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byTom Bourne
awsick n: a peculiar, English-like language commonly used in writing about law; peculiar in habitual indifference to ordinary usage of English words, grammar, and punctuation; and in preferring the archaic, wordy, pompous, and confusing over. the clear, brief, and simple; persists chiefly through a belief of its writers that these peculiarities lead to precision.
Though it sounds as if it were part of the standard lexicon of legal language, you will not yet fmd the above word in a law dictionary, nor in any other kind of dictionary, for that matter. It has, in fact, recently been coined by UCLA Professor of Law David Mellinkoff, in conjunction with his new book, Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense, which is to be published in December, 1981.
"I hope lawsick does fmd its way into the language," says Mellinkoff in conversation. "I thinkit is a useful coinage. Legalese is a term that includes the good and the bad. I coined lawsick so as to concentrate on the things that are bad in the language of the law, and need changing.
"It's more than just the verbiage. People sometimes think of legalese as the sum of legal expressions and words. The notion of lawsick goes further: it's a question of how this is all put together-the long, long sentences, and the lack of punctuation. With this word I mean to focus attention on the curing of an illness. That's the 'sick' part."
Mellinkoff's new book-his third since he became
a professor of law in 1965, following years of private practice -may make a giant contribution towards bringing about the kind of cure he envisions for legal writing. Written in spare, direct prose, it suggests seven elementary rules which, if adhered to carefully, should enable legal writers to make themselves more clear in print. In time, it may become a kind of Strunk's for the legal profession.
When they draft a contract, or review another lawyer's draft of one, attorneys in the private bar will be able to pick up Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense and, says Mellinkoff, "fmd in the appendixes a checklist of the kinds of words that can be completely eliminated.
"It'd be easy to go through bundles of papers with a redpencil,and mark this or that out,out, out,out! The 'herein aforementioned provision' becomes 'the provision.' In other places in the appendixes, I show how certain kinds of words can be translated or explained, depending on the audience. These are some of the practical_ways my book can be used."
The new boo) is a direct offspring of Mellinkoff's first work of scholarship, The Language of the Law (1963). In that book he examined, with painstaking exactitude, how legal language evolved over the centuries, term by term, word by word. Yet one of its flaws, he believes, was that perhaps it told people
Tom Bourne, a free-lance writer based in Escondido, is a regular contributor to this magazine.
"more about snakes than they really want to know."
Although one whole section of The Language of the Law dealt with the matter of using the language in practice, Mellinkoff felt its criticisms needed more emphatic statement. As he says, "If you tell people they should write clearly and briefly,they'll nod their heads and agreewithyou.Butthisis very little help to a writer,whether a lawyer or a non-lawyer."
Consequently, Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense attempts to pinpoint specific flaws in the language of the law,and,furthermore,to recommend what can be done about them.
For instance, Mellinkoff holds that - when the readers are non-lawyers-many terms of art or technicaltermscan be stripped from legal writingwithout doing any harm.In the book he presents a "term of art self-questionnaire " which asks the following: Is it precise? Who is in the audience? Is an explanation necessary? Does the law require these words?
Viewed according to these standards, fee simple, "an old and sharp term of art," may be retained (with an explanation to the reader, if necessary), whereas certiorari can frequently be replaced,in context,with, "The Supreme Court has decided to hear the appeal."
Mellinkoff explains: "All terms of art are not equal. Many are technical words of legal procedure which, for most writing that affects ordinary people, aren't essential at all. Most procedural terms are never touched or seen by non-lawyer hands.The presence of an important vein of legal terms of art gives the profession an inflated notion of the precision of the whole corpus of legal writing."
Mellinkoff's skepticism about precision may be understood in the light of the central premise of his new book,namely,that legal writing is more peculiar than precise.His very first rule counsels,"Don't confuse peculiarity with precision." This is intended to counterbalance the modern lawyer's overuse of Latin, French,and Old and Middle English terms that are, for the most part,clearly antiquated.
"I'm not in favor of repealing the language of the law," says Mellinkoff."It's a question of what to select from it,and how to use it.One of our great problems is this myth of precision. Lawyers think that, because they use all of this oldterminologyand archaic forms, they are automatically doing something that is very precise.
"Nothing could be further from the truth.There's a small, hard core of precision in the language of the law It takes someone who knows the law-and this is where the lawyers come in - to be able to use that precise terminology properly.Simply because a term of art is wound up in a cocoon of gobbledygook is no reason to preserve the whole thing."
Legal writers are derelict when they write public notices that cannot be understood by those to whom they are addressed, according to Mellinkoff. As he writes in the new book,"There are statutes that affect people in their daily lives-health,housing,family, the basic buying and selling of household goods.It is lawsick writing rather than legal necessity or conspiratorial design which succeeds in eliminating a substantial audience."
How, then, can legal writing be infused with clarity? The following are intrinsic to Mellinkoff's prescription for a cure:
Begin with an outline. Some legal writers may groan when they hear the word,feeling that,as Mellinkoff writes, an outline "inhibits their creative genius." But the author contends that the writing of legal documents,as opposed to,let us say,works ofthe imagination, is well-suited for an outline, however skeletally it may be carved.
He writes: "It can be very rough ...The idea is to get something down in orderly sequence." Such an outline can accomplish manifold tasks, as it binds thoughts together, acts as a checklist, helps to eliminate repetitiousness, allows you to anticipate what you will write next, and assists in quick reorganization.
While on an 11-day freighter trip from California to Japan in 1977,Mellinkoff devised his working outline for Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense. He recalls, "The outline has been changed many, many times. But I still have the original.I developed the book from it, and used it right through the whole work on the book. The process of being clear and precise calls, I think,for an outline."
For those legal writers who insist they cannot begin in this fashion, Mellinkoff's book reveals the mechanics of how to set up a "post-mortem outline," in order to superimpose order on what has already been written.
Knowthe rulesof grammar and syntax."To concentrate on English is of fundamental importance," says Mellinkoff.''Since 99% of the writing that lawyers do in this country is writing English, it is essential for them to use the basic language correctly."
Behind rule three of the new book, "Follow the rules of English composition,'' lies Mellinkoff's faith that,"If it's bad writing by the standards of ordinary English,it is bad legal writing."
Mellinkoff finds a number of common mistakes which mar legal writing, such as the omission of punctuationmarks,sentences of extraordinary length with few verbs, and the misuse of ordinary English words,as in, "The prisoners should be appraised [sic] of their rights." The result: confusion,misunderstand-
ing, and dilution of the very sense of legal writing. Mellinkoff succinctly sums of the matter this way: "If you don't know the basics of English grammar, review the basics before trying to write for the law."
Finally, write simply. The standard cliche among legal writers is that since the law is complex, the form in which it is expressed must be complex. Yet Mellinkoff argues that such writers must persistently ask of their writing, "Clear to whom?" In rule five, he states his overall principle, "Write law simply. Do not puff, mangle, or hide."
For example, a typical will may begin, "I, Jane Doe, being of sound and disposing mind andmemory, and not acting under duress or the undue influence of any person whatsoever, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be my last will and testament." Critic Mellinkoff observes in his new book: "The only legal substance in the form that counts in the will can be said better in four words: This is my will."
As far as his pedagogic duties go, Mellinkoff says
crisply, "Whatever I teach, I teach the language of the law." That is, he attempts to instill in his students an awareness and a skepticism of the language of the law in the same way that they are taught elsewhere to be skeptical of the substance of the law.
During a semester in his course, The Language of the Law, Mellinkoff will ask his students to do as many as 14 rewrites of current legal writings; for instance, sections of statutes, contracts, or opinions from the bench.
In the next class session, Mellinkoff dissects the rewrites aloud, making the students defendwhat they have written. Afterwards, he presents a solution to the problem at hand that he has worked out, making it clear that his is not ex cathedra. The students then have a chance to tear his writing apart; frequently, he admits, they show him ways that he could have done it better
The message of that exercise is, as Mellinkoff puts it, to demonstrate that "there is no single way a par-
The flavor and incisive substance of Professor Mellinkoff's new book are sampled here, in these brief excerpts from Legal Writing, Sense and Nonsense, tobe publishedin December, 1981, byWest Publishing Company and Charles Scribner's Sons.
Today, as never before, the broad road to understandable legal writing is ordinary English composition. Depart from that road, and you risk being misunderstood by the people you want to reach-lawyers as well as non-lawyers.
What you are trying to accomplish is to change a whole pattern of legal writing-the words, the grammar, the composition of sentences. Above all you are going to end the nasty trick of losing your reader in the long, long sentence. You are going to be as precise as possible, and you are going to be as clear as possible, without making it a choice of one or the other.
Sticking with ordinary words of the English language simplifies existence for writer and reader. It comes easily to lawyer and non-lawyer, including first of all a secretary, paralegal, clerk, or printer, with less chance of error all around.
The temptation to flash a vocabulary that you have spent years learning is sometimes almost irresistible. Resist it, before it does you in.
"Fine print" in its classic sense is print so small that it makes reading difficult. Efforts to make legal writing intelligible are easily frustrated if the writing is illegible. They can't understand it if they can't read it.
The one justification for fine print is that it saves space, that some legal writings would be unbearably long if printed legibly. If you are sufficiently interested, use a magnifying glass. But most of us go about unarmed. And fine print discourages detailed examination. Most of us live with "the comfortable and trusting assumption that if it were important it would be printed more clearly."
As a practical matter no one reads fine print in
ticular piece of legal writing must be done, unless it is something specifically required by law to be in this form and no other. And that is rare."
Given that kind of egalitarian approach to the language of the law, it may come as no surprise that Mellinkoff is no enthusiast for the plain language laws. On the theory that such laws were inevitable, an ABA subcommittee proposed a "model" plain language law, so that if any were used, it would be the ABA's. As a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Legal Drafting, Mellinkoff was among those who successfully argued, after long debate, that no model should be adopted.
He explains his reasoning this way: "I believe the profession should heal itself. As a writer, I don't like being told by the law, 'You must do this.' Secondly, to crystallize into law notions of what constitutes plain language is presumptuous, because none of us knows exactly what we mean by 'plain language.' "
Nevertheless, Mellinkoff does view the plain lan-
guage movement as symptomatic of a growing frustrationamong "vast segments of the population" with legal writing. As he says, "It is a kind of prod to the profession to make language cut across disciplines, instead of erecting barriers between even intelligent people.''
