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The Captainofthe MiCrocosm
he modern law school is one of the great success stories in the history of education inthe last 70 years," wrote UCLA's Professor Richard Maxwell. For sheer dynamism, the greatest successstoryof all is theascentofthe UCLA School of Law from birth to national eminence over two decades inwhich the schoolitself hasbeena microcosmwhere thefuture was taking shape. During 11 of those formative years, Richard Maxwell was at the helm, influencing the course not only of his own law school but of American legal education as well.
Professor Maxwell came to UCLA in the mid-1950s when the nation was tilted westward and all that was free and ready to grow was rolling toward Southern California. An expert in oil and gas law, Maxwell had been uprooted from his teaching position at the University of Texas by the last of the great, romantic inland oil strikes, during which he became an industry special counsel. As the job ran dry, Maxwell visited the fledgling UCLA law school. The authority on natural resources immediately recognized a scholastic motherload.
"It was a bud about to burst," he says now of the UCLA School of Law in 1953. "Los Angeles was a place where you weren't terribly bound by the past. It wasan opportunityfor alawschoolto leadthepack, and in many respects, we did."
Fiveyears later, Maxwell was dean,and thebudwas blooming. The school was one of the first to move away from alargely required curriculum toa program in which virtually all course selections are optional
The law school became a flagship of legal educational institutions. Foundations of a first rate library after the first year, a system that is almost universal in legal education today. On the initiative of the faculty, minority students were drawn in and channeled into the bar in increasing numbers. These pioneering admissions programs have since changed the complexion of classrooms and the profession as well. The foundations were laid for a clinical program that would become a model for others to emulate.
All of thiswas accomplished bya nine-year-old law school with its 39-year-old dean, extraordinary ages for both in such endeavors. The raising of the young law school became a family burden, one shared by Maxwell's wife, Frances, who took on the generally unrecognized but substantial responsibilities of the wife of a law school dean.
"It was a tremendous undertaking for both myself and my wife," says Maxwell. "I became dean when we were just at the most difficult stage of raising a family. We had two small children, yet we had to get out into the community and promote this law school. The number of nights that we were out and had baby sitters was just appalling. The cost was appalling as well. Just in the building of the faculty, you can imagine the amount of visiting and entertaining that was required. We were both so busy during the time that our children were growing up that it's surprising that they haven't turned out delinquent." The elder son is now an assistant professor of English at Valparaiso ·university. The younger is in his fourth year of medical school.
were laid,and the physicalplant was doubled in size. A superb faculty was recruited. "If there is anything I'm proud of in the development of this law school, it's the quality of the faculty I left," says Maxwell. "It's not just a good faculty. It's a superb faculty, the result of a combination of the attractions of this institution and a certain amount of luck."
In the years to follow, the UCLA School of Law would continue to lead the way, and Maxwell would continue to point new directions from a string of appointments and involvements including his position as President of the Association of American Law Schools from 1971 to 1973.
Much of the success and dynamism of legal educationingeneral, Maxwell asserts, isdue to the creative, student-involved mannerinwhichit has been carried out. Says he: "We have not had a situation in which people are brought in to be lectured. In legal education, we start out talking to them, and they begin to talk back. This process has been in some ways very academic, butit has been a great success.Tosay thatit does notteach skills is simply not to understandwhat goes on. There is not just one Socratic method. There is one for every law professor, adapted to his own personality and materials and students."
One of his profession's great innovators himself,
be was in a position to express serious doubts about drifts that seemed to be veering off course. As President of the American Association of Law Schools, he was concerned about flirtations with the idea of shortening the term of legal education and the problems of accreditation of the proliferation of schools answering the overwhelming demand for legal education.
One who helped to open the profession to the disadvantaged, he also strove to protect the profession and insure quality control. "Today in California, almost anyone can study law," Maxwell notes. "As far as removing economic and ethnic barriers that's great, but whether or not we should hold out hopes to great numbers of people who might well put their time into other endeavors, I don't know." Screening hordes, including self-educated entrepreneurs, through even an extremely difficult bar exam is an imperfect control of the flood of new lawyers. "I don't think the bar exam comes close to protecting the public," says Maxwell. "The kind of mass examination that we have to have in California cannot cover the multitude of facets necessary in a good legal education."
Such an education remains the best insurance of professional competence andresponsibility, Maxwell believes. 'Tm a traditionalist in the sense that I still believe in the full-fledged education that looks at each individual as though he is going to be a person in practice who ought to have a full foundation in the fundamentals of law and legal thought," he explains. Such education is also our best safeguard against deprofessionalizing influences in a profession splintering into specialists and paralegals. "I have no doubt thatlawyers areto some extent going tobecome technocrats," says Maxwell."The economicnecessity of keeping legal services at a price that makes them accessible to people who have legal problems will mean that lawyers are going to practice in a somewhat different fashion than in the past. Nevertheless, I think that practice can be professional in the sense that they view themselves as individuals who have a body of knowledge and skills that they are called upon to devote to the helping of others as opposed simply to sellers with a marketable service."
Indeed, behind what some see as the dark cloud of multiplying lawyers there is a silver lining. There are more well-educated lawyers available than ever be�ore to meet the demands of a society grown increasmgly complex andlitigious.And although there is no doubt some truth to quips about more lawyers themselves causing more litigation and complexity, much of the work of lawyers in fact arises from the efforts of others to solve difficult problems.
Within his own field, Maxwell notes, it is not the role oflawyers tosolve theenergy crisis. "Lawyersare not problem solvers in that sense in my opinion," he says. "If the governmentimposes very complex regulationson a part of the energy industry, then the work of the bar in making it possible for energy companies to operate in that climate is obviously a useful activity. I have, however, gradually reached the position that it would be better if many of those regulations were never imposed in the first place."
"I'm a traditionalist in the sense that I still believe each individual ought to have a full foundation in the fundamentals of law and legal thought."
The education of non-lawyers who must live in our law-bound culture has been another of Maxwell's principal concerns and has led to a series of involvements to foster better legal education in elementary and secondary schools. This effort has extended to projects, such as one which involves legal education for the elderly, to help special groups learn something about the body of law that impacts directly on them. "Whether such programs will reduce the need for lawyers, I don't know," says Maxwell. "I doubt it. Perhaps this will even increase the demand for lawyers. But as long as we have a society as lawyeroriented as this one, certainly part of the purpose of our educational system is to make people aware. We have made tremendous progress in that direction over the past 15 years."
Among the groups most deeply involved in such efforts have been the bar associations. The age-old cynical dictum that legal knowledge is power, and lawyers strive to keep it from the public simply has not held. "For whatever reason, the leaders of the bar, once they were themselves educated as to the need, took a major role. This took some time," however, Maxwell remembers, as one who did the persuading. "The formalinvolvement of the bar took considerable effort to generate."
"This school has been in the forefront of this movement. One of the first and best books for school teachers was written here by Murray Schwartz and William Cohen under the sponsorship of the state board of education." The UCLA School of Law has been heavily involved in institutes to train teachers to
better educate their students in legal matters.
The movement to heighten the general public's legal awareness began in the 1960s when Supreme Court decisions involving prayer and segregation in the schools seemed to have left sectors of the public bewildered by the operations of their own courts and constitution.
Maxwell's role in all this he describes as that of an "academic promoter." "When you're a law school dean, there are somethingsyou can do," he says. "You are a money raiser and meeting attender, but in addition to developing the school, you are in a good position from which to promote this kind of awareness."
Maxwell took an active role in the Constitutional Rights. Foundation andcarriedits message tothe state board of education. From these efforts flowed eventually the bar association's Law in a Free Society Project and, ultimately, a national movement for better legal education in public schools.
Now at the age when one might be more likely to serve as dean, Maxwell has returned to the life of a teacher and a scholar. "I remember when I stopped being dean I came into this office sometimes to nnd myself just sitting waiting for the phone to ring or for someone to shove a problem at me or to call ameeting or to have to commence a trip to the airport. Legal scholarship is a rather lonely activity as opposed to administration where you are in a constant state of working with people," he says.
But if scholarship is more of a solo flight, it is one that he now wants to take as high as possible. "I was
59 in October, and you can't expect that you will climb Everest at that point. But law professors do not seem to burn out as early as do mathematicians, or so I'm told."
His life as a scholar remained intact throughout his administrative career. His present revision of the oil and gas textbook that is the bedrock of legal education in his neld will soon be ready for the printers. Last year, he received a distinguished teaching award. "That pleased me enormously because it at least demonstrated that to some degree I had survived as a teacher my deanship," he says.
As for any regrets, he says: "I can't say that ifl were to go back to the beginning of my career I would do everything exactly as I have done it. I'm not sure that being a law dean is the best way to spend your time. It's a terribly frustrating and to some extent a very transitory exercise, but this school was worth the investment of my time or anybody else's."
For much of the future of the school, he now looks to the alumni. "I spent quite a bit of time, as a dean should, meeting with them, speaking to them, trying to raise money from them; and for the most part they seemed to understand what legal education was and what it could be. They seemed genuinely eager to help UCLAreach its potential. I know thatsounds like a dean's statement, but it's true," he says.
The young school's alumni are now reaching positionsof responsibilityand influence, Maxwell notes, and in the next decade the school will look to them for nurture as it flowers into full maturity. D
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he UCLA Moot Court has become much more than a place to make moot points. Lawyers and judges from the federal public defender's office, the state attorney general's office and even the state supreme courtattend to gain legal insights from the trial hearings of issues soon to be faced by the courts of the land.
"The word 'moot' is a misnomer," says Bill Davis, Chief Justice of the UCLA Moot Court. "The cases are 'unripe' in that they are cases based on unsettled constitutional principles and doctrines." This year, the Donald Wright Moot Court Tournament at UCLA tested the constitutionality of the California Robbins Rape Evidence Act, which states that a victim's prior sexual conduct cannot be used to prove consent. Also at issue was a knotty search and seizure question involving the obligation of police to knock and announce before presenting a search warrant. In the competition among 11 Southern California law schools, UCLA took first place.
