonathan P. Feingold ’12 was named one of this year’s California Lawyer of the Year Award (“CLAY Award”) recipients in the immigration law category for his work as part of Sidley Austin’s pro bono team that won a class action establishing the right of immigrants detained by the government for more than six months to seek release on bond while their cases are pending.
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Theodore “Ted” Eisenberg Former UCLA Law Professor | 1947-2014
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Todd R. Reinstein ’62 Elizabeth Smagala ’03 Edwin G. Wells, Jr. ’66
heodore “Ted” Eisenberg, the Henry Allen Mark professor of law and adjunct professor of statistical sciences at Cornell and a former UCLA School of Law professor, passed away on February 23, 2014 from a heart attack at the age of 66. Professor Eisenberg, who began his teaching career at UCLA School of Law in 1977 before joining the Cornell Law School faculty in 1981, was a prolific scholar of empirical legal studies and of bankruptcy, civil rights and the death penalty. He used innovative statistical methodology to shed light on punitive damages, victim impact evidence, capital juries, bias for and against litigants and the chances of success on appeal. He became interested in empirical legal research in his second year at Cornell and began his prodigious work in that area, authoring or co-authoring more than 125 scholarly articles and writing, editing or contributing to more than 20 books. He founded the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and served as an expert witness in a number of high-profile trials. Professor Eisenberg earned a B.A. degree in 1969 from Swarthmore College and a J.D. degree in 1972 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He clerked for the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. After three years in private practice in New York City, he began teaching. He is survived by his wife, Lisa, three children and two grandchildren. The UCLA Law community mourns his passing.