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Take-Charge Students
he three projects profiled here give fresh meaning to the term student activism. While UCLA law students havenever shirked a challenge in the arenaofcommunityserviceand public policy, this year their projects seem especially productive.
The remarkable thing which the three programs described in these pages share in common is that, in virtually every aspect, they were initiated and executed bystudents. Thestudentshave aclearvision of ways they'd like to improve thelegalcommunity,and they expectlittlehelp inmountingtheiractionplans.
These three projects aren't by any means the only ones of their kind. A number of other new studentinitiated programs include those of the Asian Pacific American Legal Services Project (mobilizing UCLA students to accomplish unmet needs in the community through legal assistance and advocacy), the Child Care Coalition (which seeks to expand the scant resources for child care at UCLA), and the law school's own recycling program aimed at reducing insult to the environment.
"My sense is that students do all these things completely on their own initiative," says Assistant Dean Barbara Varat. "They commit alotofenergy,time,and interest to solving social problems which extend far beyond their academic program."
A special group of students seemsattracted to each separate program-but the players are not typically the same from project to project. "As itendsup," says Varat, "there is a very broad base of support among students for a remarkably wide range of programs."
A Bright Green Equal Sign Breaks the Ice
THE LAPEL PIN is starkly simple in its design: A bold "equal" symbol on a field of green. The issues the pin symbolizes are complex: equal opportunity inhiring,anopendialogueintheinterviewprocess,a work environment that encourages pro bono service and is genuinely committed to nondiscrimination.
Mostprospectiveemployersandstudentsexploring employment through this fall's placement season at UCLA knew what the lapel pin signified even before they had started the fast-paced ritual of one 20minute interview followed by another and another.
More than 500 law firm interviewers had received letters in September explaining in explicit detail the "equalpins," and thelettersclosedwith13 signatures of those who head up the school's student organizations and law reviews.
A similar letter went into every law student's mailbox.
Boxesfull of thebrightgreen equality buttonswere waiting to bepinned onto lapels when the placement office opened for business on the first day of interviews.
The only surprise was that the "equal pin" campaign succeeded in achieving its goals far beyond anyone's expectations. "It was successfulbeyond our wildest dreams," said Placement Director Bill McGeary. "Itdidexactly what it wassupposed to doto facilitate an interaction between employers and students on areas that aren't often addressed in interviews."
McGeary points to this project as a prime example of student-initiated programs. The "equal pin" idea was conceived by students in the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Legal Issues (COGLI), who had seen a similareffortbyYalestudentstosupportthehiringof gays and lesbians.
But the COGLI members at UCLA sought to widen the focus to all issues which concern students entering the work environment. Last spring, students from COGLImet withleadersfromotherorganizationsand hammered out the specifics of their program. The bold "equal sign" symbolized equality across the
board, and the lapel pin's background of green was chosen as the international color of diversity.
Over the summer, the students drafted letters which eventually would be mailed by the placement office to law firms and other interviewers. The letters were explicit in laying out the issues, asking such questions as these:
"Is employer inclined or disinclined to hire students who: Are of a racial or ethnicminority? Are of a particular religion? Are older? (Has employer hired olderstudentsin thepast?) Have children ormayhave children in the future? Are homosexual? (Does the employer have any openly homosexual employees now?) Have a particular political affiliation?
"Does the employer: Provide or have access to child-care services? Allow for paternal leave? Provide same-sex spousal benefits?
"Has the employer adopted any explicit policy requiring or encouraging pro bono work by employees?
"Is the employer comfortable with employees bringing same-sex partners to social events and other functions?
"Would employees and clients be comfortable working with an individual regardless of his or her race, national origin, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation or age? How are any conflicts handled?"
Many interviewers who had read the letter asked forone of thelapelbuttons as soon as theyarrived on campus, said McGeary.
"The button is an ice breaker. It lets the student know that the employer is familiar vvith the issues and is receptive to ansvvering questions. All the more important, it brings up quality-of-life issues as part of the on-campus intervie\ We found that this makes the interview a much easier situation for the student. An employer wearing a button gives the student a green light to open dialogue about areas that usually don't come up in a 20-minute interview," McGeary " V
Lois Scali '86 returns to campus as an Irell & Mane/la interviewer...
...and also wearing an equalitypin is EdwardJ. Candelaria II '90. said.
Some students at first held back from joining the effort. Their fears weren't one-sided, it seems. A few white males wondered aloud if wearing a pin would send a wrong signal about their own sexual orientation. Then too, there were students of color who expressed concern that they might be mistaken as "activists." In a few days' time, though, it became clear that the pin wasn't a threat to anyone.
Two of the students who were instrumental in the project described its effectiveness from their viewpoints.
Jeff Sloan, a second-year student who completed 15 interviews, found that whenever an employer wore a pin "it opened the door to the entire pro bono area for me. For students wearing a pin, it also opened the possibility of discussing issues. What the pin means is an individual choice, and that choice depends on the student. I found that the employers were all very receptive, and I also found that I had quite a lot of sue-
cess in interviewing."
Dawn Weekes, another second-year student who had a "busy, busy interview season," was impressed with the fact that nearly all the interviewers were wearing equality pins. "It makes a very comfortable environment, even if you don't say anything about specific issues. In a number of interviews, employers did bring up topics like child care, the racial diversity of their own environments, the opportunities for women. In interviews, I'm waiting for employers to open these issues-and a good 50 percent of the time, they have done so."
Lois Scali '86 of Irell & Manella said the pins "generated conversation in some interviews more than others." Shefavored wearing one,since "anything that heightens people's awareness of the importance of diversity in hiring is a good thing."
Michael Plimack, an interviewer from Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in San Francisco, said the equality pin program "was a great idea, consistent
with the kinds of policies and practices we have at Heller. Iwasgladto seeit." (Hisfirmofmorethan100 attorneys, incidentally, in its advancement statement includes self-identified gays and lesbians as a group for affirmative action hiring.)
There were students who acknowledged that wearingan "equalitypin" could haveonlysuperficial meaning in certain situations. ,,
"But it certainly isn't all rhetoric," said Sloan. To that, Weekes added: "Ifstudents and universities take a strong enough stand on issues of equality, things will change. There will be change not only in verbal policies but in actual practices."
IngeniousPlan Diverts Dollars To the Hoineless
LAW STUDENTSatUCLAand13 othermajorschools made the fall placement season this year more than just a job search. As they interviewed with firms wheretheyhopeto launch theirlegal careers,thestudents found a way to help the homeless at the same time-raising money for homeless shelters and other homeless support organizations.
The law students formed a National Association of Students Against Homelessness (NASAH) and enlistedtheparticipation ofmore than120lawfirms. By agreeing to skimpsomewhaton the costs of meals and hotels during the interview season, the students andfirmsare diverting thousandsofdollarsto benefit agencies serving the homeless. In addition, a travel agency is donating a portion of its law studentgenerated commissions to the project.
The students named their project "Firm Commitment," and at UCLA more than 125 students signed up as participants in the initial phase of the interviewing process. "We've had very good participation," said third-year student Mark Neustadt, coordinator of the program at UCLA. "People think it's a great idea."
Participating students volunteer to stay at hotels and to dine at restaurants which are less expensive
than the 1uxuryestablishmentsthat are customaryon recruiting trips.
Typically, said Neustadt, the actual savings runs from $25 to $50 on a meal. Participating law firms donatethatto thehomeless project. Insomecall-back interviewswhena meal isnotinvolved,lawfirmsare making a contribution in place of the meal.
"We are raising money by asking the law firms not to spendmoneytheywouldotherwise spend. That is the beauty of the program. It's rechanneling money that basically would be wasted," Neustadt said.
Linda Cherry,recruitment coordinator at Munger, Tolles & Olson, was enthusiastic about the program. "The idea and the projects that will be funded inLos Angeles are quite exciting. I have found the UCLA students terrific to work with."
"Obviously,the plight of the homeless is a nationwideproblem with no easy solution," observed Mark Neustadt. "The acutenature of the problem,however, makes our response all themore urgent. Law students at UCLA have engaged inotherprojectssuch as advocacy for the homeless. This present effort also seeks tomeetsomeday-to-dayhumanneeds: foodandshelter,as well as counseling and job training.
"Every day,we seehomelessmen,womenand children. Most of us,asstudents,don't haveenoughtime ormoney to make a significant material contribution. But this program does give us a way to channel money which would have been spent on us to help the people who really need it," Neustadt said.
Funds raised by NASAH in the Los Angeles area willsupportseverallocalshelters and agencies,with the funds being channeled through theLos Angeles legal community's grassroots campaign called "Downtown Dollar Days."
Student participation in the program is voluntary and the participating law firms have stated that in no circumstance will they take a student's interest or lack of interest in the program into consideration in making hiring decisions.
Other California law schools whose students have joined in the effort include Boalt Hall and Stanford. Among the schools involved in other states are Harvard, Yale,Columbia, New York University, the University of Michigan, Georgetown, the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago,Boston University, Boston College and Vanderbilt.
Although it's too early to know just how much the UCLA student effort has helped the homeless,Neustadt is sure the total will run into the thousands of dollars "Whatever we raise this year, it will only become more in the future," he predicted. "I think we've set up a program that will continue and expand."