Mellinkoff is one of three highly intelligent Mellinkoff brothers. One brother, Sherman, is dean of the UCLA School of Medicine; the other, Abe, is political editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Interestingly, Mellinkoff himself nearly became a reporter; he stayed out of school a year after receiving his A.B. from Stanford in 1935, as he mulled over whether to go into law or journalism.
Journalism's loss was law's gain. However, almost with chagrin, Mellinkoffadmits that, when he entered the practice of law, he began to commit "many of the crimes" he now deplores. "I have drawn up 50, 60, and 70-page contracts that could be cut in half. And should be," he says.
legal writings except lawyers-sometimes. And it is plain deception to put into fme print anything of substance directed to the laity.
Law and lawsick have become so entwined that most people think them inseparable.Lawyers, prepared to condemn every other form of gobbledygook, see their own language as time tested,necessary.Non-lawyers,accustomed to seeing the law couched in the mystifying gibberish of the ages,have been conned into believing that unless the law looks like that it really can't be law.Fortunately little of the meaty substance of the law depends on a peculiar form of expression In most cases,it is possible to change the words and still end up with the same old law.That possibility,ignored by most lawyers and bureaucrats and clerks and copyists,holds real opportunity for simplifying the law in legal writing.
Putting words on paper is a stimulating exercise. Once you start writing,the words will suggest things you never thought of before,and drive out
As a young lawyer in Los Angeles, he was especially struck when a Superior Court judge refused to sign an injunction he had written because he had strung together a series of defendants with the catchall, "And/or." Gradually,it dawned on him that legal writing needn't be this way,that something had to be done about "the crazy way in which lawyers write."
Sensing that a book was in order,Mellinkoff originally planned to write exclusively on how the language worked out in practice. When researching the subject in the library,he discovered, quite to his surprise,a scarcity of literature (and much of that errorridden) on the evolution of legal language.
"In the hundreds of years that we have had a profession of law, I found that there was no systematic, organized treatise on how we got this way," he says. This is why he devoted the bulk of his first book to a history of the language of the law.
It took another sixteen years, and eight printings, before Playboy, in "Playboy After-Hours," took notice
thoughts you thought you had. But law does not lend itself to stream of consciousness composition.The words must be chosen to reach a particular goal.Facts must be accounted for. In the background there is always the law that controls what you write.Even if you are writing new law, the point of departure is the law as it is. Goal, facts, and law have to be fitted together in some overall pattern.
Routine demands that important writing be done in a hurry usually come from those who have no understanding of writing,and no respect for the writer.They have no appreciation of the fact that how something is said determines what is said. What and how are inseparably joined, and when how gets drunk,what stumbles.
The whip-crackers are unimpressed. They have an abiding faith that given a form book and a dictionary full of law words precise legal writing is automatic. This sort of tyrant ignoramus is also the first one to lay the blame on the writer when the writing collapses in a lawsuit.
©1982 by David Mellinkoff. Quoted by permission.
of The Language of the Law in its January,1979, issue. That sort of notice, coming as late as it did, simply served to underscore the patient Mellinkoff's belief that the improvement of legal writing will take a long, long while.
"Eventually," he says,"lawsick will vanish,as was true when lawyers stopped doing all of their writing in law French and in Latin." Mellinkoff has written Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense, in order to speed the day.The book will be published in paperback by West Publishing Company and in hard-cover by Charles Scribner's Sons.
And so he concludes,"We are all creatures of habit, lawyers more so than anyone else.If I can get the next generation of lawyers imbued with the notion that legal language need not be written as if lawyers had broken arms, then there is more chance of improvement.Habit can mean that you rely either on the habit of good writing or bad writing.I'm trying to make it a good habit.That's the real hope for the future." D
he timing couldn't be better for the UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute.
The institute evolved at theSchool of Law several years ago as the result of drastic revisions in the entire field of estate and .gift tax which had been enacted in 1976.
Now the Estate Planning Institute finds itself in another timely situation: the new tax bill this year makes sweeping changes in estate tax law, and those changes lend a sense of immediacy to the 1981 UCLA/CEBEstate Planning Institute'ssessionswhich are scheduled for April 23-24, 1982, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Prime mover behind the institute is Geraldine S. Hemmerling '52, who chairs the UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute Advisory Board.
School of Law Dean William D. Warren describes Hemmerling as a "one person task force." Associate Dean Susan Westerberg Prager notes that Hemmerling is "the catalyst that has provided intellectual cohesiveness to the program."
In the difficult project of gathering a nationally distinguished group of estate planning experts, Hemmerling "has brought together an extremely exciting group of practitioners who understand the interrelationship between academic interests and practical ones," says Prager.
"These are people who understand the field very well, and who have been precise in identifying the topics which provide both intellectual and practical content to make the institute such an attractive
program."
The UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institute has become the major program of its kind in the West, attracting attendance by estate planning practitioners from many states.
In addition to such distinguished academics as Edward C. Halbach, Jr., and Babette B. Barton of Boalt Hall, the institute has featured presentations by practitioners at the forefront of their field.
"Somuchoftheinterestingworkinestateplanning is done by practitioners,'! explains Dean Prager, "which is why we at UCLA saw this as an important area for cooperation with members of the bar who have interests in advancing the scholarship of their profession. This is a field where there isn't as much activity in the academic community as there ought to be, and therefore the UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Institutefillsaneedwhichotherwise wouldn't bemet."
Hemmerling was quick in responding to that need by organizing an advisory board with a nucleus of UCLA law alumni. Among the School of Law alumni currently serving on the board are Jon J. Gallo '67, Bernard A. Greenberg '58, Paul Gordon Hoffman '76, Arnold D. Kassay '68, Edward A. Landry '64, Fred L. Leydorf '58, Wesley L. Nutten III '58, Susan Westerberg Prager '71, and Herbert E. Schwartz '61.
Others now on the board include Edmond R.Davis, who chaired the probate section of the State Bar of California; Halbach, former dean of Boalt Hall; Harley J. Spitler, past president of the American College of Probate Counsel; Theodore E. Calleton, K. Bruce Friedman, Ronald E. Gather, Max Gutierrez, Jr.,
Stephen L. Newnham III, Charles G. Stephenson, and Harold Weinstock.
"It's an outstanding group," Hemmerling says as she scans the list, "and estate planning is a fertile field, a field which is evolving quickly."
The drastic revision of the estate and gift tax law in 1976 made it essential for estate planners to begin almost at point zero in their legal thinking, and the changing nature of family relationships and social trends has complicated matters all the more.
Then came this year's tax bill. "It's a major, major change in estate tax law," says Hemmerling. Clearly, there won't be much need for tax planning of small estates.
But estate planning won't become a defunct field, this year's tax cuts notwithstanding, because of the continued need for planning of large estates. Hemmerling assesses the scene with a trace of humor: "Our institute, I would foresee, might have an audience of 450 or so- and certainly there are enough
large estates in California alone to keep that many lawyers fully occupied on estate planning matters."
Estate planning is a highly specialized practice. When 750 attorneys attended the first institute in 1978, many found themselves in water above their heads. "The institute isn'taimedat the beginner," says Hemmerling, "and as we build an audience from many states we are becoming a national program for sophisticated estate planners."
The institute has its most obvious appeal to those who practice in community property states-which include eight western states, among them Louisiana. (A long-established estate planning institute at the University of Miami, by contrast, deals mainly with separate property states.)
The UCLA/CEB institute's major strength, however, lies in the level of its presentations. "We have marvelous speakers, who are the top people in the nation. The institute is in a strong position," says Hemmerling, "and we intend to keep it at that high level."
by Kathleen Neumeyer
he Judicial ExternProgram"hasdone for the law school what color did for television." Those are the words of Mark Barnes '81, who spent a semesterasanexternfortheSupremeCourt of Alaska. The Judicial Extern Program, says Barnes, "hasmadetheSchoolof Lawmore vivid,dynamic,andtruetolife-besidesexpandinga student's competency in the law."
The number of UCLA School of Law students who elect to spend a semester away from campus as judicialexternsisgrowing-untiltodaynearly20percent of all UCLA law students are participating in the program. Its dimensions are "astonishing," says Professor Monroe Price, who established the program 11 years ago.
Judicial externships are not unique to UCLA, but the UCLAprogram is far more extensivethanthoseof other law schools - and it is probably the largest program of its kind. While other law schools assign students to work for judges several hours a week, UCLA's externs work full-time for an entire semester.
UCLA law students in recent years have served as personal legal assistants to trial and appellate judges in California, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Nevada, Colorado, and the District of Columbia.
One student described the experience as like "being in the locker room with the varsity."
Thedutiesofexterns,of course, varywiththeworkload of the courts.
"Almost immediately on my arrival, I was treated bythejudge andthe clerk asa full-fledgedmember of chambers, i.e., as another clerk. I did the same work the clerks did, was given the same latitude, and felt the same pressure. Without doubt, this was the most rewarding and instructive thing I have done in law school,"wrotePaulVincentCastellito'82afterexterning for Judge Ruggero G. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, in Pittsburgh.
Kathleen Neumeyer is a free-lance journalist. She is a contributing editor to Los Angeles Magazineand a correspondentforthe Economist ofLondon.
Most students are delighted with the break in routine in the midst of law school, and with the feeling that they are out in the real world. "It gave me a chance to have an impact on something other than my own grades," says Barry Goldner '82, who externed for California Supreme Court Justice Mathew 0.Tobriner last spring.
Students may take an externship during the spring semester of the second year of law school or during the first semester of the third year. They receive 13 units, but are not permitted to accept pay (beyond expenses), or to work at outside legal jobs, or to take other courses during the semester. In some cases, evidence or administrative law or certain commercial law subjects may be prerequisites for clerking for specific judges.
"The concept of the judicial externship program is to provide students with actual legal experience, which they can come back and share with others and integrate into their legal studies," says Associate Dean Susan Westerberg Prager. When the program began, the School of Law was on the quarter system and externs did not miss so much course work. "It's a definite trade-off," Prager says. "With the semester system, the student has to give up more."
