UCLA Law - Fall 1985, Vol. 9, No. 1

UCLA L;;w is published at UCLA for alumni, friends, and other membersof The UCLA School of Law community. Issued three times a year. Offices at 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles 90024. "Postmaster: Send ;iddress ch,rnges to Alumni Office. School of Law, 405 Hilgard, Los Angeles 90024."

Charles E. Young / Chancellor

Susan Westerberg Prager / Dean

Michael T. McManus I Assistant Vice Chancellor, Public Communications

Joan Tyndall / Director of Developmentand Alumni Relations

Ted Hulbert / Editor

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The Lawyer as Manager: Six Who've Made Itto the Top

by Ted Hulbert

hey are leaders in their fields. Each one excels in the talent which is neededtomanageamajorenterprise. Their charisma as leaders often shapes the fortunes of their diverse organizations. Personal success in their chosencareersis indisputable.

What they obviously have in common is that all are lawyers, and all are alumni of the UCLA School of Law. But beyond that, one must look deeper to see the similarities.

Carl Boronkay '54, as general manager of the Metropolitan Water District, is the chief pathfinder of an immense agency charged with meeting the water needs of Southern California.

Charles E. Rickershauser '57, as chairman and chiefexecutiveofficerofthePacificStockExchange, directstheburgeoninggrowthofanexchangewhere the volume of trading has tripled under his management.

Barbara D. Boyle '60, as senior vice president of Orion Pictures, heads production at a major studio wherefilms such as"Amadeus" haveachievedboth

financial andartisticsuccess.

DavidG. Price'60,aschairmanandchiefexecutive officerofAmericanGolfCorporation, operatesclubs inadozenstatesandconfidentlychartshisbusiness growth doubling within the next two years.

Stewart A. Resnick '62, who worked his way through law school washing windows, now owns aholdingcompanywhichrecentlyadded the Franklin Mint to its properties; the company's diversified businesses have annual sales of $500-million.

Franklin Tom '67, as California's Commissioner of Corporations, directs an agency of 350 lawyers andotherprofessionalswhomustconstantlybalance complex interests to define public policy.

None of these six is practicing law in the general senseoflegalpractice.Askafewquestions,however, anditbecomesclearthatallofthemdrawconstantly upon the legal skills of analysis, advocacy, negotiation.

How does being a lawyer enhance career growth tothetoplevelofmanagementandleadership? Does legal education develop an ability for problem solving which has myriad applications beyond the cus-

CarlBoronkay '54

tomary legal career paths? Is "thinking like a lawyer" useful in making business decisions? Their stories suggest the answers.

CARL BORONKAY is in the Number 1 post at Metropolitan Water District, which has statutory responsibility for meeting the water needs of six counties in Southern California, from Ventura south to San Diego. That's a tall order, and to carry it out Boronkay must maintain relationships with 27 member agencies within the district, including the City of Los Angeles. His job entails construction

and operations, personnel decisions, financing, legislation, and negotiation, and it also requires a reservoir of diplomacy to maintain harmony among the 27 member agencies and a 52-member board.

Before becoming general manager at Metropolitan, Boronkay was the water district's general counsel. And before joining Metropolitan, he had been a longtime member of the California Attorney General's office. In the 1950s, during his law school days, Boronkay planned a career as a trial lawyer; a secondary interest was some specialized field such as oil and gas law, an interest stimulated by Dean

Richard Maxwell's seminar on that subject.

Now in the top management position, Boronkay sometimes speaks of his legal career in the past tense,perhapsbecauseoftheconsciousshiftingears which he made in taking the upward step. "I was very pleased with being a lawyer; it seemed to be the right profession for me. And yet, perhaps I was becoming a bit jaded as general counsel; the opportunity to become general manager seemed a new beginning."

He has good reason to be pleased at having been general counsel. In 1983, Boronkay on in the U.S. Supreme Court an important water rights victory for Southern California after a lo,ver court had allowed the 1963 case of Arizona v. California to be reopened. Boronkay successfully argued that the lower court ruling should be reversed.

Even with such a victory, Boronkay was growing restless. "Thechallengeshaddroppedoff. Ihadbeen to the U.S. Supreme Court and it was a thrilling experience.Butthingsstartedtoleveloffininterest."

Then the position of general manager became vacant,andtherewasnoconsensusamongtheboard on the person to fill the top slot. "I saw there was no favorite candidate, and I saw an opportunity to accomplish certainthingsfor the waterdistrict that we are after in securing a reliable water supply. As a lawyer, you can act only in given contexts of litigation or other controversy; as general manager, the role of shaping policy is much more pervasive and more lasting."

Given its greater breadth, doesn't the top management spot still draw upon the essential skills of advocacy? Has Boronkay really stopped being a lawyer?

"You never stop being a lawyer," he agrees, "in the sense of your analytical approach to problems andyouradvocacy. Fewpeoplehaveanydoubtthat I am a lawyer when I analyze a problem, breaking it down to its elements and coming up with alternatives for a solution, and then selecting the best alternative, keeping in mind that you might change the decision as things go along.

"The skills of a lawyer are of tremendous value in identifying problems and proposing solutions. The concept is to concentrate on the logical bounds ofa problemandnotbecomeinvolvedinextraneous matters. Success is not merely finding a solution; you must get it across. You must sell the solution to a board of directors and to member agencies. At my own board each month, I make proposals on how to spend money and what positions to take on matters before Congress and the California Legislature."

Boronkay is careful to add that an engineer could have the same skills of persuasion, and that his personal method of solving problems might have been the same without a legal education. "I can merely say that law training certainly reinforced those skills."

Fromhislawschoolyears, Boronkaycarriesvivid memories of Professor Maxwell and, in general, the awe of entering a professional school after having been a sociology undergraduate at UCLA. "It impressed me to have made the big jump; I was terribly impressed with the faculty. I just can't imagine a better legal education than the one I received."

Boronkay describes his management style today as participatory. "Not only in fact do I have a participatory approach, but I think here at the districtI amperceivedthatway.Igetotherspulling in the same direction."

Hismajorsatisfactionisproblem-solving."Ienjoy analyzingproblems, whetherit'sapersonnelmatter or a question of what to do when someone is found growingmarijuanaondistrictproperty (ashappened in a remote location on rented property near the ColoradoRiver),oralegalopiniononwhetherunder Proposition 13 we could sell a large bond issue that had been approved many years before passage of the proposition.

"I get satisfaction from the large problems and the dailyones. Mygoal, though,istoassureawater supply in Southern California. Solving problems is important in running the district. But to the outer world, they will see that either they have or don't have water during a dry period. Looking ahead 15 or 25 years, the satisfaction from this job will be knowingthatwehaveenoughgroundwaterstorage, or water rights from the Colorado River, or water from the Delta to meet the people's water demands. That is success or failure."

CHARLES E. RICKERSHAUSER was the principal outsidelawyerforthePacificStockExchangebefore he became chairman and chief executive officer of the exchange; when he accepted the top position at the exchange, he withdrew as a partner from Munger, Tolles & Rickershauser. "I didn't want to be on both sides financially," he explains, "and I'm not."

The exchange hasthree trading floors, twoin San FranciscoandoneinLos Angeles, and516members. Operating as a cooperative, the exchange creates jobsforsome2,000people-ofwhom800aredirectly on the exchange's payroll.

"Themembershiporcooperativeaspectmakesthe

CharlesE. Rickershauser '57

management harder but also easier,'.' says Rickershauser. "Tosomeextent,it'sasifyouwererunning a factory where the employees own the factory."

There is the usual organizational structure with division heads reporting to Rickershauser. He describes his management philosophy as being based on consensus. "I arrived at that philosophy through the process of beinginvolved inagrowinglawfirm, long before I read about Japanese consensus management."

Running any organization smoothly depends on the quality of its employees, and in a cooperative

form of enterprise "in some ways it is harder to keep good people. They see the members doing well financially, and they tend to drift away." A special type of person remains. "Some people are not entrepreneurs,andofcoursethisistrueofmostlawyers," says Rickershauser. 1

"The exchange is a complex organization with complicatedproblems-dataprocessing,regulatory; legal,accounting. There are special people attracted bythecomplexitybutnotbythechanceofbecoming a trader and making a big amount of money, just as some people like to play bridge without money

Barbara D. Boyle '60

involved while others won't play unless there is."

The size of any organization can be an obstacle tomanagement,Rickershausernotes."Thelargerthe organization, the more inherent it is that the chief executive knows less about the details, and consequently is less able to ask questions. I think legal training is very good training, because it prepares you to ask good questions. A chief executive has to jump across an enormous range of questions."

Most recently, Rickershauser has found it useful to ask questions about computers. Technology has prompted two $5-million construction projects for

the Pacific Coast Exchange, one in San Francisco and the second in Los Angeles, where the trading floor now on Spring Street will soon be relocating to new quarters on the other side of the Harbor Freeway. "In a sense, it is a 40,000 square foot computer room," says Rickershauser.

In implementing computer technology, the exchange has been a leader. "We have the benefit of having the New York Stock Exchange as our principal competitor," Rickershauser observes. "They are very resistant to change in some areas. We have institutedchangeswhichhave affected the

entire securities industry, but which really aren't at the leading edge of technology. These are ways to handle transactions that any good computer person could design if he were permitted to do so."

The real issue has been managing the technology to get reliability and service at the least cost to exchange members, and it's here that the hard line of questioning has come into play. "If I get a request for a lot of money, that causes me to ask a lot of questions," Rickershauser says.

"WhenIwaspracticinglawwithouttheassistance of other lawyers, I drew on the content of some law course at least every week if not every day. When I began to have the detailed legal work done by younger lawyers, I continued to draw on my legal education by asking questions. If the person who has done the research doesn't know more than you do, you're in big trouble."

When Rickershauser became chairman of the Pacific Coast Exchange five years ago, the trading floors in both San Francisco and Los Angeles were in overcrowded, dilapidated quarters. By the end of this year, nearly all its facilities will have been completely rebuilt. In the area of stock trading, the Pacific Exchange five years ago had about 3 percent of the transactions on the New York Exchange; in August, that volume had more than tripled. Options trading has entered a new era, where the exchange is creating products rather than merely trading products.

"I don't know if the same people and philosophies which have gotten us through the last five years are the right ones for the next five years," Rickershauserobserves. Regardlesswhathappensinthe securities industry, he says half seriously, there is always the possibility of returning to the practice of law.

BARBARAD.BOYLE,seniorvicepresidentofOrion Pictures in Century City, draws upon many disciplines-among them law and literature-in her role as chief of production for a major film studio.

Armed with an English degree from Berkeley and with an activist conscience, she enrolled in UCLA's law school in the late 1950s with the goal of finding ways to change the world. In the last month of her third year, Professor Murray L. Schwartz (then responsible for placement) urged her to interview with the law department of a film studio. '"This is how little you know about me, that I would go to work for an industry that deals with myths and fantasies,' I told him. He said, 'They need a labor negotiator; youcangivetheirmoneytotheworkers.' I went on the interview, and I walked out with the

job. I've been in the industry all my life and I love it."

While she was a partner in the entertainment law firm of Cohen & Boyle, one client was producer/ director Roger Corman. He convinced her to join his company New World Pictures, and after leading the Corman team to record sales and profits she was appointed chief operating officer.

In 1982, her friend Mike Medavoy (one of the principals in Orion) asked Boyle to become head of production. "I said, 'I've always been in business affairs.' He said, 'You know more about production from your independent background, come and head production.' It was a whole different challenge for me."

