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Cover Photo: Trial advocacy student Irene Ayala examines a witness, with clinical program's Professor Paul Boland on the bench. Sophisticated equipment in new studiosallows students toreviewand critique their performance.
Clinical Education
Practice in the Art ofLawyering
eople go to law school to study law; they enroll in clinical programs to learnhowtobelawyers.Inthesedays whenthecompetenceoftriallawyers is being seriously questioned, practical experience is probably the best answer, an answer which the UCLA School of Law anticipated a decade ago.
Until 10 years ago, the clinical programs that existed at U.S.law schools typically did not involve substantialnumbersofstudents.Suchprogramswere very expensive to operate.Several major law shoals, including UCLA and Harvard, received grants from the Ford Foundation toinitiateclinical educationon a broader scale. UCLA undertook the challenge with an extraordinary devotionthat has resultedin one of the largest and most respectedsystemsofinstruction in the art of lawyering.
Beforetheirfirstappearancesinactualcourtrooms, UCLA law students are put through trial performances which are videotaped at the school's new studiosinDoddHall.Theremotecamerasalloweach student and professor to review and critique the student'sfirstefforts attheexaminationofawitness,the presentationofa closingargument,thecounselingof a client and finally even afull trial that will be available for instant rerun. The sophisticated electronics permit a type of one to one analysis of a locked-in performance that is rare in law schools. Alsouniquetothe UCLAprogramistheamountof
classroom time spent discussing cases in which the students are involved. The same instructor who supervises a student's courtroom performance handlestheclassroominstructionaswell."Aswe supervise students on cases, we are constantly talking about what was done in class, and in class we keep referring to what happened in court," says Professor Paul Bergman of the clinical faculty.
Thestudentfacinghisfirstdayincourtactuallyhas certain advantages over the practicing attorney he opposes, Bergman notes.The clinical program offers therareopportunityforthebuddinglawyertodevote himselftoasinglecase,freeofthe problemof having to charge for his services to make a living.
Few lawyers can afford such preparation. "Students areoften shocked atthe poorlevel of advocacy theyseeinthecourtroom,"saysBergman.Also,many attorneyssufferfromthelackofagoodclinicalexperience, a special experience which once missed is difficult to duplicate.
"No matter how long you practice, that practice does not necessarily make you a better litigator. You maybecomeafasterlitigator,butnotabetterone.Our programcan provide thefoundation so that students can be good now and get better in the future rather than make the same mistakes over and over, faster and fasterthroughouttheir careers," says Bergman.
Bergman's new book, Trial Advocacy, is aimed at bothstudentsinclinicalcoursesandlawyersinlitigation with less than five years experience."I hope the
Video units in trial advocacy classroompermit instant rerun ofa case, and...
bookwillbeofusetoanylitigator," saysBergman. "It builds on the theoretical framework we have developedandshowshowtechniquescanbeappliedin all kinds of cases."
Thosewhoteachclinicalcoursesgrowaslitigators as well. Comments Judy Fonda, adjunct professor of law: "I've learned alot overthe past four yearsabout trying cases just from teaching. When I was in practice, I would pick up skills either by somehow assimilating what I had seen or by intuition without consciously asking myself why something works. NowIammuchmoreawareoftheoptionsforgetting the result I want. That consciousness is the core of legal education. When students leave here they can make choices about how they want to perform and can analyze what makes a particular argument effective."
WilliamGraham,oneoftheprogram'sstarstudents fiveyearsago,returnedtothelawschoolasanadjunct professor to find that those teaching the courses had
continued to gain sophistication in their teaching "Instructors here draw on concepts developed by psychologists about how to interview someone to maximizeinformationobtained.Theyhavedonealot of thinking about why people remember things, and how to present a case to make it clear to a jury. Just having to reflect on such theoretical models and the litigation process will have benefits for me as well whenI return to practice."
Students of the clinical program who are about to enter practice seem to have gained confidence and perspective. Says Ron Brown,a student who recently completedthetrialadvocacyclass: "Myegohasbeen built. Before the course, I had no desire at all for litigationwork.NowIlookatmyselfasared-hottrial lawyer. If I had graduated without this experience, I would be a legal cripple."
Says Jenny Macklin, ,mother student fresh from trialadvocacy: "Iwentintothe clinicalprogramvery unsure of whetherI wanted to litigate and whether I
...later, student Joel Kuperberg, Professor Bergman, and clients go to court.
had the necessary capabilities. Now I feel it's something I could do and enjoy. I was apprehensive of the pressure and time required, but I discovered that the work can be exciting and rewarding."
Shefoundthe faculty especially deft atdrawingthe line between the teaching function and the supervisingfunction. "They literally sit on their handsto keep from interrupting and allow you to handle your own case," she says. "Yet you know that they would interrupt if you made some error."
Adds student Drew Pauley: "I feel the work I have put in under supervision is 99 percent of the time more proficient than that of other attorneys I have dealt with. I find it hard to believe that any client elsewhere is getting much better representation because of the large amount of time we spend on these cases."
Pauley describes himself as one of the program's "eager beavers." He has handled cases ranging from that of a woman with no insurance who ran over
someone to another case concerned with child abuse and neglect. Most of the cases have involved people who can'taffordattorneys. "This may be the last time in my life that I'll be doing anything of true social value," he says.
Indeed, though the cases are chosen mainly for their educational value, clients for the program often are indigents or people who otherwise would go without legal representation. Such clients receive rare attention from UCLA law students. Says student Madeline Chaber: "Clients seem to .be a forgotten subject in most law schools. For three years your education focuses on the ·attorney who must be knowledgeable as though a lawyer must be knowledgeable in a vacuum. The clinical experience brings theperspective back to where theperson being represented is more important than the attorney."
Chaber is critical of those judges who are reluctant to admit students to their courtrooms. "We are going to be the future lawyers who will be practicing in
frontofthesepeople," shesays."Iftheydon'tprovide the experience in astructuredsetting, they are going to have complaints about attorneys when we are admitted to the bar."
Many alumni take active roles in the program by serving as judges in mock trials or acting in videotapes which demonstrate skills. They devote their time willingly because they remember their own clinicalworkasatimeofforcedpersonalgrowth."The firsttimeIwalkedintoacourt,Iwastenstepsaheadof
astudentintheclinicalprogram.Sheisnowanassis. tant U.S. attorney who immediately after graduation became a federal prosecutor handling cases in fraud and white collar crime. "Without the clinical pro. gram,"shesays,"Iprobablywouldn'thavesurvived."
As an assistant division chief, she now trains new attorneys, many of whom have not had the benefit o! clinical programs. "The theory and philosophy I gained in the clinical program helped me to understandwhycertainthingsworkandothersdon't.Iuse that perspective to train attorneys myself now."
someone who had never done that," remembers Dorothy Wolpert '76, now a prominent litigator. "I knewmyownfoiblesandpotentialinadequaciesand had learned to overcompensate. I didn't take a ballpoint pen because I knew I would stand there clicking it. Even those little things can add up and makeabigdifferenceinyourinfluenceonthe court."
Adds attorney Mike Quesnel '78: "The program is incredibly valuable in developing perspective as a lawyer and seeing what is at stake in a case. The chance to work with the smaller cases in the clinical programgave metheopportunitytoseehowdifferent aspectspulltogether.Now,workingwithlargercases, I find myself seeing some of the more important things that other people don't seem to realize.