Prager says that while paid summer jobs at private law firms serve to give a student a sense of what practicing law is like in the real world, a judicial externship is invaluable "to get the actual vantage point of how a judge goes about making decisions."
And Jennifer Macklin '79, who externed for Justice Eugene A.Wrightof the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and then did a postgraduate clerkship in the California Supreme Court, says: "From the perspective that I have now, I realize that one course more or less doesn't break a legal career. You're going to have to wing it sooner or later, because there is no way you
"I did the same work the clerks did, was given the same latitude, and felt the same pressure. Without doubt, this was the most rewarding and instructive thing I have done in law school."
"The staff attorneys were discussing cases and tossing out terminology and facts so fast that we couldn't keep up. Within a couple of weeks, we were hatting them out too. My mind never worked so quickly."
can take a course to background you in every aspect of the law that you may someday need."
Macklin says that "few things are as valuable in understanding the whole legal process as seeing how judgesreach decisions.Students don't realize that the cases they read are the landmarks, and that for every landmark decision, a judge has a large number of garden variety civil and criminal cases."
The externship program is directed by Mary Kolakosky, a new admittee to the California Bar, who took over as director of the externship program last November. "I have been very aggressive in seeking new judges to add to the list of 60 or so who are willing to take UCLA externs," she says.
Students who wish to participate in the program apply to Kolakosky, and are matched up with judges by afacultycommittee.Judges in the Los Angeles area often interview applicants, and the competition is intense. Students are urged to expand their horizons geographically by externing in another area.
Because high grades are not a criterion for the externship program, Professor Price points out that the externships provide an opportunity for students who would not be in the first ranks of those chosen for clerkships after graduation. "It provides a second chance for some students, to allow them to demonstrate their research and technical abilities, even if they don't have top grades," Price says.
Most externs describe the experience as the highlight of their law school career. Some are pleasantly surprised that their skills are greater than they realized.
Carolyn Richardson '82, who externed for U.S. District Judge Robert J. Kelleher, says "I came to realize that there were subjects of the law that I had not even taken a course in, and yet I was still fairly competent in thoseareas.I discovered that a lot of what you learn in law school is applicable from one subject to
"Studentsareintimidatedbythe SupremeCourtbecausethey thinktheydon'tknowenough, butthejudgesknowthatyou don'tknowalot.That'swhy theybringyou in,toteachyou."
another.''
Barry Goldner, who clerked for Tobriner, said that students "are intimidated by the Supreme Court because they think they don't know enough, but the judges know that you don't know a lot, and that's why they bring you in, to teach you. They know that you are just a law student and that you don't have a lot of experience.''
Goldnersaid that Tobriner'sexterns were permitted to sit in on staff meetings on Tuesday afternoons and were encouraged to offer their opinions along with the others.
"That first Tuesday the staff attorneys were discussing cases and tossing out terminology and facts so fast that we couldn't keep up. Within a couple of weeks we were batting them out too. My mind never worked so quickly."
At the Supreme Court, externs went through the stacks of some 90 to 100 requests for hearings which came in each week, and selected those they thought deservedto be heardtosummarizeinamemorandum.
BradTully'82said he considered it a learning experience just trying to assimilate the material in the record and make sense of it.
"One of the things that is hard for externs is to let some wrongs go unrighted," Tully says. "The court can only hear so many issues, and they have to ignore many which aren't important enough.''
Goldner recallscoming acrossa case involvingzoning for halfway houses for the mentally disabled; he thought it deserved a hearing, but the staff attorney told him the issue was too narrow.
"I spent two solid weeks doing research to make a memo that would strongly support a hearing," Goldner says. "The judge submitted it without recommendation, but JusticeStanley Mosk loved the issue and everyone voted for it. I really felt validated because I had fought for this case, and to get it granted was the most exciting thing."
Some students commented that one pleasantpartof
the judicial experience was "feeling that you are on the right side of things.''
"At the court, you have two sides, each with a fairly decent argument or they wouldn't have reached the appellate level," one student said. "We were in the position of deciding which side had the more persuasive argument, or deciding that the issue they were arguing wasn't the pertinent one. When you work for a law firm, they tell you what side you are on, and you have to make a case for it."
Other students appreciated the personal contact with judges.
Debby Chinski'82saidthat JudgeJosephJ.Sneed of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was very accessible, once she screwed up her courage to approach him. "Atthe beginning, I didn't feel comfortable walking in on him, and I didn't realize until late in the semester that I could just walk in to his office when I wanted to talk to him," she says.
Jay Palchikoff '82, who externed for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeal, Ninth Circuit, was impressed that he was given as much freedom as the clerks. "I'd write a bench memo and it would go out without review," he said. "I felt like I was doing something for real."
Palchikoff also enjoyed getting an inside glimpse of the Raiders trial, sitting in during conferences in chambers with the other clerks. "I learned a lot about settlement.''
Terry LeLouis '82, who clerked for Justice Frank Richardson of the CaliforniaSupreme Court, says: "It restored my faith in everything I've learned in school. Judges really do care. They don't leave a stone unturned. They research every little issue and they don't do anything halfway.''
Justice Richardson asked LeLouis if she had regretted missing a whole semester of course work. "I answered that what you get is far more than what you give up.'' o
"Itrestoredmyfaithin everythingI'velearnedin school.Judgesreally docare. Theydon'tleaveastone unturned.Theyresearchevery littleissueandtheydon'tdo anythinghalfway."
CLA is no longer a state supported university; it has become a state assisted one. Private support has become vital to our existence. We cannot survive, let alone excel,without increased support from our graduates and friends.
We are making progress at the School of Law. In 1979-80, 772 donors gave $130,198. In 1980-81, 831 donors gave $173,934, an increase of $43,735 or 33 percent. We now have more than 100 Chadbourn Fellows and more than 150 Dean's Advocates.
We must do better. We have 5,455 living graduates, andonly15 percentofthemgivetothe Schoolof Law. We must double this percentage.
We shall be able to achieve a greater percentage of alumni donors only if we can build an effective volunteer group. Volunteers who worked on our Dean's Fund appeal are listed in these pages. Ralph Shapiro and George Mccambridge must be singled out for special appreciation for their efforts. I hope that any graduate willing to do volunteer work will let me know immediately.
Our fifth annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium was presented in December, 1980, before a large audi-
ence. The Advisory Council ofthe Symposium, made up of friends and alumni of the school, again turned overtheproceedsoftheprogramtothelawschool.Barbara Boyle'60, and David Nochimson were co-chairs for the 1980 program. Our third annual UCLA/CEB Estate Planning Symposium was held in April, 1981, before another large audience. The law school shares the proceeds of this program with CEB. Geraldine Hemmerling'52, again chaired the committee.
Even with a generous increase in the law school budget made possible by Chancellor Young, in 198182 we facethe largestoperatingdeficitin the school's history just to keep our educational program at its present level. With Karen Stone, Bea Cameron, and Carol Miller in our Alumni and Development Office, we have a highly competent and thoroughly committed staff. Their success in working with the friends and graduates of this school to increase our private support is critical to our future as a leading law school.
Ihopethatyouwillgivethemyourfullcooperation.
William D. Warren Dean
(Fiscal year July 1, 1980 to June 30, 1981)
1952
Participation: 37%
Number ofDonors: 14
Total Graduates: 38
Arthur Alef
**Maurice W. Bralley
Clarence R. Cook,Jr.
Howard 0. Culpepper
**Curtis B. Danning
**Arthur N. Greenberg
**Geraldine S. Hemmerling
**Bruce I. Hochman
Perry Langford
**Donald C. Lieb
NorbertJ. Mietus
*Frederick E. Mueller
Sallie T. Reynolds
Martin J. Schnitzer
**LesterZiffren
1953 Participation: 26%
Number ofDonors: 11
Total Graduates: 43
**Norman B. Barker
*Arthur Frankel
RobertJ. Grossman
Ronald B. Labowe
*Donald C. Lozano
Frank H. Mefferd
Dorothy W. Nelson
John F. Parker
Jack M. Sattinger
**C. Douglas Wikle
**Charles A. Zubieta
1954
Participation: 20%
Number ofDonors: 19
Total Graduates: 94
John A. Arguelles
Carl Boronkay
Harvey F. Grant
Harvey M. Grossman
**Martin R. Horn
**Marvin Jubas
Eugene V. Kapetan
Gerald Krupp
Jack Levine
W. Walter Livingston.
*Sherwin L. Memel
Gordon Pearce
**Roger C. Pettitt
Leonard H. Pomerantz
Howard W. Rhodes
**James H. Chadbourn Fellows
Norman A. Rubin
*Donald A. Ruston
DonaldS. Simons
Eugene L.Wolver,Jr.
1955
Participation: 21%
Number of Donors: 18
Total Graduates: 87
*John S. Byrnes, Jr.
*Herbert Z. Ehrmann
The members of the Chadbourn Fellows are alumni and friends who give $500 or more annually to the UCLA School of Law.
*Dean's Advocates
The members of the Dean's Advocates are alumni and friends who give from $250 to $499 annually to the UCLA School of Law.