Law students Robert Kay and Lisa McLeod welcome to campus Bryan Stevenson, center, who described public interest work in death penalty cases.
NevVMechanisin Helpsto Nurture Public Interest
WHEN a Public Interest Committee was established as part of the school's structure of faculty-student committees this year, it was motivated in very large measure by the enthusiasm of students.
The new formal mechanism for increasing the visibility of public interest law in the school at large grew out of a proposal written last Springby a student. Lisa McLeod, who at that time was president of the Public
Interest Law Foundation, is now in her final year of law school, looking toward a career which she expects eventually will lead her into civil rights or death penalty appeals work.
McLeod and Professor Robert Garcia came to the conclusion that a faculty-student committee devoted to public interest law was the necessary mechanism for accomplishing a variety of projects. Dean Prager appointed Professor Alison Anderson to head the committee, because of her long record of interest in the area.
The committee already has facilitated the programming of more speakers in the field, has sponsored a major meeting of faculty and students to brainstorm on how public interest issues can be taught in the classroom, and has focused on continued emphasis of public interest in the career planning process.
A separate student effort, the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), continues to flourish-chaired this year by Monica Tait. PILF now is gearing up for
its annual firm matching drive, in which law firms are asked to match contributions made by their student summer employees who pledge one day'sincome to PILF. (The students actually pay their pledges at a remarkable high rate of 85 to 90 percent.)
The complementary nature of the new Public Interest Committee and PILF was evident recently when the two groups brought to campus as a speaker Bryan Stevenson,attorney and executive director at the Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center. Law student Robert Kay, who interned last summer at the center through a PILF grant and who worked directly with Stevenson, was one of three UCLA students recently completing capital appeals projects. Others were Andree Daly, working at the Loyola Death Penalty Resource Center, and Christina Cisneros, interning at the Virginia Coalition on Jails and Prisons. A special campaign last Spring raised $6,000 from alumni and friends for the death penalty project.
"What I learned most from my internship," wrote Daly in a summary report, "is that crimeparticularly first-degree murder-is the end result of society's failures and not a problem that can be solved in a vacuum. I have come away from this internship feeling that I made a difference, that the battle is worth waging, and that even beyond its moral abhorrence, the death penalty deters nothing and solves nothing."
Laurie Hiller, another of the PILF grant recipients, worked at the San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services, where she concentrated on political asylum cases of Central American refugees. "It was thrilling to me," she wrote in summary, "to work side by side with top-notch attorneys who have dedicated their lives to serving the underserved."
Sam Magavern, whose PILF grant enabled him to work at the InnerCity Law Center (founded and still headed by Nancy Mintie '79), arrived just at the
beginning of an unusual suit-an action by tenants of the Clark Hotel against their landlord, a corporation from mainland China. He tracked down tenants, interviewed them at length, constructed a long chronology of events leading to the action, and became "immersed in facts and people."
Another PILF recipient who found himself in the midst of a major case was Thomas Anthony Clayton, who worked at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. The case was Garza v. Los Angeles County and Clayton was fortunate to be assigned to Richard Fajardo '81, the MALDEF voting rights attorney litigating the case.
To support these and other summer grant recipients, as well as to conduct other public interest programs throughout the year, PILF now raises about $40,000 annually. In addition to student-pledged income from summer employment and the firm matching gifts, PILF looks to alumni for "anything they can give," says McLeod.
In the general arena of public interest, the new faculty-student committee is now discussing issues such as whether the school should have a mandatory pro bona requirement for students.
Asked about her own role as a catalyst for public interest, Lisa McLeod shrugs off the suggestion that she's been a remarkable leader.
"The interest is there," she says. "So many students before me have worked to make these things happen. I came at a time when a lot of the ground-breaking had been done, and the administration has been very receptive to suggestions. I see myself as part of a long process."
Undeniably,though, there is an upsurge of enthusiasm for public interest law. "I think the legal profession is reacting to a perception of itself," McLeod says, "and it is trying as a community to change that perception." D
Carrie Menkel-Meadow: Care Links the Issues In Her Circle ofConcern
hen Carrie Menkel-Meadow was a triallawyerinacommunitylegalservices program in the 1970s, she often noticed among her fellow attorneys a "machotrial ethic." It had "more to do with winning the case than with solving the problem."
Looking deeply at that dysfunctional trait of so many lawyers, she found an underlying gender component. "The women were more likely to want to work things out and to solve the problem, and the men were more likely to want to litigate." She adds, with care not to stereotype, that this tendency was "not true for all men, nor for all women."
It was in that legal services experience that MenkelMeadow began to nurture what would become a lifelong scholarly interest in legal negotiation.
A decade later, after she had joined UCLA's law faculty in 1979, one of her major law review articles advanced the argument that lawyers and clients who enter litigation bent on winning clear-cut victories over their opponents might be actually cutting themselves short.
That article, "Toward Another View of Legal Negotiation" 31 UCLA Law Review (1984), and others put Menkel-Meadow in a pioneering position in a budding field. Her scholarship in legal negotiation has placed her at the vortex of the alternative dispute resolution movement, a subject on which she is a fre-
quent speaker at professional conferences and bar association meetings.
Always intertwined with her negotiation scholarship has been another major academic endeavor: Menkel-Meadow's study of women's role in the legal profession. Her most recent article in the field challenges all the customary assumptions about women in law and the other professions, and suggests that gender difference might actually be used to transform the practice of law. (That article, "Exploring a Research Agenda of the Feminization of the Legal Profession: Theories of Gender and Social Change," appears in 14 Law & Social Inquiry 1989).
"Is the ideology or structure of professionalism so much more robust than the ideologies of feminism and social change in the workplace?" the article asks. "Can care be combined with justice in the legal workplace to construct 'caring justice?"'
While she is nationally known today for her insightful writing on women in the legal profession,it is ironic that many feminists regard Professor Menkel-Meadow as something of a heretic.
She has earned that caustic label in some feminist circles-as she is the first to point out-because she believes that women and men are different in their values and approaches to lawyering. Her observations of women as being more caring and less adversarial has led some feminists to criticize her for allegedly perpetuating stereotypes.
Would "maverick" be a fairly descriptive term? "Yes, I think so," she responds. "The other thing I think is that I work in multiple fringe areas of the law. I am a clinician. I do feminist things. I do alternative dispute resolution. I am quite happy to be characterized as someone who sees things differently."
A former 1960s anti-war activist, Menkel-Meadow describes herself as an "intellectual clinician." (In another telling self-description a few years ago, she noted that she "lives reluctantly in the 1980s, preferring the zeitgeist of the '60s." She still wears her jetblack hair well beyond her shoulders, in the popular style of that decade.) Her husband,Robert Meadow, is a political consultant who also teaches political science and communications at USC's Annenberg School.
Since she arrived in 1979 at UCLA,previously having taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (where she earned her J.D.), Menkel-Meadow has been a perennial favorite among students. Among courses she teaches at UCLA are pretrial lawyering skills, legal negotiation, and professional responsibility. Besides dispute resolution and women's role in the legal profession, her areas of research include the delivery of legal services, law and social science, and gender discrimination.
This year and last, she has taught a core course in UCLA's Women's Study Program where her students each term are 120 to 150 undergraduates. "I find it very exciting that students taking the course reflect more the diversity of California than those in any course I have taught before."
At the same time, she is acting co-director of the campus Center for the Study of Women. "I would like to see the center do several things: a conference on women in poverty; increasing multicultural diversity, both in research on women and on the recruitment of women faculty for the whole University; and establishing an interdisciplinary group on women and work."
On sabbatical from the law school this Fall, Menkel-Meadow has redefined for many the concept of a "sabbatical." Continuing her work in the women's studies programs, she is also writing with Bea Moulton of Hastings a book titled Beyond the Adversarial Model, which will be a text for teaching negotiation and mediation. "I hope it will be innovative," she says. "Rather than looking at appellate cases, it will have transcripts of lawyersperforming lawyering tasks and interacting with clients and other lawyers. I have always thought that something clinical education should do is to broaden the ways we teach. It has been a career-long plan of mine to write something like this."
A journalist recently described the New York-born. California transplant as "a friendly woman with an easy smile." It is an apt description; even for those whose paths cross hers tangentially, Menkel-Meadow invariably has a warm greeting no matter how hectic her own day may be.
She also has a vision of the workplace which differs from the ordinary, dismal view of work as an arena of self-interest. "I would like the workplace to be a more nurturing, caring place," she says. And for women, she would prefer that they bring feminist values with them to work, "instead of just giving up and leaving the law profession or assuming male role models."
Professor Menkel-Meadow is careful to qualify gender-based statements, knowing the risks inherent in generalization. In her alternative dispute resolution work, for example, she sees a disproportionately large participation bywomenattorneys.Thensheadds, "There have also been many male innovators in ADR, and I don't mean to minimize their importance."
But the undeniable and interesting fact remains that the legal profession's burgeoning interest in ADR coincides with the growing ranks of women in the profession. "Which isn't to say," Menkel-Meadow says in further clarification, "that a lot of feminists aren't upset with ADR. Many people, feminists included, think the informal processes exacerbate the power imbalances which, many people think, are corrected by formal law."