The case was argued before former Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Donald R. Wright, after whom the tournament is named. Joining Justice Wright on the bench were Justices James A. Cobey and Otto M. Kaus of the California Court of Appeal. Several Superior Court judges who face similar cases called in and asked to attend. They were curious to �ow how the renowned jurists might deal with the issues. The case drew great public curiosity as well
and filled several auditoriums with alumni and other spectators who watched the proceedings via closed circuit television.
Whether or not the presiding and attending justices were influenced by the arguments they heard, they were certainly impressed. Said Judge Cobey: "The students' performances were at a considerably higher level than we get in my court." His only criticism was that moot courts in general tend to give students an exaggerated idea of the importance of oral arguments. "Appellate courts tend to look at oral argument as a supplement to the briefing process," says Cobey. "It's an exceptional case that is won on the oral argument."
But the briefs themselves were extraordinary. Said Judge Kaus: "You always gain insights at the moot court. The competition on which I sat involved a question which was at least tangentially before my court at the time. I got three goddamn-good research briefs." Indeed, The Handbook of Appellate Advocacy, originally written by moot court national team member Michael S. Josephson '67 for fellow students, is now sold nationwide. Many lawyers in appellate practice rely on this handbook when writing briefs and preparing for oral arguments.
For the student participants, the moot court has grown increasingly competitive and awesome-and popular. UCLA's is now the largest student-run moot court in the nation in terms of participation. It is one of the few that is operated on a totally voluntary basis. Other law schools often provide considerable compensation in credit, payment, or both. The intrinsic rewards are substantial, however. The court
"One of the nicest things about the experience was the fact that the third year students really wanted to see their fellow students succeed."
provides what is usually a student's first chance to stand alone and defend a point of law to prominent and probing jurists.
Over the course of each year, some 200 judges cometocampustopresideovertheroundsforwhich allfirstyearstudentsmustpreparebriefs.About 10to 15percentofthefirstyearclassisselectedbythemoot court administrators for invitations to participate in the second year tournaments.
But the invitation is little more than an honor and does not exclude anyone from participating further This year, 50 students received invitations, and 115 showed up to argue for the second year rounds for which another 300 judges came to UCLA to preside at various sessions. The climax of these intramural battles for survival of the fittest advocates is the Roscoe Pound Competition. This year's finalists in this competition argued an issue of collective bargaining before three justices from the United Statesappellate courts.
The entire struggle is often one of forced growth. Says Nancy Abell, one of this year's winners in the Roscoe Pound Tournament: "From a skills standpoint, my single greatest weakness was my oral ability.Istartedouttotallyunabletoperforminsucha situation." Standing alone to face the bench, she overcame such difficulties totally on her own. "One thing that is lacking in the program is assistance from faculty," says Abell. "I received absolutely no assistance, but it has become apparent that many schoolsprovidefacultyadvisorsthatspend considerable time coaching students."
She did receive advice from members of the third year class who had won the previous year's tournament, however, andwassomewhat surprised bytheir attitudes. "One of the nicest things about the experience was the fact that the third year students really wanted to see their fellow students succeed," she says."Sometimeslawschoolgetssocompetitivethat students don't careabout their classmates."
The judges seem to have been all the more im-
pressed with the arguments because there was no faculty assistance. Comments Judge Anthony M. Kennedy of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal: "Individualism is a very important part of thelearningexperiencebecauseso much ofwhatyou dointhe lawyou haveto doon yourownwithoutadvice. Thisis a chance for the student to make hisown lonely way through a difficult problem and present hiswork inanawesomesetting." Kennedyhas beena frequentjudgeatthe UCLA Moot Court program and has recognized higher stages of development year by year. "The performance of the students both last year and this year showed that the students themselves have effected one of the best designed and best run mootcourtsinthecountry.Theimpact ofthisworkis clearly evident in the quality of the presentations," says Kennedy .
The resulting situation is one where even the presiding judges learn. "I wouldn't do it if that weren't thecase,"saysKennedy."Youalwayslearnsomething about advocacy and about the law and sometimes even about yourself and your colleagues on the bench," hesays.
JudgeWilfredFeinbergoftheUnitedStatesSecond CircuitCourtof Appealalso had high praise for both the efficiency with which the tournament was run and the performances of the student advocates. He was unaware that the students received no advice from faculty. "That makes their performance even more impressive," says Feinberg. "The briefs were unusuallythorough.Iwasfamiliarwiththecases,and yet the students raised points in the briefs that I hadn't thought of. The UCLA law school has good reason to be proud."
The student of whom the UCLA Moort Court is most proud is Jeffrey Masters, the winner of this year's title of Distinguished Advocate. "The courtaffords visibility," says Masters, whoreceived three invitations to interviews from prominent lawyers who heard him argue at UCLA.Such opportunities knock
"The moot court experience expands to form a great social base for meeting attorneys.Even beyond the employment value of such introductions, it's just great fun."
oftenatthemoot courtdoor. "Quite oftenthefact that oneisinvolvedinthemoot courtcanbethefootinthe door," says Moot Court Chief Justice Bill Davis. "And if you have the skills of a moot court advocate, once you've gotten your foot in the door, you are likely to be able to talk your way into the job you want."
These skills are critical to the metamorphosis from goodstudent lo goodlawyer. "You cangothroughthe initial program at a law school and never get the chance to hone the writing and oral advocacy skills a lawyer actually needs on the job," says Masters. "The current controversy about the competence of the trial bar is an excellent argument for participation inthe moot court even if one is not planning a trial practice."
The large measure of autonomy, Masters feels, is one of the underlying strengths of the program, and the resulting fraternity of adversaries is one of its mostpleasant rewards. "We pride ourselves ondoing everythingourselves," hesays. "Otherschoolsrelyon their faculties more because they are under more pressure to win and establish a reputation for themselves. The great advantage of being from UCLA is that we carry that name with us."
Masters and Abell, along with fellow moot court finalist Barclay Edmundson, will comprise a three member team that will carry UCLA's name on to national moot court competitions. They follow in the wake of last year's team who won the West Coast regional competition of 32 schools and went on to New York for the nationwide finals. Yet another team will go to the state competition to face student advocates from 19 California schools. Last year's team came in second in this state competition.
However they fare in the national competitions, this year's winners ultimately will take their places among the former UCLA Moot Court winners who now comprise some of the most prominent lawyers and judges in Los Angeles, including Mariana Pfaelzer, Joan Dempsey Klein,and Arthur Greenburg. Such success is nurtured, and sampled, through exposure and practice at practicing the law. "The moot court is the first time to work in a professional relationship with other students," says Masters. "The experience expands to form a great social base for meeting attorneys.Even beyond the employment value of such introductions, it's just great fun." D
tional area.
hile many other schools are scrambling to find authorities in business law who can be drawn away from lucrative practices, UCLA has attractedalargenumberofexceptional academics-innovators in a tradi
The school's drawing power and the faculty's diversity and depth are clearly apparent in the field of taxlaw. Many topschoolsstruggleto retainevenone expert inthis field. UCLAhas four. Fortheseoriginal tax scholars, the school seems to provide a shelter where they can explore intellectual puzzles as oldas the coconut economy-questions of equity and how the rewards of societywill be shared, questions that arebasic to civilization and seemingly insoluble.
"It's an exercise in puzzlesolving," says Professor Joel Rabinovitz, whopondersthetechnicalaspectsof taxationandworksasaconsultantfortheDepartment oftheTreasury. "I findthetechnical questionsagood deal of fun, and I'm going to spend my life doing thingsI enjoy."
Through his consulting work for government, however, Rabinovitzisventuringawayfromthetechnical problem solving that has occupied him in the pastandontobroaderquestionsofpolicy. "Onestarts out as an academic committed to rational solutions with intolerance for the horse trading and compromises of the political process," he says of the recent drift in his thinking. "But it may be implicit in oursystemthat wereallydon'tmeanforour nominal rate structure to represent the tax burden we want people to bear. Maybe it's the system with all its loopholes that actually represents our judgment about what's afair distribution of the tax burden. We mayevenhavetoconcludethatCongressintendsthe consequences of its actions."
Overall, the tax system has gotten better in recent yearsatclosingloopholes.In the process, theflawsof aRobin Hoodapproachhavebecome apparent."The richsimply don'thaveenoughmoneyto redistribute and have any substantial impact on the poor," says Rabinovitz. "If you really want to help the poor, you haveto take the moneyfromthe middle class.It may be no coincidence that when we have tried to do that the middle class has revolted. That's where the votes are."
Much of the pinch of current taxes is due to inflation, which drives people into higher tax brackets even when they have not made substantial gains in real income. The new tax bill that has passed the House and is under consideration in the Senate would index taxes to takeaccountof inflation somewhatwhenlevyingtaxes.Asisusualwithtaxlegisla-
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lion, the bill will create inequities, inefficiencies, windfall gains and, of course, complexity.
Notes Rabinovitz: "Everybody wants simplicity whenit'saprovisionheisopposedto anddoesn'tgive a damn about complexity when the substantive resultsarethereforhim.Simplicityhasnoconstituency in the taxlaw."
One who very much intends to have an impact on the development of the law in this area is Professor Michael Asimow, who was drawnaway from private practice to academia largely to obtain a base from which hecouldhavegreaterinfluenceon fundamental issues. "This position was a jump into the dark, and I have never been sorry," says Asimow. "I can address myself to issues of important public policy whereas a private attorney must address himself to the client's interests."
One of the major problems that has most recently occupied Asimow's interest is the question of whether a private citizen should be able to attack in courtataxrulingthathebelievesiswrong."Sayanoil company, for example, obtains a ruling which I believecreatesa loophole.I thinkCongress shouldpass a law allowing private citizens to sue insituationsof that kind," says Asimow.
The prospects for such a law are not as unlikelyas one might think, he believes. His influence as a scholarcan be substantial. "The impactI would have would be through my writing, explaining the problem and finding a reasonable approach. This is the beginning It's the intellectual underpinning for this type of change."
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Research and teaching have inherent aesthetic rewards, he grants, "but I'm very happy if I have succeeded in persuading a court or Congress or others. That'sreallywhatIintend.Allmy researchisoriented toward some kind of positive change."