Warren J. Abbott '58
Michael Adler '76
Norman Bard '65
Norman B. Barker '53
William M. Bitting '65
Paul Boland
Sandor T. Boxer '64
Barbara D. Boyle '60
Maurice Bralley '52
Rinaldo Brutoco '71
Mario Camara '73
John K. Carmack '60
Stephen Claman '59
Martin Cohen '60
**Sanford M. Ehrmann
**Allan S. Ghitterman
*Irving M. Grant
Earl H. Greenstein
Howard A. Kaplan
Curtis B. Danning '52
Hugo D. D!:l Castro '60
Sanford M. Ehrmann '55
Stephen P. Feldman '66
Raymond W. Ferris '66
Stanley R. Fimberg '60
Bernard D. Fischer '58
George Fletcher
Gary Freedman '70
Alexander Furlotti '73
Gilbert Garcetti '67
Mitchell Geffen '61
Allan S. Ghitterman '55
James H. Giffen '65
*Thomas J. Reilly
Norman D. Rose
Marvin D. Rowen
**Karl M. Samuelian
*Herbert J. Solomon
Edward Lasker J. Howard Sturman
**Marshall M. Litchmann
Gerald McCluskey
Graham A. Ritchie 1957
*Richard Schauer Participation: 14%
Cletus V. Schmidt
Harold L. Schmidt
**David Simon
*David W. Slavitt
*William W. Vaughn
**Joseph A. Wein
1956
Participation: 23%
Number ofDonors: 18
Total Graduates: 77
Herman M. Adams
*William Cohen
Jerry Edelman
Number of Donors: 13
Total Graduates: 93
Richard D. Agay
Charles R. Currey
Sanford R. Demain
Jean Ann Hirschi
Roy Kates
Michael K. Lanning
Everett W. Maguire
**Mariana Pfaelzer
**Charles E. Rickershauser, Jr.
Norman L. Vetter
*Lee B. Wenzel
Wells K. Wohlwend
*Florentino Garza 1958
Mervin N. Glow
Irwin D. Goldring
H. Gilbert Jones
**Benjamin E. King
*Kenneth E. Kulzick
Howard Lehman
Ralph McKnight
*Milton L. Miller
Participation: 25%
Number ofDonors: 31
Norman L. Epstein
Hugh Evans, Jr.
**Bernard D. Fischer
**Bernard A. Greenberg
**Donald A. Gralla
Harold J. Hertzberg
**Willard D. Horwich
Arthur Karma
Donn Kemble
*Ephraim Kranitz
Richard C. Kurtz
Bernard Lemlech
**Fred L. Leydorf
*Thomas J. McDermott
*Christian E. Markey, Jr.
William A. Masterson
Arthur Mazirow
*Wesley L. Nutten III
Ronald L. Scheinman
**Ralph J. Shapiro
*Peter Shenas
**Lewis Silverberg
*Roland R. Speers
Lester E. Trachman
**John G. Wigmore
Robert L. Wilson
Total Graduates: 126 1959
**Warren J. Abbott
Harmon R. Ballin
Roland A. Childs
Terrill F. Cox
*Robert L. Dicker
Participation: 17%
Number ofDonors: 19
Total Graduates: 113
*Willie R. Barnes
Stanley A. Black
David R. Ginsburg '76
Albert B. Glickman '60
William D. Gould '63
William W. Graham '73
Donald A. Gralla '58
Arthur N. Greenberg '52
Bernard A. Greenberg '58
Donald G. Hagman
Alan N. Halkett '61
John W. Heinemann '68
Geraldine S. Hemmerling '52
Rodney C. Hill '62
Bruce I. Hochman '52
Martin R. Horn '54
Willard D. Horwich '58
Thomas E. Johnston '59
Michael Josephson '67
Richard Josslin '79
Marvin Juhas '54
**Stephen Claman
*F. Patrick Crowell
*Louise D. Dale
George V. Hall
Michael Harris
Albert J. Hillman
**Thomas E. Johnston
Eugene Leviton
Leslie W. Light
Milton B. Miller
*Josiah L. Neeper
*Roberta Ralph
Stanley Rogers
**John H. Roney
Bernard S. Shapiro
**Charles S. Vogel
**Paul B. Wells
1960
Participation: 21%
Number of Donors: 26
Total Graduates: 126
*Rodney M. Berke
**Barbara Boyle
*M. Alan Bunnage
Lawrence A. Bush
**John K. Carmack
*Charles W. Cohen
**Martin Cohen
George W. Collins
*Dale V. Cunningham
*Robert W. D'Angelo
**Hugo D. De Castro
**Stanley R. Fimberg
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David S. Karton '71
David Kelton '62
Benjamin E. King '56
Alex Kozinski '75
Edward A. Landry '64
Saul L. Lessler '65
Marshall A. Lewis '63
Fred L. Leydorf '58
Donald C. Lieb '52
Marshall M. Litchmann '55
Lucinda Low '77
Marsha McLean-Utley '55
Wendy Munger '77
Frederick W. Noble '66
Joel R. Ohlgren '68
Michael R. Palley '68
and Mary J. Palley '80
Louis P. Petrich '65
Roger C. Pettitt '64
Morton Frisch
*Ralph J. Ginocchio
Victor E. Gleason
**Albert B. Glickman
Ronald J.Grueskin
*Gary S. Jacobs
*Leonard Kolod
*Mark L.Lamken
John L. Moriarity
Bruce H.Newman
Amil W. Roth
*John R. Schell
**Stuart Simke
Alan R. Watts
1961
Participation: 14%
Number of Donors: 18
Total Graduates: 126
Karl Abert
*John A. Altschul
*Sheldon G.Bardach
Richard H.Bein
Richard H. Berger
Donald J. Boss
Arthur Brunwasser
*Gerald S. Davee
**Mitchell Geffen
**Alan N.Halkett
Robert F.Lewis
*Robert C. Proctor, Jr.
Donald J.Regan
Herbert E. Schwartz
Mariana Pfaelzer '57
Charles E. Rickershauser '57
John H. Roney '59
Marguerite S. Rosenfeld '76
Leonard M. Ross '68
Melvyn J. Ross '64
Frank Rothman
Robert M. Ruben '64
Karl Samuelian '56
Henley L. Saltzburg '62
George P. Schiavelli '74
Fred Selan '65
Ralph J. Shapiro '58
Lewis Silverberg '58
Stuart Simke '60
Daniel Simon '65
David Simon '55
Kenneth M. Simon '63
Ronald Slates '68
*Paul J.Shettler
**Henry Steinman
James R. Tweedy
Gordon I. Yanz
1962
Participation: 19%
Number of Donors: 20
Total Graduates: 106
James R.Andrews
*Jerome S. Billet
Roselyn Brassell
*Leonard E.Castro
Vern G.Davidson
*Erwin H. Diller
*Hiroshi Fujisaki
*Barry V. Freeman
**Rodney C.Hill
**Daniel J.Jaffe
**David Kelton
*David A.Leveton
Stuart Mandel
Paul L.Migdal
*Bernard B.Nebenzahl
Phillip W. Neiman
*Richard A. Rosenberg
**Henley L. Saltzburg
Raymond J.Sinetar
Mel Springer
1963
Participation: 23%
Number of Donors: 27
Bruce H. Spector '67
Arthur G. Spence '69
David S. Sperber '64
Henry Steinman '61
Dean Stern '63
E.Paul Tonkovich '65
Charles S. Vogel '59
Kirk Wallace '73
William D. Warren
Joseph A. Wein '55
Paul B. Wells '59
John H. Weston '69
John G. Wigmore '58
C. Douglas Wikle '53
Kenneth Ziffren '65
Lester Ziffren '52
Daniel Zipser '65
Charles A. Zubieta '53
Total Graduates: 120
*Don Anthony
*Lee W.Cake
John M.Carmack
Thomas H. Chasin
*Frances Ehrmann
Charles D.Field
Leroy M. Gire
Martha Goldin
Robert S. Goldberg
Marvin G.Goldman
**William D. Gould
Harold L. Greene
William F. Heyler
*David R.Hoy
Ronald M. Kabrins
Bill G.King
*Steve Lachs
*Lawrin S.Lewin
**Marshall A. Lewis
*Michael M. Murphy
Alban I. Niles
Richard K.Quan
*Michael E.Schwartz
**Kenneth M.Simon
**Dean Stern
Norman J.White
*Lawrence D.Williams
1964
Participation: 22%
Number of Donors: 27
Total Graduates: 122
Olga Boikess
**Sandor T.Boxer
L. Morris Dennis
*David Greenberg
Leo W.Kwan
**Edward A.Landry
*David J. MacKenzie
**Marsha McLean-Utley
*Everett F.Meiners
*James L.Nolan
Jeffrey T.Oberman
David J.O'Keefe
Aaron M. Peck
**Roger Pettitt
**Melvyn J. Ross
**Robert M.Ruben
Stephen W. Solomon
**David S.Sperber
James L.Spitser
Alan J.Stein
Lawrence Teplin
Michael Waldorf
Martin G.Wehrli
*Sam V. Weir
Gerald Winerman
Jeremy V. Wisot
William L.Yerkes
**James H. ChadbournFellows
*Dean's Advocates
ne factor is more important than all others in the success of the Dean's Fund: the gift of time, freely given by the alumni who have volunteered to contact other alumni and friends on behalf of the School of Law.
This past year, there was a new emphasis on law alumni volunteering to achieve the vital mission of increasinggiftstotheschool.Theresultisevidentina 33 percent increase in dollars raised.
Thisyear's volunteers in the Dean's Fund are listed here. Two of them, Ralph Shapiro '58 and George Mccambridge '73, exemplify the impact which alumni have in continuing the achievements of UCLA's School of Law.
Ralph Shapiro'58 is a bigman.Nomatterwhathe sets out to accomplish, his success seems to match his personal scale. He jokes about his size. His humor hides the fact that he is immensely helpful to many
1965
Participation: 20%
Number of Donors: 35
Total Graduates: 176
**Norman Bard
*Laurie Belger
**W illiam M. Bitting
David Bloomgarden
Thomas P. Burke
Julie Caput
Milford W.Dahl, Jr.
Lucinda Dennis
*Stephen C.Drummy
William J.Elfving
Marshall Freedman
**James H.Giffen
Jerold V.Goldstein
*Richard J.Goldstein
*Harold W.Hofman, Jr.
William R.Jackson
**Saul L.Lessler
Donald Low
*Anthony X.McDermott
V.Gene McDonald
*Melvyn Mason
Lawrence H. Nagler
Jack M.Newman
Robert H.Nida
*Andrea Ordin
**Louis P. Petrich
Lee A.Rau
*Stephen A.Schneider
**Fred Selan
**Daniel I.Simon
*Harold J.Stanton
**E.Paul Tonkovich
*Earl W.Warren
**Kenneth Ziffren
**Daniel Zipser
1966 Participation: 9%
Number of Donors: 18
Total Graduates: 211
Kenneth I.Clayman
*Roger L. Cossack
causes-not the least of them the School of Law.