The simplistic idea that client interests are generally compromised in ADR met a major challenge in Menkel-Meadow's 1984 article Toward Another View of Legal Negotiation, however. It advanced the position that lawyers who emphasize real needs and objectives of clients and who seek to widen the range of solutions to a problem are more likely to serve their clients' interests than are lawyers who seek only onesided gains.
Further,she showed that the typical win-or-lose climate of legal negotiation all too often works against accomplishing common-sense solutions. The ordinary zero-sum approach to negotiation (in which the total winnings for one party minus the total losses for the other party equal zero) unnecessarily limits the process.
"Negotiators can more effectively accomplish their goals by focusing on the parties' actual objectives and creatively attempting to satisfy the needs of both parties, rather than by focusing exclusively on the assumed objectives of maximizing individual gain," she wrote.
"The adversarial conception of negotiation produces a particular mind-set concerning possible solutions which then tend to produce a competitive
process. This, in turn, may cause the parties to miss opportunities for expanding the range of solutions."
An underlying principle in problem-solving negotiations, as she teaches the art, lies in the reality that people have varied and complementary needs. "Unearthing a greater number of the actual needs of the parties will create more possible solutions, because not all needs will be mutually exclusive. As a corollary, because not all individuals value the same things in the same ways, the exploitation of differential or complementary needs will produce a wider variety of solutions."
The principle of complementary interests is seen easily in joint custody agreements in child custody cases. What isn't always as quickly perceived is that the same type of benefits can be achieved in commercial disputes. For example, a defendant may want to make payments over time, and a plaintiff may desire deferred payments for tax purposes or to increase interest income.
"Focusing on the actual, rather than assumed, needs of the parties leads to solutions other than those which courts would order or which would result from compromising in adversarialnegotiation," Menkel-Meadow noted.
The article, which appeared when the study of ADR was virtually uncharted, was awarded first prize by the Center for Public Resources in New York for legal scholarship on alternative dispute resolution.
The accolade was consistent with evaluations by Menkel-Meadow's faculty peers. Professor Carole Goldberg-Ambrose, recalling how Menkel-Meadow had established a reputation as an extremely successful clinical professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that all of her subsequent accomplishments at UCLA have borne out those early impressions.
On the subject of feminist legal scholarship, Menkel-Meadow allows that she may "have a bias," but it is her observation "that the UCLA School of Law has the most exciting concentration of feminist legal scholars in the country. There are more of us studying a variety of issues pertaining to women and the role of law than in any other law school in the country."
In a chapter on "Feminization of the Legal Profession" published this year in Lawyers in Society: Comparative Theories (Richard L. Abel and Philip S.C. Lewis editors, University of California Press), Menkel-Meadow observes that on a global scale the picture of women's entry into the profession shows "widespread occupational segregation," with "women located at the lower levels of the hierarchy, however prestige is defined in a particular country."
"Liberal feminist& and equality theorists," she
writes, "will be content as long as women are allovved to compete with men on a level playing field."
Menkel-Meadow wants something more meaningful.
Committed to a "difference" argument that women have particular contributions to make to the practice of law, she outlined some specifics in a recent interview.
"To the extent to which women bring a different set of moral values to practice, you will findless manipulation of clients by female lawyers," she offered as a first example of what she means by "feminization."
As a second example of how women might transform law, she said, "care can be expressed, and women have a greater chance of expressing care for people other than their client. The classic case is that of the children in a divorce proceeding. Beyond that, women might be concerned about how decisions will affect employees, and partners of clients, and other people who may have to interact with the client."
And in general, she continued, "women may have a broader, more inclusive sense of who the client really is-and they may see relationships between people rather than just individual, autonomous actors. L.A. Law to the contrary, I think that many womenalthough not all-have more trouble beingharsh with opponents, whether opposing witnesses, opposing lawyers, or the opposing parties on the other side. To the extent that women have caring values, they have more difficulties with the adversary paradigm that forces one to see the other side as an enemy."
Menkel-Meadow recognizes that her analysis runs a risk.
"If differences are named and claimed by women, they can be used to support discriminatory practices, both by men and by women," she wrote in her Law & Social Inquiry article this year. A blatant instance of such discrimination is the concept of two tracks for women employees, a "career" track and a "mommy" track. Why not, she asks, think of a "parent" track if one is to think in such terms at all. "Rather than asking how work demands can or should be accommodated to meeting parenting demands, ask how being a parent affects legal work."
The example of parenting and having a career only illustrates in Menkel-Meadow's mind "how much more complex and problematic the interactions are" and it suggests "that deeper, richer, and more complicated questions must be asked to explore the construction of gender in the workplace and the effects of constructed gender in both the workplace and the family."
Most of the journalistic and even scholarly accounts of women's entry into the legal profession
have focused on the large law firms and the difficulties women face in seeking to becoming partners, Menkel-Meadow notes. Why should there be such a nearly exclusive interest in the large firm? "What if women defined success and satisfaction differently? ...Both cultural and more radical feminist critics remind us that becoming surrogate males is not the feminist-humanist transformative vision."
"An 'ethic of care' in law could mean a number of concrete things. It might mean involving all the parties to a dispute,rather than only formal plaintiffs, defendants,and intervenors.It would invoke client participation in decision making. It might alter some of the professional ethics prescriptions under which lawyers currently operate that preclude them from 'caring' for the other side or the other side's lawyer. It might alter behaviors even within the conventional adversary system to include more trust and altruism and less unnecessary aggressive behavior."
How does this theory play out in her classrooms?
"An interesting question," replies Menkel-Meadow. She seeks in the classroom to express these ideas in terms of human values rather than gendered values."I would like to empower my male students to be able to express these values." Many women, she acknowledges,believe that what they need to succeed is fewer of such values. "Many students, both male and
female,think it is actually dysfunctional to be caring as a lawyer." Her mediation course tends to attract students who hope to change the legal profession; when she teaches mediation,she is buoyed with optimism. Her negotiation course attracts "a broader range of students,from traditional hard-line negotiators to those who want to be a lawyer in a different way."
"So I can be pessimistic or optimistic, depending on which course I am teaching."
Her philosophy of life is grounded in the fact that she considers herself "a child of the Holocaust." Her parents were German immigrants who fled Adolf Hitler's death camps. "I grew up with a tremendous sense of the fragility of life and the importance of politics. I'm sure that's why I've been so involved in social justice and women's issues."
For the legal profession and for the feminist movement,she holds to the hope "that at least some new female entrants to the legal profession may exert some levers of change against the profession by arguing that women's perspectives,enriched by diverse gendered, racial and ethnic experiences,offer the possibility of reconstructing certain aspects of the legal system and legal practice. We can only hope that some legal professionals will come to believe that serving others has higher value than high earnings and that the interests of peace and mercy are as important as justice and certainty."
SwimminginBooks
sing UCLA's Law Library, quips Professor Ken Karst, is like swimming in books. As the excellence and size of the library continue to increase (with now more than 380,000 volumes), so too do the library's dilemmas.
Shelf space in the library should be double what it is. At times recently, books have been piled on the floors when there was nowhere else to put them. More than 10,000 law volumes have been moved just in the last year to the University's library storage facility on the opposite side of campus, joining 17,000 law volumes warehoused there earlier. That solution somewhat resembles a game of musical chairs, for it is difficult to predict when a particular book will need to be recalled.
Bodies as well as books often can't find room in the library. "The problem is nearing crisis proportions. Often our own students cannot find a place to work in the library," Dean Susan Westerberg Prager recently observed.
Space is just one of the library's challenges. Computers and other evolving technology have expanded the demands for library service, often in ways that no one could have predicted.
In the context of crowded space and stretched resources, the most remarkable thing about the UCLA Law Library is how much it has actually improved its services lately.
Headed by UCLA Law Librarian Myra K. Saunders, the 10 professional librarians and other staff have emphasized the library's particular relationship to the law school in the design and delivery of services.
"A lot of work has gone into developing faculty services on a par with schools in the top rank," says Saunders. "We take the research activities of faculty very seriously." To support faculty scholarship, the library now creates bibliographies, does database searches. retrieves materials from other UCLA libraries, and develops profiles on each professor so that when new materials arrive they are flagged for the attention of appropriate researchers.
The single most important vehicle in reaching this higher plateau of faculty support, says Saunders, was creation of the faculty library committee. "It opened up a dialogue, an opportunity for us to hear what the faculty need and also, sometimes, to offer alternative services that might meet their needs in a better way."
"Our faculty services reflect a more energetic, upbeat, can-do attitude on the part of the library staff in general and certainly the leadership of Myra," said Fred Smith, faculty services librarian. "There is tremendous satisfaction in assisting students over the reference desk. The work you do for faculty, however, pushes you in some way that often you are not pushed at the reference desk."
Service is a word which librarians tend to use frequently. "My personal philosophy," said Saunders, "is that libraries are service organizations that must be in dialogue with their primary clientele. If you are going to support the research needs of your constituency, you must permit a flexible approach. Some people are computer oriented, and some aren't. For those who aren't, there must be a way to get information without dealing with a medium they resist. A note is fine, a taped message is fine."
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Students are equally as important as faculty in the ranks of library users, but they present an entirely different challenge. "We have a teaching mission," Saunders says. "We want them to become skilled in how to find information and how to do research."