Asapubliccompany,Orion'sgoalmustbetomake good films that are commercially successful, films like "Amadeus" and "The Terminator" and "Desperately Seeking Susan," which-as Boyle explains it"haveintegrityintheirexecutionandwhichproduce financial results for the public who believes in us and invests in us."

In that context, Boyle says, a film such as "Amadeus" was "a very bold project, and a high risk for Orion. It was recognized by the artistic community; it won nine Academy Awards." In the case of a film such as "Desperately Seeking Susan,'' the reward was to "bring to the attention of the film community as well as to the public at large agoodfilm,andfiveextraordinarilytalentedwomen. That's the real gratification, in addition to the money-the discovery of new talent, the nurturing of existing talent."

Working under Boyle are four production executives and a staff of 70 to 80, who produce 16 to 20 films a year.

The word that best describes her leadership style, says Boyle, is passion. "Individual passion. With film-making from the production executive's point of view, so much is out of my hands. The script may be wonderful, but the film-maker makes the film. So I end up believing in someone whom I respectasafilm-maker,orsomeoneonmyownstaff, who feels passionately about a project.

"In all honesty, when we're responsible for 20 films a year I can't feel passion about that much product. I am not eclectic enough, I'm not diverse enough. There are genres I have very little feeling for-horrorfilms,forexample.Butifsomeonecomes in and feels strongly about a project, they turn me on with their own belief and my respect for their talent. I want people who believe in what they're advocating."

How does sheorchestrate the conflictingpassions

David G. Price '60

of highly creative people? "I do believe that uniformity of opinion is boring. Therefore, I believe that passion is more important than uniformity. For example, if I like a project very much and someone on my staff feels just the opposite, I will really stop and think. I am the first yes but not the last yes. The company is not stratified. If someone feels strongly and I just don't see it, I'll say, 'Go talk to Mike Medavoy, he may have a different beat on this."'

Boyle relates this style of leadership to her early law school experience. "I was very much in the

minority, obviously, as a woman-but I've never advocated women for the sake of women. I do think we have a point of view that's often different from males. It's interesting to hear different points of view. I like my staff very balanced. I wouldn't want all women production executives, nor all male executives.

"In law school, I had a great, great procedure teacher, Professor Chadbourn. There were five women who entered law school in 1957 and 130 men. There wasn't, let us say, a unanimity of acceptance. It had never occurred to me that it was

strange to go to law school until others told me how strange it was. But not Chadbourn. He was a brilliant teacher, and he was very helpful to me. Everything about him and his classes I remember vividly."

Her legal education has served well, in both the business and the production aspects of Boyle's career. "The analytical training as a lawyer, and the training I've had in contracts, have been invaluable to me. We are not painting on a wall in the film industry. We are spending millions of dollars in producing, distributing and marketing motion pictures."

Boyle gives some day-to-day examples of what it means to think like a lawyer in her world of film. "I can't look at a script in the abstract and say, 'I love it, it's wonderful.' I must ask, How much is it?Who'sgoingtodirectit?Howdoesitbreakdown? I must recommend a script with as much analyzed data as possible, the upside and the downside. The whole deal-making process is one of analysis."

Beyond analysis is negotiation. "I negotiate in my companyfortheprojectsIbelievein, andI negotiate outside the company for the talent I want to work on a particular project."

The legal dimensions of film are ever-present and increasing. What happens if a film in production isdoingterribly?"Howdowefirethedirector?What if we have guaranteeda bank loan? There are moral problems. There are creative problems."

Or, she suggests as another hypothetical, suppose a writer comes into her office with a composite character in a script. "Arereleasesrequired?I know as a lawyer that some of the rulings lately have beenverynegativewhenitcomestoreal-lifestories, so composite character or not, I may go for the releases."

"Ihavebeenfortunate," Boylesummarizes. "Ihave aliterarybackground to analyze scriptsand artistic aspects, andI havealegalbackground. What itends up with is this, 'What do I do with the talents I have?' That is the question for anyone in my position."

DAVID G. PRICE began his career in entertainment law, joining O'Melveny and Myers when he graduated from law school in 1960. The path from that first job to his present position as chairman and chiefexecutiveofficerofAmerican GolfCorporation seems perfectly clear only in retrospect.

He stayed with O'Melveny two years. "It was terrific. They represented Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, all the old line stars."

Then came an opportunity to become the lawyer

for Joseph Drown, who owned the Bel-Air Hote. Biffs Coffee Shops, Garden Land Company, Don th:' Beachcomber, and other restaurants and hotels Price soon was made an officer in the Garden Lane Company. "Drown was a terrific businessman. worked for him 15 years, not realizing that what I was doing was going through another type ot graduate school. He, in turn, did not realize that he was teaching-but I learned through him ho\\' to do business."

Among Drown's properties was the Yorba Linda Country Club. "I pestered him that I wanted to bu� it, and finally we made a deal. That's how I wenl into business m 1972 as American Golf Corporation."

The business grew. It now has 2,500 employees. 63 golf courses, health and tennis clubs in a dozen states."We'readdinggolfcoursesattheapproximate rate of 20 per year. In two more years, we'll have 100 golf courses and then what? We used to think that 100 was our ultimate objective, but now I think there's no reason we can't have a thousand golf courses."

For the 1984 Olympics, Price and his wife Dallas wereco-commissionersofbasketball. Inthatseveralyearstintofvolunteerworkleadinguptothegames, Price developed rapport with two other basketball volunteers, Gail Goodrich and Lynn Shackelford. Both are now vice presidents for acquisitions at American Golf. "They've been doing a tremendous job of acquiring golf courses," says Price.

Price defines his management style as a combinationofthemanagement-by-objectivesprocessand simple intuition. His intuitive rules are: "Treat people as you would like to be treated. Try to be impeccably honorable. Deal only with people who havesimilarvalues. Be optimistic. Lookfor thegood in people and situations."

An organization growing so rapidly and spread over so large a territory requires a clearly defined structure. "We utilize the chunking concept, with somewhat autonomous regions-and have top staff members who can go to solve a problem in any region."

The golf course business is so full of legal issues that for many years Price was his own lawyer; recently, he turnedthat responsibility over tosomeone else.

"Every acquisitionis a legalproblem in itself, and they're all different. Leases, purchases, the law relating to employees, golf course injuries, water rights. At every turn in the corridor," says Price, "you meet some legal issue."

Whathevaluesmostfromlawschoolissomething

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which he valued less as a law student. "I was a Navy veteran with three kids. I wanted to learn howtomakemoney.Thelawprofessorskeptcoming at me with this idea, 'No, first you must learn how tothink.'That'sbeenoftremendousvalue-knowing howtolook at a situation, toaskwhatmakes sense, what are the real issues. It used lo drive me wild at times. As I look back on it, it was terrific."

STEWART A. RESNICK is a true Horatio Alger story. He worked his way through school washing windows, but he did it on a grand scale. "I had

always planned to go into business," Resnick says, and he had acquired an undergraduate degree in business administration before coming to law school.

He hired other students to help with the window washing business, workingatnights,andinhislaw school years he had expanded to a janitorial firm with 15 employees. He named the company White Glove Building Maintenance. It grew and grew; sevenyearsafterResnickgraduatedfromlawschool, therewere 1,000employeesandhesoldthe business to ITT for $2.5 million.

Franklin Tom '67

Today,heischairmanand100percentstockholder of American Protection Industries, a holding company which owns Telefora, Inc., Panama Citrus (which also packs under Calfame Citrus). and most recently, The Franklin Mint in Pennsylvania, the world's major private mint and largest direct marketing company. The businesses have combined sales of $500-million annually.

The secret of his business acumen, says Resnick, is "a very hands on, very involved" style of management. "After I understand a business, generally I bring in a chief operating officer and delegate the

operation. But first I want to understand it. Then I act as a more traditional chairman, a sounding board to the operating people."

The key to growth in his enterprises has been "real cash flow, the amount we generate before investing for additional profits. We look substantially at the long term benefits, and measure the short-term results for a long-term venture when beginning it."

Legal education "has been very helpful, because I can understand the real risks to any deal instead of being dependent on other attorneys. Of course,

I certainly have used outside counsel, even though in the first few years I did some of my own legal work." At the Franklin Mint, there is alegal department of three attorneys. "I don't get into the dayto-day legal operations, but because of my legal education I know when to ask the questions."

Even before he was asked about his problemsolving approach, Resnick had begun to define it:

"The most important thing law school did for me was to teach me a method and approach for solving problems,whichisimportantinthe business world. When I went to law school, most of the professors used the Socratic method. Just that method taught metolookatalternatives, toreallylookat problems in different ways. This has helped me to come up with solutions."

Finally, Resnick says, his legal education has made it possible to weigh the importance of many factors in any enterprise. "Before you can deal with the big picture, you have to deal with the small picture."

FRANKLINTOMwasapartnerat Parker, Milliken, Clark,O'Haraand Samuelianwhen Governor Deukmejian appointedhimCaliforniaCorporationsCommissioner in 1983. He had remained in the same career path, essentially, since 1967 when he graduatedfromlawschool; hestayedwiththesamefirm from the beginning. His work was representing business clients in corporate and related matters.

"I enjoyed what I was doing and hadn't thought of the possibility of doing anything else," Tom recalls, until he was recommended by his partner Carl Samuelian for thecorporationspost.

AsCommissionerofCorporations,Tomnowheads a department of more than 350 employees. Unlike most agencies where there are oceans of clerical workers, his department is largely comprised of attorneysandsimilarprofessionals. "Thepercentage

of professional staff is unusually high, and our department is unique in that regard."

Thatfactrequiresamanagement approachsuited tothesituation. "Weoperateontwodifferentlevels. First, there is a fairly intensive reporting system, which reflects the fact that we are one of numerous arms of government related to one another, with complex reporting and accountability mechanisms. But the second side, because we are a group of professionals, isthatwetrytomaintainaninformal and flexible management and operating style."

This carries over into the setting of goals and the measuring of achievement. Whilethereis an official and standard process of annual reviews, Tom believes that a second informal process is equally important. He meets with senior staff members to discuss particular problems and ways of solving them, and he finds in that more informal process a constant evaluation of goals and results.

Although his own position doesn't call upon lawyering skills such as drafting a complex merger document, Tom says that managing a state department does bring more general legal skills into constant use. "There are daily opportunities here to exercise the legal skills of analyzing policy issues. That is the greatest contribution of legal traininggiving me analytical skills which make it possible to study issues and evaluate the performance of subordinates, toquestion and to probe."

It is an intense statement. It reflects Tom's own experience all the way back to law school. "I think whatIremembermostaboutlawschoolisthedegree of intensity which permeated the entire environment-the intensity of teaching, the effort which was expected and secured from the law students, by and large, in order to master the subject matter. Ofcourse,thatintensityanddevotionledtoadegree of camaraderie that was quite unique, particularly in the context of a university the size of UCLA."D

Paul Bergman: Sly Humor Makes Its Mark

by Kathleen Neumeyer

hevisitorhasbeenwanderinginthe rabbit'swarrenofroomsinthebasement of Dodd Hall and arrives five minutes late to observe Professor Paul Bergman's 10 a.m. course in Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation. Any hope of ducking in unobtrusively is dashed when Bergman, perched atop the podium portionofthejudicial benchinthemockcourtroom, interrupts his lecture to greet her.