"I feel very warm toward the law school," states Shapiro simply, when asked why he is so generous with his time and money.Not only is Ralph Shapiro the chairman of the Chadbourn Fellows (the school's major support group), but he is also often the first to respond to other causes involving the good of the school.
His warm feelings toward the law schoolstem from a sense of family. "The law school was a small family when I was a student, and if you made an effort, you knew everyone. I still have that warm feeling for my classmates and the people just before me and just after me. They are some of my best friends today," says Shapiro.
Photosofhiswifeandthreechildren coveronewall of Shapiro's office in Beverly Hills. He talks about them with obviouspride. And hiswarmth extends far beyond his own immediate family.
"I like lawyers," he says. "I think most lawyers are
*Richard G.Duncan, Jr.
Lyn B.Ehrnstein
**Stephen P. Feldman
**Raymond W. Ferris
*David H.Friedland
Harvey S.Gilbert
*Wilford D.Godbold
*Joseph G.Gorman
Michael K.Inglis
James Karp
*Merrill H.Karpf
Steven L.Leighton
Arthur S.Levine
**Frederick W.Noble
Frances Rothschild
*Joseph L.Shalant
1967
Participation: 15%
Number of Donors: 37
Total Graduates: 250
*Donald R.Allen
Paul S.Almond
Robert Axel
*Michael D.Berk
*Peter W.Blackman
Kenneth R.Blumer
Harland W.Braun
Philip Brown
*Cary D.Cooper
Larry A.Curtis
Harold S.Fleischman
**Gilbert Garcetti
Mark A.Ivener
Leonard Jacoby
*W.Michael Johnson
**Michael S.Josephson
Jeffrey Lake
Jeffrey L.Linden
*Martin Majestic
*Stefan M.Mason
Stephen Meyers
Jeffrey T.Miller
Milton J.Nenney
Elliott D.Olson
Steven Z.Perren
Dennis T.Seider
nice fellows and nice ladies, so it's not a chore to visit your old friends and classmates and raise money for the law school. People in my class now are at the point in their lives where making a living is not the trial it once was, and they have extra dollars to give.
"We got virtually a free education at the law school, and the tools which have enabled us to have some extra resources. I know this is a cliche, but we should give some of it back.
"If you're fortunate enough to have the time, you should give the time. If you're too busy, but you have the dollars, then you should give the dollars. But you should give what you can."
Shapiro's history has heavily influenced his philosophy.
Ralph was the first member of his family ever to attend college. "I was the first one to have the chance. We came from Lithuania, and none of my father's brothers or sisters or any of their children had gone to college. I think this country is so fantastic-that an Old Country tailor could come over here, and have all three of his children go through college and get a good education that enables us to make a nice living.
My dad used to say, 'It's only in America.' That's one reason I feel so strongly about the University.''
There are other reasons. In Ralph's law school years, he met a UCLA coed named Shirley who became Mrs. Shapiro. His brother and sister also are University of California graduates.
Shapiro practiced law several years after graduating from law school, and then entered the investment
Jon A. Shoenberger
Hortense K. Snower
**Bruce H. Spector
John C. Spence III
Gary D. Stabile
*Lawrence C.Tistaert
Franklin Tom
*Richard Udko
Eric R. Van De Water
Leonard D.Venger
Thomas E.Warriner
1968
Participation: 15%
Number ofDonors: 28
Total Graduates: 188
*Craig D. Crockwell
*Audrey B. Ezratty
David B. Geerdes
*Paul J. Glass
*Earle G. Goodman
*Sharon Green
RobertF.Harris
*Robert N. Harris
**John W. Heinemann
*TheodoreG.Johnsen
Steven N. Katznelson
Richard H. Kirschner
Frances Lanak
*Thomas R. Larmore
Allen D. Lenard
Paul M. Mahoney
James B. Merzon
*Daniel A.Miller
**Joel R. Ohlgren
*Prentice O'Leary
**Michael R. Palley
CharlesJ. Post
*TerryL. Rhodes
**Leonard M. Ross
**TerryShagin
**LeeI. Silver
**Ronald Slates
John M. Wilcox
1969
Participation: 14%
Number ofDonors: 27 **Arthur G. Spence
Total Graduates: 192
*Daniel Alef
Thomas C. Armitage
F: KeenanBehrle
Stephen M. Burgin
Michael A. K. Dan
John R. Domingos
*Kenneth Drexler
*Robert B. Fraser
Jan C. Gabrielson
Judith A. Gelfand
Michael L. Glickfeld
James F. Stiven
Diana L. Walker
**John H. Weston
1970
Participation: 13%
Number ofDonors: 24
Total Graduates: 178
*Dennis C. Brown
*Arthur R. Chenan
Richard K. Citron
*Bruce E. Harrington LinnK. Coombs
*Ragna 0. Henrichs
William P. Jacobson
RobertL. Kahan
John G. Kerr
RobertKusior
ElwoodLui
Kenneth Meyer
Toby J. Rothschild
MichaelT. Shannon
Lionel S. Sobel
*Benjamin Fogel
**Gary Freedman
*Ellen Friedman
Stephen Gilbert
Laura L. Glickman
Martin K. Harary
Linda S. Hume
* *Jomes H. Chadbourn Fellows
*Dean's Advocates
banking business: In recent years, his law practice has become a very specialized one, in which he represents a small number of clients in business and real estate.
Ralph Shapiro is particularly loyal in his volunteer work for United Cerebral Palsy and the Spastic Children's Foundation.
"What I am doing in the community, I am paid for in psychic income. There are many reasons why alumni should volunteer to help the law school: because you reallycare,because you appreciate what was given to you, because it is a way of repaying.
"People like Bill Warren, Murray Schwartz, Dick Maxwell are very, very bright people. They spend their lives teaching people like me how to make a living and how to become better human beings, and they do it at a big financial sacrifice. If they're willing to do that, I think it's our obligation as alumni at least to give them the tools that will allow them to continue."
Shapiro has found in talking with alumni that not everyone realizes the present vital need for private gifts to the law school.
"Some think that $100, $250, or $500 a year isn't going to make a big difference. They need to know that $50 a year will make a great difference, if we can get everyone to participate. If each one of us would just call three to five people, the result would be overwhelming. This doesn't need to be a lot of work for anyone. It's painless. It can be fun and enjoyable."
JohnB. Jakle
*Jay Jeffcoat
Herbert J. Klein
Brian C. Leck
JamesM. Leonard
Robert Y. Nakagawa
David L. Olson
Roger Potash
Richard Peterson
DonaldM. Re
*Barnet Reitner
*Scott J.Spolin
*Terry L.Tyler
1971
Participation: 12%
Number ofDonors: 33
Total Graduates: 271
*Susan E. Amerson
ShunjiAsari
James R. Birmingham
*CrugerL.Bright
ClarkBrown
**RinaldoS. Brutoco
Wayne S. Canterbury
CurtisA. Cole
Allan Cutrow
MaryJo Curwen
BlancheDeight
*JohnFrankovich
Michael J. Gittleman
*Richard Havel
Roger H. Howard
*Pauline G. Johnson
ThomasB. Karp
**David S. Karton
ThomasP.Lambert
Lawrence R. Lieberman
*S.JeromeMandel
JamesB. Mehalick
Marshall G.Mintz
Richard T. Peters
*JamesM. Prager
*SusanWesterberg Prager
Robert M. Popeney
*LaurenceD. Rubin
George Schraer
Earl M.Weitzman
Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
Benjamin G.Williams
Robert H.Wyman
1972
Participation: 9%
Number ofDonors: 25
Total Graduates: 284
Jean-RobertAlfred
Curtis O. Barnes
RichardA.Blacker
Richard E. Booker
James E.Brown
Robert T. Burke
PhilipD. Dapeer
Peter Q. Ezzell
*Bruce S. Glickfeld
Roy S. Glickman
James Kashian
Ivan Lawner
CaryB. Lerman
DoraLevin
*Robert S. Lewin
Joel S. Marcus
*Louis R.Miller III
Albert Z. Praw
Linda Riback
Dominick W. Rubalcava
Wayne W.Smith
William J. Smith
LelandA. Stark
Donald K. Steffen
EdwardA.Woods
1973
Participation: 10%
Number ofDonors: 29
Total Graduates: 300
Martin E. Auerbach
Donald P.Baker
DianeBecker
GailBrod
**Mario Camara
Kenneth P.Eggers
**Alexander Furlotti
Bernard R. Gans
David Gersh
Gerald M. Gordon
**William W. Graham
Natalie R. Hoffman
George Mccambridge '73 recalls that as a student entering UCLA's SchoolofLawhewasimpressedthat his classmates were an extremely talented group of people. "They already had a fairly wide range of opportunities, and they were going to law school to broaden that range even more."
It was at that same time that significantly higher percentages of women were entering law school, "which made it all the more interesting."
But best of all, says McCambridge, were the professors. "They seemed very young, and very smart." He stillthinks first and foremostof thefaculty as a reason why alumni should be out raising money for the law school.
"They're such a delightful group of people, from thedean ondown. It'sattractivetotrytodosomething for them. They helped put us out here where we're making more moneythan we deserve to make. I think we should send some of it back."
Mccambridge went from law school directly to Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney. The firm has grownfromthesevenlawyerstherein1973 towellover 100today. Many Manatt, Phelps clients are banks, and McCambridge recently became vice chairman of Brentwood Bank, which opened in May.
As a partner in a firm with such political heavyweights as Chuck Manatt and John Tunney, Mccambridge also has acquired a wealth of experience on how to marshall support for political and community causes.
Ronald J. Jacobson
Richard J. Kaplan
John J. King
Lawrence L. Kuppin
Marlene S. Litvak
*George R. McCambridge
Michael D. Marans
Robert F. Marshall
*Lowell J. Milken
*Michael M. Murphy
R. Thomas Peterson
David L. Pierce
Theresa J. Player
Ronald Rouse
Kathryne Stoltz
Kirk Wallace
Howie Wollitz
1974 Participation: 11%
Number of Donors: 32
Total Graduates: 302
Garrett Beaumont
*Paul Beechen
William H. Borthwick
*Stephen P. Cannon
Charlie E. Channel
*Bruce A. Clemens
Allan B. Cooper
Debra J. DeBose
Jimmie R. DeBose
Buddy Epstein
*Michael R. Floyd
*Jack Fried
Daniel P. Garcia
Ezequiel Gutierrez, Jr.