"We won some cases in the clinical program that weweren't supposedtowin," hesays. Heremembers in particular a child abuse case in which he ran all overthe citydigging upwitnesses mosttriallawyers wouldneverhavepursued.Thosewitnesseswerethe deciding factor in his victory. "We learned things in thatprogram that any normally intelligent,observant person would have taken years to learn," he says.
Many of the things learned go beyond the letter of the law. "Judgmentand everyday practicearenotansweredbygoingtostatebarrulesbutbydevelopinga senseofwhatis appropriateinthecontextofreallife situations," says Kathryne A.Stoltz '73, who worked intheDistrict Attorney'soffice in Huntington Parkas
Clinical alumnus David Pettit '75 is in a training position at the San Fernando Valley Legal Services Program. Pettit joined the legal aid office because he was highly motivatedpolitically. He finds most ofthe studentswhocometohimfortrainingnowinterested inmoretypicaljobswithprivatefirms,buttheclinical experience itself can sensitize. "Weprovide students forthefirsttimewithclients theycancareabout.That in itself is an added incentive to do good work," he says.
The opportunities for UCLA law students to practice have expanded constantly. Those who enroll in one of the various clinical courses may work in consumer agencies, for theSecurity and Exchange Commission,orforcityattorneyofficesorlegalaidoffices, tonamebutafewofthepossibilities.Oneinnovative coursewillprovidethechancetodraftwillsandplan estates.Students in the trial advocacy course handle cases in child abuse and landlord tenant relations, and may evenbe involved incriminaland consumer matters.
"Thoselittlethingscanaddup andmakeabig difference in yourinfluenceonthecourt."
Perhapsthebestindicationofcommitmenttoclinical education is the number of faculty members a school maintains for such courses. UCLA now has five full-time clinical professors, an unusually high number, three of whom are completing their ninth years at the school, maintaining an unprecedented loyalty
SaysProfessorPaulBoland,oneoftheoriginalclin· ical professors hired: "Clinical professors often feel very isolated from other faculty members. Here, we are fully integrated in terms of the faculty and the
budgetintothelawschool." Since 1975,theprogram has been totally supported by the law school itself. "Our program has benefited from the stability of the clinicalfaculty," says Boland.
Nationwide, clinicaleducationis fighting two battles,onetogivecliniciansfacultystatus,thesecondto allow faculty clinicians to gain tenure. UCLA dealt withbothissuesearlyandisnowtheonlylawschool in the country that has granted tenure to three of its clinical faculty members. The result is a wealth of
time to landlord-tenantcasesorchildabusehearings even though few will ever be involved in such cases after graduation. "What is important is that they are testing skills," says Boland.
During such instruction, the individualism of students must be respected. "One of the dangers in a programasconceptualizedasoursisthepossibilityof turning outlawyerswho clearly comefrom a certain mold. Weurge students to developtheir own performancemodels,andtheydo.Weareverycarefulnotto try to change personalities," says Boland, "because we have found over the years that a student with a more quiet mannercan bejust as effectivea litigator as one withamore aggressiveattitude."
"Astudentwithamorequiet mannercanbejustaseffective a litigatoras onewitha more aggressiveattitude."
experience in the area.
"We have stayed because the job has continuedto besatisfyingandchallenging,"saysBoland."Clinical instructors have the chance to see much more immediategrowthonthepartof students. Atthe beginningoftheschoolyear,wehaveastudentwhohasno familiarity with theperformance of lawyer tasks involvedintryingalawsuit.Ninemonthslater,thesame studentisquiteproficientathandlinganactualcase."
One reason the clinical faculty has found such complete acceptance at UCLA is the strength of the classroom component of theinstruction,which convinced colleagues that the clinical method was a legitimate academic undertaking. The professors posit certain performance models and give students opportunities to discuss those models and to test themthroughsimulatedenactment.Thetheoriesand methods developed by the UCLA faculty have resultedin a impressive list ofpublications.
Otherschoolsoftenlookuponclinicaleducationas adifferentwayofteachingareasofsubstantivelaw;at UCLA, cases are vehicles for teaching lawyering skills. "The approach by other schools may be more interesting for students in the short-term, but in the long-term a student who focuses on the substance rather than skills doesn't carry away much that will allow him to function competently outside a certain legalcontext," says Boland. Therefore, students often devote great amounts of
Muchworkgoesintoanalyzingthewaythehuman mind actually arrives at judicial decisions. Explains Professor David Binder, who has also been with the program for nine years: "Most trial work involves disputed questions offact. Our program takes a look at how people think when they try to resolve those kinds of questions."
The heavy theoretical base to the program, Binder believes, is what distinguishes it from other courses on how to try lawsuits such as those given by bar organizationsandlawschoolsinthepast."Oneofthe principalreasonsthatthecompetenceoftriallawyers is so pooris that no one treated lawyering skills as a serious academic subject. Most assumptions that werehandeddowntostudentswerebaseduponasort offolkloreofwhat trial practice is allabout."
To helpseparate such folklore fromreality, Binder is drawing increasingly on social science, directing students to study empirical research that tests the extent to which one kind of argument is more effective than another in certain situations.
Even body language on the stand is considered. "Weclearlytalkaboutthedemeanorofawitnessasa factor in assessing whether he or she is telling the truth. Then we go a step further and ask students to consider which of those aspects of nonverbal communication that might be attributed to fabrication may be due to other factors," says Professor Binder. "They must learn to determine when hesitancy, for example, is reflectiveofconsciouslying andwh�n it is due tosimpleuncertainty."
The clinical program becomes a basis for lifetime learning. Says alumnus John Monroy '71, who now actsas ajudgeinmanyoftheschool'smocktrials: "I knewIwantedtobeatriallawyerfromthefirstyearin lawschool.ThefirsttimeIwentintothecourtroomin theclinicalprogramwasatraumaticexperience.Any time you go into a courtroom is a traumatic experience,evennow.Butifyouknowhowtopractice,you keep getting better, and you even getto like it." o
The Students:
Anamazing reality about UCLA'slawstudents is thattheir intellect,talent,and experience knownolimitations. Onthe whole,theirexcellenceisever increased.Asindividuals,each oneofsome1,000students nowattheSchoolofLawseems extraordinary.Thesixinterviewedheregive glimpses into theremarkablewhole.
Diane Coleman Yester is earning two degrees, th Juris Doctor and the Master of Business Administrc tion, which she intends to use as tools in fighting fo the civil rights of others.
Now a third year student in the four year join degree program offered by the School of Law andth Graduate School of Management at UCLA, Dianewa a 1976 graduate in psychology at the University c Illinois, Urbana.
She worked a year after college at Northridge Hos pital, where she was a case worker in medical re habilitation. Buteven asanundergraduate,Dianeha1 begun to think about law school. "I had begun to fee that psychology was not really an effective meanso helping people on the whole, and also I became dis couraged with that approach since I have some othe talents. I decided to take a systems approach to serv ing the community, and whatI'm interested in at tM time is employment with the federal government I'1 like to start as an attorney, and then move inti policy-making administration.
"I'm particularly interested in the civil rights o: minoritygroups other thanthetwoto whichIbelong namely disabled people and women," says Diane who is pursuing the rigorous joint degree progran from her wheelchair.