"I got lost," she says sheepishly, slipping into the one-armed desk closest to the door.

"Class,Kathyisascout,"Bergmandeadpans. "Just as professional baseball teams have scouts, Kathy is employed as a scout by several large law firms toobserveanddeterminehowlawstudentsperform in class."

This announcement causes palpable discomfort. Theninestudents,mostofthemcladinthetypically scuzzy student attire of rumpled tee-shirts, worn jeans and thongs, squirm and straighten in their seats, laughing nervously.

"No,actually,herpresencehereisforquiteanother reason," Bergman says, not specifying just what, and proceeds to outline the plan for the morning's discussion, whichcentersontheinterviewsstudents videotaped the previous week with members of the UCLA School of Law's witness program.

After one student describes an interview with a man whose father died after falling out of bed in a nursing home, Bergman encourages the members oftheclasstocomeupwithasmanypossiblecauses of action as they can which could conceivably be construedfromthefactsastheyknowthem. Hopping offthe podium andcrossing over to thechalkboard, Bergman writes the possibilities on the board, and then asks the students to list as many defendants asmightpossiblybeliableinthecase.Then,working together, the class discusses what factual theories might support the various causes of action.

After discussing the first case thoroughly, Berg-

mandividesthegroupintotwosandthreestofolio 1. the same procedure with respect to another video· taped interview and report back to the class as whole.

During the break, one more gullible studen· approacheshiminthecorridortoinquirewhichla\·. firms have hired the scout to observe the class.

A specialist inteaching the nuts-and-bolts aspec1 ofthepracticeoflaw,Bergman'scoursesarememorablebecauseofhispragmaticapproachandbecause of his sly sense of humor which brightens nearly every paragraph of his speech. His delivery is entertaining, and he makes a concerted effort lo employ interesting techniques to demonstrate his points.

On the shelf in his third floor office in the lav\ buildingarefoursetsofthechildren'sgame, "Blockhead", which he uses regularly to demonstrate the difficulties in eliciting information from witnesses in direct examination.

First, he gives two identical sets of blocks to two students and asks one to build.a structure. Then he asks the second student to copy it.

Next, he hands the set of blocks to two different students. The first student builds a structure while theother student isnotlooking. Thesecondstudent is required to attempt to duplicate the structure following verbal instructions given by the first student.

In the third exercise, one person builds a tower, and a second person describes the tower to a third builder,givinginformationonlyinresponsetodirect questions, and the third person attempts to build the tower using onlythat information.

"The last situation is very akin to direct examination with the person copying in the role of the judge or jury," Bergman says. "There is so much

Professor Bergman, here on his daily route through the UCLA Sculpture Garden, commutes by bicycle between home and office.

error in verbal description, especially when it is filtered through two or more people, that by the third exercise the blocks often look very dissimilar. The notion is to show how the system of litigation we've opted for, with people talking from a witness stand,lendsitselftoerrorsintransmission,andalso itshowsjusthowlongittakestoreportinformation verbally. It takes a tremendous amount of time to describe what color, what shape, just how far one block is from the other. You can't think of all the gaps and ambiguities, and the more detail you provide, the more tedious it becomes. The students see that in a courtroom situation, in order to make the image as detailed as possible, you run into a problem with attention span."

Bergman says he often tries to make his points to students "not by telling them, but by thinking of little exercises which help them to remember better, and which encourage them, because they havehadtheexperiencethemselves,tothinkofhow to deal with the situation better."

Bergman grew up in Southern California. "Like most natives," he says, "I was born in New York." But he was graduated from Beverly Hills High School and did his undergraduate work at UCLA before attending law school at Boalt Hall, where he earned his J.D.in 1968. He insistswith a straight face that he only chose law because he attended sessions with both a chemist and a lawyer at high school careers day and couldn't understand a word the chemist was saying.

In any event, he finished law school among the top ten in his class and clerked for the late Justice Oliver D. Hamlin on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before managing to get hired by a major Los Angeles law firm, "in spite of failing to show up for the interview session because of playing in an intramural softball game."

"IcalledtoapologizeandtheyaskedmeifIwanted to work for them anyway," he recalls. "I guess they saw my grades and were impressed that anyone could be as relaxed about the interview as that. Really, they were hiring my grades, not me."

Bergman worked in the corporate department, where he remembers "writing 15 years worth of corporate minutes to justify the actions the corporation had taken-cleaning up the minutes, it's called", and spending seven or eight months in the litigation department working mostly on one major case.

The experience was excellent training in retrospect,but.hebecamedisenchantedwiththepractice because "it made no real social difference if my clients won or lost. It was all a question of their

moneyortheotherguy'smoney,andtheyallseemed to have plenty of money. I looked at the people who were ten or fifteen years older thanI was, and were doing what I presumably would be doing when I was that old, and asked myself if that was the life I wanted."

At that time the UCLA School of Law was just starting its clinical program, and Bergman signed on. Heexpectedtostayfortwoyearsandthenmove on to something else. Instead, he has been teaching law for the past fifteen years.

"I saw myself as sort of a gadfly, and expected to just do it for two years, which shows just how much foresight I had," he says. "Rather than any mature decision about career switching, it just happened more or less by accident.

"I have a theory that most of what we do is the result of fortuity," Bergman says. "When students are overly concerned about finding just the right job,ItellthemthatmostpeopleIknowendupdoing what they are doing by accident, or because they happened to sit next to the right person on a bus, rather than because of any global plan."

Along with David Binder and Paul Boland, Bergman shaped the clinical program.

"In the early days, we used to have four or five hour classes," Bergman chuckles. "We would start out at four in the afternoon and do videotaping and play them back and stay until nine o'clock at night. The students all thought that was just fine. They hadthesensethatwhattheyweredoingwasunique, and of course, it was."

Bergmansaysheteacheshisnon-clinical subjects with a clinical orientation, and concentrates mostly on Evidence, Trial Advocacy and a Seminar in American Legal Education. The seminar is known in the law school as Street Law, after the name of ahighschooltextbook; intheseminar, lawstudents are sent into local high schools to teach in coordination with regular high school classroom teachers.

While the high school students often elect to take the course because of an interest in some specific legalissue,theylaterfindthatthecourse'srealvalue lies in helping them think more clearly and analytically about many issues.

For the law students, the value is in learning to communicate ideas about the law to laymen. As Bergmanexplains it, "a high school is a microcosm of all lay people these law students will deal with later as lawyers. A student who asks a question is not unlike a client who asks a question.

"I don't care what they teach-criminal law, civil rights, landlord-tenant-that is really of little concern to me," Bergman says. "The significant value

to them is that it gives them a chance to try to describelegalinformationto people who don't have a ready-made background for it, who don't know the shorthand way of expressing legal concepts. In many cases, they find out that what they are trying toexpressandwhatthehighschoolstudentsunderstand are very different."

In one law school classroom exercise, Bergman delivers a short synopsis of a Supreme Court ruling onalandlord-tenantissue.Hethenintroducesaroleplaying exercise, in which one law student plays the landlord and the other the tenant.

Then he asks the students, "When you were playing the tenant, three minutes after I lectured you on the law, to what extent were you influenced by what you had learned?"

Inmany cases, thelecture had little effect on how the student played his role.

"So how much influence do you think the information you give tothe high schoolstudents is going to have?" he asks. "Are you trying to get them to think, or are you trying to change their behavior? Most people just assume that if you say something that others will understand it the way you meant it, but the interpretation is always colored by the experience of the listener and by the amount of attention he is paying."

Bergman says he tries to get the students "to understandthelimitationsoftheoreticalknowledge. When you learn theory, you aren't learning about human behavior or how the law is going to affect human behavior."

Most clients, he points out, are interested not in legal theory, but in how to solve their problem.

Bergman's textbook, Fact Investigation and Discovery in Complex Litigation, whichheco-authored with David Binder, derives from the same philosophy.

"We try to get people to understand," Bergman says, "that trials are not disputes over doctrine, but disputes over past events, and that success as a litigator depends on the ability to understand how events happened and how people behave, and the ability to figure out what information you need and techniquesofobtainingit."

Successful litigators, he says, must understand human nature in order to elicit stories about what happened.

"Understanding human behavior is at least as importantas knowing what doctrine is applicable," he says, "but in law school, almost all of the emphasis is on doctrine."

The textbook, which Bergman says is designed for a course not offered at most law schools, has

been favorably received. There are plans for an edition for practicing lawyers.

The bookdiscusses investigatory objectives; how toanalyze evidenceon hand; substantivestructures forevidence-marshaling; howtoanalyzeaffirmative and rebuttal evidence; credibility; identifying legal andfactualtheories;andadorninghypotheses.Additionally, it explains how to plan for interviewing witnesses,howtomotivatewitnesses,howtohandle expert witnesses and written interrogatories.

Although the book is basically a text for a course not yet offered at most law schools, "We ought to be knocking on law school doors telling them that here is a book for a course they might like to offer," Bergman says. Some schools, he says, use parts of the book in other courses.

Bergman is also the author of Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell and is in the process of organizing his Evidence course materials with the thought of publishing them eventually.

"I take a different approach," he explains. "I try to explain pretty much what the doctrine is, rather than trying to mystify it. I present straightforward material. I just tell my students what I know, and there isnothingwrongwith doingitthatway. Then we go from there."

Outside of class, Bergman's life revolves around his family. He and his wife, Andrea, have been marriedfor 18 yearsandhavetwochildren-Kevin, 10, and Hilary, 7. Both youngsters are students at the Mirman School, andthedoorto Bergman'soffice is festooned with letters from some of Kevin's classmates Bergman chauffeured on a field trip to theHollywoodBowllastspring. Thereisalsoposted a small advertisement for custom-made computer greeting cards created by Kevin (son of famous law professor). For further information, the sign says, "See famous father."

Bergman is also active as a soccer coach in the Rancho Park League, although he expresses some concernthattheten-year-oldplayersmaybegetting too good for his coaching expertise.

"Like everybody else, I'm interested in exercise," he says, although he doesn't like jogging. "I got myself a heavy rope, and it's great as long as you don't hityourself,"he says.

One of his favorite pastimes is traveling with his family. Last summer he taught an evidence course at the Notre Dame London Law Centre.

Professionally, Bergman says his current goals centeronhispublishingefforts. "IthinkI'velearned a lot about teaching and that I am a good teacher." Personally, he's proudest "thatI am a happy person and I enjoy what I'm doing."D

It's Growing, Thanks to You

n these pages, the names of more than 1,000 alumni and friends teLI a story of continuing growth in support for the School of Law. These gifts to the Law Annual Fund in fiscal 1984-85 totaled $428,000morethana10percentincreaseovertheyearbefore.

Significantly, this step forward for the School of Law was possible because so many alumni and friendsduringtheyearincreasedthedollaramounts of their individual gifts. The increases were seen atalllevels. MembershipinTheFoundershasgrown to a strength of 174; each Founder pledges an unrestricted gift of $10,000 payable over ten years.

Therewerealsoincreasesintheamountsofpersonc. gifts throughout The James H. Chadbourn Fello,\·s. the Dean's Advocates, and the Dean's Counsel.

The Law Annual Fund goal for the current year is $475,000, a 15 percent increase. That's a realistic step, and one which can be achieved with greater participation by alumni in this program which is vital to the school.