The student/librarian relationshiphas changed dramatically, too; it doesn't stop at the familiar tableau of a librarian on one side of the reference desk, a student on the other side. Law librarians have taken their teaching roles several steps further They offer instructional programs in using databases such as Lexis and Westlaw, and they also make presentations in classrooms. The Law Library, once the one unit in the UCLA library system with the fewest instructional programs, now is one of the leading units in that respect.
A computer laboratory located at the library's subterranean level is another example of measurably improved services to students. "We saw in the laboratory a huge benefit for our students, something that is
really valuable to them," said Saunders. A quartermillion dollars of equipment came through a grant from IBM Project Advance, and 25 personal computers are now heavily used by students in the lab.
More than 700 law students use this facility, said Frank Lopez, who administers the lab.Word processing and an evidence tracking system which Professor David Binder has developed are the most frequent reasons students use the lab. There are also two interactive video work stations, where students can go through programs such as those on mock trials, negotiations, and contracts.
Space, again, is a problem in the computer lab. The facility actually consists of three converted conference rooms. For each work station, the allocation of space is about eight square feet. "As each new entering class becomes more computer literate, the computer lab will need to grow," Lopez says.
Similar expansion is evident in the demand for
database research. Five years ago, the library had one Lexis terminal and one Westlaw; now there are 11 Lexis and 10 Westlaw.
Computers do illustrate, on the other hand, how library needscannotbeeasilypredicted. "Someofthe early predictions about the computer becoming allpervasive in law librariesjusthaven't yetcome true," notes Saunders. One reason is that the data conversion companies operate for profit. They convert to computer-readable form only materials for which there is high demand. But research libraries have an obligation to provide an extremely wide range of materials. "It will be a long time, if ever, before many of these materials are accessible through computers," predictsSaunders.
A second reason why books will remain the staple of law libraries is that so many users are resistant to other media. "At the computer terminal, youdon't get a vision of the entire document," Saunders notes. "Lookingat screen after screen,youdon'tsee a document in context."
Still another of the library's space needs is presented by the growing East Asian Collection, under the direction of East Asian Law Librarian Yukino Nakashima. Subscriptions to Japanese and Chinese journals have steadily increased. The collection's growth hasbeen supported by theUCLA Foundation and other funding made possible by Chancellor Young, while the Ahmanson Foundation enabled the hiring of this special collection's librarian.
The UCLA Law Library as a whole is growing by 11,000 volumes a year,and its 380,000booksare augmentedby 167,000 microfiche. Those compact media store everything from U.S. briefs to a newly acquired seriesof19th Century legaltreatises,which willnumber some 10,000 titles when complete.
Adrienne Adan, who directs collection development,notes that thereare subscriptions to more than 7,000 serials, periodicals, loose-leaf services and the like. "Microfiche is relatively a new technology, and that collection has increased immensely," she says.
"We are a select U.S. government federal deposi-
tory library,and wealsoreceivematerialsthrough the California depository program. Both provide materials at no cost to us.
"Our book budget this year is well over $650,000. in addition to grants and gifts of more than $200,000 to support special programs."
The library has collected heavily in copyright and aviation law, in the latter area through a gift in memory of David Bernard. Very recently, the library has acquired a large collection in Mexican law. "We don't build in a vacuum, but we do anticipate areas where the law school's program might go," says Adan. "We are trying to anticipate this interest in Mexico, as an example."
The core collection, of course, heavily emphasizes theU.S. andprimary materialsfromallofthestatesas well as from other common law nations. "Law has become much more interdisciplinary than it was in the past," Adan notes. "Materials in the social sciencesare very much a part ofany law collection,and should be We rely on the University Research Library, since it is the second largestresearchlibrary in the nation, and on the Public Affairs Servicewhich collects state, local, federal, foreign and international documents."
Finally, says Adan, "we think twice before acquiring major sets of materials because of the space problem."
Or, as Saunders puts it, "We are full." The library has 28,000 assignablesquare feetofstack spaceandit needs about twice that amount. Moving more volumes out of the library isn't the solution, she says, because "law materials don't go out of date as, for example, scientific materials do."
The logical solution is to enlarge the library by building at the southeast corner of the present structure, east toward Circle Drive and south toward the sidewalk in front of the law building.
"The challenge this presents," said Dean Prager, "is to design a well-functioning, expanded library that will·appropriately serve the school's research and teaching mission." D
ATimeofAccomplishment
The School ofLaw this year begins its fifth decade. It is an appropriate time to look at what wehaveaccomplished together, and also a time to plan for the future. The UCLA Campaign, which culminated last year, was the most successful development effort in the history of public universities, raising $373 million. The law school's portion of the campaign surpassed its $7.5 million goal, with gifts and pledges totalling $9.6 million over the six and one-half years of the campaign. During the final month of the campaign, the law school received the largest gift in its history from Al Glickman of the Class of 1960and his wife Judith.
The strong and increasing support at all levels by more and more alumni and friends is evident in the annual report presented in these pages. The school now has received 50 major gifts. Three new endowed chairs were established, and searches are in progress to name the holders of these chairs which provide such important recognition among law faculty. Membership in The Founders has grown to 279including 43 new members who joined in the past
year. Only 18 spaces remain to complete the second section of The Founders Wall, which will be celebrated during this 40th anniversary year. The total number of alumni and friends contributing to the LawAnnual Fund this past year reached 1695, representing about 22 percent of all alumni.
The UCLA Campaign effort was an important beginning for thelaw school. The next challenges are to address the school's immense needs in the Law Library and to build a significant endowment to augmentour academic program. It is through endowment funds that the school's future will be made more secure.
Each year, with their gifts to the school, many alumni write notes which reflect very deep loyalty and recognition of the important role that UCLA played in their own professional lives. To all of the 1695 alumni and other friends whose names are recorded here, our gratitude is expressed in return. The faculty know and deeply appreciate the important contribution you have made to the life of the school.
UCLA School of Law Donors 1988-89
(Fiscal Year July 1, 1988 to June 30, 1989)
1952
Participation: 51%
Number ofDonors: 20
Total Graduates: 39
Class Representative:
Curtis B. Danning
**Arthur Alef
*Maurice W. Bralley, Jr.
*Howard 0. Culpepper
****Curtis 8. Danning
**Jean Bauer Fisler
***Saul Grayson
****Arthur N. Greenberg
****Richard T. Hanna
****Geraldine S. Hemmerling
****BruceI. Hochman
*Sidney R. Kuperberg
***J. Perry Langford
****Donald C. Lieb
****John Charles McCarthy
**Frederick E. Mueller
*Sallie Tiernan
Reynolds
*Martin J. Schnitzer
**Edward 8. Smith, III
***Joseph N. Tilem
****Lester Ziffren
1953
Participation: 30%
Number ofDonors: 12
Total Graduates: 40
Class Representative: Charles A. Zubieta
**Victor Epport
**Arthur M. Frankel
*John U. Gall
*James George
*Jerome H. Goldberg
**Bob J. Grossman
****Ronald 8. Labowe
***Frank H. Mefferd
*Dorothy W. Nelson
***Jack M. Sattinger
**C. Douglas Wikle
****Charles A. Zubieta
****Founders
***James H. Chadbourn
Fellows
**Dean's Advocates
*Dean's Counsel
tDeceased
Major Gifts to the Law School
Foundations and Corporations
Ahmanson Foundation
Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
David Bernard Memorial Foundation
Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation
Joseph Drown Foundation
IBM Corporation
J.W. & Ida M. Jameson Foundation
Milken Family Foundation
Roth Family Foundation
Individuals
Ethel Balter
Norman Bradley Barker '53
Barbara Boyle '60 and Kevin Boyle
William Calfas '58 and Karin Calfas
Mr. J.R. Campbell
Stephen Claman '59 and Renee Claman
Hugo D. de Castro '60 and Isabel de Castro
Robert E. Decker '57 and Dorothy Decker
Stanley R. Fimberg '60
Albert B. Glickman '60 and Judith Ellis Glickman
William D. Gould '63
Arthur N. Greenberg '52 and Audrey Greenberg
Bernard A. Greenberg '58 and Lenore Greenberg
Barry and Jane Halpern
Geraldine Hemmerling '52 and Clifford Hemmerling
Martin Horn '54 and Rita Horn
1954
Participation: 28%
Number ofDonors: 25
Total Graduates: 88
Class Representative: Seymour Fagan
****Leon S. Angvire
**John A. Arguelles
***Carl Boronkay
****Thomas L. Caps
****Seymour Fagan
**Harvey FranklinGrant
****Marvin Gross
*Dennis D. Hayden
****MartinR. Horn
****Marvin Jubas
**Eugene Victor Kapetan
****Gerald Krupp
*BernardLauer
**Jack Levine
****Sherwin L. Memel
****Billy Gene Mills
****Roger C. Pettitt
Marvin Jubas '54 and Fern Jubas
William A. Masterson '58 and Julie C. Masterson
Marsha McLean-Utley '64 and Robert Utley
Milton Miller '56 and Marceile Miller
Josiah L. Neeper '59
Gloria Dee Nimmer
Roger C. Pettitt '54
Mariana R. Pfaelzer '57
David G. Price '60 and Dallas P. Price
Charles E. Rickershauser, Jr. '57
Nelson C. Rising '67
George P. Schiavelli '74 and Holli C. Schiavelli
Ralph Shapiro '58 and Shirley Shapiro
Henry Steinman '61 and Nancy Steinman
Benjamin Strauss '61
William W. Vaughn '55 and Claire Vaughn
Lawrence D. Williams '63 and Shera J. Williams
Lester Ziffren '52 and Paulette Ziffren and Leonard and Emese Green
Anonymous
LawFirms
Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger Haight, Brown & Bonesteel
Hufstedler, Miller, Kaus & Beardsley
Irell & Manella
Morrison & Foerster
***Howard W. Rhodes
****Norman A. Rubin
****Donald Allen Ruston
*William Harold Simon, Jr.