"I'd like to serve other groups," she explains, "sl thatthe element of selfishness which goes along witl fighting for one's rights is removed. And I'd like ll encourage them, in addition, to fight for the righb which I would like to have. i
"I realize it's an idealistic way of thinking abou
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how civil rights ought to be fought for, and I'm not sure that idealism is practical in society as it stands now. But I've spoken about it to some professors and others; they seem to think it is an ideal that can have meaning. And that is what I seek at this point to do."
Last summer, she worked in the Los Angeles regional office of the Securities Exchange Commission, an agency which, as Diane notes, "is well respected within the federal realm of agencies." Toward her ultimate goal, she sees that experience as "hopefully a foot in the door."
David Dolinko, editor-in-chief of The UCLA Law Review, has interests which reach deep into both law and philosophy. Next fall, he'll begin his legal career as a clerk for Judge Harold Leventhal of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. One eventual possibility is a career in teaching, though Dolinko adds: "Who knows what will happen; after I do practice law, I may decide that it's more fun than teaching."
Dolinko was attracted to UCLA a decade ago by its philosophy department, which has a strong reputation for logic. As an undergrad at Columbia and later, his special interest was symbolic logic. During seven years of work toward a Ph.D. in philosophy, his interests broadened and he entered law school in 1977.
Recently,David completed a comment published in 55 pages of the current UCLA Law Review on "Intolerable Conditions as a Defense to Prison Escapes." At issue is whether a prisoner, charged with escape from prison, should be able to offer as a defense at trial
evidence that conditions in the prison were unsafe and dangerous, placing his life in jeopardy, and if so, under what theory of defense.
"I concluded that he should be able to offer such evidence, but I argued that the rationale for this as proposed in a recent District of Columbia case was not appropriate."
He finds criminal law "full of issues interesting from a philosophical point of view." Being editor of The UCLA Law Review, he says, "takes up everything." Even last summer, while working for a law firm in downtown Los Angeles, Dolinko found himself returning to the law review office at nights and on weekends. "I do as much classwork as I find possible, but every other moment is devoted to this."
Julie Heldman, a second year student, will be making a second career for herself when she enters the practice of law
In the twelve years between graduation from Stanford in 1966 and entry into the UCLA School of Law, Julie completed a dazzling success story as tennis pro and sportscaster.
In tennis, her professional ranking was No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 5 in the world, as she outplayed most of the women superstars whose namescomeinstantly to mind. Devoted to the sport long before it peaked in mass appeal, Julie turned pro in 1969 and pursued the game until 1975, when she began broadcasting tennis matches for network television.
"After I quit as a professional athlete, I asked myself, 'Now what?' The world turns around when
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you're 30. I started thinking about other directions to go. I had done a lot oflecturing and promoting, and it seemed what I was good at might fit into a lawyer's skills."
She's proven adept at her choice. "I just love being back in school," says Julie. "It's thrilling."
She's also working as a teaching assistant this year withProfessor StephenYeazellincivilprocedure, ina new program for first year students which links legal writing to one of the core courses.
Her own eventual specialty hasn't been decided. "I can seemyselfin communications or sports law, civil, criminal, corporate. The problem is, I'm interested in everything."
JosephA.Smith ofNew YorkCity entered the UCLA School of Law with "no idea at all what I wanted to do" and now, as a third year student, he has formed well-denned ideas of a career in communications law and he has acquired solid experience to launch himself into the profession.
Last fall he worked in Washington, D.C., at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) on an externship through the Communications Law Program at UCLA. As one result of that experience, Smith has writtenabooktitled GettingWhat You Bargained For: A Broadcasters' Guide to Contracts and Leases, which the NAB is publishing this year.
Smith noticed at the end of his first year of law school a bulletin board on which the Communications Law Program announced a variety of externships, and whentheNAB responded to his resume his interest in communicationslawbeganto gel.
Smith's general interest in the law began as an undergraduate in sociology at Berkeley. "I'm glad I came to UCLA. I find the students relatively friendly, and they seem to take the whole thing in stride, withoutthebizarrecompetitivepressureswhichonehears about in other law schools. Southern California prevails over the normal paranoia of the law school, and softens the negative aspects of the experience."
MorrisL. Thomas, editor-in-chief of the Black Law Journal published at UCLA, has firsthand knowledge of social issues from a variety of perspectives.
In his final year of high school at Bessemer, Alabama, he integrated what had been an all-white school. When college in the turbulent 1960s seemed irrelevant, he dropped out for a semester of activism. Later, deciding "to find out what was happening on the other side," he joined the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. Thomas never had expected that he'd remain there
for five years in police work, as a desk sergeant anda plainclothes detectiveinhomicide. "I'mgladIgotthe exposure and experience," he says, "but I found police work frustrating."
He came to California, and from Cal State Loni Beach entered the UCLA School of Law. High on the list of future possibilities would be a career in labor law, "but I don't want to close my options. I have a variety of experiences in my past which I think I ca1 capitalize on."
Editorship of the Black Law Journal in itsell provides many valued experiences, says Thomas since "we are actually a small business here, studen run with advice from the faculty. There's a lot of writ. ingandediting, exposuretoawiderangeofmaterials and everything from billing and advertising to problems with printers and publishers."
The journal doesn't limit itself strictly to legal issues, since it aims toward a wide audience includini people in parole and probation, welfare, and labor, ai wellasattorneys, judges, andscholars.
Jose A. Velasco, president of the Student Bar Asso ciation, is beginning his third year of law school bJ working this semester as a clerk to Justice Mathew 0 Tobriner of the California Supreme Court.
Theclerkshipwasscheduled through the Schoolo Law's extern program. "This is one of the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of improv ing myself," says Velasco. "I know that at the end o these four months, my research skills will be 501 percent improved. I'll be doing research and writin1 underJusticeTobrinerand attorneyson his staff. Itis1 true opportunity, to work with a person who certainl1 is one of California's great legal scholars."
He came to the United States in 1962 as an immi grant from Mexico with hisparents, a brotherand fl.VI sisters. Onesisterisnowinhersecondyearofmedica school, and others are in college.
"IconsidermyselfaChicanoperson, and hopeful!) aChicano attorney, who wants to work with the corn munity." Last spring, Jose completed a clinical pro gram in immigration law and also has worked will legal aid clients facing immigration problems Velasco credits the UCLA School of Law in larg1 measure for his success to date. "We have a reall! goodextern program, which was part of the reason f my being chosen for the clerkship."
He also advocates strongly the need for continuec presence ofChicano law students at UCLA. "The lav school provides good programs for Chicanos, an1 there also are good programs which students our selves provide. We feel that UCLA has to be the cente for Chicano legal education." D
MurraySchwartz: The Dean ofInnovation
hile campuses across the country eruptedintheriotouseraofVietnam, the UCLA School of Law matured into oneofthe top lawschoolsinthe country. The school stayed on a steady course of ascendancy by traditional academic standards while adjusting to the times and preparing for the future.ProfessorMurray Schwartzwas dean.
"Periodsofturmoil areoften beyond the controlof the participants," says Schwartz. "But I think our responding with innovative academic programs tended to soften some of the confrontations. Exceedingly helpful was the great flexibility of this institution."
During that time, the student body expanded from 750 to 1,000,and the size of the faculty increased by 20 percent. The number of women on the faculty went from one to five, and one of the nation's most intenseeffortstodiversifyastudentbodybroughtthe number of minority students to 20 percent of the entering class. Through one of the largest commitments of an American law school to clinical education, opportunities became available for students to workin a wide range ofplacement relevant to social problems.