Barbara Hindin
Andrew A. Kurz
*Robert D. Links
Daniel C. Minteer
Allan R. Moltzen, Jr.
Timothy J. Muris
Phillip G. Nichols
Daniel C. Padnick
*Richard D. Parker
*Steven J. Revitz
James J. Rucker
**George P. Schiavelli
Michael J. Siegel
"In fact," he says, "I grew up with the idea that you aresupposedtodomorethangotowork, make a buck, andtakeit home. Andthat ispart ofwhat this law firm says to its people-starting with Chuck Manatt, a guy of such tremendous energy that he honestly cannot believesomebody would only work for 10 or 12 hours a day and then just go home."
McCambridge'sown special effort for the School of Law has been to chair a volunteer effort among the classes of'71 to'75. By sending invitations to some 20 other alumni in those classes, he was able to enlist a dozen volunteers to work for the Dean's Fund.
"These things take very little time, if you are willing to contact 10 or 15 people you know. And some of those people you'd see on a regular basis anyway. Perhapsthey're in your law firm. You encourage them to give the law school some money That takes very little time.
"I think it is true that most people who went to law school in the '70s are making enough money so that they can give significant chunks of it to the school," says Mccambridge. "What alsois true is that many of these people just haven't given it a whole lot of thought.
"What is most important is to remember that being a volunteer doesn't take much time. Many people think it's difficult to ask others for money. I haven't found it all that difficult. The worst that anyone can do is say 'no.'" o
Nancy E. Spero-Regos
Daphne M. Stegman
*Karl 0. Tuschka
Robert J. Wayne
William L. Winslow
1975
Participation: 12%
Number of Donors: 37
Total Graduates: 313
Mel Aranoff
James D. C. Barrall
Jonathan F. Chait
Gary A. Clark
Richard S. Conn
Lucy T. Eisenberg
Paul L. Gale
John B. Galper
Michael Halpern
Michael J. Harrington
Steven Hecht
Gail D. Kass
Sandra S. Kass
**Alex Kozinski
Timothy Lappen
Moses Lebovits
Jan G. Levine
Margaret Levy
Karen D. Mack
Gary Maeder
Allen L. Michel
Gary Q. Michel
*Dian Ogilvie
Norman A. Pedersen
Leland J. Reicher
Irwin Rothschild
William W. Sampson
David Simon
Virginia E. Sloan
David R. Smith
Marc I. Steinberg
Marjorie S. Steinberg
Tom Tankersley
Seth H. Tievsky
Mark L. Waldman
Mark S. Windisch
**James H. ChadbournFellows
*Dean's Advocates
The individuals listed here volunteered a precious commoditytime-to the School as volunteers working on behalf of the 1980-81 annual Dean's Fund appeal.
Ralph Shapiro '58, Chairman, Chadbourn Fellows
Committee
Members:
Stanton Belland '59
Stephen Claman '59
Martin Cohen '60
Sanford Ehrmann '55
Stanley Fimberg '60
Barry Freeman '62
Jerome Goldberg '53
Seymour Goldberg '57
Donald Gralla '58
1976
Participution: 11%
Number of Donors: 32
Total Graduates: 297
* *Michael I. Adler
Thomas P. Allen III
Robert Paul Applegate
Stewart A. Baker
Fredric Bernstein
Maribeth A. Borthwick
Beatrice J. Braun
William D. Claster
*David C. Doyle
*
Gregory Fant
*David R. Ginsburg
Paul G. Hoffman
Frances W. Kandel
Richard Katz
Adrienne Larkin
Karen Randall
Gloria Roa
Anne Roberts
**Marguerite S. Rosenfeld
Terry A. Rowland
Stephanie L. Scher
Setha Schlang
Richard Schneider
*Judith Shapiro
Marc R. Stein
Gary M. Stern
Lawrence C. Weeks
Judith W. Wegner
John Heinemann '68
Geraldine Hemmerling '52
Thomas Johnston '59
Benjamin King '56
Ephraim Kranitz '58
Edward Landry '64
Marshall Litchmann '55
Robert McManigal '59
Milton Miller '56
Wesley Nutten III '58
Roger Pettitt '54
David Price '60
John Roney '59
Henley Saltzburg '62
Lewis Silverberg '58
David Simon '55
Kenneth Simon '63
Charles Vogel '59
Dorrie E. Whitlock
Anita Y. Wolman
Philip J. Wolman
Dorothy Wolpert
1977
Participation: 12%
Number ofDonors: 40
Total Graduates: 321
Gustavo A. Barcena
Alan Benjamin
Andrea Bricker
Rochelle Browne
Steven S. Davis
Stephen L. Englert
Sharon Flanagan
Martin A. Flannes
Joseph M. Gensheimer
*Paul Glad
Stephen Greenberg
Jeffrey H. Greiner
Helen D. Jacobs
Howard E. King
Thomas Kirschbaum
Deborah L. Kranze
Joseph L. Kruth
**Lucinda Low
Ralph L. McKnight, Jr.
Lynda S. Mabry
Peter W. Mason
John S. Miller, Jr.
Greg Millikan
George McCambridge '73, Chairman, Dean's Fund for Classes of '71-'75
Committee Members
Donald Baker '73
Paul Enriquez '73
Thomas Gutierrez '73
Calvin Lau '75
Jan Levine '75
Ethan Lipsig '74
Charles Read '74
Laurence Rubin '71
George Schiavelli '75
Marjorie Steinberg '75
William Wardlaw '72
Donald V. Morano
**Wendy Munger
John Pope
Andre M. Reiman
Carl Robinson
Frederick B. Sainick
Michael A. Sandberg
Charles Shephard
Daniel H. Slate
William F. Sullivan
Marcy Tiffany
Debra Van Alstyne
Lee Williams
Scott Zimmerman
1978
Joseph F. Hart
Susan J. Hazard
Daniel C. Hedigan
Maryann M. Hohn
Marlene B. Jones
*Fern Kaplan
Dean J. Kitchens
Ann Kough
*Ken Kramarz
Frances E. Lossing
Christopher J. Martin
Helen Whiteford Melman
Kent Mouton
Daniel D. Mrotek
Michael Norris
Karen Patterson
Barbara Ravitz
Participation: 14% Kneave Riggall
Number of Donors: 41
Total Graduates: 297
Lynne Alfasso
Nancy R. Alpert
James R. Asperger
Judith Bailey
Carol P. Cagan
Julia S. Conroy
Melanie Cook
Steven M. Rubenstein
Kay E. Rustand
Mark Scarberry
Sarah E. Schnitger
Douglas W. Stern
John T. Tate
Kathy T. Wales
Timothy J. White
Glenn A. Whitehead
Eric F. Edmunds, Jr. Gwen H. Whitson
David F. Faustman
Stephen L. Garman
Miriam J. Colbert
Lorna Greenhill
Lisa M. Greer
1979
Participation: 11%
Number of Donors: 33
Total Graduates: 295
Phyllis J.Bersch
Lloyd Bookman
Alan F.Broidy
Harmon A. Brown
Mark R.Burrill
L. Suzette Clover
John Eleazarian
Ralph Fertig
Albert S. Glenn
Joel M.Grossman
**Richard Josslin
Spencer L. Karpf
Roberta Kass
Ric Kilmer
Kathy S. Krause
Joel D. Kuperberg
Kim A. McLane
Bruce D. May
Timm A. Miller
David S. Neiger
Jedd S. Palmer
Phyllis A. Siegel
Ann L. Smith
Shelley Steuer
Gary Stiffleman
James R.Sullivan
Robert Waxman
Henry Weinstock
Christopher P.Wells
Ashley White
Ellen Winthrop-Michel
1980
Participation: 18%
Number of Donors: 56
Total Graduates: 319
Amy L. Applebaum
Janine Y. Ariey
Michael Artan
Irene Ayala
Andrew B·ernstein
Gregory E. Bernstein
Neila Bernstein
Victoria M. Bunsen
Kevin M. Colton
Margaret R.Dollbaum
Kathleen Ehlers
Robert J. Finger
Ruth E.Fisher
Paul Franz
Richard C. Fridell
Michael S. Gendler
Thomas E. Gibbs
Gordon Goldsmith
Herbert Graham
Feris M.Greenberger
Maribeth R. Harper
Debra Hodgson
Harold C. Hofer
Laurence Hummer
Susan B. Jacoby
Thomas W. Kellerman
Sharon Kerton
A. Knox Kimberly
Jeffrey C. Krause
Monica Lebenzon
Laurie L.Levenson
F.Sigmund Luther
Mary D. Mitchell
Linda A. Netzer
Marsha L. Neuman
Dimitri A. Nibbs
Selvino Padilla, Jr.
**Mary J. Palley
John G. Petrovich
Howard Posner
Samuel D. Reyes
Daniel Rodriguez
Leslie B.Rosen
Giacomo A. Russo
Catherine G.Sabatini
John A. Seethoff
Frances G. Smith
Fred F.Smith, Jr.