**Donald S. Simons
*Anne P. Toomer
****Robert F. Waldron
***Eugene L. Waiver, Jr.
1955
Participation: 29%
Number ofDonors: 24
Total Graduates: 83
**Ronald Arthur Burford
****John S. Byrnes
**Richard B. Castle
****Lee J. Cohen
*Myrtle Dankers
**Herbert Z. Ehrmann
John R. Engman
*Jason Gair
****Allan S. Ghitterman
****Samuel W. Halper
**Joan Dempsey Klein
*Mervin N. Glow ****Mathias J. Diederich ****William Calfas ****Edward Lasker ****Irwin D. Goldring **David R. Glickman ****Dennis E. Carpenter
*Forrest Latiner **Lelia Jabin **Ephraim J. Hirsch ****Daniel B. Condon **Gerald E. McCluskey **H. Gilbert Jones ****Jean Ann Hirschi **Terrill F. Cox **Raymond F. Moats, Jr. **Kenneth E. Kulzick **Marvin Jabin Jules A. Darras, Jr. *E. Allen Nebel *Howard N. Lehman **Arthur W. Jones ***Edmund 0. Edelman **Bruce I. Rauch L. Guy Lemaster, Jr. **Robert A. Knox ***Norm,rn L. Epstein *Graham A. Ritchie ****Bernard L. Lewis *Everett W. Maguire **Hugh Evans, Jr. ***Richard Schauer ****Milton Louis Miller ****Mariana R. Pfaelzer ****Bernard D. Fischer **Harold L. Schmidt ****Allen Mink ****Charles E. *George J. Franscell ****David Simon **Norman 0. Rose Rickershauser, Jr. ****Sanford M. Gage *David W. Slavitt *Marvin 0. Rowen **Gloria K. Shimer ***Mitchell M. Gold ****William W. Vaughn **Thomas R. Sheridan **Irving A. Shimer ****Donald A. Gralla ****Joseph A. Wein ***Herbert J. Solomon **Wells K. Wohlwend ****Bernc1rd A. Greenberg ***Norman E. Stevens 1958 **Robert A. Hefner 1956 **J. Howard Sturman **Harold J. Hertzberg
Participation: 31% H. George Taylor
Number ofDonors: 22
Total Graduates: 72 1957
Class Representative: Participation: 17%
Participation: 32% **Arthur Karma
NumberofDonors: 40 ****Richard L. Kite
Total Graduates: 124 ****E. P. Kranitz
Class Representatives: **Philip F. Lanzafame Irwin D. Goldring
****John A. Calfas
Number ofDonors: 15 Wesley L. Nutten, III *Bernard Lemlech
Total Graduates: 89 John G. Wigmore ****Fred L. Leydorf
Class Representative: ****Arthur Mazirow ***William Cohen
David R. Glickman ***Warren J. Abbott Henry Barron Niles **Richard Erwin Cole **Charles S. Althouse II **HaroldJ. Delevie ***James Acret ***Harmon R. Ballin ****Florentino Garza *Richard D. Agay ***Gerald S. Barton
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1 e oun ers
Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Aldrich
Leon S. Angvire
Mr. & Mrs. Don Mike Anthony
Julian W. Bailey, Jr.
Donald P. Baker
Norman R. Bard
Sheldon & Martha Bardach
Curtis 0. Barnes
Keenan Behrle
Stanton Paul Belland
Laurence M. Berman
Fredric & Kaye Bernstein
Mr. & Mrs. William M. Bitting
Lonnie C. Blanchard III
Robert N. Block
Bloom & Dekom
Maribeth Armstrong Borthwick
William Harold Borthwick
Barbara Dorman Boyle
John G. Branca & Family
Harland W. Braun
Sanford Brickner
Mr. & Mrs. Roy M. Brisbois
Skip Brittenham
Pamela Brockie
Dennis C. Brown
Rinaldo & Lalla Shanna Brutoco
Richard J. Burdge, Jr.
Thomas P. Burke
Joe & Sandee Burton
John S. Byrnes, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Lee W. Cake
John A. Calfas
William Calfas
Mario Camara
A. Barry Cappello
Thomas L. & Sue Caps
John K. & Shirley A. Carmack
Hon. Dennis E. & Aleta R. Carpenter
Leonard E. Castro
Jon F. Chait
Art & Lynn Chenen
Gertrude D. Chern
Stephen Claman
Bruce A. Clemens
Lee J. & Joan F. Cohen
Martin Cohen
Daniel Brendan Condon
Cary D. Cooper
Craig D. Crockwell
J. Michael Crowe
Michael A. K. Dan
Mr. & Mrs. Curtis B. Danning
Philip D. Dapeer
In memory of Bernard A. David & Zoltan Lebovits
Steven L. Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Hugo D. de Castro
L. Morris Dennis
Lucinda Dennis
M.J. & Dorothy Diederich
Daniel Leonard Dintzer
The Donald S. Eisenberg Family
Richard N. Ellis
William Elperin
Buddy Epstein
Seymour & Florence E. Fagan
David F. Faustman
Stanley R. Fimberg
Robert James Finger
B. D. Fischer
Ruth E. Fisher
David W. Fleming
Barry V. Freeman
Douglas K. Freeman
Jack Fried
Ellen B. Friedman
Richard & Susan Fybel
Sanford M. Gage
Bernard R. & Shahin Gans
Gilbert & Sukey Garcetti
Florentino Garza
Allan S. Ghitterman
David and Dena Ginsburg
Paul J. Glass
Bruce S. Glickfeld
Albert B. Glickman
Steven C. Glickman
Marvin Gerald Goldman
Clarann & Irwin Goldring
Richard Jay Goldstein
Bob & Diane Goon
William D. Gould
William Graham
Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Grall::
Arthur N. Greenberg
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard A. Greenberg
Marvin & Joy Gross
Alan N. Halkett
Samuel W. Halper
Richard T. Hanna
John Gardner Hayes
Donna R. Hecht
John W. Heinemann
Geraldine S. Hemmerling
Rodney C. Hill
Jean Ann Hirschi
Harriet & Bruce Hochman
Nathalie Hoffman
Paul Gordon Hoffman
Derrick Anthony Hoo
Rita & Martin R. Horn
Gary S. Jacobs
Howard A. Jacobs
Daniel J. Jaffe
J. W. & Ida M. Jameson Foundation
Stanley R. Jones
Michael Stephen Josephson
Marvin & Fern Jubas
Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Kahan
Murray 0. Kane
David S. Karton
Martin Z. N. Katz
Bernard Katzman
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Kim
James H. Kindel, Jr.
Benjamin E. Kingt
Howard E. King
Stephen Scott King
Richard L. & Iris Kite
Leonard Kolod
Ephraim P. Kranitz
Gerald Krupp
Ronald B. & Trana K. Labowe
Thomas P. Lambert
Francis J. Lanak
Edward & Madeleine Landry
Richard & RuthLane
Edward Lasker
Gail Ellen Lees
Saul L. Lessler
Dr. & Mrs. DanielLevenson
David A. Leveton
Robert S. Lewin
Bernard L. Lewis
Marshall A. Lewis
Robert F. Lewis
Fred L. Leydorf
Donald C. Lieb
Wendy Munger
Michael M. Murphy
Diane & Mark Neubauer
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey T. Oberman
Elliott & Elisa Olson
Gregory Soobong Paik
Mary Flynn Palley
Richard G. Parker
Don Parris
John & Rebecca Petrovich
Mr. & Mrs. Roger C. Pettitt
Mariana R. Pfaelzer
Rochelle E. Lindsey & James Martin Prager
Ted Obrzut
Ethan Lipsig
Monte E. Livingston
Walt Livingstont & Monna
Livingston
Martin S. Locket
Justice Elwood Lui
Moises Luna
David H. Lund
David J. Mac Kenzie
Karen D. Mack
Philip S. Magaram
Martin & Catherine Majestic
Robert F. Marshall
Arthur Mazirow
George R. Mccambridge
John C. McCarthy
Michael D. Mc Kee
Susan Westerberg Prager
David Glyn Price
Stanley M. Price
Barnet & Linda Reitner
Ronald P. & Donna Slates
In memory of Matthew H.
Small
Wayne W. Smith
Arthur Soll
John R. Sommer
Jeffrey, Kathy, Amy, Alison &
Emily Sultan
Bruce H. Spector
Art Spence
David S. Sperber
Scott J. Spolin
Henry Steinman
Richard R. & Phoebe J. Stenton
Gary Scott Stiffelman
Richard J. Stone
William F. & JoanneM.
Stewart Resnick Sullivan
Steven J. Revitz
Charles E. Rickershauser, Jr.