Special programs were undertaken which offered legalservicesandresearchinareassuchasthehealth problems of the poor, the concerns of California Indians,and the plight of the state corrections system. TheBlackLawJournal,TheChicanoLawReview,and The UCLA Alaska Law Review were founded. Joint degreeprograms offered students the chance to earn diplomasinmanagement,economics,orarchitecture
and urban planning along with their law degrees.
"It was a period of innovation and ferment and experimentation at the same time that we were expanding the faculty and student body," says Schwartz. The result was a stronger and greatly diversified institution.
"Measuredbytraditionalcriteria,thislawschoolis as good as any other in the country," says Schwartz. "But the great individuality of this institution is its willingness toexperiment.Its heterogeneity is a consequence of that experimentation. The extent to whichI wasresponsibleforthattypeofdevelopment and for growth in the sense of traditional academic excellence during those troubled times, I regard as one of the major accomplishments of my career."
Schwartz' own career has been one of experimentation and major change, sometimes requiring a reevaluationofpriorities.Originally,lawwashis second choice for a profession, one which he turned to only after pursuinghis first-choice calling-that of a chemist.
While working in the laboratories of Standard Oil of Indiana, he began study at an unaccredited law school. Later, during his service as commanding officer of a sub-chaser during World War II,he made adiscoveryabouthimself,andafterthewar,following a brief enrollment in a Master's Degree program in industrial relations,went to the University of Pennsylvania School of Law "When I made the switch, I explained it by saying that I prefer to work with people rather than with things, and I suppose that's probably right. I have never regretted the change."
Careers in Washington and Pennsylvania in both public and private practice followed. After law
His new case book, Lawyers and the Legal Profession, is the product of 20 years of teaching the course and being personally involved in a number of the recentdevelopments. The work isdistinguishedfrom other books on the subject by its attempt to organize the subject into two principal, coherent categoriesthe problems of the individual lawyer, and the confrontation between traditional restraints on the legal services distribution system and the modern demand for inexpensive, accessible legal services for all.
Professor Schwartz' own career in law has been enriched byawiderangB of experiences. Asa member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council, he has gained insights into problems under investigation by social scientists. "I have been made aware how little we know about the impact of lawand legalinstitutionsonsocietyandhow difficult it is to fmd out what that impact is, " he says.
As chairman of the editorial board of Michie Bobbs-Merrill,he isin a position to preview proposed manuscripts and gains afamiliarity withawiderange of legal subjects. He is a sometime arbitrator for the Writers Guild and The Directors Guild, an endeavor which draws him into controverted problems of lawyers and decision makers.
Schwartz was one of the original members of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Law in the Public Interest, a public interest law firm. "I have been fascinatedwith the way the field of public interest law has expandedandhad asignificantimpactona number of important legal questions," he says.
"From all these experiences, I have learned a great deal which has added to my law school work," he says.
Professor Schwartz has achieved distinction teaching and writing in the field of criminal law as well. For several years, he worked as one of the draftsmen of the California Penal Code. Like most professors of criminal law, he is intrigued by the ultimate questions of criminal responsibility. One of the current issues he watches closely is the return of the determinate sentence.
Comments Schwartz: "Whatever the faults of the earlier system of indeterminate sentences, it may be that a determinatesystem can be much harsher in the long-term because it's very easy for the legislature to increase penalties that are mandated by statute. One of the great arguments in favor of the determinate sentences was the assertion that indeterminate sentences result in too many cases and too much time served. Therefore, it would be ironic for those who advocated determinate sentences to discover that such change resulted in more time served."
Five years ago, Schwartz took on, for him, a unique
and unexpected venture. The dean during the era of discontententeredthe establishment.As the result of a consent decree, Mattel, the nation's largest toy manufacturer, was forced to form a boardof directors with a majority unaffiliated with the corporation. Placed on the board as one of the unaffiliated members, Schwartz achieved an executive view of the private sector from which he had beenlargelyremoved for 20 years. From that vantage point,he has learned lessons of great value in lecturing students on professional responsibility.
"As a law professor, I have troubled students with
"I havebeenmadeaware how little we knowabouttheimpact oflawonsocietyandhow difficultitistofindoutwhat thatimpactis."
what they may feel is the uncertainty of the law. Now in my role as a director and therefore as a client,I am just as troubled when our lawyers tell us the answers to our questions are not perfectly clear. In that sense, my experience has reinforced my impression that the important questions usually lack definite answers," he says.
This experienceisnot unlike thatoflaw studentsin any era, Schwartz notes. "Most problems worth discussing arecomplexand difficult, andI suppose if it's true that law school tends to make students more conservative, it's true only in the sense that they become more aware of the complexity of the problems andthe costof solutions and the extenttowhich there are arguments on other sides that they may not have appreciated."
Perhaps the best career, like the best law school, is one thatmanagesthe delicate balance between stability and change.
As for the future, Schwartzsays: "I would not think it unsatisfactory to continue to teach, to do research, and to engage in my extracurricular activities."
As for the present, he says: "Almost everything that happens to me is my own responsibilty, so I have to think things are fine."
Asfor the past,includingthe second choices he has followed, andwhat hemightdodifferently,he says: "I don't know. ButI do know that onedecisionwould be the same. I would still be a law professor." o
Report ofDean Warren
AYear ofProgress and Achievement
he 1978-9 academic year, the thirtieth in the life of the School of Law, was a period of progress and achievement. With an enrollment of 1,000 and a faculty of 60,the school has been in a steady state in terms of sizeforseveralyearsbutthesamespiritofexcellence and innovation that has characterized the last three decades continues to make the UCLA legal educationalprogramoneofthemostvaried andexcitingin the nation. By any standards, UCLA has taken its place as one of the great national law schools.
Students
In a year when virtually all the public and private lawschoolsinthenation experienced asizeabledrop in applications for admission, our applications exceeded 3,000,an increase ofnine percent. Twostrong trends of thelastfew years continued: we are receivingmoreapplicationsforadmissionfromout-of-state andmorefromwomen.Itscarcelyneedbesaidthatin choosing 350 admittees from more than 3,000 applicants,we are able to select an outstanding class.
Despite all we are able to do about it, the atmosphereatfirst-ratelawschoolstodayisgrimlycompetitive. Two of the more popular rumors that swirl about the school at orientation time are indicative of this mood: first,that students are so competitive that they cut the pages out of library books so their classmateswon't be able to use them; second, that no one belowthe top ten percent of the class finds a job. It is true that someone occasionally mutilates a book; this happened at the school two years ago. I suspect this despicable practice tells us something aboutthelengthoftheXeroxlines.Thesecondrumor, anoldfavorite,is particularly hardtoexplain,forone ofthebiggest problems our Placement Office facesin 1979iswheretofindspaceforthemorethan 300law firms and agencies that want to interview UCLA students fromthe end of September through themiddle of November. More law firms come each year from New York, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Atlanta,Houston, andotherlegalcenters.Inthefaceofa tough job market, 95 percent of UCLA students who have passed the bar exam have law-related jobs withinafewmonthsaftergraduation.Thebreakdown is as follows:
Employed-95% Still Seeking Employment-5%
Private Practice-65.9%
Public Service-Public Interest-8.4%
Business Concerns-7%
Government-7%
Judicial Clerkships-7.9%
Academic-3.7%
We offer students a variety of stress management programs, ranging from a faculty advisor system on throughprofessionalassistancefromthestudentpsychological counseling service. Nonetheless, emotional problems continue to beset the law student of today.