The 10 percent increase in last year's giving was possible because so many people joined together in aconcertedeffort. The Law AnnualFundCommittee was the catalyst for the overall success of the program. Class representatives formed a letterwriting network insupport oftheschool. After their

UCLA SchoolofLawDonors, 1984-85

(Fiscal year July 1, 1984 to June 30, 1985)

1952

Participation: 38%

Number ofDonors: 15

Total Graduates: 39

James Baldwin

*Maurice W. Bralley

Howard 0. Culpepper

***Curlis B. Danning

***Arthur N. Greenberg

***Richard T. Hanna

***Geraldine S. Hemmerling

***Bruce I. Hochman

**J. Perry Langford

***Donald C. Lieb

***John Charles McCarthy

Norbert J. Mietus

*Frederick E. Mueller

*Joseph N. Tilem

***Lester Ziffren

1953

Participation: 24%

Number ofDonors: 9

Total Graduates: 38

**Norman Bradley Barker

1.6

***Ronald B. Labowe

*Donald C. Lozano

**Frank H. Mefferd

Dorothy W. Nelson

*John F. Parker

Willard M. Reisz

*Jack M. Sattinger

***Charles A. Zubieta

1954

Participation: 25%

Number ofDonors: 23

Total Graduates: 94

***Leon S. Angvire

*John A. Arguelles

John Bolson

*Carl Boronkay

***Thomas L. Caps

***Seymour Fagan

*Harvey M. Grossman

***Marlin R. Horn

***Marvin Jubas

***Gerald Krupp

Millon J. Litvin

***W. Waller Livingston

***Marlin S. Locke

***Sherwin L. Memel

***Billy Gene Mills

*Gordon Pearce

***Roger C. Pettitt

***Norman A. Rubin

***Donald Allen Ruston

Donald S. Simons

***Robert F. Waldron

Eric Weissmann

Lester A. West

1955

Participation: 21%

Number ofDonors: 18

Total Graduates: 87

***John S. Byrnes

***Lee J. Cohen

Myrtle I. Dankers

*Herbert Z. Ehrmann

***Allan S. Ghitterman

*Irving M. Grant

***Samuel W. Halper

*Joan Dempsey Klein

***Edward Lasker

**Marshall M. Lilchmann

*Gerald E. McCluskey

E. Allen Nebel

Bruce I. Rauch

*Graham A. Ritchie

***David Simon

David W. Slavilt

***William W. Vaughn

***Joseph A. Wein

1956

Participation: 23%

Number ofDonors: 18

Total Graduates: 77

**Charles W. Adams

***John A. Calfas

**William Cohen

Richard E. Cole

*Harold J. Delevie

***Florentino Garza

Mervin N. Glow

***Irwin D. Goldring

***Benjamin E. Kingt

Howard N. Lehman

***BernardL. Lewis

***Millon Louis Miller

***Allen Mink

*Norman D. Rose

usual work hours, alumni put in extra hours on a seriesofeveningphonathons.Inhonorofitsreunion, the Class of 1954 made a special gift to the Law Annual Fund.

These funds play an essential role in the School of Law's academic support. They provide summer research grants forfaculty, serving as badly needed supplements to faculty salaries. They sustain programs within the school where state funds are simply not sufficient.

At the same time, the School of Law has set a goal of $7.5 million as part of The UCLA Campaign, a major effort to raise $200 million in private funds for UCLA during a five-year period. The challenge of this campaign is to create a securely endowed financial base, insuring sustained support for the law school's outstanding programs, its faculty, and its best and most deserving students.

Marvin D. Rowen

Thomas Robert Sheridan

*Herbert J. Solomon

*J. Howard Sturman

1957

Participation: 16%

Number ofDonors: 15

Total Graduates: 94

*James Acret

Richard D. Agay

***Mathias J. Diederich

*David R. Glickman

***Jean Ann Hirschi

**Arthur W. Jones

Roy A. Kates

Everett W. Maguire

*Robert A. Memel

***Mariana R. Pfaelzer

**Charles E. Rickershauser

*Gloria Shimer

*Irving A. Shimer

Norman L. Vetter

Wells K. Wohlwend

1958

Participation: 22%

Number ofDonors: 28

Total Graduates: 127

**Warren J. Abbott

*Charles S. Althouse

*Harmon R. Ballin

*Gerald S. Barton

Terrill F. Cox

*Norman L. Epstein

Hugh H. Evans

***Bernard D. Fischer

***Sanford M. Cage

MitchellM. Gold

***Donald A. Cralla

***BernardA. Greenberg

*Harold J. Hertzberg

***E. P. Kranitz

Bernard Lemlech

***Fred L. Leydorf

WilliamAnthonyMasterson

***Arthur Mazirow

*Thomas J. McDermott

**Ronald L. Scheinman

***Ralph j. Shapiro

***Lewis H. Silverberg

***Arthur Soll

*Roland R. Speers

***Lester E. Trachman

***John C. Wigmore

*Robert L. Wilson

David P. Yaffe

1959

Participation: 20%

Number ofDonors: 22

Total Graduates: 112

**Willie R. Barnes

***Stanton P. Belland

Hugo D. De Castro '60 is chairing this campaign for the law school. Members of the campaign committeeareKeenan F. Behrle'69, HarryM.Brittenham '70, Stanley R. Fimberg '60, William Graham '73, Arthur N. Greenberg '52, Bernard A. Greenberg '58, Marvin Jubas '54, James H. Kindel, Jr., Philip S. Magaram '61, George R. McCambridge '73, Marsha McLean-Utley '64, and Ralph J. Shapiro '58.

For the entire University, this campaign will insure continued growth and excellence. And through the campaign, the law school-for the first timeinitshistory-istryingtocreateanendowment for academic programs. D

*Stanley Algie Black

Victor E. Gleason

Jerry A. Brody ***Albert B. Glickman

***Stephen E. Claman **Seymour Goldstein

*Frederick P. Crowell

Ronald J. Grueskin

**Richard N. Ellis ***Leonard Kolod

Leon A. Farley **Mark L. Lamken

*Marilyn V. Freytag *Gary L. Leary

Michael Harris

Albert J. Hillman

John George Nelson

Edwin M. Osborne

EarlW. Kavanau ***David G. Price

*Leslie W. Light

Joseph H. Loeb

*GrantE. Propper

Sherman Rogers

***David HerschelLund AmilW. Roth

**Josiah L. Neeper ***Stuart A. Simke

Stanley Rogers

***John H. Roney

Stephen C. Taylor

Alexander D. Thomson

*Bernard S. Shapiro *Alan R. Watts

*Robert H. Stopher ***Robert J. Wise

***Charles S. Vogel

***Paul B. Wells

1960

Participation: 22%

Number ofDonors: 25

Total Graduates:114

***Barbara D. Boyle

***Sanford L. Brickner

M. Alan Bunnage

***Martin Cohen

1961

Participation: 14%

Number ofDonors: 18

Total Graduates: 125

*KarlJ. Abert

***Founders

*Robert W. D'Angelo **JamesH. ChadbournFellows

***Hugo D. De Castro *Dean'sAdvocates

***Stanley R. Fimberg fDeceased

The Founders

Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Aldrich

Leon S. Angvire

Mr. & Mrs. Don Mike

Anthony

Julian W. Bailey, Jr.

Norman R. Bard

Sheldon G. & Martha Bardach

Curtis 0. Barnes

F. Keenan Behrle

Stanton Paul Belland

Rodney M. Berket

Mr. & Mrs. William M. Bitting

Barbara Dorman Boyle

Sanford Brickner

Skip Brittenham

*JohnA. Altschul

***Sheldon G. Bardach

*Richard E. Barnard

Richard H. Bein

*Arthur Brunwasser

*Ralph Cassady

***Alan N. Halkett

*James Lerman

***RobertF. Lewis

***Philip S. Magaram

**Donald C. McDaniel

Robert C. Proctor

***James L. Roper

***Herbert E. Schwartz

***Paul J. Shettler

***HenrySteinman

Gordon I. Yanz

1962 Participation: 17%

Number ofDonors: 18

Total Graduates: 107

*JamesR. Andrews

Dennis C. Brown

John S. Byrnes, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Lee W. Cake

John A. Calfas

Mario Camara

Thomas L. & Sue Caps

Leonard E. Castro

Art & Lynn Chenen

Gertrude D. Chern

Stephen Claman

Bruce A. Clemens

Lee J. & Joan F. Cohen

Martin Cohen

Cary Cooper

Michael A. K. Dan

Mr. & Mrs. Curtis B.

Danning

Stanley R. Fimberg

B.D. Fischer

Barry V. Freeman

Rodney C. Hill

Jean Ann Hirschi

Harriet & Bruce

Ellen B. Friedman Hochman

Sanford M. Gage

Gilbert & Sukey Garcetti

Florentino Garza

Paul Gordon Hoffman

Rita & Martin R. Horn

David R. Hoy

Allan S. Ghitterman J.W. & Ida Jameson

Paul J. Glass Foundation

Bruce S. Glickfeld

Stanley R. Jones

Albert B. Glickman Michael Stephen

Clarann & Irwin Goldring Josephson

Richard Jay Goldstein

Robert H. & Diane R. Goon

William D. Gould

William Graham

Mr. & Mrs. Donald A.

Steven L. Davis Gralla

Mr. & Mrs. Hugo D.

De Castro

Arthur N. Greenberg

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard A.

Lucinda & MorrisDennis Greenberg

M. J. & Dorothy Diederich

Daniel Leonard Dintzer

William Elperin

Buddy Epstein

Seymour & Florence E. Fagan

*Robert J. Berton

Roselyn S. Brassell

***Leonard E. Castro

***Barry V. Freeman

*HiroshiFujisaki

***Rodney C. Hill

**Daniel J. Jaffe

**David Kelton

***Stephen Scott King

*Dudley M. Lang

**David A. Leveton

Stuart R. Mandel

Paul L. Migdal

*ToddRussell Reinstein

***Stewart A. Resnick

*Richard A. Rosenberg

***Henley L. Saltzburg 1963

Participation: 21%

Number ofDonors: 26

Total Graduates: 122

Alan N. Halkett

Samuel W. Halper

Richard T. Hanna

John Gardner Hayes

John W. Heinemann

Geraldine S. Hemmerling

***RichardD. Aldrich

***Don MikeAnthony

John Joseph Bardet

***Lee W. Cake

*John M. Carmack

*FrancesEhrmann

*Leroy M. Gire

Robert S. Goldberg

*Martha Goldin

Marvin G. Goldman

***William D. Gould

*Robert T. Hanger

William FrederickHeyler

***David R. Hoy

Ronald M. Kabrins

**BernardKatzman

Bennett Irwin Kerns

***Marshall A. Lewis

Kenneth L. Maddy

***Michael M. Murphy

Alban I. Niles

*Kenneth E. Owen

RobertLeslie Risley

***Kenneth M. Simon

**Dean S. Stern

***LawrenceD. Williams

Marvin & Fern Juhas

Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Kahan

Murray 0. Kane

David S. Karton

James H. Kindel, Jr.