Nelson C. Rising
John H. Roney
James L. Roper
Leslie Brooks Rosen
Marguerite S. Rosenfeld
Arthur Rosett & Lucie Cheng
Leonard M. Ross
Sharon Fesler Rubalcava
Robert M. Ruben
Edward & Nancy Rubin
Laurence D. Rubin & Elizabeth
Brenda Powers McKinsey A. Cheadle
Marsha McLean-Utley
Robert CraigMcManigal
Evan & Cheryl Medow
Louis M. Meisinger
Sherwin L. & Iris Memel
Jerold L. Miles
Lowell J. Milken
Norman A. Rubin
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Runkel, Jr.
Donald A. Ruston
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Rutter
David S. Sabih
Mr. & Mrs. Henley Saltzburg
Richard V. Sandler
Lawrence C. Tistaert
E. Paul Tonkovich
Lester E. Trachman
Barry Winyett Tyerman
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Udko
Marilee C. Unruh
David E. Van Iderstine
William W. Vaughn
Charles S. Vogel
Reed S. Waddell
Michael Waldorf
Robert F. Waldron
Cynthia & Kirk Wallace
Kim McLane Wardlaw
Joseph A. Wein
Paul B. Wells
John H. Weston
John Grant Wigmore
Lawrence & Shera Williams
Robert J. Wise
Philip J. Wolman & Jeffrey T. Miller
Milton B. & Corrine B. Miller
Milton LouisMiller
Billy & RubyeMills
Iris & Allen Mink
Victor Berkey Moheno
Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas
Allan S. Morton
John Mounier
Robert M. Moss
Arnold Schlesinger
Anita Yallowitz Wolman
Herb & Yvonne Schwartz H. Deane Wong
Fred Selan
Robert S. Shahin
Judith Salkow Shapiro
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Shapiro
Paul & Barbara Shettler
Lewis H. Silverberg
Stuart A. Simke
David Simon '55
Robert J. Wynne
Charles E. Young
Kenneth Ziffren
Lester Ziffren
Daniel Zipser
Charles A. Zubieta
Continued from Page 17
***Wesley L. Nutten, III
***Ralph J. Ginocchio
**RoselynBrassell ***Irv Sepkowitz ****Albert B. Glickman
*Lyman S. Gronemeyer
***Paul Bernard Pressman ****Gary S. Jacobs
***Ronald L. Scheinman ****Leonard Kolod
****Ralph J. Shapiro
****Leonard E. Castro ***Dean Stern
**Erwin H. Diller
**Norman J. White
****Barry V. Freeman ****Lawrence D. William.'
***Manley Freid
Rodney Moss
*Hiroshi Fujisaki 1964 ****Lewis H. Silverberg
*John George Nelson
*Frederick L. Simmons ***Bruce H. Newman
****ArthurSoll
**Roland R. Speers
*Edwin M. Osborne
****David G. Price
****Lester E. Trachman **Grant E. Propper
****John G. Wigmore
**Hunter Wilson
**RobertL. Wilson
1959
*Sherman Rogers
*Amil W. Roth
***Owen A. Silverman
****Stuart A. Simke
Leland D. Starkey
*H. W. Stoltenberg
****Rodney C. Hill
****Daniel J. Jaffe Participation: 27%
***David Kelton
Number ofDonors: 3_
****Stephen Scott King Total Graduates: 119
****David A. Leveton Class Representatives
**Stuart Mandel
*Luke McKissack
*PaulL. Migdal
DavidJ. Mac Kenzie
Everett F. Meiners
***Bernard B. Nebenzahl ***Sandor T. Boxer
Julius Mel Reich ***John R. Browning
**Harvey Reichard ****L. Morris Dennis Participation: 20%
Number ofDonors: 61 **HowardWollitz DavidH.White ***RobertH.Wyman
Total Graduates: 292 *MarilynYarbrough **StevenD.Wiener ***StuartD.Zimring Class Representative: *JasperWilliams,Jr. *DouglasB.Zubrin Bernard R. Gans 1974 *WilliamL.Winslow
Every effort was made to ensurethe accuracy of our Honor Roll. If there are any corrections or omissions, please contact the School of LawAlumni & Development Office.
****Founders
***James H. Chadbourn Fellows
**Dean's Advocates
*Dean's Counsel
fDeceased
LAW FIRM MATCHING GIFTS
Arnold & Porter
Briggs & Morgan
Cahill, Gordon& Reindel
OTHER GIFTS
Joel Handler
Thomas C. Taylor, Jr.
Tharpe & Howell
ALBERT & JUDY GLICKMAN FUND
Albert and Judy Glickman
EVA & NATHAN GREENBERG Cox, Castle & Nicholson MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
In Honor of StanleyR. Fimberg FUND Loeb & Loeb
Morrison & Foerster
Musick, Peeler& Garrett
O'Melveny & Myers
Proskauer, Rose, Goetz &
Doramus Ventures, Inc.
In Memory of Harry Graham
Audrey and Arthur Greenberg
MORRIS GREENSPAN
Balter MEMORIAL PRIZE FUND
Dick & Faith Morningstar
Joseph C. andRuth G. Bell Mendelsohn
In Memory of DeriRudolph
HAIGHT, BROWN & Reid & Riege
Sidley & Austin
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &
Anonymous BONESTEEL SCHOLARSHIP
Paul E. Glad FUND
Haight, Brown& Bonesteel Flom
White & Case
CORPORATE MATCHING
Marc H. Rapaport &
Sheri Jane Rapaport
ELISA H. HALPERN
In Memory ofMatthew Small MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
David I. Schulman FUND
Marvin S. & ArleneB. Dunn GIFTS
AmericanMedical International,
DESIGNATED GIFTS
John M. Finger
William & Barbara Green
Barry & Jane Halpern Inc.
Atlantic Richfield Foundation
AT&T Foundation
CBS, Inc.
Cooper Industries, Inc.
BENJAMIN AARON FUND
Anonymous
MICHAEL C. ALBIN
MEMORIAL
Coopers & Lybrand Foundation SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Exxon Education Foundation
First National Bank
Fred Fox, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Edward I. Halpern
Melinda L. Hayes
Jay M. Jacobson
Mark Palley
Scott D. Pinsky
Sarah Reynoso
Susan Emiko Sakai
Beth A. Schroeder Fox, Inc.
DAVID BERNARD MEMORIAL
Glendale Federal AVIATION LAW
Goldman, Sachs& Co.
GTE
LIBRARY FUND
David Bernard Memorial
Rick A. Schroeder
Milton Spiegel
Esther B. Zeiden
Sylvan I. Zeiden& Roberta
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation Brown
IBM Corporation
The Irvine Company
BEVERLY HILLS BAR
Kleinwort Benson Cross ASSOCIATION FUND
Lillian Zucrow
HUFSTEDLER, MILLER, KAUS Financing, Inc.
Manufacturers Hanover
Beverly Hills Bar Association & BEARDSLEY
SCHOLARSHIP FUND Corporation ENDOWMENT FUND
CLINICAL PROGRAM
Hufstedler, Miller, Kaus & Marsh & McLennan Companies, Michael D. Marans Beardsley Inc.
MCA
COMMUNICATIONS LAW
Pacific Enterprises PROGRAM
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
J.W. & IDA M. JAMESON FUND
J.W. & Ida M. Jameson
Ira D. Barron Foundati'on Company
Pacific Telesis Foundation
Peat Marwick Main Foundation
Price Waterhouse Foundation
Procter & Gamble
Pacific Telesis Foundation
JOSEPHINE VAUGHN COOPER
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Vaughn
EDGAR A. JONES, JR. FUND
William Gould
JUBAS/HORN FUND FOR Security Pacific Foundation STUDENT SUPPORT
Jules & Doris Stein Foundation
Syntex Corporation
TRW Foundation
Time Inc.
Twentieth Century Fox Film
Corporation
US WEST, Inc.