Atlawschoolsthroughoutthenation,thispastyear hasbeenaperiodofadjustingadmissionsprocedures totherequirementsoftheBakke decision.Ourfaculty adoptedwithonlytwodissentingvotesthereportofa faculty-student committee chaired by Professor KennethKarstthatbothcomplieswiththeSupremeCourt opinionand allows UCLA to continue a good minority admissions program. There will always be tensionsinadministeringanadmissionsprogram,butit isourhopethatmostofourdifficultiesinthis areaare behind us
Faculty
The 1979 faculty recruitment year was a good one forUCLA.WewerefortunateinlandingHelenBendix of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Daniel Lowenstein,
formerly chairman of the California Fair Political PracticesCommission,andCarrieMenkel-Meadowof the University of Pennsylvania faculty. Visiting Professor Richard Delgado from the University of Washington,aUCBerkeleyJDandaprolificandhighly original scholar, accepted a tenure appointment on our faculty, and Visiting Professor Gerald Lopez, a Harvard JD and an extraordinarily able classroom teacher,hasforsakenCaliforniaWesterntoacceptour appointment.
Regrettably, we lost our senior colleague, Kenneth York, by retirement, and Richard Wasserstrom to UC Santa Cruz where he will serve as chairman of the PhilosophyDepartment.GeraldWrightwhohadbeen withussince1975decidedtoreturntopracticeinthe Bay Area.
Richard C. Maxwell, Dean of the school from 1958 through1969,hasbeendesignatedConnell Professor ofLawbytheBoardofRegents.ProfessorMaxwell,an authority on Real Property and Oil and Gas law, is spending the 1979-80 year as a visiting professor at the Duke Law School.
StephenC.Yeazell,whowasgrantedtenurein1979, wonboththefirstWilliamA.RutterAwardforExcellence in Teaching and one of the five campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Awards. He joins Professors Dukeminier and Maxwell as recent recipients of the latter award.
Educational Program
UCLA offers a program of legal education that attractstopstudentsfromalloverthenation.Wehavea solid traditional program with highly regarded teachersandscholarsin allmajor fields.Ourranking asoneofthetoptenlawschoolsisprobablybasedon these strengths.
But we have always gone beyond being a good traditional law school. William Klein is offering a seminar in corporation law devoted to the study of "deal making." He is planning another course devotedtobusinessplanningintheentertainmentfield. Richard Delgado teaches a course in Biotechnology and the Law, studying the problems developing in such fields as behavior control, genetic engineering, amplification of human powers by artificial means, and experimentation with human subjects. Willi!l-m Winslade andArthurRosett,withtheparticipationof Professor Erwin Deutsch of the University of Gottingen, have developed a course on Law, Medicine, and Human Values, a comparative approach to the allocationofresponsibilitiesbetweenlawyers,physicians,andresearchers,andtheirclients,patients,and subjects.DavidMellinkoffanticipatedbymanyyears
the movement toward simplifying the language of statutes and forms and teaches both a course and seminar on Language of the Law. Many other examples of provocative and innovative courses could be cited.
It is not mere decanal hyperbole on my part when I assert that I believe that our clinical program is the .outstanding one in thenationat this time. Its thrust is to provide a theoretical or conceptual framework for the performance of various lawyering tasks and to give students practical experiences in doing them. The program is described in detail elsewhere in this magazine.
Happily, the clinical program for the first time has space facilities specially designed for it in the basement of Dodd Hall, immediately adjacent to the Law Building. Thanks to the generous support of Chancellor Charles Young and a grant from the Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility, we have been able to equip these facilities with the some $100,000 in sophisticated audio-visual equipment needed to allow the video-taping of students playing lawyers' roles, the playing back of these tapes for critique by instructors, and the making of demonstration tapes.
Symposia
The Law School co-sponsored three symposia for practicinglawyerslastyear. The UCLAEntertainment Symposium has rapidly become the outstanding program of its kind. Its sponsors, a group of entertainment lawyers with UCLA connections, donate the pron.ts fromtheprogram andfromthe saleof syllabito the Dean's Fund. It is their objective to help us make UCLA the major entertainment law center in the country. Last year the program drew over 500 attendees. The co-chairs are Barry Haldeman '69 and Barbara Boyle '60. This year's program will be given on December 7 and 8 in Royce Hall. The subject will be "International Aspects of Motion Picture and Television Production and Distribution."
The Communications Law Symposium, conceived by Professor Charles Firestone, was a big success at the Century Plaza Hotel in February. It drew 300 attendees and featured the leading names in communications law as speakers. A description of the program appeared in a previous issue of this publication. In passing it should be noted that the UCLA Foundation has made a generous grant to the school to assist in keeping the Communications Program in operation.
The first annual UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Sym· posiumwasheld at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in May.It drew more than 700 lawyers for a two-day program.
The school shares the profits of the program with CEB. The next program will be held at the Bonaventure Hotel in April 1980.
Space
We need an addition to the law building!
Even in an era of lowered expectations, we need more space. Ouroriginal 1951 structure was added to in 1966 to make it capable of accommodating 1,000 students. If legal education at UCLA in 1980 were what it had been in 1960 or even 1970, we would not need additional space. But it is not. In just the last decadelegal education atourschoolhas undergonea revolutionary change with a profound impact on space needs.
A decade ago we had no clinical program; today it serveshundredsof students andis amajorspaceuser. Ten years ago our placement office was a passive reference service; today a staff of four arranges for more than 300 firms and agencies to conduct thousands of interviews, requiring as many as fourteen interview rooms on a given day.
Before 1967 our law school admissions process consisted of an assistantdean and a secretary filling a classoutofa fewhundred applications onthebasisof grades and test scores. Today four staff people and a faculty-student committee are inundated by thousands of applications, many of which are read
and evaluated by as many as four different people. A decade ago the Dean and his assistant conducted alumni and development affairs; today an assistant dean and an administrative assistant spend full time on this vital task.
Ten yearsago our students operated the UCLA Law Review and a small Moot Court Honors Program. Today they also edit the UCLA-Alaska Law Review, the Federal Communications Law Journal, the International Lawyer, the Black Law Journal, and the Chicano Law Review. Ten years ago we had the Student BarAssociationand a couple of law fraternities. Today we have vigorous organizations in the AsianAmerican, Black, and Chicano Law Student Associations, the Law Women's Union, the Environmental Law Society, the International Law Society, the National Lawyers' Guild, and several others.
The most critical space problem faced by the Law SchoolisthatoftheLawLibrarywhichseatsonly 400 of a student body of 1,000 and thus fails to meet with the Association of American Law Schools accreditation standard requiring Seating for 65 percent of the student body or the American Bar Association standard requiring 50 percent seating.
Chancellor Young has appointed a committee to survey Law School space needs, and we hope that progress will be made in meeting our space needs in the near future. D
News
EntertainmentLaw SymposiumSlated
Dec.7-8 inRoyce
The fourth annual UCLA Entertainment Symposiumwill be presented by the SchoolofLawon the afternoonof Friday,December7,andallday Saturday,December 8, inRoyce Hall.