Benjamin E. Kingt

Stephen Scott King

Leonard Kolod

Ephraim P. Kranitz

Gerald Krupp

Ronald B. & Trana K. Labowe

Edward & Madeleine

Landry

Richard & Ruth Lane

1964

Participation: 20%

Number ofDonors: 24

Total Graduates: 122

*OlgaBoikess

**Sandor T. Boxer

***L. Morris Dennis

James D. Devine

***Daniel L. Dinlzer

Raymond T. Gail

Robert Hillison

***Edward A. Landry

*ByronJ. Lawler

RobertL. Loeb

*David J. MacKenzie

Philip A. Mark

***MarshaMcLean-Utley

**Everett F. Meiners

Dennis A. Page

**MelvynJayRoss

***Robert M. Ruben

**Stephen WarrenSolomon

***David S. Sperber

*AlanJ. Stein

18

Edward Lasker

Morgan, Wenzel & Saul L. Lessler McNicholas

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel

Levenson

Robert S. Lewin

Bernard L. Lewis

Marshall A. Lewis

Robert F. Lewis

Allan S. Morton

Robert M. Moss

Michael M. Murphy

Richard G. Parker

Don Parris

Mr. & Mrs. Roger C.

Fred L. Leydorf Pettitt

Donald C. Lieb

Mariana R. Pfaelzer

Monte E. Livingston Pollock, Bloom & Dekom

W. Walter & Manna

Livingston

Martin S. Locke

David H. Lund

Philip S. Magaram

Arthur Mazirow

George R. McCambridge

John C. McCarthy

Brenda Powers McKinsey

Marsha McLean-Utley

Sherwin L. & Iris Memel

Jerold L. Miles

Lowell J. Milken

Milton Louis Miller

Billy & Rubye Mills

Iris & Allen Mink

LawrenceTeplin

Sam V. Weir

*David Weiss

Jeremy V. Wisot

1965

Participation: 18%

Number ofDonors: 32

Total Graduates: 176

**Elliott E. Alhadeff

***NormanR. Bard

**Laurie Richard Belger

***William M. Bitting

**Thomas P. Burke

*DarrylArnoldDe Cuir

***Lucinda S. Dennis

*Stephen C. Drummy

William JohnsonElfving

*George C. Eskin

*Marshall S. Freedman

***Richard Jay Goldstein

***Robert H. Goon

BertWillis Humphries

James Martin Prager

Susan Westerberg Prager

David Glyn Price

Barnet & Linda Reitner

Stewart Resnick

Steven J. Revitz

Nelson C. Rising

fohn H. Roney

James L. Roper

Marguerite S. Rosenfeld

Leonard M. Ross

Sharon Fesler Rubalcava

Robert M. Ruben

Laurence D. Rubin & Elizabeth A. Cheadle

Norman A. Rubin

***Stanley R. Jones

Edward C. Kupers

***SaulL. Lessler

*DonaldLow

Vernon

GeneMcDonald

Jack M. Newman

Robert H. Nida

Andrea Sheridan Ordin

**Louis P. Petrich

LeonardRobertSager

*Stephen A. Schneider

***Fred Selan

***Daniel Simon

*Harold). Stanton

***E. Paul Tonkovich

**Arnold G. York

***Kenneth Ziffren

**Daniel Zipser

1966

Parlicipalion: 8%

NumberofDonors: 17

Total Graduates: 210

DonaldA. Ruston

Richard R. & Phoebe

Mr & Mrs. William A. Stenton

Rutter

David S. Sabih

Richard J. Stone

Lawrence C. Tislaert

Mr. & Mrs. Henley E. Paul Tonkovich

Saltzburg

Herb & Yvonne

Schwartz

Fred Selan

Robert Shahin

Judith Salkow Shapiro

Lester E. Trachman

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Udko

William W.Vaughn

Charles S. Vogel

Michael Waldorf

Robert F. Waldron

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Cynthia & Kirk Wallace

Shapiro

Paul & Barbara Shettler

Lewis H. Silverberg

Stuart A. Simke

Daniel I. Simon

Joseph A. Wein

Paul B. Wells

John H. Weston

John Grant Wigmore

Lawrence & Shera

David Simon Williams

Kenneth M. Simon

Ronald P. Slates

Robert J. Wise

Charles E. Young

In Memory of Matthew H. Kenneth Ziffren

Small

Arthur Soll

Bruce H. Spector

Art Spence

David S. Sperber

Henry Steinman

Lester Ziffren

Charles A. Zubieta

**StephenW. Bershad

Robert B. Burke

***Gertrude D. Chern

Kenneth I. Clayman

*Roger Lee Cossack

**Richard G. Duncan

**David H. Friedland

**Robert). Higa

***Jerold LaneMiles

Stephen K. Miller

Marianne B. Noll

Alan C. Oberstein

Barbara Ravitz

Frances Rothschild

*Joseph!.. Shalant

*Robert Dickinson Silver

Robert J. Sullivan

*Michael D. Berk

*Kenneth Roger Blumer

Jay S. Bulmash

DanielM. Caine

***CaryD. Cooper

*Donald H. Dye

Leslie C. Falick

*Harold S. Fleischman

***Gilbert I. Garr.etti

***John Gardner Hayes

W. MichaelJohnson

***Michael S. Josephson

Jeffrey Michael Lake

***Richard A. Lane

JeffreyL. Linden

*Martin Majeslic

*Stefan M. Mason

Evan Richard Medow

1967

Participation: 16%

Number ofDonors: 40

Total Graduates: 250

***Founders

**James H. Chadbourn Fellows

*Dean's Advocates

fDeceased

Sheldon Michaels

*Jeffrey T. Miller

Sheldon E. Miller

Steven Z. Perren

***Nelson C. Rising

Bernard J. Rosen

William Roth

EdwinSchreiber

Kenneth L. Schreiber

Dennis J. Seider

**Gerald D. Shoaf

HortenseKleitmanSnower

***Bruce H. Spector

*John Charles Spence

**Gary Douglas Stabile

***Richard R. Stenton

***Lawrence C. Tistaerl

*Franklin Tom

***RichardWayne Udko

Eric R. Van De Water

***Michael Waldorf

**Robert J. Wynne

1968

Participation: 14%

Number ofDonors: 26

Total Graduates: 185

*T. Knox Bell

Terry HowardBreen

*RobertC. Colton

**Craig 0. Crockwell

James Michael Crowe

*Audrey Ezratty

Barry A. Fisher

*David B. Geerdes

***Paul J. Glass

*Robert F. Harris

*Robert N. Harris

***John W. Heinemann

Steven N. Katznelson

Barry R. Komsky

Paul M. Mahoney

**Thomas Michael Maney

Erika B. Matt

James B. Merzon

***Allan S. Morton

Marlene A. Nicholson

**Prentice L. O'Leary

***Don G. Parris

Robert L Rentto

***Leonard M. Ross

***RonaldP. Slates

Douglas E. Stephenson

1969

Participation: 16%

Number ofDonors: 29

Total Graduates: 185

Sara Adler

**Daniel Alef

Thomas C. Armitage

***F. Keenan Behrle

Stephen M. Burgin

Richard Harold Caplan

***Michael A. K. Dan

*John R. Domingos

*Kenneth Drexler

*Robert 8. Fraser

Carol Elaine Freis

*Jan C. Gabrielson

*Michael L. Glickfeld

Dennis Michael Hauser

***Robert L. Kahan

**John G. Kerr

Allan I. Kleinkopf

Elwood Lui

Alan R. Maler

Kenneth Meyer

Richard A. Neumeyer

Toby J. Rothschild

***Robert S. Shahin

Michael T. Shannon

*Lionel S. Sobel

***Arthur G. Spence

*Diana L. Walker

***John H. Weston

**Richard B. Wolf

1970

Participation: 15%

NumberofDonors: 25

Total Graduates: 165

**Terry W. Bird

***Harry M. Brittenham

***Dennis Clinton Brown

***Arthur R. Chenen

***Steven L. Davis

Michael M. Duffey

**Gary A. Freedman

***Ellen B. Friedman

Laura L. Glickman

*Myron S. Greenberg

Leslie Glenn Hardie

Steven R. Hubert

Linda S. Hume

John B. Jakie

**Jay W. Jeffcoat

***Murray 0. Kane

Herbert Jay Klein

Mark Levin

Perry E. Maguire

Marc J. Poster

Donald M. Re

***Barnet Reitner

Arnold Schlesinger

*Scott J. Spolin

***Richard J. Stone

1971

Participation: 15%

Number ofDonors: 41

Total Graduates: 271

Frederick Perez Aguirre

*Susan Ellis Amerson

Shunji Asari

*Jerry Solomon Berger

Robert G. Blank

Cruger L. Brighl

*John Clark Brown

Rinaldo S. Bruloco

*David J. Burton

Mary Jo Curwen

Allan B. Cutrow

Ronald R. Gastelum

Michael Jay Gittleman

**Peter L. Grosslight

*Marc Elliot Hallerl

*Richard W. Havel

*Marvin Isaacson

Pauline C. Johnson

***David S. Karlon

*James L. Keane

**Thomas P. Lambert

Lawrence R. Lieberman

Robert P. Mandel

**S. Jerome Mandel

Jon M. Mayeda

James 8. Mehalick

*Paul S. Meyer

Robert D. Mosher

***Robert M. Moss

Ricardo F. Munoz

*Glenn K. Osajima

Ann Parade

*Richard T. Peters

***James Marlin Prager

***Susan Westerberg Prager

***Laurence D. Rubin

Thomas M. Scheerer

George L. Schraer

Allen H. Sache!

*Arthur L. Williams

*Robert H. Wyman

1972

Participation: 8%

Number ofDonors: 24

Total Graduates: 287

*Jean-Robert Alfred

***Curlis 0. Barnes

George James Barron

*Richard A. Blacker

W. Daniel Clinton

*Philip D. Dapeer

***William Elperin

***Bruce S. Glickfeld

Lawrence Nathan Guzin

**Ellen R. Haener

James P. Kashian

Andrew E. Katz

Bruce Morris Kramer

Cary B. Lerman

Dora Levin

***Robert Samuel Lewin

Michael D. Luppi

**John Patrick Meck

**Louis Robert Miller

William D. Smith

Donald K. Steffen

PatriciaTenosoSturdevant

Edward A. Woods

*Ronald George Zamarin

1973

Participation: 11%

Number ofDonors: 33

Total Graduates: 300

Marlin E. Auerbach

**Robert D. Ayres

**Donald P. Baker

James A. Baker

**Arthur Paul Bero

Joel Mark Butler"'