Theschoolis alsoahavenfor thosewhosegratifications lie more in the scholarly life itself and the fascinationofitsquestions. Professor Alison Andersonhas gravitated away from tax law somewhattowardwork in the field of business associations and securities law. One of her primary interests is the study of the historical development of common law and how it relates to current economic analysis of business organizations. She draws heavily on her knowledge of the economic literature,pondering such questions as theeffect of managers' and other agents' incentives in the workings of economic theory based on the assumption that decisions are made by owners.
She does not think in terms of ever fmding the solution to any of the great questions in her field. "I don't think of it in useful terms to be honest," says Anderson. "I'm interested in the intellectual problems for their own sake. I find it easier to deal with intellectual problems if I have a better understanding of why the rules work out a certain way."
The payoff for teaching is substantial. "It's an enormous help if you can keep pointing out to students that there are basic problems which keep coming back in different forms. They may not be able to convince a court by saying that Professor Anderson has this theoretical framework,but if they can understandsomething better, they can workwithitbetterin
the profession."
There is always a certain tension between practicing lawyers and law faculty who are more intellectually inclined, she feels. "There is always a certain amount of skepticism about the value of our endeavors. Somewonder why we arenot doing something more practical and less theoretical. But that's just inherent in the peculiar structure of a law school," she says.
Some no doubt also wonder why she continues to forego the financial advantages of private practice. "Mainly I just enjoy it," she says of her position. "It's funto writeandfun tothinkandtogetpaid forit.And I find a lot of vicarious satisfaction in seeing other peoplelearnthings. IthinkUCLAis agreatplace,and I'd be happy to stay here the rest of my career."
A somewhat kindred spirit is Professor William Klein, who also began his teaching career in tax law but also has ventured intostudies of business organization,to the pointthat he no longerthinksof himself as a tax lawyer He is now at work on a book which examines the economic and legal elements of business organization. The book is designed to help peopleinbothbusinessandlawbetterunderstandthe economic and legal systemsunder whicl. they work.
Thedrift of his work has led him deeperand deeper into the literature of economics. "I don't separate economics and lawanymore," he says. "I'veread and tried to master most of the economic theories of the Ii.rm and management but instead of teaching it directly, I've tried to incorporate such as seems useful into what looks like a traditional law course."
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As for how much impact he realistically expects to have on the formation of policy in his field, he says: "Not much."
Ultimately, even the most highly theoretical work may influence the undercurrents of thought in an area in ways more fundamental than is readily apparent. But the true excitement, for Klein, is often in the discovery of what seems one of the holy grails of the intellectual quest. "There are times when you can say, 'Eureka, I've got it.' That's a wonderful feeling," he says.
An example is astudy Klein once made of one of the unanswered questions about the fairness of the income tax system. "I realized that if I were seriously interested in the fairness of the income tax system, I had to know something about who bears the actual burden of the income tax," he says. He dove into the economic literature for a summer and later published an article on the subject. "I concluded that there was an answer to the question of who bears the burden, and the answer is that it's wholly uncertain," he says. That answer set his own mind to rest and has helped to deepen the understanding of many others.
Does it bother him that students often are more interested in the practical knowledge that helps them gain success in a profitable area of the law? "No," says Klein. "Most of us are respectful of the right of the student to receive the kind of training that will prepare a person for the profession. I'd like to show them how the theoretical interest that I have will help them to become better practicing lawyers."
The future of scholarship in his area, he believes,
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belongs to him and his colleagues. "We are coming on strong in business law now," he says. "To some extent the strengths are just beginning to appear. Stanley Siegel has just joined us and Alison Anderson is rising to eminence. I am just beginning to turn away from tax toward business organizations. This is a strong nucleus that will be recognized very shortly in the business organizations arena."
The third person in that nucleus, Stanley Siegel. was drawn to UCLA in part because of his colleagues. "The UCLA School of Law has probably gotten a lot less recognition than it deserves in this area," says Siegel. Recognition generally lags behind reality, for both young law schools and young scholars. "Much of our business law faculty is a young faculty just beginning to achieve its own in scholarship. Considering the fact that a scholarly career extends over 30 or 40 years, there is no question that if all are wise and stay with us, we will have the best business law faculty in the country. That's frankly the reason I came here," he says.
Siegel is himself one of the major drafters and evaluators of legislation in corporate law. He has become a bridge between the profession and the aca· demic world in the analysis of statutory and regula· tory matters. He is finishing a book on the Michigan business corporation law, which he drafted, to help practitioners understand it. He is currently active in various bar association committees which are evaluating major legislation including the new Uni· form Partnership Act.
One of his major interests is the problem of corpo·
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rate disclosure of information to shareholders and the general public. Since corporations speak mainly through financial statements, he has organized a course which will expose potential lawyers to the problems of evaluating what a corporation says to shareholders and the government through such documents. "I want to probe the ways these kinds of disclosures might be changed to make them more timely and effective and less costly," he says.
For the past eight years, he has also been scrutinizing the effectiveness of public corporations. America seems to be turning increasingly to quasi-private corporations to run the postal system the railway system public broadcasting and other services and yet seems unable to realize the potential of such organizations. Ironically, this seems due to the reluctance of the land of free enterprise to grant its public corporations true freedom of action. "We have managed to have all the inefficiencies of government and none of the advantages of free enterprise," says Siegel.
His course in this area is at present the only one of its kind in the country. "We have opened for discussion an area that is ripe for examination in our country," he says. "I would like to see this kind of enterpriseused more honestly and widely, and I would like �o see us experiment with structures that offer promise of more effective government organization."
This interest is part of a larger examination of the structure of corporations and how best to turn them to different purposes. With Professor Klein, he offers another unique course called "Elements of Economic Organization" and subtitled "Deals." Explains Siegel:
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"We examine a variety of different kinds of, well, deals, for lack of a better word. We look at a movie deal, a sports deal, a real estate venture, a cooperative organization and try to fmd the unifying principles of law and economics that govern the structuring of these organizations."
As for his own impact on the development of the law in his field, he says: "I have had the pleasure of drafting legislation and seeing it pass. It's a tremendous charge to one's ego to see one's own words imposed in the law of the land. But the more fundamental scholarship that I am doing and that my other colleagues are even more responsible for may have a more formative impact on the way the law moves in the long run."
One who would like to change directlyand literally the wording of the law is Professor David Mellinkoff, whose book The Language of the Law takes as its thesis the revolutionary notion that the language of the law should not be different from the common speech unless there is a reason for it.
"What I've done is to show how the language got the way it is and how it works in practice. There just aren't good reasons for the continuation of a lot of the gobbledygook," he says.
Mellinkoff has switched from teaching corporations to other courses including one in commercial transactions. One of his principal interests in commercial transactions is the language of the Uniform Commercial Code. He has criticized the language of the code in an oft-quoted and influential article in which he argues that the wording of the code is im-
precise and misleading. "For law students and lawyers who are not conversant with the whole framework of commercial law, to try to learn something about the law of sales and negotiable instruments just by reading the Uniform Commercial Code is virtually impossible," he says.
The code only demonstrates an underlying problem of the language of the law in general. "Lawyers fool themselves into thinking that they are the possessors of avery precise language," says Mellinkoff. "In fact, only a tiny portion of it is precise at all.andagood dealofthewholelanguageofthelawis mush."
One of the great benefits of current moves to simplify the languageof the law may be that lawyers willunderstandone another better,Mellinkoff hopes.
Perhaps the most unlikely scholar to have joined the ranksof the businesslawfaculty is Professor Murray Schwartz, the school's former dean and an expert in criminal law and professional responsibility. Schwartz found himself sitting on the board of directors of the Mattel Corporation as the result of a Securityand Exchange Commissionconsent decreewhich forced the company to change the composition of its board to include personswho had no previous affiliation with Mattel.Thussince 1974, Schwartz has been involved in major litigation as a member of the board of one of America's large corporations. He is now offering a seminar in which he will explore various recent criticisms of profit corporations and examine possible remedies.
One range of criticisms often leveled results from the suspicion that profit corporations are inclined to illegal activities and are not sufficiently respectful of the public interest. Experience has not taught Schwartz that this is necessarily the case. "I frnd my
fellowmembersoftheboard andmanagement tend to be concerned about the world around them," he says. "But the times when social problems arise in away in which the board of directors can come to grips with them are really quite rare.
"WhatIhave becomepersonallyinterested in isthe general problem of the structure of the relationships of shareholders, board members, and management and the extenttowhichitis possible to work outsome sort of effective relationship between them. I have shocked myself by saying someday I might like to teach the course in business associations," he says.
The direct involvement of academics in the writing of the law is one of the attractions of business law scholarship. William Warren, dean of the School of Law, and Professor Robert L. Jordan are the principal draftsmen of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, a broad codification of consumer laws that has been adopted in nine states. Portions of the code have been adopted in other states, and the code has influenced federal legislation as well. They have also completed a new case book on commercial and consumer law with Professor William E. Hogan of Cornell. Dean Warren is Vice Chairman of the Consumer Advisory Commission to the Federal Reserve Board.
"One of the hardest places to keep talented people on the faculty is in the area of business law because they are sacrificing a lot in terms of income. Despite this, we have what is in my opinion the strongest business law faculty on the West Coast and one of the strongest in the country," Dean Warren says with pride. The school's innovations in new areas of the law have often overshadowed its great strengths in traditional areas of expertise. "The business law faculty shows there are no barriers between the traditional and the innovative," says Warren. D
AReportfromDeanWarren
hepastyearhas beenaneventfulone for the Law School. In June of 1978, the Bakke decision came down, a California Court of Appeal challenged the legality of law clinical programsinthe Perez case,and Proposition 13 became law. We are adjcsting to Bakke, appealing Perez, and attempting to come to terms with the financial strictures resulting from Proposition 13. We continue to attract top students and to maintain one of the best law faculties in the nation. We deserve our rating as one of the top ten law schools in the nation, and, in the face of adversity, we are flourishing.