Union Pacific Corporation
Wells Fargo Foundation
EMERGENCY LOAN FUND
Karen K. Narasaki
Arthur I. Rosett
SCHOOL OF LAW
Martin & Rita Horn
Marvin & Fern Juhas
BENJAMIN E. KING
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
SCHOLARSHIP FUND FUND
Eriko Matsumoto
Barry Rosenbaum
Mead Data Central
Michael & Cora Altschuler
Tara Colburn
Morris & Kitty Halber
Sophie Halber
Beatrice Halbern
Henrietta King
George Peter Klika
Morton & Marilyn Oransof
Susan Carol Price
Frances Schulman
Stuart & Jane Weitzman
LAW SCHOOL- DEAN'S DISCRETIONARY ENDOWMENT FUND
William Calfas
SCHOOL OF LAW LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUND
George P. & Holli C. Schiavelli
SAUL L. LESSLER LAW SCHOOL SUPPORT FUND
De Castro, West, Chodrow & Burns 1984 Partners
PAULA C. LUBIC MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Arthur M. Lubic
Carol L. Spitz
GEORGE L. MARINOFF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Elaine S. Marinoff
FRANCES E. MC QUADE FUND
Carl Boronkay
Jerry A. Brody
Dale V. Cunningham
Arthur M. Frankel
Jerome H. Goldberg
Audrey & Arthur Greenberg
Martin R. & Rita Horn
Marvin & Fern Jubas
Howard Lehman
Donald C. Lieb
Sherwin L. Memel
Milton L. Miller
Dorothy Wright Nelson
Willard M. Riesz
Sallie T. Reynolds
Marvin D. Rowen
Norman A. Rubin
Ralph & Shirley Shapiro
Robert B. Steinberg
United Technologies
Charles S. Vogel
Eric & Mary Louise Weissmann
Robert I. Wise
Lester Ziffren
FRANCES E. MC QUADE EMERGENCY LOANFUND
Joseph Drown Foundation
MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND
Milken Family Foundation
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MORRISON & FOERSTER FUND
Morrison & FoersterFoundation
MELVILLE B. NIMMER MEMORIAL FUND
Frank P. Angel & Merideth Anne Lobel Angel
Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Barristers of Beverly Hills Bar Association
Esther Lerner Brenner
Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger
Mel Levine
Robert L. & Andrea S. Ordin
Margaret R. Kiever
Paul Marcus
Gloria Nimmer
Lyle A.j LynetteRobe
Arthur I. Rosell
Alvin Sellers
MICHAEL PALLEY MEMORIAL FUND
Mary Flynn Palley
J. Lewis Palley Charitable Trust
PAUL, HASTINGS, JANOFSKY & WALKER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
THOMAS D. RABIN MEMORIAL FUND
Lee S. Arian
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Director for New Law Clinic atLaw School
The School of Lawis searchingfor an experienced lawyer to direct the new la·o0 office and clinic located in the recently constructedwing of thelawschool. Our goal isforthis clinic to become a unique model in clinical education The Directi:u: Lawyerwill oversee the office andsupervise students working on civil cases referredbyoutside agenciesto UCLA. T!:r. Lawyerwill supervise all aspects of case work including clientcontact,court appearances, and documentpreparation andreview, in connection witha variety of clinicalandtraditional courses The. Lawyerwillalso assistfacultymembers teaching clinical courses.
Minimumrequirements include excellent academic record, 5yearspractice including substantial litigation experience,and member of California Bar. This is a full-timeposition withnon-tenure faculty statusaslecturer.
The Law School hasa special interest in enriching its intellectual environment throughfurtherdiversification oftherange of ideasand attitudesrepresentedwithin the faculty. We therefore particularlywelcomeapplicationsfromminoritygroupmembers,women andothers whose varying backgroundsmay contribute to this end
Please send resume and cover letter as soon as possible to:
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News
Norman Abrams Is New Associate Dean
Norman Abrams has been named Associate Dean of theSchool ofLaw, succeedingCarole Goldberg-Ambrose who served in thatposition during the past six years.
Abrams, appointed by Dean Susan Westerberg Prager, has major responsibility in his new post for the school's academic affairs-both academic personnel and curriculum.
Professor Abrams' most immediate observation on the appointment was that he will be challenged to the limit in succeeding Goldberg-Ambrose. That comment wouldbe met with general agreement throughout the UCLA community; during her tenure in the office, Dean Goldberg-Ambrose established a reputation for a seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of enthusiasm and energy. That high-energy levelalso permeates her teaching,to which she has returned full-time this year.
"I think she did a magnificent job," said Abrams. "She was so good at doing so much that she has made it very hard for anyone to step into her shoes. Perhaps the aspect of her accomplishment that is most noteworthy is the affection in which she is held by her colleagues, after having served so long in what may be the most sensitive position in the law school."
But Abrams, too, has a long record in handling difficult matters affecting personnel and programs. From 1982 to 1985,he wasa member oftheAcademic Senate'sCommittee on Academic Personnel and in 1983-84 he chaired that campus-wide committee.
That experienceallowedhim "tolearn how the academic personnel process is handled," and to gain "a sense of the relative strength of departments, to see how the process of peer evaluation functions to help maintain and improve the quality of the University's faculty."
For the associate deanship "it was invaluableprior experience."
The process of faculty recruitment "is a dynamic one, and it is always going on," said Abrams, noting the specialneed to add faculty in the clinical program now that the school's newly-built clinical wing has been completed. "That is perhaps the largest hiring challenge we will have to face in
the next few years."
Needs in other curricular areas shift from time to time, although the basic outlines of the faculty and curriculum are generally now well-defined. "If one were to try to anticipate new areas of faculty interest that might develop in the future,one might foresee the possibility of our building courses relating to health-related subjects and bioethics, although I would not expect that to be a large-scale development," said Abrams.
Professor Abrams, a member of UCLA'slaw faculty since1959,continues to teach Evidence and Federal Criminal Law,and in the most recent issue of the UCLA Law Review he has published an article titled "A New Proposal forLimiting PrivateCivil RICO."
Three New Members
Strengthen Faculty
The law faculty has gained strength in several curricular areas with the addition this year of Professor Samuel C. ThompsonJr. and Acting Professors Craig Becker and Richard Sander.
During the spring semester, Professor § Thompson will be teaching Corporate � Taxation and a seminar onCorporate, "' Securities and Antitrust Aspects of � Mergers and Acquisitions.
5: Acting Professor Becker is teac�ing < LaborLaw I and Labor Law II this year, tl while Acting Professor Sander is � teaching Property in the fall semester ;:;; and Professional Responsibility during ::l the spring.
� Thompson comes to UCLA from o Chicago, where he has been partner in � charge of the tax department at the firm cc: ofSchiff,Hardin & Waite. He recently � co-authored a three volume treatise entitled Federal Taxation ofBusiness Enterprises (Callaghan 1989). While at Schiff Hardin, which he joined in 1981, he also taught part-time at the law schoolsof the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. He was also the part-time co-director of the graduate tax program at ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Before joining Schiff,he was a fulltime professor on the law faculties of Northwestern University and the
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University of Virginia, and served in the Tax Legislative Counsel's Office oJ the U.S. Treasury Department.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he earned an LL.M. in taxation from New York University.
"I like practicing law, but teaching is my first love," says Professor Thompson. His move to UCLA is not his first experience in Southern California, since he was stationed at Camp Pendleton while in the Marine Corps during the late 1960s. "I am as excited as I can possibly be about returning to law teaching at UCLA," he says, and he suspects this move will afford him the opportunity "to see some good college football." The sport is his main hobby, and in his own college days he played varsity football at Pennsylvania's West Chester State.
Another passion of Thompson's is philosophy. "I read in that area to the extent I can, and some reading beyond the field of law is one of the things I hope to find more time to do."
Craig Becker comes to UCLA from the Washington, D.C. firm of Kirshner, Weinberg & Dempsey, where he practiced labor law on the labor side since 1983, representing a variety of unions including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. While in practice, he was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center
A graduate of Yale Law School, he served as editor for the Yale Law Journal. His published articles include "Individual Rights and Collective
Action: the Legal History of Trade Unions in America," 100 Harvard Law Review 672 (1987), and "Property in the Workplace: Labor, Capital and Crime in the 18th Century British Woolen and Worsted Industry," 69 Virginia Law Review 1487 (1983).
His major research interests at the present involve issues '.lt the intersection of labor law and constitutional law, such as the constitutional rights of public employees as well as the ways in which constitutional rights have been construed to limit collective labor activity.
In addition to the labor law courses he is teaching this year, Becker plans to teach Civil Procedure and Civil Rights Litigation in the future.
Becker's wife, Amy Stanley, is a history professor at the University of California, Irvine. At UCLA, Becker sometimes is able to pursue his interest in basketball, playing with pickup teams in the Wooden Center.
"I am enjoying teaching at UCLA," he notes. "I find students very open and willing to interact in class with me as well as with each other."
Richard Sander joins the UCLA faculty after clerking for Chief Judge John Grady of the Northern District of Illinois. Prior to his clerkship, he was an associate with the Chicago firm of Seyfarth,Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, focusing on labor law and voting rights litigation.
He earned his law degree from Northwestern University School of Law and will soon receive a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern. His
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dissertation was titled "Housing Segregation and Housing Integration: the Diverging Paths of American Cities.He is also coauthor of "Why Are There So Many Lawyers? Perspectives on a Turbulent Market," 14 Law and Social Inquiry 431 (1989).
"I am interested in law and economics in an atypical way," Sander observes. "My interest lies in how to combine the two to study social policy."
Teaching the first-year course in Property this year as a small-section class, he says, "is an ideal way to start a career of law school teaching, because the small section facilitates a lot of student-teacher interaction and allows me to experiment with various approaches to the material."
In the Professional Responsibility course, he will seek to introduce students to social and economic perspectives on the profession on the one hand, while also introducing them to legal ethics.
Sander describes his overall interest as the social scientific analysis of society. He plans in the longer term to teach law and economics, urban housing, banking law, and an introduction to legislation which would explore the interaction between policy and legislation and the problems inherent in traditional interpretations of legislation.
Living in Westwood enables Sander to bicycle to work year-round. He and his wife, Yolaine, also a lawyer, play racquetball and tennis; they also enjoy hiking.
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Classnotes
The 1950s
John C. McCarthy '52 of Claremont is the author of "How to Win an Insurance Bad Faith Case" published in Masters of Trial Practice by John Wiley & Sons, New York. In his other specialty, employment discharges, he recently won a $38.8-million verdict in federal court in Las Vegas against the Las Vegas Hilton after a three-and-onehalf month jury trial.
John A. Arguelles '54, former Justice of the California Supreme Court, has become of counsel to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in the firm's Newport Beach office.