***Mario Camara

David T. DiBiase

*Joshua Dressler

Kenneth P. Eggers

Bernard R. Gans

David Hayes Gardner

*David Howard Gersh

James Goldman

Gerald Gordon

***William W. Graham

Michael D. Marans

Laura Kathleen Mc Avoy

***George R. McCambridge

*John D. Merrill

***Lowell J. Milken

Douglas C. Neilsson

Theresa Joan Player

Kenneth Ross

**Ronald Wesley Rouse

***David S. Sabih

*Richard Victor Sandler

Paul L. Stanton

Kathryne Ann Stoltz

Michael J. Strumwasser

*Jeffrey E. Sultan

Jonathan K. Van Patten

***L Kirk Wallace

1974

Participation: 11%

Number ofDonors: 35

Total Graduates: 302

***JulianW. Bailey, Jr.

*PaulDouglas Beechen

Kenneth A. Black

**WilliamH. Borthwick

Peter C. Bronson

SusanBush Carnahan

Charles J. Cervantes

***Bruce A. Clemens

**AllanB. Cooper

*DebraJenkinsDeBose

T. P. Dunlap

***BuddyH. Epstein

James L. Foorman

*DanielP. Garcia

SusanJ. Holliday

Rex S. Hungerford

*AndrewA. Kurz

Robert D. Links

*EthanLipsig

*Evan S. Lipstein

*Patrick D. McNeal

*Daniel C. Minteer

Timothy J. Muris

Phillip G. Nichols

Bradford C. O'Brien

Judith M. O'Brien

Daniel C. Padnick

***RichardG. Parker

***StevenJ. Revilz

SanfordA. Rosen

MichaelS. Rubin

Donald Silver

**DaphneM. Stegman

ElizabethAnnStrauss

**Karl 0. Tuschka

1975

Participation: 14%

Number ofDonors: 42

Total Graduates: 313

ValerieLynnBaker

*James DavidBarrall

*MichaelC. Baum

**JohnG. Branca

*Jonathan F. Chait

WilliamLeo Fahey

*PaulL. Gale

JohnB. Golper

*AndrewJ. Guilford

*JohnWilliamHagey

MichaelLawrenceHalpern

MichaelJ. Harrington

*Steven Hecht

EvelynBaldermanHutt

*Sandra S. Kass

*Alex Kozinski

RobertM. Kunstadt

**TimothyLappen

**MosesLebovils

*MargaretLevy

GaryW. Maeder

***BrendaPowers McKinsey

*AllenLee Michel

*AlanMichaelMirman

*Grace NakaoMitsuhata

*NormanA. Pedersen

David RichardPettit

**Charles ChurchillRead

*Leland J. Reicher

*Julia J. Rider

IrwinBernardRothschild

***Sharon Fesler Rubalcava

Thomas G. Ryan

William Waite Sampson

*VirginiaE. Sloan

David R. Smith

Marc I. Steinberg

*Marjorie Scott Steinberg

Thomas C. Tankersley

Mark L. Waldman

Glenn F. Wasserman

*Mark S. Windisch

1976

Participation: 10%

Number ofDonors: 29

Total Graduates: 297

*Lourdes G. Baird

HebeBarrera

*ElizabethE. Benes

BeatriceJoyBraun

*WilliamD. Claster

Dennis M. Elber

Gregory Curlis Fant

Mary-Lynne Fisher

***PaulGordonHoffman

Creighton ClarkHorton

KennethM. Kumor

BethL. Levine

Valerie J. Merrill

Peter T. Paterno

*Wilma WilliamsPinder

KarenElizabethRandall

*Charles H. Rosenblatt

***MargueriteSkilesRosenfeld

StephanieL. Scher

RichardSchneider

***JudithSalkowShapiro

**JohnP. Simon

*Marc R. Stein

StevenH. Sunshine

*Judith W. Wegner

*Anita YallowitzWolman

*Philip J. Wolman

**DorothyWolpert

*RobertA. Zeavin

1977

Participation: 9%

Number ofDonors: 30

Total Graduates: 318

*MarilynSue Barrell

AlanG. Benjamin

Ruth Benson

Sondra Berchin

Rochelle Browne

*Carolyn HopkinsCarlburg

GaryA. David

ElisabethEisner

StephenLouisEnglert

SharonE. Flanagan

MartinA. Flannes

Kenneth J. Fransen

*ChristopherM. Harding

**HowardE. King

**ThomasA. Kirschbaum

**Jospeh L. Krulh

**LucindaA. Low

Tomar T. Mason

Carol Matsunaga

Gregory FultonMillikan

*DurhamJ. Monsma

**Wendy Munger

JackRobert N..iiditch

Frederick B. Sainic:k

James J. Sandman

*GailM. Singer

MarkW. Snauffer

*Marcy Jane Tiffany

*JonathanR. Yarowsky

*Scott Z. Zimmerman

1978

Participation: 14%

Number ofDonors: 42

Total Graduates: 297

Lynne ReneAlfasso

**NancyRuthAlpert

*Judith Bailey

Denise Marcell..i Beaudry

*Jeffrey S. Benice

*Robert N. Block

**Michael D. Briggs

CarolPlattCag..in

CarolA. Chase

*Bruce M. Cohen

*HilaryHuebschCohen

DonnAnthonyDiMichele

Eric F. Edmunds

DavidJ. Garibaldi

MiriamJ. Colbert

KarinGreenfield-S..inders

*LornaC. Greenhill

LisaM. Greer

*SusanHazard

Daniel C. Hedigan

FernKaplanHerrmann

JohnPhilipHowitt

DeanJ. Kitchens

Kenneth Alan Kranrnrz

MarkA. Kuller

Frances E. Lossing

M. BrianMc Mc1hon

HelenWhitefordMelmc1n

Edmundo J. Moran

*JamesMichael Norris

DonaldP. Paskewilz

Mariella S. Robinson

PaulS. Rutter

SarahEliotSchnitger

StevenC. Shumc1n

*Elaine Stangland

GuyMichaelTc1naka

*JohnToliver Tc1le

**KathyT. Wales

*David M. Weber

GwenH. Whitson

Arlene FalkWithers

1979

Participation: 12%

Number ofDonors: 35

Total Graduates: 284

RonaldArthurBaker

Michael Barclay

Aviva M. Bergman

Jeannelle MyraBernstein

LloydAlan Bookman

Alan FrankBroidy

Richard J. Burdge

JohnLouis Carlton

AllanE. Ceran

Louise SuzetteClover

MichaelD. Dozier

JohnP. Eleazarian

ArthurR. Engel

*SusanHope Farmer

SuzanRadin Fl,-11nm

James D. Friedman

Spencer L. Karpf

*Roberta SusanKass

RobinBoobar Lappen

GailEllen Lees

*Jennifer LewisMachlin

*Bruce 0. May

JamesAllenMelman

TimmAndrewMiller

DavidS. Neiger

AndrewStuartPauly

LindaRay

BernardM. Resser

Michael W. Schoenleber

***Founders

**James H. Chadbourn Fellows

*Dean's Advocates

fDeceased

LowellW. Tatkin

Kim McLane Wardlaw

**GeraldineWyleWarner

Henry S. Weinstock

Sandra Ilene Weishart

Ellen Winthrop-Michel

1980

Participation: 13%

Number ofDonors: 41

Total Graduates: 319

Roy W. Adams, Jr.

Janine Y. Ariey

W. Jeffrey Austin

Irene Pauline Ayala

Ann O'Neil Baskins

Harriet Leva Beegun

Anne Stern Berkovitz

Cathy Ellen Blake

Becky Mahoney Burnham

EstelleCynthia Chun

Carol A. Clem

Leslie A. Cohen

Margaret R. Dollbaum

**Robert J. Finger

*Ruth Ellen Fisher

Michael S. Gendler

Herbert B. Grnham

*Feris M. Greenberger

Harold C. Hofer

Marc W. June

Kathleen R. Koch-Weser

William Ascher Lappen

David Alan Lash

Nancy May Leary

*Laurie Lou Levenson

*F. Sigmund Luther

JeffreyD. Masters

Linda Ann Netzer

Daniel Rodriguez

Leslie Brooks Rosen

Giacomo A. Russo

*CatherineGibbonsSabatini

John A. Seethoff

*Peter S. Selvin

Richard B. Stagg

Susan[acoby Stern

John Jeffrey Stick

Kathryn Louise Tobin

Anita Ross Van Petten

Patricia Wallace

William R. Warhurst

1981

Participation: 13%

Number ofDonors: 45

Total Graduates: 337

Marc D. Alexander

Jan Almquist

David B. Babbe

Annie K. Baker

Mark James Barnes

**Kenneth S. Bayer

Susan M. Bernstein

Catherine Jean Campbell

***Elizabeth A. Cheadle

Regina Irene Covill

Julie Anne Davies

Paul P. Denzer

Eric J. Emanuel

Michael J. Finkle

Laurie Volk Garrick

Andrew S. Gelb

Michael R. Harris

*Martha Burroughs Hogan

Chris S. Jacobsen

Jeffrey S. Lawson

Shelley Ellen Levine

Karen Lynn Matteson

Carol Laurene Mayall

*Julie Shaffer Mebane

Robert P. Meisel

Bruce Joel Miller

Lynn Gail Naliboff

Jeffrey Lynn Oliphant

Gerald S. Papazian

Stephen J. Rawson

*Karen Green Rosin

Dennis S. Roy

*John F. Runkel

Craig P. Sapin

Reed Malcolm Scuria

Lance A. Selfridge

Patricia Ann Shepherd

Jed E. Solomon

William C. Staley

*Kenneth J. Stipanov

Judith Ann Uherbelau

Marilee Carol Unruh

Lynn Yoshie Wakatsuki

Peter Carl Walsh

Lorence M. Zimtbaum

1982

Participation: 12%

Number ofDonors 39 Total Graduates: 333

**David A. Ackert

Thomas A. Bliss

George K. Cassity

Susan L. Claman

Leah Fischer

Samuel Nathan Fischer

Mark J. Fucile

*Steven C. Glickman

Murray[. Goldenhersh

Barry L. Goldner

Richard J. Gruber

*DonnaRuthCrowleyHecht

Kathryn Hendley

Bryan D. Hull

Charles K. Knight

Theresa A. Le Louise

Anita Diana Lee

Joan M. Lesage

Shirley A. Morgan

Jerald Lee Mosley

Neil Robert Nagano

Larry Paul Nathenson

**Jocelyn Denise Niebur

*Sao Bong Paik

Michelle Patterson

Dennis L. Perez

Scott D. Rogers

Martin Rosen

fack H. Rubens

Mark A. Samuels

Jean Elizabeth Scott

David B. Shapiro

John R. Sommer

Gale Sonnenberg

Harold Tieger

*Dirk Wouter Van De Bunt

*David E. Van Jderstine

Reed S. Waddell

Frederic Zinn

1983

Participation: 9%

Number ofDonors: 31 Total Graduates: 335

Nancy Anne Baldwin

Michael F. Broderick

Elizabeth G. Chiltern

Timothy Coates

Brandt G. Cordelli

Karen L. Dale

Lori Huff Dillman

Andrew BennettDowns

David E. Durchfort

Peter James Feltrup

James G. Foster

Dalila Fuentes

Roger L. Funk

Alan Evan Garfield

*David J. Hirsch

Dolores E. Huff

Glenn L. Krinsky

Michael E. Langton

Eric GeraldLardiere

Janet L. MacLachlan

Daniel B. McCarthy

Steven Morgen

Jeffrey David Nagler

Robert K. Olsen

Marilyn S. Pecsok

Nora Ann Quinn

James C. Scheller

Bennett Mark Sigmond

*H. Deane Wong

Michael Yaffa

Anonymous

1984

Participation: 7%

Number ofDonors: 20

Total Graduates: 288

John S. Bank

Ann Dale Catron

Alexis Si Ming Chiu

Barbara Lee Davis

Kathleen M. Forbath

Paul T. Hayden

Gayle Ann Hermiln

Jeffrey Kandel

Miriam AroniKrinsky

Meiling Faith Lee

Robert Justin Lipkin

Bonnie Louise Moore

Jeremy D. Mussman

MaryNewcombe

Teresa L. Remillard

Barbara Riegelhaupt

Stuart Mark Rosenthal

Naoki Shimazaki

Jo Ann Ellen Victor

Linda L. Wight

FRIBNDS ANDFACULTY

**David andMelinda Binder

**Exxon Education Foundation

**Gray, Cary,Ames & Frye

*** Hanna Family Foundation

***J.W. & Ida Jameson Foundation

***James Kindel

*James L. Lande

***Daniel & Irene Levenson

***Monte E. Livingston

*David & Ruth Mellinkoff

***Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas

**O'Melveny & Myers

***Pollock,Bloom & Dekom

***William A. Ruller

**Security Pacific National Bank

***In Memory of Matthew H. Small

Arthur Stashower

Harold Tomin

**William D. and Susan Warren

**West LosAngeles

Community School

***Charles E. Young

**Anonymous

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Sanford M. Gage

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Richard P. Scott

EVA & NATHAN GREENBERG

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Joseph C. & Ruth G. Bell

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HughesAircraft Company

InternationalBusiness Machines

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O'Melveny & Myers

Pacific Lighting

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Price Waterhouse Foundation

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Sullivan & Cromwell

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Upper left: D. W. Griffith's first film, "The Adventures of Dollie," was screened for law alumni in a show of treasures from UCLA's Film Archive.