Our faculty continues to be productive. Several significant books and articles were published this past year. Melville Nimmer's defmitive four-volume treatise, Nimmer on Copyright, 2d ed., Matthew Bender, appeared this year. George Fletcher's new work, Rethinking Criminal Law, was published by Little, Brown & Co. Kenneth Graham continuedwork on his multivolume treatise on evidence, Federal Practice and Procedure: Evidence, West Publishing Co. Michael Asimow has largely completed his work on a new tax treatise under the general editorship of Boris Bittker, to be published by Warren, Gorham and Lamont, Inc. Carole Goldberg is continuing her work as a member of the group revising Felix Cohen's treatise, Handbook of Federal Indian Law. The UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations published a collection of Benjamin Aaron's essays, entitled Selected Works of Benjamin Aaron, Hildebrand & Meyers, ed., 1977.
Among the casebooks published this year are: Dukeminier, Family Wealth Transactions, 2d ed., Little, Brown & Co., 1978 (with Johanson); Jordan and Warren, Coses and Materials on Commercial and Consumer Transactions, 2d ed., Foundation Press, Inc.,1978 (with Hogan); Rice, Problems and Materials in Federal Estate and Gift Taxes, 3d ed., West Publishing Co., 1978. Bauman and York have completed work onthe thirdedition ofCases on Remedies, West Publishing Co., which will be published in 1979. Among the articles published this year are: Abel, "The Problem of Values in the Analysis of Political Order: Myths of Tribal Society and Liberal Democracy. A Review Essay on Elizabeth Colson, Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Order," African Law Studies (1978); Anderson, "Conflicts of Interest: Efficiency, Fairness and Corporate Structure," 25 UCLA Law Review, 1978; Eisenberg, "Reflections on a Unified Theory of Motive," Son Diego Law Review, 1978; W. Klein, "Timing in Personal Taxation," Journal of Legal Studies, 1977; Letwin, "Administrative Censorship oftheIndependent StudentPress-Demise of the Double Standard," South Carolina Law Review, 1978; Letwin, "After Goss v. Lopez: Student Status as Suspect Classification?" Stanford Low Review, 1978; Liebeler, "No Matter What the SheepskinLooks Like, It's Still the Same Old Wolf: A Reply to Mr. Kramer," Federal Communication Law Journal, 1977; Liebeler, "Antitrust and the New Federal Trade Commission," in Economic Regulation and Consumer Welfare: The FTC in the 1970's, Law and Economics Center, 1979; McGovern, "Dependent Promises in the History of Leases and other Contracts," Tulane Low Review,
1978; G. Schwartz, "Contributory and Comparative Negligence," Yale Law Journal, 1978; G. Schwartz, "Talking aboutTaking," Yale LawJournal, 1978 (with Krier); M. Schwartz, "Emerging Patterns in American Law,"PacificLawJournal,1977; Shiffrin, "Defamatory Non-Media Speech and First Amendment Methodology," UCLA Law Review, 1978; Wasserstrom, "Some Problems with Theories of Punishment," in Cederblom and Blizek, Justice and Punishment, Ballinger, 1977; Winslade, "An Overview of the Scientist's Responsibilities: Comments by an Attorney," In Vitro,1977; Winslade, "Thoughts on Technology and Death: An Appraisal of California's Natural Death Act," DePaul Law Review, 1977; Winslade, "Bioethics-California'a Natural Death Act: What Every Attorney Should Know," Los Angeles Lawyer, 1978; Yeazell, "Intervention and the Ideal of Litigation: A Commentary on the Los Angeles School Case," UCLA LawReview, 1978.
Specialmetionshouldbemadeoftheextraordinary contribution RichardAbelhasmadeoverthepasttwo years in editing Law & Society Review, the leading international journal for interdisciplinary scholarship in law and social science. Abel's editorship has been acclaimed by scholars all over the world as a high point in the history of this prestigious journal. In addition to editingfourissues each year, Abel has edited aspecialissue on the delivery of legal services under a grant from the National Science Foundation. During thenexttwoyears, hewill editaspecialissue on plea bargaining with the support of a grant from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and anothercontainingreviewsoftheliteratureinthemost rapidly growing sub-fields of law and society, again under an NSF grant. Inthe course of his work, he has attendedconferencesinGermany, Spain,andSweden. He has been appointed to the editorial board of the British Journal of Law and Society and elected vicepresident of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association. AbelalsoeditsAfricanLawStudies,publishedjointly by the African Law Association in America and the UCLA African Studies Center.
Students
Where havethecardgamesgone? I can think of no other fact that describes the law student of today as well as the observation that in the past three years I have not seen a card game in the student lounge at theLaw School. To graduates of the'50sand '60s, this must seem beyond belief. Another datum: in early September, 1978, our Placement Director gave a program for students on how to get jobs with law firms. To her astonishment, most of the audienceturned out 14
to be first-year law students in their third week of law school!
"PaperChase," totheextentthatitconnotes sadistic professors humiliating long-suffering law students, is a thing of the past. "Job Chase" would be a more accurate title for the prevailing mood around law schools inthe late '70s. Anadvanced law school class inthefalltermischaracterizedbyanumberofstudents leaving at various times during the hour They haven't been thrown out of class by a petulant professorforfailingtoreadtheircases; theyareontheir way to a job interview, as anyone can see from their unusual attire-coats and ties for men, dresses for women.
Our students are perhaps more grimly vocational than any group since the World War II veterans. For the first time we are seriously concerned with what theprofessionalscall "stressmanagement." Thestudents' emphasis ongradesis greater thanit has been in my memory. Tocounselwithadistraughtstudent who has received the first "C" grade in his/her career-we still give "C's" and even "D's" and "F's" -is to learn graphically the exaggerated role that students believe grades play in getting on in the legal world.
We are experimenting with a numberof programs tohelpstudentscopewiththeirlawschoolanxieties. Each first-year student has a facu1ty advisor to whom he/shecangoforcounseling. Thecampus Psychological Counseling Center gives lectures on stress managementandinvitesstudentswithseriousproblemsto seekprofessionalcounseling. TheStudentBarAssociation is sponsoring "Students Helping Students," an informal counseling service offered to students wishing assistance.
It'sno wonderour studentsare shocked toreceivea "C." The class entering in the Fall of 1978 has an averageLSATof 700andGPA of3.6. The340 enrolleeswere chosen fromnearly3,000applicants. They have come to us from 119 undergraduate colleges. Fifty-five are from UCLA; 30 from Stanford; 26 from UCBerkeley;14from UC SantaBarbara; 13from USC. Six members of the class are from the University of Pennsylvania. Harvard, Yale, and Oxford are represented. Forthesecondconsecutiveyear, 37 percentare women. Two noteworthy statisticsare the average age of the enteringclass, nearly 25, and the percentageof out-of-state enrollees, over 24 percent. Our applications for the1978-79 year were up some 13 percent.
Student Activities
SomeindicationofthescopeofactivitiesatUCLAis offered through an enumeration of the co-curricular activities carriedonatthe School. We nowpublishsix
Jawreviews! The legal profession is uniquein thatits most significant literature is in the hands of law students.The UCLA Law Review, though relatively new, hasalreadyacquiredareputationasoneoftheleading legal periodicals. Membership on the board of editors isdetermnedbyacademicperformanceinthefirstyear andby a writing competition.
Afew years ago the Alaska Bar Association asked the Law School to undertake publication of a law review for that state which has no law school of its own. The UCLA-Alaska Law Review emphasizes issues of importance to Alaska readers. It is financed by the Alaska Bar Association. Last year the Federal Communications Bar Association, of Washington, D.C.,entered into an agreement whereunder our students willedittheFederalCommunicationsLawJournal.A similar agreementwas recently made with the InternationalLawSectionoftheAmericanBar Association to have our students edit the International Lawyer. The Black Law Journal and theLa Raza Law Review are national publications dealing with the legalproblemsoftheBlackandChicanocommunities. Both are edited by our students and eachis unique in its field. Both are self-supporting.
The UCLA Moot Court program is recognized as one of the best in the country. Certainly it is one of the largest; nearly 150 students participated in it last year.Alargenumberofjudgesandpracticinglawyers volunteered to hear cases at the Law School. Our Moot Court teams have garnered many awards for briefwriting and oral advocacy over the years.
Placement
Although there is said to be an oversupply of lawyers, placement for the graduates of UCLA remains highly favorable. In recent years most graduates have positions before they take the bar examination, and virtually the entire graduating class is placed in legal jobs within a year of graduation. In the Fall of 1977 nine major New York firms, seven Washington firms, .fifteen San Francisco .firms, and virtually all the significant firms in Southern California,as well as a number of firms fromChicago,Houston, and other major cities, interviewed at the Law School. Approximately 240 offices, including law firms, corporations, government agencies, legal aid offices, and public interest firms, visit the School annually; the number increases each year. Hundreds of other firms and agencies which cannot interview on campus use the Placement Office to reach our students.
Itisinteresting to note that 10% of theClass of 1977 t?ok positions in the northeastern quadrant ofthe nation.UCLA continuestoexcelinplacingitsgraduates
in top judicial clerkships. For the fourth consecutive year,oneofourstudentshasbeenchosentobeaUnited States SupremeCourtclerk.JimAsperger,Classof '78, now clerking for Justice Mosk of the California Supreme Court,will serveJustice Rehnquist in 1979-80. Sondra Berchin, Class of '77, is clerking for Justice Marshall for the 1978-79year.
Placement for a recent class broke down as follows: privatepractice, 64.6%; publicinterestpractice,1.4%; legal aid, 3.4%; corporate law departments, 10.2%; governmentlegalpositions,11.2%; judicialclerkships, 9.2%. Median starting salaries for the Class of 1977 were: small law firms (2 to 10 attorneys), $18,000; mediumlawfirms (11-25attorneys),$20,000;largelaw fi.rms (26-50 attorneys), $21,000; very large law firms (over 50 attorneys), $21,000; federal government, $18,000; local government, $17,000; corporations, $18,000.