Coordinators are E. Barry Haldeman '69 ofRosenfeld, Meyer & Susman and Barbara Boyle '60,chief operating officer of New World films.
This year'ssymposiumwill focus on international aspectsof motion picture production,and among the areas which it will cover are sourcesof financing for motion pictures filmed in other countries, the production problems in foreign countries,andthe distribution of films in foreign areas.
Experts from Europe are amongthe speakers who will appear at the symposium."It will be one of themostinteresting and sophisticated programs we've had," says Haldeman.
Early registration is advisable,since a full enrollment is expectedthis year.
For further details, please contact Bea Cameron at the Law Alumni Association, UCLA School of Law,405Hilgard Ave.,Los Angeles,CA90024, phone (213) 825-7049
JudgePfaelzer '57Is AlumnusoftheYear
MarianaR.Pfaelzer'57, a judgeofthe United States District Court for the CentralDistrictof California,hasbeen named Alumnus of the Year.
Pfaelzer entered law school after working as a teacher in Los Angeles secondary schools. She won the moot court competition and was associate editor of the law review. She went on
to become one ofthe mostdistinguishedlawyers inLos Angeles as a senior partner withthe firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel.
As president ofthe Boardof Police Commissionersofthe City of Los Angeles,Pfaelzer wasin a position to oversee the law enforcement operations of oneofthenation'smajor metropolitan areas.
The long list of her other professional accomplishments includes membership on the executive committee of TICOR anddirector ofthe Title Insurance and Trust Company. She is a member of the Board of Fellows of the ClaremontColleges,and she was the first female member of the Chancery Club.
The UCLA SchoolofLaw,she feels, provided not only the knowledge and skills, but the personal support and encouragement which helped her to attain her goals. Says she: "One thing you have to say about UCLA's law school,and you can't saytoo much,is that it has the mostencouraginggroup of teachers that you could imagine. This is the schoolthatdevelopedexcellent womenlawyersearly on and continues to doso."
Daniel H. Lowenstein, Carrie Menkel-Meadow Appointed to Faculty
Two new faces on the faculty this year are Daniel H. Lowenstein and Carrie Menkel-Meadow.
Lowenstein joins academia after a career in politics and state government. He was one of the principal authors of the California PoliticalReform Act,which voters approved in1974 to create the California Fair Political Practices Commission, chaired by Lowenstein for four years under the Brown administration.
"A couple of years ago,I decided that teaching and legal research in a law school was something I wantedto do," he says. "I interviewed at a number of schools and chose UCLA because of its outstanding national reputation and because I liked the people I talked to."
This year,he willbe teaching the course in property and a class on legislative process. In the latter, he hopes to go beyond legislation to some extent and talk about law as it relates to political and policy making processes.
"I suppose my experience inclines me to bring a practical perspective
CarrieMenkel-Meadow
JudgeMarianaPfaelzer
to subjects in addition to a conceptual approach," says Lowenstein, who is finding the inner workings of academia as exciting as those of government. "To me it's the processes of law school more than any particular set of ideas or body of facts that's important. I found that process exciting as astudent, and I hope to find it equally exciting as a teacher," he says.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow comes to UCLA from a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
"I wantedto get away from the stodgyand too self-satisfied East," she says. "California is a place that's open to new ideas, and I plan to be an innovative teacher."
Another reason for the move was the UCLA lawfaculty. "I saw a lot of faculties across the country This school had a great diversity of views among teachers who could disagree and still getalong with each other. They were alsoboth productive and humble about theirproductivity. I like that."
Having tried private practice and academic positions, she has decided that for her, clinical education is a career commitment. "One of the big issues in my life is the integration of clinicalwork with so-called regular teaching. I plan to teach some traditionalcourses that can be enhanced with clinical methodology."
A feminist, she believes women can DanielH. Lowenstein
bring to the profession certain qualities which it lacks, and in the process cut off some of lawyering's rough edges. "If women in general are more cooperative, perhaps they can teach the world more cooperative ways of negotiating that would be more productive and humane," she says.
Clinicaleducation, she feels, is a perfect forum in which to imbue students with a sense of social purpose. "I originally went into clinical work because I thought it was very important for people who think about social goals to be teaching students not only skills but substantive law as well. What I want most is for students to have the opportunity to see the implications of what they are doing as lawyers."
Workshop Focuses On Soviet Jews Under Soviet Law
Lawyers and community leaders gathered at the School of Law on May 1 for an all-day workshop on legal aspects of theJewish emigration movement and the anti-Zionist trialsin the Soviet Union.
Some 70 participants in the workshop heard lectures, participated in discussions of Soviet and international law, and considered suggestions for future legal action on behalf of Jews and democratic dissidents in the Soviet Union.
The primary lecturers in the workshop were Professor George P. Fletcher of UCLA, Vladimir Lazarus, former Soviet lawyer and Jewish activist in Moscow, and Spencer Oliver, staff director of the Congressional Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission).
City Attorney Burt Pines of Los Angeles commented on films of Jewish activists he took in Moscow several years ago. Marshall Grossman, chair of the Los Angeles Committee of Concerned Lawyersfor Soviet Jewry, coordinated an action session devoted to concretelegalprojectson behalf of Soviet Jews.
The purpose of the workshop was to introduce lawyers in Los Angeles to the principles and technicalities of
Soviet and international law so that they might be in a position to analyze the legal problems of past and pending trials. To this end, the Los Angeles Committee of Concerned Lawyers for Soviet Jewry prepared a 500 page loose-leaf resource book covering Soviet criminal and procedure, applicable international agreements and case histories of Jews denied exit visas. The resource bookalso includes sample briefs filed with the Soviet procuracy on behalf of Ida Nudeland Josef Begun.
In the morning session, George Fletcher and Vladimir Lazarus conducted adialogue onaspects of Soviet criminalprocedure, particularly as applied in the "political" prosecutions against Jews and dissidents.
Fletcher stressed that in the routine case the Soviet systemworks well, with a high degree of legalregularity and public participation. The system comes under strain in political cases, however; when the Soviet regime has a particular political objective, such as deterring Jewish emigration, the courts are likely to disregard procedural guarantees spelled out in the Soviet codes.
Fletcher and Lazarus focussed the discussion on the specific problems raised by the first and second Leningrad "highjacking" trials, the recent prosecutions against Ida Nudel and Vladimir Slepak for hooliganism, the legal ordeal of Anatoly Shcharansky and the recurrent threat of applying the crime of "parasitism" against Jews seeking to emigrate.
The latter problem arises because after applying for an exit visa and being turned down, Jews often lose their jobs; as in the case of Gregory Goldstein and Vladimir Brailovsky, the "refuseniks" (i.e., those refused exit visas) cannot thereafter find employment in their professions. Yet they are requiredto work lestthey be labelled "parasites" and prosecuted under Article 209 of the Soviet Criminal Code. Thus Soviet authorities can trap the "refuseniks" in this "Catch-22" and the problem for American lawyers is to figure out ways to expose these internal contradictions in the Soviet system.
In the afternoon session, Spencer Oliver, staff director of the Helsinki Commission, spoke on the application of international guarantees to domestic problems within the Soviet Union.
Appealing to international agreements is beset by many problems,
including the failure of the United States to ratify several agreements that the Soviet Union has ratified, the non-binding nature of the Helsinki accords, and escape clauses within the agreements themselves.
Oliver commented on the work of the Commission in documenting the use of repressive measures against Soviet citizens who sought compliance with the political and civil rights endorsed by the Helsinki accords.