Lower left: ProfessorCarrie Menkel-Meadow explained her theory of negotiation for a classroom of alums.

Center: State Senator Kenneth Maddy '63 reminisced on law school days after being presented the Alumnus of Year award byJustice Elwood Lui, president of the law alumni association.

Right: The social hour and barbecue provided time to renew ties with classmates and professors.

AllAlumniDayVariesItsPace

hey watched Ruth Roland dance the Charleston, and saw history race before their eyes in other rare American films preserved by the UCLA Film Archive. They heard Professor Michael Asimow describe shortcomings in the 1984 tax reform law and Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadowoutline a new theory of negotiation. They applauded State Senator Kenneth L. Maddy '63 as he received the Law Alumnus of the Year award.

The occasion, of course, was the ever popular All Alumni Day on October 6. The variety of this year's 24

program gave the annual event a new twist. It opened with the screening of rare footage from the UCLA Film Archives, a program so carefully constructed by Charles S. Hopkins that within one brief hour there was an entire history of the evolution of film in America. The archive's oldest film, "A Visit to the Spiritualist" (1899) evidenced a simple fascination with film as a new medium of movement. In another early film, every passenger on a train through the Rockies waved handkerchiefs out the windows-not to miss being recorded for posterity. And there was D. W. Griffith's very first film, "The Adventures of Dollie" (1908). as well as highlights

from the archive's 13 million feet of Hearst Newsreels. Howard Hayes at the organ provided period music which carried his audience decades into the past.

In the traditional classroom segment of the day, Professors Asimow and Menkel-Meadow shared some current insights on tax law and negotiation.

"Everything from the past is now completely outdated"intermsoffamilysupportchangeseffected by the 1984 federal tax reform law, Asimow said. Muddying the waters even more is the fact that California law with respect to child support will not conform to federal law. "It almost makes me weep," he said. The "real monster" in the federal law is a "front-loading" requirement on spousal support, which in effect requires that payments extend over six calendar years-thus discouraging large payments right after dissolution.

Menkel-Meadow presented a graphic outline of hernegotiation theory, showing howan adversarial

attitude at the outset of negotiations leads to a win/ lose outcome, while negotiators who adopt a problem-solving posture can arrive at a solution in which there are joint gains. She emphasized that a problem-solving approach to negotiating doesn't need to mean cooperating with the opposite side; rather, it can mean that two opposing parties collaborate in order to reach a solution with benefits for both.

Introducing Senator Maddy, Dean Susan Westerberg Prager noted that his Senate district is one of thelargestinthestate. Inhisapproachtolegislation, she said, "he is a major, important force in the legislature. Heisoneoftheconstructiveandpositive forces today."

Maddy chose to reminisce, with some ribald humor, on his student days. Then he added: "It was a great time. The tempo was full court press all thetime. Itwasanextremelyimportantbackground for those of us who are legislators."

News

A Special Year For Appointments To the Faculty

This was a special year in terms of appointments to the faculty. Professors Julian Eule, Joel Handler and Eric Zolt bring particular strengths in their respective fields of constitutional law, health law and poverty law, and tax law.

Joel F. Handler came to UCLA with a nationally established reputation in health law and poverty law. At the University of Wisconsin, he held an endowed chair and taught at Wisconsin Law School since 1964.

Professor Handler teaches Poverty Law and Social Welfare, and Health Law and Administration. His primary areas of research are social welfare, legal services and public interest law, and health.

His book The Conditions ofDiscretiondeals with special education and will be published this spring by Russell Sage. He is also the author of Last Resorts (1983} and Social Movements and the Legal System (1978). He is now doing researchon the regulation of long-term care of the elderly poor.

Throughout these subjects, his overriding concern is relationships between poor people and large public agencies. "These people are powerless," he observes. "The formal systems of legal rights and due process are largely ineffective in helping them."

Professor Handler is serving on the new National Academy of Science Committee on the Status of Black Americans, chairingthe panel on political participation. He chaired a Wisconsin task forcefor the revision of generalrelief.

A graduate of Princeton (1954). he earned his J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1957.

Julian Eule, coming to UCLA from a professorship at Temple Law School in Philadelphia, is regarded as one of the nation's most energetic and promising young constitutional law scholars.

A graduate of Cornell Law School (1973} with an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1977). Eule was an associate with the New York firm of Shearman & Sterling and served as legalcounsel to the governor of Connecticut. Following a year as a lecturer at Boston University Law School, he began a full-time teaching career at Temple.

Professor Eule teaches Constitutional Law, CriminalLaw, and Appellate Advocacy. He keeps himself tuned up by continuing to handle appeals; the current appeal he is working on is a baseball cocaine case.

Professor Eule recently was awarded the American Bar Foundation's Samuel Pool Weaver Constitutional Law Prize for his essay "Temporal Limits on the Legislative Mandale."

"I believe that two attributes I bring to the classroom are extreme enthusiasm and a sense of humor," says Eule, which helps him to "make certain not to take myself or anyone else too seriously."

Eric Zolt was a partner in the Chicago firm of Kirkland and Ellis before he joined the faculty this year.

Joel F. Handler

Professor Zolt is teaching Tax I and Tax II. His interests are tax policy broadly, and more narrowly, the integration of the corporate and individual income tax systems.

He earned a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1974. He holds both a J.D. (1978} and an M.B.A. (1975) from the University of Chicago. While in law school, he was an associate editor of the law review. He was on the researchstaff of the Center for Policy Alternatives at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his work focused on the economic and legal effects of government regulation of occupational health and safely and of toxic substances. Zolt has also taught parttime at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago.

Asked to define his interests beyond tax law, Zolt says he would be willing to trade his knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code for the ability to play jazz piano.

Alumni Highlights

The Class of '65 gathered for its 20th reunion September 6 at the home of Fred and Susie Selan, where 150

Julian N. Eule

Eric M. Zoll

alumni and guests enjoyed an afternoon of tennis, great music from the '60s and a barbecue. The piece de resistance was when the UCLA Bruins beat BYU, viewed by all on a 10-foot screen provided by the hosts.

The Class of '80 celebrated its fifth reunion September 7 at the UCLA Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, and among the 130 alumni and guests were some who had come from as far as the Virgin Islands and Alaska to participate. Dean Bill Warren spoke and all enjoyed a reception and barbecue.

The Class of '75 gathered for its tenth reunion at the Norton Simon Conference Center in Malibu on September 14, with 140 alumni and guests present to enjoy a sumptuous Hawaiian Luau by the shore. Professor Murray Schwartz addressed the class.

1The Class of '55 celebrated its 30th 'reunion at Chasen's Restaurant September 21, with 80 alumni and guests enjoying an evening of dinner and music.

The Class of '70 gathered for its 15th reunion September 22 at the Norton Simon Conference Center in Malibu, where 100 alumni and guests enjoyed a delicious barbecue.

The Law Alumni Association hosted a luncheon at the State Bar Conven-

hon in San Diego September 30 al the Town and Country Hotel. Professor Murray Schwartz addressed the capacity crowd.

The Class of '60 celebrated its 25th reunion at the Le Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood October 5, with 100 alumni and guests present to enjoy an evening of dinner and dancing. Professor Emeritus Kenneth York addressed the class.

Islamic Scholar Sees in Religion A Path for Reform

To stem the tide of fundamentalist intolerance which has swept many Muslim nations, an Islamic reform to guarantee all basic human rights could be based on a foundation of ancient Islamic texts, says Visiting Professor Abdullahi Ahmad An-Na'im of the School of Law.

Professor An-Na'im, who is from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, is teaching courses in Islamic law, international human rights, and the role of law in development this year.

An-Na'im is one of the leading members of a Sudanese Islamic reform movement established by the late Ustadh Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, who was executed by former President Numeri of Sudan in January. Ustadh Mahmoud opposed the immediate implementation of traditional Shari'a law in Sudan, advocating first a process of Islamic legal reform to provide social, political and economic equality for all people.

Professor An-Na'im was among 50 members of the movement imprisoned without charge or trial from May 1983 until December 1984, when mounting international pressure brought their release. After Numeri's overthrow, An-Na'im came to the United States on a Ford Foundation grant to do research on human rights in Islam.

An-Na'im has translated into English the main work of Ustadh Mahmoud, adding his own manuscript on the human rights implications of the text. With the publication of such books in English and with wider distribution in Arabic outside

the Sudan, An-Na'im hopes that Muslim attitudes will change and that there will be a critical assessment of concepts and institutions now taken for granted throughout the Muslim world.

"I begin with the thesis that there are tensions and conflicts between human rights and Islamic law," explains An-Na'im. "These tensions must be resolved, since Islamic law as it is reintroduced in the world is affecting hundreds of millions of people."

Shari'a is the comprehensive code of Islamic law, ethics, worship and practices, binding on every Muslim in private as well as private life. Its basic sources are the Qur'an, held lo be heavenly revealed, and the hadith or traditions of the Prophet Muhammad.

Early texts of the Qur'an revealed in Mecca before the migration to Medina could serve as the basis for a modern Shari'a, encompassing human rights such as equality for women and non-Muslims.

"According to Ustadh Mahmud, Islam actually consists of lwo messages. To implement the second message of Islam, there is no need for a prophet or fresh revelation, as the Qur'an contains both messages. What is needed, however, is a fresh understanding and insight into the meaning of the Qur'an," notes An-Na'im.

In the primary texts of the Qur'an and hadith, which were the fundamental and original message of Islam in Mecca from 610 to 622 A.O., there was no discrimination against women and no compulsion directed against non-Muslims.

"If these earlier Mecca texts were to become legally effective," says An-Na'im, "Islamic law would be placed on a new basis, consistent with prevailing standards of constitutional and international law."

Professor An-Na'im's concern for a fresh understanding of Islamic law is based on his observation that religion is a central issue in the Muslim world.

"If you base reform and modernization on secular notions, you wiII lose very fast to the fundamentalists. On the other hand, if you apply Islamic law as it has been handed down, it is regressive and oppressive," he says.

"The only way for a Muslim to modernize on solid foundations and to introduce human rights is to address the religious issues, to con-

front rather than evade the question of Islamic law and its relevance today."

While An-Na'im acknowledges the fact that his reform movement is small, he notes that it is also growing. "Our ideas are being read and appreciatedthroughout the Muslim worldfrom Indonesiathrough North Africa, where there is a climate of freedom of thought. Historically, ideas often have grown out of the most insignificant parts of the world."

"We need time and resources to reach as many Muslims as we can," says An-Na'im. "Given the degree of incompatibility between traditional Islam and modern life, I am confident that our ideas will prevail. They are the only way out of the dilemma."

Resolving Corporate Disputes Subject Of Nov. 21-22 Seminar

Techniques for resolving legal disputes without going to court will be demonstratedat thefourthannual Corporate Dispute Resolution Institute November 21-22.