The Law School offers a thoroughly professional Placement Office which, in addition to serving as liaison between employer and student, provides a wide range of counseling services on both an individualandgroupbasistocurrentstudentsandalumni. The Placement Office sponsorsworkshops to discuss careerplanning,resumepreparation,interviewingand job search strategies.Attorneys and faculty members presentseminarsdiscussingspecifictypesoflawpractice.Individualcounseling sessionsare availablewith staffmembers. Studentsmaygothroughsimulatedjob interviewsbeforevideotapecamerasinordertoperfect their interviewing techniques. Staff members assist students in preparing their resumes before the beginning of job hunting season.
Minority Programs
In the year of Bakke, we shall be reviewing our admissions practices to make sure that they conform to the requirements of that decision. Perhaps this is an appropriate time to look back over the achievementsofour minorityadmissionprogram.I doubt that anyschool inthenationhasdemonstrated amoresustained commitment to minority legal education than has UCLA.The best estimate Icanfindofthenumber ofminoritymembersoftheCaliforniaBarisbetween 1200and 2000. Since its first minority special admissions class in 1967,UCLA has produced 230 minority graduates who have been admitted to the California bar. If this estimate is correct, UCLA, one of 59 law schools in the state, has produced between 19% and 11%ofallCalifornia'sminority lawyers.Andthis does not count UCLA minority graduates pre-dating the special admissions program.
Of 318 of our special admittees who have taken the California Bar Examination,230 havepassed,a 72.3%
rate. Next to the University of Texas, UCLA has the largest Chicano studentpopulationin thecountry. One out of every 14 Chicanos registered at an approved law school in 1977-78 was enrolled at UCLA.
Alumni
We have continued our program of attempting to communicate more effectively with our alumni about the School. A major step in this direction was taken this past year with the birth of UCLA LAW, edited and written by Ted Hulbert and Wayne Sage of the Alumni and Development Center. The excellent art work and layout are done by Serena Sharp of the Publication Services Department. Response to the first two issues has been very favorable.
Alumni clubs continue to grow throughout the state. We now have alumni groups thriving in Sacramento, San Francisco, Santa Barbara-Ventura, Orange County, and San Diego. These groups sponsor luncheons featuring Law School faculty members as speakers. Class reunions have been held this past year for the Classes of '53, '58, '68, and '73.Each was a most enjoyable occasion.
Charles Vogel completed a successful term as president of the Alumni Association during 1977. We are fortunate to have Paul Shettler, of Newport Beach, as president of the Association for 1978. Bea Cameron has proved to be a most capable replacement for Judith Moorhead as Executive Director of the Alumni Association.
In a recent issue of the magazine, Juris Doctor, graduates of American law schools were rated on the basis of median income in law practice. I'm always dubious about the reliability of magazine polls like this one, but, for what it is worth, the survey of median income in private practice rated graduates of UCLA as 10th, at $34,500. Stanford graduates led this categorywith$40,750,followed by Yaleat $40,116, and Harvard at $40,000. For median income of those notinprivatepractice,graduates of UCLAagainranked 10th, at $28,991. Yale led this category with $34,502, followed by Harvard at $33,634, and Columbia at $32,946.
If this survey is even close to being accurate, it is a remarkable statement about thesuccessof graduates of this Law School, for of our approximately 4500 graduates. more thanhalfhave graduatedsince 1970! I doubt that we have more than 100 alumni over the age of 50. For their age group, our graduates must be doingas well financially as those of any other alumni group in the country.
Fund Raising
Under the capable leadership of Tony McDermott Assistant Dean for Alumni and Development, ou; fund raising activities have continued to be successful. We now have over 800 members in our two sup. port groups, Dean's Advocates and Dean's Counsel. Annual givingby alumni from November1977through October 1978 has increased to $115,000. This moneyis spent to keep up the quality of educa. tion at theLaw School. Erosion of faculty salariesat the University of California over the past three years has been so dramatic that, although the authoritative Cartter Report rated our Law School as one of the ten best in the nation, our salary scale for 1978-79 is not in the top 25 schools. We spend these funds to make UCLA the kind of school at which talented faculty will want to make their careers. With these funds we support faculty research; pay expanses of faculty recruitment; reimburse faculty for necessary travel to academic meetings; bolster our lean secretarial supportstaff; assist the LawLibraryinmeeting itsescalating costs; and meet the host of expenses incurred in operating a major educational institution.
A foundation that does not wish publicity gave us $115,000 for student scholarships during the year. William Rutter has made a generous gift to the University that will allow us to make an award of some $5,000 each year to a member of the law faculty for distinction in teaching. The furn of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp has established the Norma Zarky Memorial Writing Award in honor of its late partner, Norma G. Zarky, to be given to the person writing the best paper in the field of entertainment law.
Among our most generous donors this year were the extraordinary group of alumni and friends of UCLA who gave the Second Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium in December of 1 977 on the campustostandingroomonlyattendance.These men and women invested hundreds of hours of their extremely valuable time anddonated all the proceedsof the program to the Dean's Fund. Their objectistohelp make UCLA Law School the recognized center of entertainment law in the nation. Symposium coordinators were Gary Concoff and Barry Haldeman. Peter Dekom, Lawrence Mortoff, and Michael Sherman were in charge of the syllabus. Other members of the Symposium Advisory Committee were Barbara Boyle, Stanley Coleman, William Hornaday, Melville Nimmer, Monroe Price.Edward Rubin, Matthew Saver, Michael Seeman, Myron Slobodien, Gordon Stulberg, and Allen Susman. We are grateful to them. D
Dean'sAdvocatesandDean's Counsel
The school owesspecial thanksfortheirsupportin 1978totheDean'sAdvocatesand Dean's Counselmembers, who arelistedhere.
1952
Arthur Alef
*Laverne Sagmaster Bauer
*Maurice W. Bralley, Jr.
Alex S. Chernow
*Richard Jay Collins
Clarence R. Cook, Jr.
*Curtis B. Danning
James Fernandes
*Arthur Fuzak
*Saul Grayson
*Arthur N. Greenberg
*Geraldine S. Hemmerling
*Bruce I. Hochman
Sidney R. Kuperberg
J. Perry Langford
*Donald C. Lieb
*John C. McCarthy
Norbert J. Mietus
*Frederick E. Mueller
Sallie T. Reynolds
Martin J. Schnitzer
Edward B. Smith III
*Joseph N. Tilem
*Lester Ziffren
1953
*Norman B. Barker
Victor M. Epport
Arthur Frankel
*Jerome H. Goldberg
Ronald B. Labowe
"Donald C. Lozano
Dorothy W. Nelson
John F. Parker
Jack M. Sattinger
*C. Douglas Wikle
"Charles A. Zubieta
1954
*Leon S. Angvire
John A. Arguelles
Carl Boronkay
Thomas L. Caps
*Donald K. Denbo
*Seymour Fagan
Harvey F. Grant
Harland N. Green
Harvey M.Grossman
*Martin Horn
Fred Jonas
*Marvin Juhas
Eugene V. Kapetan
David H. Kornblum
Gerald Krupp
Bernard Lauer
Jack Levine
W. Walter Livingston
*Sherwin L. Memel
*Roger C. Pettitt
Howard F. Rhodes
Norman A. Rubin
Allan L. Rudick
William H. Simon , Jr.
Donald S. Simons
Arthur L. Stein
Anne P. Toomer
Eric Weissman
Lester A.West
Eugene L. Wolver, Jr.
1955
*Lee J.Cohen
Myrtle Dankers
*Herbert Z. Ehrmann
*Sanford M. Ehrmann
*Allan S.Ghitterman
*Irving M. Grant
Earl H. Greenstein
*Samuel W. Halper
Howard A. Kaplan
Joan Dempsey Klein
Edward Lasker
*Marshall M. Litchmann
*John R. Marcus
Bruce I. Rauch
Graham A. Ritchie
*Richard Schauer
Harold L. Schmidt
*David Simon
David W. Slavitt
William W. Vaughan
*Joseph A. Wein
1956
Herman M. Adams
*William Cohen
Richard E. Cole
Harold J. Delevie
Jerry Edelman
*Florentino Garza
Mervin N. Glow
Irwin D. Goldring
*Benjamin E. King
Kenneth E. Kulzick
Howard Lehman
*Bernard L. Lewis
Ralph L. McKnight
Milton Louis Miller
Allen Mink
*Thomas J. Reilly
Norman D. Rose
Marvin D. Rowen
*Karl M. Samuelian
*Thomas R. Sheridan
Richard Sinsheimer
"Herbert J. Soloman
*Norman Stevens
J. Howard Sturman
Morton M. Weinberg
1957
James Acret
Charles R. Currey
*Deon's Advocates
Donald J. Drew
David R. Glickman
Seymour S. Goldberg
Elbert E. Hensley
Jean Ann Hirschi
Roy Kates
Robert A. Knox
Neil A. Lake
Everett W. Maguire
Robert A. Memel
*Raymond H. Olinger
*Mariana Pfaelzer
Roderick B. Riccardi
*Charles E. Rickershauser, Jr.
*Irving A. Shimer
Norman L. Vetter
*Lee B. Wenzel
Robert S. White
Wells K. Wohlwend
1958
*Warren J. Abbott
*Charles S. Althouse
Bruce A. Beckman
David Bernard
Stephen M. Blumberg
William Calfas
Terrill F. Cox
Robert L. Dicker
Norman L. Epstein
Hugh Evans, Jr.
*Bernard D. Fischer
Sanford M. Gage
Mitchell M. Gold
*Bernard A. Greenberg
Harold J. Hertzberg
*Willard D. Horwich
Arthur Karma
Donn Kemble
Ephraim P. Kranitz
Philip F. Lanzafame
Bernard Lemlech
*Fred L. Leydorf
Christian E. Markey, Jr.
William A. Masterson
Arthur Mazirow
*Thomas J. McDermott
Louis Meyers
*Wesley L. Nutten III
Shearn H. Platt
Howard F. Potter
Irwin E. Sandler
Ronald L. Scheinman
*Ralph J. Shapiro 18
*Lewis Silverberg
*Roland R. Speers
*John Virtue
*Nancy B. Watson
Robert L. Wilson
*John G. Wigmore
1959
Stanton P. Belland
Stanley A. Black
Jerry A. Brody
*Stephen Claman
*F. Patrick Crowell
James D. Dale
Louise D. Dale
*Edward P. George, Jr.