The mood of the workshop was enthusiastic. In the preceding week, the Soviet authorities released five Jewish prisoners and traded two others (Dymshitz and Kuznetsov) in a dramatic gesture to improve relations with the United States.
Professor Fletcher, who worked with Telford Taylor for the release of these seven, stressed that this gesture vindicated the work of lawyers on behalf of political prisoners everywhere.
"Of course," Fletcher commented, "politicians call the tune in these cases, but it is up to lawyers to write the lyrics." It is only when the illegalities of political trials are documented, Fletcher reasoned, that the conviction becomes suspect and the release of the prisoner can become a gesture of good will.
Susan Prager '71 Is Law School's New Associate Dean
Susan Prager '71 has been named Associate Dean of the School of Law, succeeding Professor John Bauman, who returns to full-time teaching after 10 years of service. Associate Dean Prager is the first woman to hold the position. "I had thought a lot about administration," says Prager. "After several committee services, I felt that it was something I would enjoy. I am grateful for the opportunity to try it in circumstances where I know most of the people on the faculty."
Prager, a member of the Class of 1971, was the first woman to be editorin-chief of the UCLA Law Review. After practicing for a year, she received offers to return to academic life as a teacher. "Much to my surprise and
pleasure," she says, "one of those offers came from UCLA." She taught for several years and made scholarly contributions in the field of her major research interest, marital property law.
"From the standpoint of my scholarly career, this appointment may have come too soon," she says. She plans to return to full-time teaching after a few years in administration in order to avoid a long break in her scholarship at the point in a career where an important research foundation is usually laid.
For the next few years, however, the position will offer an exceptional experience in law school administration. "One of the big reasons I decided to accept the associate deanship is the opportunity to work with Dean William Warren," she says.
Associate Dean Prager will concentrate on curriculum and faculty appointments in addition to taking on extensive duties in communication with student groups.
She also serves on the Stanford University Board of Trustees, and she is the first woman on the Board of Directors of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Always interested in law, Prager was discouraged from such study at one point in her life due to the then common prejudice that a woman should not take the place of a man in the legal profession. Her career at UCLA both as a student and a teacher has been free of such bias.
"One of the marvelous things about UCLA is everyone's matter-of-fact
acceptance of the idea of the associate dean being a woman," she says.
For Professor John Bauman, the move from administration to full-time teaching comes as a welcome change Says he: "I have served as associate dean for ten years under three different deans. They have been exciting and challenging years in which unprecedented changes have occurred in legal education and in particular at the UCLA School of Law. I have enjoyed it all, but I firmly believe that a periodic change in administrative personnel is highly desirable. This seems an appro. priate time for me to return to my first love, full-time teaching, particularly because of the willingness of Susan Prager to assume the burdens of the office which I am sure she will fill with competence and great distinction."
Jim Asperger '78 Begins Clerkship At U.S. High Court
Jim Asperger '78, a former editor-inchief of the UCLA Law Review, is beginning a one year appointment as clerk to Justice William H. Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court. Reviewing petitions for the cases of the next term, he finds his new position "a good follow-up to law school." Says he: "I'm thinking about what the law should be, and I'm interpreting cases and the particular views of judges on issues. This is much closer to what is done in law school than the sort of planning to win a case done in private practice."
The experience, he hopes, will acquaint him with the internal processes of the court and allow him to witness · decisions in the making.
Asperger is interested primarily in constitutional law and hopes ultimately to teach. But first he intends to stay in Washington and learn more about its operations. "I'm a native Californian, and I've never lived on the East Coast. So far, I like what I see. I plan to stay at least a few years after my appointment ends, either with a ii.rm or in another government job. I have a great deal to study here before moving on."
Associate Dean Prager
AdvisoryProgram Benefits
Students
In response to many questions asked by students about what �t is li�e to practice Jaw, the Alu�m Adv1s�ry Committee has established a umque program designed to help those students deal with their concerns.
The purpose of this Alumni Advisory Program is to provide students with the opportunity to consult or meet with practicing attorneys in varied fields of practice throughout the state or in other areas of the country. The attorneys provide the student with a first hand view of what it would be like to practice in that particular field.
It is important to note, however, that this program is not designed for job placement purposes but it is rather an informational service.
If you are interested in making yourself available to speak or meet with students please write to the UCLA Law Alumni Association, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
RegionalMeetings
Orange County alums held their second meeting and luncheon on May 17, 1979, at the Marriot Hotel in Newport Beach. Guest speaker was professor Donald Hagman who spoke on: "Planning at UCLAW and Before the California Supremes: For(e)wa(o)rd for the Future?
Law Alumni Association members in the San Francisco Bay Area met on �arch 26, 1979. Professor Susan Prager discussed the subject: "Marital Prop�rty Policy: Problems Raised by Marvm vs. Marvin."
Classof'78 Reunion
The Class of '78 will hold the first an nual reunion on Saturday, November 17, from 7 p.m. to midnight in the Vista Room of the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center. A minimum contribution of $10 is requested and proceeds will be deposited in the M.Michael Garcia Memorial Fund. Other classes and fac ulty are invited to attend. RSVP to Matt Saver (213) 858-7700.
Class Reunions
Class of '54
The Class of '54 gathered at a dinnerdance at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday, June 15. Martin R. Horn, chairman, Carl Boronkay, Donald K. Denbo, Daniel Finn, Harvey Grossman, David Kornblum, Jack P. Koszdin, Bernard Lauer, Sherwin L. Memel, Billy G. Mills and Roger C. Pettitt were members of the reunion committee and planned the event.
Class of '59
The Class of '59 celebrated the first twenty years with a dinner at the Bel Air Hotel on October 7, 1979. Chairman of the reunion committee was Edward P. George, Jr, and classmates Stephen Claman, Pat Crowell, James M. Dale, Marilyn Freytag, Christen Henrichsen, Richard A. Margolin, Martin Pachter, Sandra Rogers, Anthony Spaulding and Arthur Wahlstedt participated in the organization of the reunion.
Class of
'69
On October 21, 1979, the Class of '69 will meet for a champagne buffet brunch at the Riviera Country Club. Daniel Alef, Andrew Amerson and Alan H. Lazar formed the reunion committee.
Class of '74
Graduates of 1974 gathered for a buffet dinner-dance on October 6, 1979 at the James E. West Center on the UCLA campus. Michael Siegel, president of the Class of '74, was chairman of the reunion planning committee, assisted by Donna Chamberlain, David Dizenfeld, Ann Haskins, Hugh Harrison, Don Silver and Richard Yang.
Classnotes
MIKE GARCIA MEMORIAL
Family and friends of Mike Garcia '78 have established a memorial fund at the School of Law. Contributions should be sent to the M. Michael Garcia Memorial Fund, UCLA School of Law, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024.
Robert M. Angel '77 served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert J. Kelleher in the United States District Court for the Central District of California and is now associated with the Century City firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel.
Julian W. Bailey, Jr. '72 and Gerald J. Reopelle '75 are now associated with John P. Dolan under the firm name of Dolan, Bailey & Reopelle, with offices in Tustin, California.
Willie R. Barnes '59, formerly Commissioner of Corporations for the State of California, has become a partner in the firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney.
Gregory Boone '77 has recently joined the legal staff of Columbia Pictures Television in Burbank.