All sessions willbe at the UCLA Faculty Center. Theprogrambegins at 8:15 a.m. Nov. 21. The fee is $290.

Sponsoringthe institute are the UCLA School of Law, the Center for PublicResources,Northwestern University Schoolof Lawandthe University of Texas School of Law.

The institute is designed for corporate and litigation counsel, business managers, lawyers handling transactions or disputes with China and Japan, judges and teachers.

The program vvill include a demonstration of the mini-trial as a method of resolving disputes, general counsel views on the changing roles of inside andoutside counselin dispute resolution. innovative judicial strategies to reduce costs and avert trials, a model mediation session, and current informationon the use of alternative dispute resolution in China and Japan. Further information is available from Paula Jensik, UCLA School of Law, phone (213) 825-2890.

RutterAward

Honors

MichaelAsimow

Professor Michael Asimow was honoredforexcellencein teaching when he received the William Rutter Award at the law school on October 1, and his comments on accepting the honor were a clear lesson on how excellence is sustained in the classroom.

Asimow gave recognition to other UCLA law professors who have received the award inprior years: Steve Yeazell, David Binder, Jesse Dukeminier, JerryLopez, Leon Letwin and Bill Warren.

He alsopaid tributeto William Rutter, whose gift funds the annual award, as a "renaissance man of the law" who has "practiced it with distinction and taught it with equal distinction."

The discipline behind Asimow's own excellence was evident as he described his approach to teaching. "A wellconceived and conducted class," he said, "is carefully planned-and yet to students it seems spontaneous. It is meticulously organized-and yet it meanders onto unplanned tangents of opportunity. And there is more. Theclasshashumor-hopefullyspontaneous. Most important, it is fun."

His own subject of tax, Asimow said, is also fun. "Many of the issues addressed in the tax course are fascinating-the actors are very real people and the plots concern their ordinary and necessary struggle to make a living.

"Idon't apologizeforbeing passionate about tax policy. Those feelings of commitment toward my subject come out in class. My students know where I stand.

"If I've sucr.eeded as a tax teacher, itisbecauseI havebeenable t.o transmit the material in a way which made it accessible to everyone who was willing lo give ita chance."

William Rutter andDean Susan WesterbergPragercongratulateProfessor Michael Asimow, recipient ofthe Rutter Award forexcellent teaching.

Classnotes

The 1950s

Roland A. Childs '58and Harold J. Hertzberg '58 have become members of the firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman.

The 1960s

Sheldon G. Bardach '61 has been elected president of World Class Athletes, Inc., a non-profit corporation

which operates World Class Athletes Track Club.

Jonathan M. Purver '64 obtained reversal of a death sentence before the California Supreme Court on Sept. 19 in People v. Chavez. The court struck down the death penaltybecause the trial judge failed adequately to instruct the jury on the law regarding intent to kill. A San Francisco criminal defenseattorney, Purverhaswritten a trial handbook scheduled for 1986 publication.

Riane Eisler '65 is co-director of the Institute for Futures Forecasting in Carmel. Her most recent book is The

Blade and The Chalice: Beyond War, Sexual Politics, and Fear.

James M. Epstein '66, certified criminallaw specialist, has formed a law firm with MichaelAdelsonunder the name of Epstein & Adelson.

James H. Kinney '66 has become a member of the firm of O'Melveny & Myers in Century City.

Michael Marcus '67 has joined the firm of Sanger, Grayson, Givner & Booke. Formerly, he was with the Los Angeles District Attorney's office for 17 years and was the deputy in charge of the organizedcrime section and the Beverly Hills area office.

Thomas E. Warriner '67 has been appointed by Governor Deukmejian to be a member of theMedi-Cal Therapuetic and Drug Utilization Review Committee. He also serves as deputy secretary of the Healthand Welfare Agency.

Robert N. Harris '68, former editorin-chief of the UCLA Law Review, is practicinglaw with Josie Gonzalez under the name of Gonzalez & Harris. Their practice is limited to immigration law, state and federal criminal defense and related administrative matters.

The 1970s

Jonathan B. Steiner '70, former Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Los Angeles has formed a partnership under the firm name of Steiner and Gerstein. Hisfirm specializesin criminal and civil appeals, writs and pretrial motions.

George Schraer '71, who writes that he "graduated with one of the lowest averages in the historyof UCLA Law School," is currently a deputy state public defender working in the agency's San Francisco office. He "has been counsel or amicus in three cases in the U.S. Supreme Court (where he was creamed] and 12 cases in the California Supreme Court, where he has donebetter-onlypureed."

John Marshall Collins '72 of San Jose is now the father of a son, John, eight months. His daughter, Sheila, three

years, continues to grow and delight him.

Donald P. Baker '73 is president-elect of the Los Angeles County Bar Association for 1985-86.

S. J. Bird '73 has recently taken the positionas HarrisCorporation'sEuropean counsel based in London.

Ezequiel Gutierrez, Jr. '74 has become associated with the Newport Beach firm of Natkin, Weisbach & Brown, which specializes in architecture, engineering and construction law. The firm also has offices in San Francisco.

Stephen W. Kramer '74 has become a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gould.

Antonia Hernandez '74 has been elected president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a national advocacy agency. Its work is focused on education, employment, immigrant rights and political access.

James D. C. Barrall '75 has been elected chair of theCalifornia State Bar taxation section. He is a partner in the Beverly Hills firm of Ervin, Cohen & Jessup and has previously served as a member of the-executive committees of the California State Bar taxation section and the Los AngelesCounty BarAssociationtaxation section, as well as chair of the tax and employee benefits committee of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Daniel L. Guevara '75has been appointedto the planning commission of the City of San Diego. He heads the law firm of Guevara & Associates with emphasis on United States structuring of investments for non-residents.

Robert L. Kaufman '75 has become a partner in the firm of Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel.

Timothy Lappen '75 has become of counsel to the firm of Jeffer, Mangels & Butler in Los Angeles.

David A. Simon '75 has become administrative vice president for the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. He recentlyconcluded six years of full-time work for the Los AngelesOlympicOrganizingCommittee, where heservedas vice presi-

dent/governmentrelations for Peter Ueberroth.

Richard H. Levin '76 is in his own practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico, emphasizing general commercial law and litigation, public utilities, and administrativelaw. Recently he was elected presidentof the board of directors of Indian Pueblo Legal Servir.es.

Dorrie E. Whitlock '76 rer.eived her certification from the State Bar as a specialist in family law, California Board of Legal Specialization in May 1985. She writes that her practice is 100 percent family law, and she is one of the two family law specialists in Modesto County.

Deborah E. Winer '76 is a founding partner of the new Los Angeles firm of Rissman, Winer & Blozan. She specializes in insurance defense with emphasis on bad faith defense.

Elliot B. Kristal '77, who will continue his practice in probate, estate planning and familywealth transactions, has become an associate of the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg, Tunney & Phillips.

Hilary Huebsch Cohen '78 has been appointed chair of the committee on partnerships and unicorporated associations of the section on business law of the California State Bar. She wasrecentlyelectedser.retaryofCalifornia Women Lawyers.

David G. Epstein '78 is currently employed as a deputy county counsel for the County of Orange, engaged in general litigation. He is also serving on the Santa Monica City Council.

Gregg Martino '78 h-.:is become a partnerin Graham & James' Newport Beach office.

Stephen Owens '78 has become a partner of Graham & James in the firm's Los Angeles office.

Barbara W. Ravitz '78 has become associated with the firm of Greines Martin, Stein & Richland in Beverly Hills. The firm specializes in appeals, writs and law and motion in state and federal courts. She continues to conduct legal writingseminars for attorneys.

Sydney M. Avent '79 has been promoted to corporate counsel for the

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Philadelphia Gas Works, responsible for managing the legal department of the municipallyowned utility.

Beth E. Berke '79 has recently been promoted to assistant general counsel of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

Alan F. Broidy '79 has become associated with the firm of Danning, Gill, Gould, Joseph & Diamond in Los Angeles.

Mark Flory '79 recently became a senior partner in the law firm of Harrington, Foxx, Dubrow, Canter, Keene & Flory. In addition to many appearanceson thetelevisionshow "Divorce Court," he has recently been appointed in an advisory capacity to the president'spanel tostudythe effects of marital dissolution on low income families in Los Angeles.

The 1980s

Glen D. Moffett '80 has been named general counsel of West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. in Morgantown, West Virginia. A member of the West Virignia State Bar committee on law and medicine, he was previously vice president of legal services at Cabell Huntington Hospital and a faculty member in health administrationat Marshall University, both in Huntington, West Virignia.

Daniel Rodriguez '80 is a principal partner in the Bakersfield firm of Chain, Younger, Lemucchi, Noriega, Cohn, Stiles and Rodriguez.

Sylvia Lopez Rodriguez '80 has opened her own law practice in

Bakersfield.

Charles B. Solomon '80 notes that his name has been changed to Charles Solomon Nutter, lo revive and carry on his mother's maiden name.

Susan J. Bell '81 has returned to Los Angeles and joined Maiden, Rosenbloom, Wintroub, Vogel & Fridkis, a business litigation firm in Century City.

George M. Wallace '81 has recently joined the firm of Spray, Gould & Bowers in Los Angeles. He has become a member of that firm's law and appellate department, with an emphasis on insurance coverage law.

Steven Barmazel '82 writes that he "has flown to Bangkok. Ultimate destination: unknown. Estimated date of return: unknown."

Henry Beck '82of Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel inNew York City haspublished"Taxationof Computer Software: Section 38, InvestmentTaxCredit" in 25Jurimetrics Journal 387,409 [1985). The journalis published by theAmerican Bar Association's section onlaw, science andtechnology.

Jerry Carrington '82 will be attending the University of Chicago Business School this fall.

Eric G. Ferrer '82 and Winston K. McKesson '82 have recently become associated with the law offices of JohnnieL. Cochran, Jr.

Elizabeth A. Osthimer '82 has become associated with thefirm of Robinson, Wolas & Diamant in Los Angeles.

Catherine A. Haynes '83 has become associated with the legal searchfirm of Lee, Jackson & Bowe in Beverly Hills.

Nora Quinn '83has married Jeff Ehrlich, who wasDean Gloster's high school debate partner. She is now practicing publicinterest law with thefirm of Irell & Manella. She writes thatshe "has been appointed tothe garden planningcommittee of the house she and her husband live in."

Stephen M. Rice '83 has become associated with the lawfirm of Gilchrist & Rutter in Santa Monica.

Kathy Brown '84 isadeputy district attorney with Santa Clara County. She was married in Julyto Oscar Turner in Saratoga, California.

Margaret Mary Heim '84 has become associated with the firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman.

Daniel W. Skubik'84began Ph.D.candidature al AustralianNational University in Canberra, Australia, in June. He receiveda Ph.D. scholarship fromtheANU for adissertation in legalphilosophy.

Calendar of Events

Thursday-Friday, November 21-22, 1985-UCLA School of Law and the Center for Public Resources present the Fourth Annual CorporateDispute Resolution Institute, UCLA Faculty Center.

Friday-Saturday, December 13-14, 1985-TenthAnnualUCLAEntertainment Symposium, Ralph Freud Playhouse, Macgowan Hall.

Saturday. February 1, 1986-Annual Dean's Dinner, James WestCenter, 7 p.m., honoring Professor Emeritus Richard Maxwell.

For further information regarding events, please call Paula Jensik atthe Law Alumni Office, [213) 825-2899.

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