George V. Hall
Albert J. Hillman
Thomas E. Johnston
Eugene Leviton
Leslie W. Light
Josiah L. Neeper
Roberta Ralph
Stanley Rogers & Michael Harris
*John H. Roney
*Jack Schwartzman
Bernard S. Shapiro
Robert H. Stopher
Ronald L. Trevithick
*Charles S. Vogel
Paul B. Wells
1960
Barbara D. Boyle
Sanford Brickner
M. Alan Bunnage
Lawrence A. Bush
Richard J. Cantrell
John K. Carmack
*Martin Cohen
Dale Cunningham
Robert W. D'Angelo
*Hugo D. DeCastro
*Stanley R. Fimberg
Ralph J. Ginocchio
Ronald J. Grueskin
Gary S. Jacobs
Matthew Kearney
Leonard Kolod
*Allan B. Lasher
*John L. Moriarity
John G. Nelson
James S. Place
Grant E. Propper
Sherman Rogers
Amil W. Roth
*John R. Schell
Owen A. Silverman
*Stuart Simke
Stephen C. Taylor
Emmett A. Tompkins, Jr.
Alan R. Watts
Herbert Wolas
1961
Karl J. Abert
Leonard Alexander
*John A. Altschul
Adah H. Aragon
*Sheldon G. Bardach
*Richard E. Barnard
Wilfrid J. Bedworth
Richard H. Bein
Donald J. Boss
Arthur Brunwasser
*Ralph Cassady
Hillel Chodos
Gerald S. Davee
*Richard S. Diamond
*Mitchell Geffen
*Alan N. Halkett
Robert F. Lewis
*Robert C. Proctor, Jr.
*Henry P. Nelson
Christina J. New
Eric A. Nobles
Donald J. Regan
Ira D. Riskin
*Philip M. Rohlin
*Herbert E. Schwartz
Thomas J. Scully
*John H. Sharer
*Paul J. Shettler
Sherman A. Silverman
*Henry Steinman
*Donald J. Townley
Rubin M. Turner
Gordon I. Yanz
1962
James R. Andrews
*Jerome S. Billet
Roselyn Brassell
*Leonard E. Castro
*Erwin H. Diller
*Barry V. Freeman
Hiroshi Fujisaki
*E. Belmont Herring
*Rodney C. Hill
Daniel J. Jaffe
David Kelton
Stephen Scott King
Dudley M. Lang
Herbert Laskin
*David A. Leveton
Luke McKissack
Paul L. Migdal
Bernard B. Nebenzahl
Phillip W. Neiman
*Stewart Resnick
Gretta F. Sears
Kenneth M. Simon
*Dean Stern
Norman J. White
*Lawrence D. Williams
1964
John L. Angier
*John R. Benson
Olga Boikess
Sandor T. Boxer
John R. Browning
Harvey Reichard L. Morris Dennis
Todd R. Reinstein
Richard A. Rosenberg
*Henley L. Saltzberg
Raymond J. Sinetar
Mel Springer
Robert D. Walker
*Seymour Weisberg
1963
Don Mike Anthony
*Lee W. Cake
John M. Carmack
Thomas H. Chasin
*Gerald V. Dicker
Frances Ehrmann
Stephen M. Fenster
Charles D. Field
Burton H. Fohrman
*Jay G. Foonberg
Robert S. Goldberg
Martha Goldin
Marvin G. Goldman
*William D. Gould
Harold L. Greene
William F. Heyler
David R. Hoy
Ronald M. Kabrins
*Bernard Katzman
Lawrence Kirk
Douglas C. Lans
Lawrin S. Lewin
*Marshall A. Lewis
Joel F. McIntyre
*Michael M. Murphy
Alban I. Niles
Kenneth E. Owen
Bernard Polston
Ben Pynes
Richard K. Quan
George R. Royce
Michael E. Schwartz
James D. Devine
Daniel L. Dintzer
Raymond T. Gail
David Greenberg
Harry C. Harper
Leo W. Kwan
*Edward A. Landry
Eleanor Luster
Ralph D. Malmquist
*David J. MacKenzie
*Marsha McLean-Utley
*Everett F. Meiners
Michael Miller
*James L. Nolan
David J. O'Keefe
Aaron M. Peck
Kenneth J. Purcell
Jerry A. Ramsey
*Melvyn J. Ross
*Robert M. Ruben
*Stephen W. Solomon
Alan J. Stein
Lawrence Teplin
Martin G. Wehrli
Gerald Winerman
Jeremy V. Wisot
*Richard B. Wolfe
William L. Yerkes
1965
*Norman R. Bard
*Herbert M. Barish
Laurie Belger
*William M. Bitting
David Bloomgarden
*Robert Broder
Thomas P. Burke
*A. Barry Cappello
*Kimler G. Casteel
Milford W. Dahl, Jr.
*Darryl A. DeCuir
Lucinda Dennis
*Bruce W. Dodds
Stephen C. Drummy
William J. Elfving
*Charles R. English
*George C. Eskin
Marshall Freedman
*Joseph E. Gerbac
*James H. Giffen
Jerold V. Goldstein
*Richard J. Goldstein
Robert H. Goon
*L. Christian Hauck
*Jay W. Heckman
*Harold W. Hofman, Jr.
*Stanley R. Jones
*Thomas M. Jones
Martin Z. N. Katz
Claude P. Kimball
*Saul L. Lessler
Donald Low
Stephen A. Malley
*Melvyn Mason
*Anthony X. McDermott
*Oliver F. Moench
*Lawrence H. Nagler
Robert H. Nida
*Andrea Sheridan Ordin
Joel S. Peck
*Ezekiel P. Perlo
*Louis P. Petrich
Edward Poll
Lee A. Rau
Charles G. Rubin
*Stephen A. Schneider
*Richard A. Schulenberg
*Fred Selan
Richard J. Sensenbrenner
*Richard H. Shay
*Daniel I. Simon
Harold J. Stanton
*E. Paul Tonkovich
*Earl W. Warren
*Martin Wolman
Kenneth C. Wullschleger
*Arnold G. York
*Kenneth Ziffren
*Daniel Zipser
1966
*Carl Albert
Robert L. Anderson
*Deon's Advocates
Robert B. Burke
*Kenneth I. Clayman
*Gertrude D. Chern
*Roger L. Cossack
• Richard G. Duncan, Jr.
Gary J. Dunlap
James Epstein
*Stephen P. Feldman
*Raymond W. Ferris
Monte C. Fligsten
David H. Friedland
*Stephen B. and Dawn C. Friedman
Harvey S. Gilbert
Wilford D. Godbold
*Joseph G. Gorman
James Karp
Merrill H. Karpf
Frederick Kuperberg
*David Lafaille
Arthur S. Levine
Harry J. Loberg
Jerold L. Miles
*Emmett M. Mills
Marianne B. Noll
Alan C. Oberstein
Stephen F. Peters
*John S. Poucher
Rosalie L. Rakoff
David I. Reimer
Frances Rothchild
*James E. Schneider
Harold E. Shabo
Anthony E. Shafton
*Joseph L. Shalant
John T. Sudman
*Robert W. Thomas
G. Keith Wisot
*Daniel G. Zerfas
1967
*Donald R. Allen
Paul S. Almond
Robert Axel
*Michael D. Berk
Peter W. Blackman
Kenneth R. Blumer
Harland W. Braun
*Cary D. Cooper
*Donald H. Dye
Harold S. Fleischman
*Gilbert Garcetti
Charles L. Goldberg
W. Michael Johnson
*Michael S. Josephson
Kenneth A. Kleinberg
Richard Lane
*Jerome M. Levitz
Jeffrey L. Linden
•Martin Majestic
*Stefan M. Mason
Jeffrey R. Matsen
Jeffrey T. Miller
Milton J. Nenney
Steven Z. Perren
*Nelson C. Rising
Kenneth L. Schreiber
Dennis T. Seider
Gerald D. Shoaf
*Bruce H. Spector
John C. Spence Ill
Gary D. Stabile
Howard L. Stone
*Lawrence C. Tistaert
Franklin Tom
Eric R. Van De Water
Leonard D. Venger
1968
Elliot J. Abelson
Steven A. Becker
Robert C. Colton
*Craig D. Crockwell
Audrey B. Ezratty
Barry A. Fisher
*David B. Geerdes
*Lynne M. Geyser
Paul J. Glass
*Earle Gary Goodman
*Sharon Green
Robert N. Harris
John W. Heinemann
*Theodore G. Johnsen
Arnold D. Kassay
Steven N. Katznelson
Richard H. Kirschner
*Thomas R. Larmore
Allen D. Lenard
Paul M. Mahoney
Jackson H. Mason, Jr.
James B. Merzon
Daniel A. Miller
*Allan S. Morton
Ronald E. Neuhoff
*Joel R. Ohlgren
*Prentice O'Leary
Michael R. Palley
Don Parris
Jordan Paust
*Terry L. Rhodes
*Leonard M. Ross
Leslie Rothenberg
Eberhard Schmoller
Richard N. Scott
Terry Shagin
*Ronald Slates
Stanley L. Smith
Sanford R. Wilk
Evan G. Williams
1969
Sara Adler
*Daniel Alef
Thomas C. Armitage
Keenan Behrle
*Richard Bryson
Stephen M. Burgin
Gary Christopherson
Michael A. K. Dan
*Domingos, Pearson and Olson
Kenneth Drexler
*Robert B. Fraser
Jeffrey C. Freedman
Carol E. Freis
Jan C. Gabrielson
Robert Glasser
*Ragna Olausen Henrichs
William P. Jacobson
Robert E. Jenks
Robert L. Kahan
Howard A. Krom
John G. Kerr
Robert Kusior
Elwood Lui
Alan R. Maler
John A. McDermott
*Frank E. Merideth, Jr.