Robert T. Burke '72 has joined the firm of Pettit and Martin. He will be practicing in their San Francisco office.
Mario Camara '73 has become a partner of the firm of Cox, Castle & Nicholson.
Hilary Huebsch Cohen '78 has joined the Century City firm of Memel, Jacobs, Pierno & Gersh. She has recently published "The Suitability Doctrine: Defining Stockbrokers' Professional Responsibilities" in Vol. 3, No. 3, of the Journal of Corporation Law (Summer 1978).
Dale V. Cunningham '60 has been elected senior vice president, law and general counsel for Sunkist Growers, Inc.
William H. Erner '72 has become a partner of Parker, Milliken, Clark & O'Hara.
Steven Anderson '76 has become associated with the same firm.
Marc Epstein '74 has become a partner of the firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney, where he specializes in business litigation.
Stuart M. de Haaff'70 hasbecome a member of the firm of Macdonald, Halsted & Laybourne.
Sally Disco'67 is headof the civil branch of the LosAngelesCity Attorney's office.
Roberta Lee Franklin'75 is now associated withBarr, Minoletti, Newlan and Beasley of Redding, California, which specializes in civil litigation.
Larry Gilbert '77 has joinedthe Honolulufirmof Maki & Gilbert, specializing in securities and commercial litigation.
Debra P. Granfield'76, formerly with the National Labor Relations Board, has become associated with the Century City firm of Shapiro, Robin, Cohen & Posell.
Dean Guaneli'76 isassistantattorney generalfor Alaska inchargeof jail reform.
Steven Hecht'75 is now associated with the LosAngeles officeof Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
Jessica Heinz'78, Ann Kough'78 and Wilma Williams Pinder '76 have been appointed deputy city attorneys in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney.
Joe Hilberman'73 is in private practice with Shield & Smith in Los Angeles.
Frank M. Horowitz'69 and Mary C. Molidor'78 have been nameddeputy city attorneys in the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.
Mark(. Huebsch'75 is associated with theofficeof the City Attorney in Costa Mesa.
Thomas M. Jones'65 has joined the Orange County office of the Charles Dunn Company-Realtors.
James V. Jordan'74, Jonathan Solish '75 and Fred H. Alschuler'75 have formedthe Century City law firm of Salish and Jordan. Practice emphasizes securities and commercial litigation.
Andrew E. Katz'72 and Richard K. Seltzer'67 have become partners of the firm Hahn, Cazier & Leff. Nancy Alpert '78 is now associated with the same firm.
Robert L. Kaufman'75 has joinedthe firm of Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteedand willspecialize in asbestosis defense.
George David Kieffer'73 has become a partner in the firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney.
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Allan Kleinkopf'69 is now a deputy public defender in Monterey County.
John T. Knox'57 hasbecomecounsel to the firm of Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh.
J. Perry Langford '52 has beenappointed to the San Diego County Superior Court.
Linda Leon'72 ispresently teaching civil practice and evidence presentation at the University ofColoradoLaw School Clinical Program.
Ken Maddy'63 has been electedto the California State Senate. He has previously been a member of the State Assembly.
Stefan M. Mason'67 has openedhis own law office in Century City forthe general practice of law with emphasis in labor relations matters.
Allen L. Michel'75 has become an associate with the Century City firmof Greenberg & Glusker His practice will continue to emphasize litigation of business, real property and professional liability matters.
Donald V. Morano'77 hasaccepted a positionas assistant professoroflawat John Marshall Law School, Chicago. He also hopes to continue writing appellate briefs.
J. William Muth'67 isa partner inthe firm of Muth, Zanzinger & Johnston of San Mateo, California. He is engaged inthe general practice of law with emphasisoncivilplaintiffandcriminal defense litigation.
Douglas Clark Neilsson'73 hasjoined the San Jose ofice of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Marcy Norton'77 is an Assistant United States Attorney with thecriminal division of the United States Attorney's office in Los Angeles.
Peter T. Paterno'76,WayneC. Collett '77 and Carol Platt Cagan'78 have become associated with the Century City firmof Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney.
Ted Peterson'76 isassistantdistrict at· torney in Anchorage, Alaska in charge of the trials division.
James Phelps '77 received a master's degree in business administration from the Stanford School of Business in June 1979. He is now associated with the New York City law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Busby, Palmer & Wood, specializing in public fmance law.
Robert Poyourow '74 after two-and-ahalf years practice with the Legal Aid Society of Charleston and the North Central West Virginia Legal Aid Society of Morgantown, and two years as a sole practitioner, has joined the law &rm of Crandall, Pyles, Crandall & Poyourow as a partner. The firm specializes in employment and labor law, personal injury and criminal defense.
Cornell J. Price '74 has become a member of the firm of Manning, Reynolds & Roberts in Ventura, California.
Gloria Roa '76 is now associated with the law firm of Kaiser & Heller in �ia�i, Florida. The firm specializes in 1mm1gration law.
Shelley I. Rosenfield '73 was recently �romoted to Deputy City Attorney III m the Los Angeles City Attorney's office. He specializes in labor law and employment litigation.
L�rry Rubin '71 has been elected vice-president of the Barristers of the
Beverly Hills Bar Association.
Michael S. Rubin '74 is practicing law with the San Francisco firm of Silver, Rosen, Fischer & Stecher, with emphasis on transportation matters before the Public Utilities Commission and Interstate Commerce Commission.
Kenneth Salzberg '72 has been appointed associate professor of law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Herbert E. Schwartz '61 heads the tax department of Troy, Malin & Pottinger. The firm has offices in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Paris. UCLA's contingent also includes Mark A. Kuller '78 and Phyllis Hockberg Siegel '79. Herbert Schwartz (member of the Law School faculty from 1962-70) continues to lecture and is one of three panelists for CEB's annual developments in taxation videotape program.
Mark Silversher '70 founded GEOS Incorporated, Earth Sciences Consultants specializing in natural resource law and environmental matters for the Western United States and Latin America. GEOS is interdisciplinary and the staff includes an attorney, engineer, geologist and biologist. Clients include governmental and private entities.
Dave Simon '75 has returned to Los Angeles after serving on the Washington, D.C. staff of Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, and he has been named government liaison for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee located in Century City.
Seth H. Tievsky '75 has joined the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland and Ellis. He will be specializing in ERISA.
Christina Vega '73 has been appointed executive director of an economic development and litigation project funded by the Campaign for Human Development. The project operates out of San Francisco. Christina is also active in Democratic state politics.
Thomas E. Warriner '67 was recently appointed Assistant Attorney General for the State of California responsible for directing representation of the various state agencies providing health, welfare and education services.
Glenn F. Wasserman '75 has recently been appointed regional counsel in the U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration's New York regional office. He was formerly on the agency's litigation staff in Washington, D.C.
Daniel Weber '71 is president-elect of the California Association of Black Lawyers. Dan is presently employed by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in San Diego.
Donald D. Wilson '70 has become a partner in the firm of Hampton & Wilson, Inc. in Los Angeles, specializing in plaintiff medical malpractice and defense insurance (non-medical) litigation.
NECROLOGY
Eugene B. Chaiken '58 in Jamestown, Guyana.
M. Michael Garcia '78 was killed by a fall while hiking in Caho San Lucas on August 22, 1979.
Judge Neil A. Lake '57 of the Los Angeles Superior Court on March 24, 1979.