Richard B. Stagg
John Stick
Morris L.Thomas
Steven J. Untiedt
Anita Van Petten
Ernest S. Gould
Dr. J. Conrad Greenwald
Lyla LeBell Grossman
**Donald G. Hagman
Robert K. Hallett
Elbie Hickabottom
Walter Higbee
Lawrence E. Irell
Thomas Karp
Mr.and Mrs. Sam Katz
William A. Klein
William Lappen
Reed C.Lawlor
Arthur Lazer
Laura and Konrad Leak
Fatima Lee
Martin Lipsie
Diana Lott
Richard P. Lytle
Richard C. Maxwell
Addison and Margaret Mueller
*Melville B. Nimmer
Glen E. Owen
Luis Perez
Loretta Pisaniello
Joseph Prend
Abe Prensley
*Ralph S.Rice
*Arthur I.Rosett
**Frank Rothman
John Schlue
Dotty G.Smith
FACULTY AND FRIENDS
Margaret Alexander
Eben Baba
Kay Barnes
Estela Barrera
Richard Bernstein
*David A.Binder
**Paul Boland
Jean Calhoun
Beverly Camper
Rosemary Chatlos
*Sandra Conant
Cynthia Conners
Michael Cowan
W.B.Dennis
Jesse Dukemenier
Harlean Kegel Elkins
John Elliott
Donald Fehlings
**George P.Fletcher
Martin Golden
Doris Gonzalez
Stephen H. Smith
Karen Stone
Michael Tse Wen Sun
David A.Taggart
Roberta Thompson
James A. Tsugawa
Alejandro D. Wolff
**William D.Warren
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wynn
**James H. Chadbourn Fellows
*Dean's Advocates
LAW FIRM CONTRIBUTIONS AND MATCHING GIFTS
Covington & Burling
Cox, Castle & Nicholson
Kirkland & Ellis
Lawler, Felix & Hall
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Musick, Peeler & Garrett
O'Melveny & Myers
Reavis & McGrath
Wilmer & Pickering
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION
CONTRIBUTIONS AND MATCHING GIFTS
Aerojet General Corporation
Arthur Anderson & Co.Foundation
Atlantic Richfield Foundation
Armco Foundation
Bechtel Foundation
The Bendix Corporation
The Caesar Foundation, Inc.
Citibank
Coopers & Lybrand
General Telephone Company of California
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Hughes Aircraft Co.
J. W. & Ida M.Jameson Foundation
Mattel Foundation
MCA.Inc.
Northwestern Mutual Life
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Foundation
Security Pacific Charitable Foundation
Union Pacific Corporation
Listed below are established Law School funds to which gifts were made in the 1980-81 fiscal year, with individual contributors listed for each
Jesse Gest Memorial Scholarship
John G. Morris
Devon Marie Green Memorial Fund
Abelson, Harris & Brunon
Carl A. Albert
Steven Becker
Harland W. Braun
Century City Bar Association
Gary L. Effron
Audrey Ezratty
David B. Geerdes
Mark A. Goldman
Stacy Green
John W. Heinemann
Richard H. Kirschner
Daniel A. Miller
Allan S. Morton
Joel Ohlgren
Prentice O'Leary
Michael R. Palley
Don Parris
Amil W. Roth
Leslie S. Rothenberg
Lee Silver
Ronald P. Slates
Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
Greenberg Memorial Scholarship
Arthur N. Greenberg
Alan Halkett Scholarship
Alan N. Halkett
Allan Lebow Memorial Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, Kuchel & Silbert
Leonard G. Liebow Memorial Scholarship
Gendel, Raskoff, Shapiro & Quittner
Paula C. Lubic Memorial Scholarship
William F. Cole
Arthur M. Lubic
Carol L. Spitz
George L. Marinoff Memorial Scholarship
Isabel Belarsky-Grizer
Dr. and Mrs. John R. Benfield
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Benson
Barbara Bergen
Frances Berres
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bolis
Mr. and Mrs. Edward I. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Fischmann
Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Goldman
Elaine Marinoff Good
Mr. and Mrs. Morris C. Guss
Florence M. Katz
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Katz
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Katz
Gloria M. Koenig
Mr. and Mrs. D. Leanse
Dr. and Mrs. Morey Lippitz
Dr. and Mrs. Elliott R. Phillips
Henry S. Rose
Dr. Phillip L. Rossman
Herbert D. Rothman
Susan Marinoff Schrag
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J. Seigel
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Seigel
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Shields
Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Morris D. Verger
Addison Mueller Memorial
Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Augerson
C. David and Alison Grey Anderson
Florence L. Charles
Charles A. Carver, Jr.
Harold R. Eriv and The Foundation Press
Michael A. Floyd and The Bechtel Foundation
Richard M. Forester
Mr. and Mrs. Lester D. Hafmeister
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hardwick
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar A. Jones, Jr.
Kenneth L. and Smiley Karst
William M. and Katherine W. McGovern
Richard C. and Frances L. Maxwell
David Mellinkoff
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Milkowski, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Munro, Jr.
Arthur I. Rosett
Murray L. and Audrey J. Schwartz and Mattel, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Sjoberg
Ronald P. Slates
Melvin Stark
Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Tilson
Miriam N. Walker
William D. and Susan C. Warren
Gail S. Wells
Rubalcava Fellowship
Dominick and Sharon Rubalcava
Sidney R. Shiffman Memorial Scholarship
Dr. and Mrs. Harold W. Arlen
Mrs. Molly Baklin
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Baklin
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Beck
Gerald D. Bograd, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Emas
Robert Louis Finkel
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Greenberg
Gibraltar Savings & Loan Association
Herbert J. Young, Chairman of the Board
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Isaacs
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Kolnick
Dr. and Mrs. Louis Lazarou
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Morry
Bruce Radenbaugh
Richard Radenbaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Nate Samuels
Irvin Shiffman
Mrs. Sadie Shiffman
Samuel Stedman, DDS
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Stone
Alan A. Silver Scholarship
Alan A. Silver
New faculty members at the school this year include Marsha Ellen Diedrich, Joseph M. Dodge, Theodore E. Guth, Michael Quesnel, James Joseph Tomkovicz, Phillip R. Trimble, and Eric B. Yeldell.
Diedrich is assistant dean for clinical programs and lecturer in law. She has been an associate with Lillick McHose & Charles and is a 1980 graduate of the UCLA School of Law.
Concentrating this year on administration of the clinical program, Diedrich next year will teach pretrial lawyering and planning and drafting for small estates.
She expects that the clinical program, which has grown dramatically in its first decade, will expand even more. "We hope to involve more students in client contact, taking on more and different types of cases.
"Students recognize that the trial advocacy program gives them great background to be litigators; for those who don't want to litigate, the clinical p,rggrnm �9Jl moyic,ie valuable background in such areas as client interviewing and counseling."
Joseph M. Dodge is a visiting professor from the University of Texas School of Law, and is teaching courses in federal tax and estate planning. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Dodge also has an LL.M. in taxation from New York University Law School.
Dodge, a faculty member at Texas since 1978, has taught at the University of Detroit School of Law and has practiced law in Tokyo, Honolulu, and Washington, D.C.
Theodore E. Guth is an adjunct professor on leave from Irell & Manella. A graduate of Yale Law School, he is teaching courses in civil procedure and constitutional law.
TheodoreE. Guth
Guth notes that one of his interests in teaching civil procedure lies in trying to understand the normative values which have resulted in and underlie the revolution in procedure that has occurred in the past century. His published writing has been primarily in
the area of attorney-client privilege. Michael Quesnel is a 1978 graduate of the UCLA School of Law, and he is an adjunct professor in the clinical program, teaching trial advocacy and fact investigation and discovery courses.
Eric B. Yeldell
An attorney at Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp since his graduation from law school, Quesnel was involvedin broadbasedlitigation.That experience is reflected in his outlook for the clinicalprogram."Ithink the real direction for clinicaleducation is to train all lawyers," he says, "not just in one context orone setting, butfor allkinds of lawyering."
James Joseph Tomkovicz is a 1976 graduate of the UCLA School of Law He is teaching remedies and criminal law as an adjunct professor.Lastyear he taught at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Oneof his main interests inthe field of criminal procedure is thedemise of the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment. "I am concerned about limitations on the right to counsel in misdemeanor cases, and allthe trends toward cutting back on our civil liberties and constitutional rights in favor of perceived public preference for crime control." Tomkovicz observes that the public, when questioned carefullyaboutwhat rights they are willing to sacrifice in the name of crime prevention,in fact voice considerable reluctance to give away basic liberties.
Phillip R.Trimble, a graduate of Harvard Law School,is a visiting professor, teaching public international law, international economic lawand organization,anda seminar onnational
security andthe law.
Trimble was ambassador to Nepal during the past year,and among other international achievements,he has climbedMount Everest.Trimblealso has led expeditions to New Guinea, GarwalHimalaya-India,the Canadian arctic,Borneo,and Ganesh HimalNepal.He andothersare forming plans to explore an area of New Guinea next summer which has never been entered from the outside,a wild and primitive river basinunpenetratedin its upper reaches.
Trimble has taughtat Boalt Hall, was on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, andwas deputy mayor of New York City before his diplomatic assignment to Nepal.
Eric B.Yeldellis an adjunct professor teaching realproperty secured transactions.A 1979 graduate of UCLA Schoolof Law,he has been an attorney for O'Melveny and Myers during the past two years.Hisinterestsare both in entertainment law and real estate law
Attorney Alan A. Silver has established the AlanA. Silver Scholarship in memory of Max Horwitz and David Silver.
A scholarship has beenestablished by Elaine MarinoffGood in honor of her father, George L. Marinoff.
The scholarship will be given annually to a second year studenton the basis of financial need,academic excellence, and a demonstration of the highestethical standards.Women applicants who meet these qualifications will be given first preference.
Last June,a group of classmates and friends of Sharon Green '68 established an emergency loan fund in memory of her daughter Devon Marie whose tragic death occurred lastApril.
The student loan fund will be used foremergencyassistance to law students,who must repay it before graduation.It covers emergencies such as medical expenses,familyneeds,and books.Asthe loans are repaid, funds are recycled into new loans.
TheSchool of Law has a new endowed chair, the Security Pacific BankChair. The chair stemmed from a gift by the bank in resolution of a consumer action in which Michael R. Palley '68 and Lawrence I.Schwartz'66 of Los Angeles were counsel for the plaintiffs. Gertrude D.Chern '66 ofSanta Maria was a moving force in the original classaction.
Finding thatrestitutionto individual consumers was impractical, the Los Angeles Superior Court in the case of Fletcher v. Security Pacific National Bank approved a remedy thatresulted ina substantial donation to the law schools of UCLA and USC to promote research in consumerlaw. The UC Board of Regents recently accepted the gift andapprovednaming thechairthe SecurityPacific BankChair to befilled by a scholar working inthe broad area ofconsumerlaw.
Arrangements have been concluded with the Bernard C. HarrisPublishing Company of New York for production oftheSchoolofLaw'salumnidirectory. The directory will bearranged alphabetically,geographically, and by class.