Kenneth Meyer
John E. Mueller
Richard A. Neumeyer
Ralph M. Ochoa
Douglas C. Purdy
Toby J. Rothschild
*Robert S. Shahin
Lionel S. Sobel
*Arthur G. Spence
James F. Stiven
Diana L. Walker
*John H. Weston
Richard B. Wolf
1970
Jeffrey Brenner
Harry M. Brittenham
*Dennis C. Brown
Arthur R. Chenen
Linn K. Coombs
*Stephen L. Davis
George W. Echan, Jr.
*Benjamin Fogel
Gary Freedman
*Ellen Friedman
Stephen Gilbert
Martin K. Harary
Linda S. Hume
Jay Jeffcoat
Herbert J. Klein
Jonathan Kotler
James M. Leonard
Rodney Lilyquist, Jr.
Perry E. Maguire
*Robert S. Michaels
Robert Y. Nakagawa
*Barnet Reitner
*Ronald J. Selgrath
Richard J. Stone
*Terry L. Tyler
1971
Shunji Asari
Douglas A. Bagby
James R. Birmingham
Cruger L. Bright
Clark Brown
*Rinaldo S. Brutoco
Tad R. Callister
Curtis A. Cole
Allan Cutrow
Richard D. Fybel
Ronald R. Gastelum
Gary L. Gilbert
Linda Jensen-Paterson
W. Edward Johansen
*David S. Karton
William J. Kropach
Ronald C. Lazof
Lawrence R. Lieberman
James W. Lundquist
S. Jerome Mandel
Marlene Mizrahi
Jim Pagliuso
Richard T. Peters
*James M. Prager
Susan W. Prager
Craig Price
Laurence D. Rubin
Kent L. Vallette
Robert C. Weiss
Earl M. Weitzman
*Ronald C. Wilcox
Robert H. Wyman
1972
Curtis 0. Barnes
John M. Baskett
Philip D. Dapeer
William Elperin
Peter Q. Ezzell
Bruce S. Glickfi.eld
Lawrence N. Guzin
Richard A. Haft
Jan Hunt
James Kashian
William G. Knight
Ivan Lawner
Allan C. Lebow
Robert S. Lewin
Joel S. Marcus
Lawrence E. May
*George A. Mazarakis
Scott A. McIntyre
Linda Riback and Donald K. Steffen
Dominick W. Rubalcava
*David Sabih
Leland A. Stark
Sandra Stillwater
Griffith D. Thomas
William M. Wardlaw
Edward Alan Woods
1973
Martin E. Auerbach
Dennis S. Beck
Diane Becker
Stonewall Jackson Bird
*Mario Camara
Keith M. Clemens
Larry A. Cohen
Kenneth P. Eggers
John T. Frankenheimer
*Alexander Furlotti
Bernard R. Gans
David H. Gardner
Gerald M. Gordon
*William W. Graham
Thomas A. Gutierrez
Joe Hilberman
Nathalie R. Hoffman
J. Thomas Hunsucker
George D. Kieffer
Cynthia C. Lebow
Guy R. Lochhead
Robert V. Madden
Michael D. Marans
Richard E. Marks
Robert F. Marshall
George R. Mccambridge
Lowell J. Milken
Lawrence Mortorff
*Raul Palomo, Jr.
Ronald W. Rouse
Richard V. Sandler
Michael Douglas Scott
William A. Soroky
Kathryne Stoltz
James H. Tuggle
L. Kirk Wallace
Joshua Weinman
William J. Winslade
Howie Wollitz
1974
Julian W. Bailey, Jr.
Paul Beechen
W. Harold Borthwick
Stephen P. Cannon
Bruce A. Clemens
Allan B. Cooper
William S. Davis
Michael R. Daymude
Debra Jenkins DeBose
Jimmie R. DeBose
Buddy Epstein
Michael A. Floyd
Daniel P. Garcia
Kenneth C. Gibbs
Brian G. Gough
Ezequiel Gutierrez, Jr.
Bruce L. Kaplan
Andrew A. Kurz
Elizabeth A. Lemon-Strauss
Ethan Lipsig
Daniel C. Minteer
Allan Moltzen, Jr.
Timothy J. Muris
Phillip J. Nichols
Mark V. Oppenheimer
*Deon'sAdvocates
*Richard G. Parker
Andrew W. Robertson
Michael J. Siegel
Donald P. Silver
Nancy E. Spero
*Karl 0. Tuschka
William L. Winslow
Thomsen J. Young
1975
David J. Aleshire
Lloyd W. Aubrey, Jr.
James D. C. Barrall
John G. Branca
Jonathan F. Chait
Gary A. Clark
Stanley R. Coleite
Richard S. Conn
Bruce L. Dusenberry
Lucy T. Eisenberg
Paul L. Gale
John B. Galper
Judy L. Gray
Andrew J. Guilford
John W. Hagey
Michael J. Harrington
Steven Hecht
Mark J. Huebsch
Robert Clive Jones
Margot Kamen
Gail D. Kass
Sandra S. Kass
Deborah Koeffler
Alex Kozinski
Timothy Lappen
Moses Lebovits
Jan G. Levine
Margaret Levy
Gary Maeder
*Brenda P. McKinsey
John W. Messer
Allen L. Michel
Gary Q. Michel
Donna F. Middlehurst
Alan M. Mirman
Barbara M. Motz
Dian Ogilvie
Leland J. Reicher
Sharon Rubalcava
Thomas G. Ryan
William W. Sampson
Wayne A. Schrader
Virginia E. Sloan
Richard Soll
Marc I. Steinberg
Marjorie S. Steinberg
Mark L. Waldman
Leslie Werlin
Mark Windisch
Donald B. York
1976
Michael I. Adler
Thomas P. Allen III
Fredric Bernstein
Maribeth A. Borthwick
Beatrice Joy Braun-Stone
Nicholas S. Chrisos
William D. Claster
Mary A. Downey
David C. Doyle
Jenny E. Fisher
Kenneth L. Friedman
Carolyn J. Gill
Catherine B. Hanan
Marilyn Heise
Paul G. Hoffman
*Maria D. Hummer
Richard Katz
Mary D. Lane
Victor B. Moheno
J. David Oswalt
Robert A. Pallemon
Peter T. Paterno
Broox W. Peterson
Wilma Williams Pinder
Karen Randall
Anne Roberts
Charles H. Rosenblatt
Marguerite S. Rosenfeld
Stephanie L. Scher
Richard Schneider
Harvey Schweitzer
Harvey Shapiro
*Judith S. Shapiro
John P. Simon
Robert A. Spira
Marc R. Stein
Judith W. Wegner
Dorrie E. Whitlock
Anita Yallowitz Wolman
Philip Joel Wolman
Dorothy Wolpert
1977
Sondra E. Berchin
Andrea H. Bricker
Rochelle Browne
Donald Clark
William H. Cormier
David W. Evans
Edwin F. Feo
Bruce M. Hale
Suzanne Harris
Howard E. King
Deborah L. Kranze
Joseph L. Kruth
Lucinda Low
Lynda Sue Mabry
Antonia E. Martin
Peter W. Mason
Ralph L. McKnight, Jr.
Mark D. Michael
John S. Miller, Jr.
Donald V. Morano
Wendy Munger
Marcia L. Norton
John E. Pope
Richard R. Purtich
Charles N. Shephard
Catherine Steel
William F. Sullivan
Marcy J. Tiffany
Debra Van Alstyne
Lee D. Williams
Jonathan R. Yarowsky
Scott Zimmerman
1978
*Kenneth A. Kramarz
Timothy J. White
Faculty and Friends
*David A. Binder
Sandra Conant
Jesse Dukeminier
Maurice Mac Goodstein
*Donald G. Hagman
Lawrence E. Irell
*Reed C. Lawlor
Richard C. Maxwell
David Mellinkoff
Addison Mueller
*Ralph S. Rice
Arthur I. Rosett
Murray L. Schwartz
Stanley Siegel
*David Simon Enterprises
*William D. Warren
*Deon's Advocates
News
Library Notes
Mrs. Bernard Greenberg.
Class of'68
On October 15 theClassof '68gathered al the Bel Air Hotelfor awine party followed bydinner Ronald Slates, Sharon Green,Allan Morton, Michael
Palley,Mike Dempseyand Audrey Ezratty participated in the planning oftheevent.
Colleaguesof BookerT. Davis,super- Class of '73
Classnotes
Rob Applegate '76 is practicing immivisorof the Reserve Book Room, OnJune23 theClassof '73 celebrated gration law with the Los Angeles firm gathered at a LawSchool receptionto thefirst fiveyears.Thepatioofthe of Popkinand Shamir. congratulate himonhisreceiptof an LawSchool was the place chosen for a LawrenceE. Biegel '68formerlyDeputy Outstanding Performance Award. buffet dinnerand discodancing under ChancellorCharles Young had pre- thestars.
Public Defender of Monterey County is sentedtheawards tocampusrecipients, now associated with the Salinas law in recognition of their outstanding firm of Cominos, Shostak & Epstein. contributions totheirunits,the
campusandthecommunity.Thecere-
Law Revue Needs You
Gary M. Borofsky '70 is a shareholder monial honor was reinforcedby the in the Century City law firm of Slavitt, presentation ofchecksintheamount Alumniinterested in performingfor King, Weiser and Perlberger. He has of$1,000. thefourthannualLaw Revue (to be been at the firm for six years and his Crowding on weekendscontinues at heldnext spring) should contact Lu practice is primarily that of taxation theLaw Library,andlimitedaccess is AnneSimone,GerryBryantorRalph andestate planning. He joined David aneffectagainthisfall.Although D.Fertig,in care ofthe StudentBar W. Slavitt '55 who is acertifiedtax UCLALawSchoolAlumniareexempt Association. specialist. from the limitation,it wouldbe helpful
Bradley William Brunon '68 has left iflibraryvisits aretimed for weekdays orafter4p.m. onweekends.
StateBar Luncheon
his position as special trials deputy for the Public Defender's office. He has Atightening of thebudgetarybelt has joined Elliot J. Abelson '68 and Robert resultedin somereductionin library Theannual luncheon of alumniatthe N. Harris '68 to form the law firm of hours:TheLawLibraryisnow open State BarConventionwasheldon Abelson, Harris and Brunon. onSaturdaysfrom9:00a.m. to6:00 Tuesday,September 12,attheSt.Francis p.m.,rather than the former8:00 a.m. to HotelinSan Francisco.
Kenneth Clayman '66 is Chief of the midnightschedule,andopens now at Highlightsof the luncheon included Juvenile Division, Office of the Public 1:00 p.m. on Sundays,ratherthan9:00 Defender of Los Angeles County. He is a.m.Closinghour onSundaysremains theAnnualReportfrom theDeanand also the chairperson of the State Bar thesame,midnight.The Monday the presentation of the Alumnus of the CommitteeonJuvenileJustice. throughFriday schedule will remain YearAward.Forthe firsttimesinceits 8:00a.m. tomidnight. inceptiontherewere tworecipients of M.DouglasClose '75 hasjoinedthe theaward:AndreaSheridan Ordin '65 andArthur N.Greenberg '52. legal staff of California Life Insurance
Company as Assistant Vice President
ClassReunions
Ms. Ordin is U.S.AttorneyfortheCen- and Assistant Counsel. tral District of California and Arthur Class of '53 Greenberg is thefounding partnerof John Marshall Collins '72 is teaching TheClassof '53 gatheredat a dinner- theCentury Citylaw Iirmof Greenberg part-time (Trial Practice) at Santa Clara danceattheWestwood Marquis on & Glusker. University Law School. He is a Saturday,October 14.Thereunion was member of the Santa Clara Bar Associorganizedby Art Frankel,Victor
MemorialFunds
ation Board ofTrusteesand chairperEpport,Jerome H. Goldberg,Ronald B. son of the Santa Clara County CoaliLabowe,Emmet Lavery,Jr.,Williard M. tion for Abortion Rights Equality and Reisz,Douglas Wikleand DellL. Falls. has opened the Decker and Collins David Bernard '58 and Allan C.Lebow partnership in February 1977. Class of '58 '72wereaboard theill-fated PSA flight September23 wasthedate chosen to fromLos AngelestoSan Diegoon Eugene W. Comroe '69 of Encino and mark the20th anniversary of their September25, 1978. David R. Glickman '57 of Beverly Hills graduation. RalphShapiro,Bernard have been re-elected to the board of Greenberg,David Bernard,Robert L. Familyand friends haveestablished governors of the Los Angeles Trial Dicker,Bernard 0. Fischer, PhilipLan- the David Bernard Memorial Fund and Lawyers Association.Aaron H. Simon zafameand RhodaGordonorganized a the AllanC.Lebow Memorial Fund at '75 of Los Angeles was elected to his buffetdinneratthehomeof Mr.and theSchoolof Law. first term on the board.
Roger L. Cossack '66 and Jon Bryant Artz '71 have been partners since1972 in theWestwoodfirm of Cossack and Artz, specializing in litigation.
Ben Dorman '62is now Fluor's Marketing Manager inHolland. Previous to thisappointment hewassenior counsel and secretary of Fluor Europe in London and vicepresident and secretary of Fluor Arabia Limitedin Dhahran and Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
D. Earl Ellis '69 has becomeassociated with theWestwoodfirmof Walter, Finestone and Richter. Bill Finestone '69 is a founding partner of the firm.
Leon A. Farley '59 has incorporated his national executive search firm, Leon A.Farley Associates,and expanded its San Francisco headquarters through the additionof Creighton E. Barton and RichardT. Bergsund as partners. In addition he has been elected a trustee of the Reed Union School District in MarinCounty.
Harold S. Fleischman '67 is a sole practitioner in Encino, California, and is one of the owners of the Encino LawCenter
Sanford M. Gage '58 has beenreelected a vice president of the California Trial Lawyers Association. Robert B. Steinberg '53 of Beverly Hills was re-elected financial secretary.
Bernard R. Gans '73 is practicing patent, trademarkand copyright law with theCentury City law firm of Porns, Smith, Lande & Glenny.
Morris S. Getzels '76 is with the Office of the General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in Washington, D.C.
Kenneth C. Gibbs '74 has joined the Washington, D.C. based firm of Walstad,Wickwire, Peterson, Gavin and Asselin as resident partner of the Los Angeles office.
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Michael Glazer '67 has been appointed by President Carter as Assistant Administrator for Policy and Planning of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Raymond H. Goldstone '69 hasbeen appointed Associate Dean of Students at the University of California, Los Angeles.
John B. Golper '75 has joinedthelaba department of Parker, Milliken,Clark & O'Hara.
Myles Z. Gordon '72, formerly branch chief with the Securities & Exchange Commission, is now associated with the Los Angeles firm of Davis and Tharp, specializing in securities and real estate law.
Jeffrey Griffith '74 accepted corporate counsel position with the Hughes Aircraft Company. He is also serving as secretary-treasurer of the R. C. Griffith Company.
Suzanne Harris '77 has joinedtheCentury City firm of Walzer, Weinstock, Manion & King.
L. Christian Hauck '65 has been elected Assistant General Counselof the Southern California Edison Company.
Richard R. Hopkins '75 was recently appointed to the American Bar Association's subcommittee on Small Investment Companies as a projectleader.
Len Jacoby '67 and Stephen Meyers '67 founded Legal Clinic of Jacoby and Meyers in 1972. They now have18 offices in Southern California and plan to expand throughout the State and into New York. They are also principals of Practical Law Courses, Inc., continual legal education programs throughout California.
Jill Jakes '71 has been appointedtothe Los Angeles Municipal Court.
Jay Jeffcoat '70 is president of the Imperial County Bar Association, president-elect of the Kiwanis Club of El Centro, and has been appointedtothe Alumni Board of Directors of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Fred Jones '67 has been elected tothe Ventura Municipal Court.
Charles R. Kocher '65 has been elected Assistant General Counsel of the SouthernCaliforniaEdison Company.
Richard H. Koppes '71 was appointed chiefcounsel of the State Department of Health Services which oversees programs of Medi-Cal, �ublic health �nd licensing of all hospitals and nursing homes in California.
Alex Kozinski '75 is practicing internationallaw with the firm of Forry, Colbert, Singer & Gelles in Century City and has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Young Lawyers Association.
Dudley M. Lang '62 receivedthe V. Judson Klein Award from the Taxation Sectionof the State Bar of California on September 11, 1978.The award was establishedto honor the attorney who hasdone the most for the tax law professionin the past year. Dudley M. Langis apartner in the firm of Willis, Butler, Scbeifly, Leydorf & Grant.
Timothy Lappen '75 left the San Francisco firm of Lillick, McHose & Charles to join his brother John in the Century City firm of Lappen and Lappen.
Abraham Lev '73 is working as a corporate attorney for Hewlett-Packard Co.in Palo Alto.
Eugene Leviton '59 has been elected President of the California Applicant's Attorneys Association for the year 1978-79. Eugene is a principal in the firmof Banks, Leviton & Kelley
John Lovell '69 joined the Legal Department of the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. Previously be served as Deputy Los Angeles City Controller to City Controller Ira Reiner.
Paul Marcus '71 is an Associate Professorof Law at the College of Law of the University of Illinois at UrbanaCbarnpaign.
George A. Mazarakis '72is nowassociatedwith John T. Borje under the firm name of Law Offices of George A. Mazarakis
JohnC. McCarthy '52 just published a completely rewritten second edition of thebook "Punitive Damages in Bad FaithCases" (Lawpress, 407 pages, July 1978).
Donald C. McDaniel '61 has been elected Vice Chairman of the 38th Assembly District RepublicanCentral Committee.
Sheldon Michaels '67 has been appointed Arbitrator for Richmond County, New York Civil Court.
Daniel A. Miller '68, who for the past six years has taught real estate syndication at UCLA Extension, bas written a book entitled "How to Invest in Real Estate Syndicates" (Dow Jones-Irwin, Inc., 1978).
Gloria Roa '76 is working as a planner in the Broadway County Office of Criminal Justice Planning in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Leslie Steven Rothenberg '68, formerly a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a consultant to the California Assembly Committee on Finance, Insurance and Commerce, has joined Arthur E. Schwimmer to form the Century City law firm of Schwimmer and Rothenberg.
Laurence D. Rubin'71 has become a partner in the law firm of Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin.
Carol D. Scott '74 bas been appointed as Counsel to the Special Welfare Reform Subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives under the Chairmanship of Congressman James C. Corman of Van Nuys.
Oretta Ferri Sears '63 has been elected Judge of SuperiorCourt of Orange County.Oretta is the firstwoman so elected and willtake office in January 1979.
Dennis Joel Seider '67 will be an instructor in maritime law for the Insurance Educational Association.
Richard Solomon '67 is teaching labor law, clinicalstudies and civil procedure at Southwestern University School of Law.
Richard J. Stone '70, former Editorin-Chief of the UCLA Law Review, has beenappointed Deputy Assistant General Counsel of the Department of Defense at the Pentagon. He was previously associated with the Los Angeles firm of O'Melveny & Myers.
Lawrence Dean Walker '76 is serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Western San Bernardino County Bar Associationand has opened his own lawofficein Chino.
David Weisbrot'75 has been elected Dean of the Law Faculty for 1979 at the University of Papua New Guinea.
MichaelWeiss '67 is apartner in the Miami law firm of Weiss and Jacobson and is president of the South Florida Chapter of the Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers.
Wells K. Wohlwend '57 a senior partner in the Century City law firm of Johnson, Bannon, Wohlwend and Johnstonhas been appointed Legal Counsel for the UCLA Alumni Association.
Necrology
David Bernard '58 of the Los Angeles Bar on September 25, 1978.
Alfred Charles De Flon '53 of the Los Angeles Bar on December13, 1977.
Allan C. Lebow '72 of the Los Angeles Bar on September25, 1978.
JeffJ. Pesses '74 of the Los Angeles Bar, on September 25, 1978.