The School of Lawwillnot benefit directly from the directory sales (purchases shouldnot be considered a contribution), butwill derive substantial benefits from thecompletelyupdated records and othervaluableinformation obtained.
The Harris Company contracts to compile,publish and marketthe directory, and finances the operation solely through the sale of individual directory copies to alumni only.
The information gathered for the book will be used only in the directory Names will not be made available for use in any other manner. The directory will be offeredfor sale to alumni before publication time.
G. Greg Aftergood '72 has reestablished offices for the practice of law. He wasrecentlysuccessful inlitigating on behalfof a local homeowners' association to impose strict water quality standards and environmental and public healthsafeguards on the municipal sewage waste disposal facility in MalibuCanyon/Santa Monica Mountains.
Jack Avery'73 was officially sworn in as the Attorney General for the Territoryof Guam, in a ceremony onApril 9,1981.
F. Keenan Behrle '69 is amember of the board of directors of the newly opened Brentwood Bank.
Joel J. Bernstein'74 is now engaged asa business consultant with aSan Franciscobased consulting firm.
Joseph Bogan '72 has opened his second office for the practice of law in San Diego. The main office, located in Glendale, continues to specialize in personalinjury defense litigation.
TerryW. Bird '70 and Dorothy Wolpert '67 announce the formation of Nutter, Bird, Marella, Boxer and Wolpertwith offices in Beverly Hills.
Larry Briskin '72, former chief administrative assistant to State SenatorAlan Sieroty, has recently opened a firm in Sacramento, Larry Briskin&Associates. The firm provides management, consulting, legislative, and legalservices, with Briskin specializing in the area of thearts.He recently completed a book, The Arts and the States, for the NationalConference ofStateLegislatures.
Steven Brower '80 has become associated with the Encino law firm of Flame,Sanger, Grayson & Ginsburg.
Michael J. Budzyn '75 has been designated aCertified Employee Benefit Specialist by the International Foundation of Employee BenefitPlansand the WhartonSchool of the University ofPennsylvania.
Jeffery J. Carlson '74 has become a
partner in the law firm of Haight, Dickson,Brown& Bonesteel where he specializesinciviljurytrial practice in the firm'sSanta Monica office.
Susan Bush Charnahan '74 is now groupcounselat Hewlett-Packard Company,PaloAlto, specializing in computerlaw.She has been with Hewlett-Packard for three years.
Jim Conley '70 announces the opening of his firm inSalem, Oregon. The practice will consist primarily of commercial and industrial property tax matters throughout the state.
Hugo D. DeCastro'60 was installed chairman of the board of the Western LosAngeles Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Angelina DeLaTorre '77 is presently representingclients as a legal advocate in theTribalCourt of theConfederated Tribes of WarmSprings Reservation, Oregon.
Richard D. Fybel '71 is now a partner in the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, resident in the Los Angeles office. He will continue to specialize in business litigation.
David R. Ginsburg '76 has joined the law firm of Sidley &Austinas counsel resident in LosAngeles. He moved to Sidley &Austin with Gary Concoff (A.B. '59) to form an entertainment law group. Ginsburg was recently appointedadjunctprofessor of law at UCLA,wherehe is coinstructor with Concoff ofthe Motion Picture Business Transactionscourse to be offered in the spring semester.
MichaelDavid Harrison '76 opened his own law offices in Century City, specializing in business and tax matters.
Julie Heldman '81 will clerk for Judge William A. Norris of the FederalCourt ofAppeals.
Fred Herro '69 is an assistant public defender ofMontereyCounty and president of theCaliforniaPublic Defend-
ersAssociationfor1981-1982.
JoeW.Hilberman'73isassociatedwith theBeverlyHillslawfurn ofLevinson & Lieberman. Hisspecialareaofpracticewillberealestatetitlelitigation.
David M. Horwitz '67wasappointed by GovernorBrowntotheLos Angeles MunicipalCourt.
Boyd D. Hudson '78isnowatMeserve, Mumper & Hughesincorporateand taxlaw.Boydrecently receivedhis CPAcertificate.
Phil Green '79 hasjoinedthelawfurn ofKindel& Anderson inNewport Beach.
Roberta Kass '79 isafoundingpartner of Kass,Abell& Associates,arecruitingfirmspecializinginplacingattorneyswithlawfirmsandcorporations.
Frank Kashuk'67startedanewpracticewithwifeLyndaShayne-Kashuk withofficeslocatedinCambria, California.
A. Knox Kimberly'80 receivedhis LL.M.ininternational lawfromthe University ofExeter,England,inJuly, 1981. Hehasbecomeassociatedwith thefirmof O'Connor,Cavanagh, Anderson,Westover,Killingsworth& BeshearsinPhoenix,Arizona.
Barry Komsky '68 waspromotedto directoroftaxesandtaxcounselforVSI corporation,a$400 millionmanufacturerofaerospacefasteners.
Alex Kozinski '75 wasappointedspecialcounsel oftheMeritSystems ProtectionBoard.Kozinskiservedin PresidentReagan'sTransitionteam andasassistanttoFredFielding, counseltothepresident.
Timothy Lappen '75 ofLappenand LappeninCenturyCityhasadded moreassociatestothefirmandcontinuestodogeneralcivilandbusiness planningandlitigationalongwith familylaw
Margaret Levy '75 becameapartnerin thelawfirmofAdams,Duque& HazeltineinLosAngeles.
Robert J.Levy '67waspresidentofthe PublicDefenders ofLosAngeles County during1980.
George R. McCambridge '73 is vice chairmanoftheboardofdirectorsof theBrentwoodBank.
Marsha McLean-Utley '64hasbeen electedtotheUniversityClub'sboard ofdirectors.Shewillbethefirstfemale tositontheboardofanyofthedowntownLosAngelesbusinessclubs.
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Eldwood Lui '69 was nominated and confirmed asanassociate justice ofthe CaliforniaCourtofAppeal,seconddistrict,division three. Luitooktheoath ofofficeonJuly21,1981.Hepreviously servedontheLosAngelesMunicipal andSuperior Courts.
Michael T. Masin '69hasbeenelected adirectorofTrust Companyofthe West,aLosAngeles-basedinvestment managementfirm.
Paul S. Meyer '71 hasgoneintoprivate practiceafterbeing withtheOrange CountyDistrict Attorney'sfornearly 10years.Hisnew officeislocatedin CostaMesa.
SteveMeyers'67andWilliamWardlaw '72are members ofCityAttorney IraReiner'sblue-ribbon committee servingasa transition advisoryboard.
Victor B. Moheno '76, foundingpartnerofthe OxnardlawfirmofUrias, Mora& Moheno,wasrecentlyappointedtothe executive committeeof theVenturaCounty BarAssociation. Hehasservedon the CaliforniaCrime ResistanceTaskForcesince1979 and wasrecently appointed byGovernor Browntothe board ofdirectorsofthe Ventura CountyFair.Hispracticeis limitedtoplaintiff'stortlitigation,in additiontoactingascorporatecounsel toCabrilloVillage farmworkers'housingcooperative.
Forrest (Woody) Mosten '72,formerlya foundingpartnerofMeyers,Jacoby& Masten, wasalawprofessorinGeorgia andFTCregional directorforconsumerprotection.Since1979,hehas beeninprivatepracticeinLosAngeles, emphasizingdivorcemediation and consumerrightsinrealestatetransactions.Heserves onthe ABAClient CounselingCommitteeandteachesin thatareaattheUSCSchoolofLawand intheABALawyering SkillsProject with UCLA Professors DavidBinder andCarrieMenkel-Meadow.
Gordon M. Park'76 hasbecomea partnerinthe Fresno lawfurn of McCormick,Barstow,Sheppard,Coyle &Wayte, practicinginsurancedefense litigation.
Cynthia Podren '78 announces the openingofherown generalcivilpracticeconcentratingonfamilylawand appellatework.
Craig G. Riemer '80isassociatedwith thefirmofSwarnerandFitzgeraldin
Edward Ross '59has been elevated from the Los Angeles Municipal Court to the Los AngelesSuperior Court.
Arnold G. Rudoff'64 isthe editor and publisher of Limited Partners Letter, a tax shelter newsletter in Menlo Park, which is geared to attorneys, accountants and other advisors. After practicing law in Los Angeles, Rudoff became active both as a limited partner and a general partner in more than40 limited partnerships. The newsletter is an outgrowth of this experience.
Stephanie Rose Scher '76 is currently assistant city attorney for BeverlyHills.
Howard J. Schwab '67 was awarded the first annual CDAA WilliamE. James Award by the California District Attorneys Association on July1. The award honors the outstanding California deputy attorney general statewide who has provided exceptional assistance to local prosecutors.
Thomas E. Shardlow '76 has been designated a certified employee benefit specialist by the International Foundation ofEmployee Benefit Plans and the WhartonSchool of the University of Pennsylvania.
Florence Tsu Sinay '74 recently wrote an article on the ramifications of the new copyrightlaw as it affects the musicanddance industries. Itwas published as the cover story for the spring issue of Dance Teacher Now magazine.Sinay, a former ballerina and deputy Los Angeles County public defender, is now director of Florence Sinay Ballet and DanceworksStudio in West Hollywood.
Richard J. Stone '70 has joinedthe firm ofSidley & Austin andwill be practicing in its Los Angeles office. For the past three years, Stone has been a top aide to former U.S.Secretary of Energy Charles W. Duncan, Jr., fust at the Pentagon and then as anAssistant to theSecretary ofEnergy at DOE. Stone's practice will continue to
concentrate on major commercial litigation.
William F. Sullivan '77 is now associated with the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & HarrisoninSan Francisco.
MarcyTiffany '77 was appointed by SenatorStromThurmond as antitrust counsel and chief economist to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Richard P.Towne '79has become associatedwiththe firm of Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodward, Quinn & Rossi, wherehewillpracticeenergylitigation. Richard was previously associated with Mori & Ota of Los Angeles, where he practicedantitrustand business litigation.
Deborah E. Winer '76 is now associated with the Beverly Hills law firm of Morganstern, Mann &Smith.
Ernest Sroloff'61 of the Los Angeles Bar on July 25,1981.