Willie R. Barnes '59 has become a partner in the firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert. He will continue to practice in the areas of corporate, securities and franchise law. Barnes was formerly California Commissioner of Corporations.
Josiah Neeper '59 has become chair of the partnership at the San Diego firm of Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye. The firm is San Diego's largest with more than 160 attorneys. Neeper, with the firm since 1959, is an authority on management and labor relations law.
The 1960s
Howard S. Block '60 of Tustin is a member of the advisory committee of the American Arbitration Association's new Orange County office.
Dudley M. Lang '62 is a partner in the firm of Hufstedler, Miller, Kaus & Beardsley.
Edward Poll '65 has been named chief operating officer and managing attorney of Turner, Gerstenfeld, Wilk &
Tigerman in Beverly Hills. In addition to managing the operations of this growing firm, he continues to practice law in the fields of new business development, business and corporate law and civil litigation. He also teaches a UCLA Extension Course on how to start a business.
Susan Wittenberg Liebeler '66 resigned from the U.S. International Trade Commission where she served for over four years. She had been appointed chairman by President Reagan in June 1986, having served as a commissioner and vice chairman since 1984. She is now a partner at Irell & Manella. She heads the firm's international trade practice and is resident in the firm's Washington office.
Richard M. Brown '67 joined the firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmara as a partner. He will continue practicing in the areas of broadcasting and sports law.
Dennis J. Seider '67 of Seider & Cohan in Los Angeles, specializes in international trade, transportation and maritime litigation.
JohnC. Spence III '67 has been promoted to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Last March he served as a legal officer for Exercise Team Spirit in the Republic of Korea. In civilian life, he is a deputy district attorney for the County of Los Angeles.
Raymond Utin '67 of Santa Ana is a member of the advisory committee of the American Arbitration Association's new Orange County office.
Wallace B. Farrell '68, former Chief Justice of the Moot Court honors program and a certified criminal law specialist, has terminated his practice to sail to Mexico and the South Pacific on his 43-foot cutter. The trip which began in November 1989 should last three to five years.
Susan G. Schaefer '68 has been elected a trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar
Association and has been elected to the board of directors of Women in Film. She is also the immediate past president of the Century City Bar Association. Schaefer continues to specialize in entertainment law in her own firm in Century City.
The 1970s
Ronald P. Givner '70 is a partner in the firm of Sanger, Grayson, Givner & Booke. He will continue to practice in the areas of corporate and securities law.
Richard Hutton '70 has recently started a new partnership, Hutton & Simpson in Glendale, where he continues his practice in criminal law.
John F. Mounier, Jr. '70 has opened his own law offices in Sacramento.
Robert A. Breeze '71 has become the managing partner of Boyko, Breeze and Flansburg in Anchorage. He has also earned a doctorate in business administration from Somerset University
Paul Marcus '71, professor of law at the University of Arizona in Tucson, is author of The Law of Entrapment (Michie, 1989) and he was recently named director of the drug testing task force of the Bill of Rights Institute. After visiting for a semester at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, he has returned to full-time teaching in Arizona.
George L. Schraer '71 ofSan Diego argued for the 14th time in the California Supreme Court. He writes: "The argument so impressed the court, they ruled against me 7-0 less than six weeks later. The case, People v. Markham, lowers the state's burden of proving the voluntariness of a confession from proof beyond a reasonable doubt to proof by a preponderance of the evidence."
Jeffrey W. Broker '72 is a partner in the firm of Lobel, Winthrop & Broker in Irvine.
Bruce M. Kramer '72, a professor at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock since 1975, recently coauthored a multi-volume treatise
entitled "The Law of Pooling and Unitization." He notes that "after selling copies to each of my four daughters, ages 17, 12, 7 and5, I expect sales to drop significantly."
OwenLee Kwong '73 was appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the Los Angeles Municipal Court. Judge Kwong worked in the California State Attorney General's Office for 15 years, the last seven as Supervising Deputy Attorney General in the Anti-trust Division.
Michael Murtaugh '73 and Karen Durham '73 of Corona del Mar are de]ighted to announce the birth of their second son, Drew Robert, born May 2, 1989 at 10 pounds.
Robert J. Albrecht '74 has become associated with the firm of Kindel & Anderson.
Gary A. Feess '74 has been appointed by U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to the position of interim U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. He and his wife, Deborah L. Kranze '77, have a son, Timothy, born in October1988
Ann Haskins '74 has become chief deputy for Los Angeles City Councilwoman Ruth Galanter. Previously, she served as associate director of Public Counsel.
Gary M. Horgan '74, Donald P. Johnson '74 and S. Alan Rosen '74 have announced the formation of Horgan, Rosen, Beckham & Coren in Toluca Lake.
Stephen W. Kramer '74 has participated in the founding of Gold, Marks, Ring & Pepper located in Century City. He will head the trusts and estates department as well as spearheading the firm's development of a fine arts related practice.
Michael S. Rubin '74 received his second Presidential Award from the Association of Transportation Practitioners for organizing the association's continuing legal education program. He has also been chosen as the association's president elect. Rubin is a member of the law firm of Walsh, Donovan, Lindh & Keech in San Francisco.
Bruce Rushall '74 and EileenMcGeever '74 are principals of Rushall, McGeever
JUDITH W. WEGNER '76 has become dean of the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been a professor of law there since 1981 and was associate dean for two years.
and Sappington, practicing in the areas of real estate, securities and commercial litigation, in Carlsbad, Calif.
John M. Sherfinski '74 has been awarded the first endowed faculty chair at the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Ct. Sherfinski practiced patent law before joining the Kingswood faculty in 1976 , where he teaches advanced placement physics and calculus as well as senior elective in general law
Barry Adamson '75 of Lake Oswego, Ore., has retired from the practice of law to pursue music full-time. He practiced appellate law for14 years but has played guitar for 26 years. He writes, "I had to ask myself which was my biggest investment. I have plans to begin my second album soon (a mere twelve years after the first one)."
Jon F. Chait '75 has become executive vice-president of Manpower, Inc. and Blue Arrow in Glendale, Wisc.
Will Clarke '75 is a partner with Baker, Silberberg and Keener in Santa Monica. He and his wife Jeanne have three sons and live in Manhattan Beach.
Paul R. Katz '75 has been named vice president-associate counsel at Security
Pacific Bank where he is responsible for intellectual property matters, telecommunication and computer law.
Andrew C. Kauffman '75 was appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the Los Angeles Municipal Court. Judge Kauffman was a South Bay Municipal Court Commissioner for three and a half years and previously served as a deputy district attorney.
Timothy Lappen '75 announced the relocation of Lappen Realty & Investment Corporation to the offices of HSM Group in Santa Monica. He remains of counsel to the law firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmara of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Veronica Simmons McBeth '75, judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court, is chair-elect of the National Bar Association's Judicial Council. Judge McBeth was also presented with the Raymond Pace Alexander Award for her "exceptional service to the Judicial Council-NBA."
Marc I. Steinberg '75 was named holder of the Rupert and Lillian Radford endowed chair at Southern Methodist University law school.
Charles J. Wisch '75 has moved to Weissburg & Aronson, to become the partner in charge of litigation in the firm's San Francisco office.
Clifford H. Brown '76 is practicing in Nairobi, Kenya with the regional office of the U.S. Agency for International Development. He writes that he "will assist classmates planning safaris at no charge." His phone number is 011-254-2-331160
Don M. Drysdale '76 and Stanley M. Gordon '71 have formed two private arbitration services-Real Estate Mediation & Arbitration, Inc., which specializes in real estate matters in California, and Franchise Arbitration & Mediation, Inc., a nationwide service resolving franchising disputes.
Mary-Lynne Fisher '76 has become associated with the law firm of Hutton & Simpson in Glendale. She will specialize in family law matters.
Geoffrey A. Goodman '76 has become chief of the major fraud unit of the California Attorney General's office.
The unit specializes in prosecuting large scale white collar crime cases in state and federal courts.
Gordon M. Park '76 of Fresno was recently admitted to membership in ABITTA (American Board of Trial Advocates). He presented a paper at the ABA property insurance lawyers 1989 mid-year meeting concerning the coverage trigger in environmental property insurance claims and was a lecturer and instructor at Hastings College of Trial and Appellate Advocacy.
Kathleen Sage '76 of Santa Ana is a member of the advisory committee of the American Arbitration Association's new Orange County office.
Rich Curcio '77 has been certified as a criminal law specialist by the California State Bar. He was a prosecutor for seven years with the Los Angeles City and Orange County district attorneys, and currently is a senior attorney for Justice Reuben Ortega ofDivision 1 of the 2nd California District Court of Appeal. He and his wife Harriet, a child psychiatrist, spend most of their free time with their son Daniel.
Ed Reitkopp '77 has joined the law firm of Gartner and Young in Century City. The firm represents management in all phases of labor and employment law. Earlier, he was a labor attorney with the National Broadcasting Company in Burbank.
William F. Sullivan '77 has moved to San Diego to head up the litigation practice of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. He was formerly in the firm's San Francisco office.
Michael D. Briggs '78 is senior counsel to U.S. West Communications in Phoenix.
Peter K. Huxter '78 was named managing partner of Bolton, Dunn & Yates in Santa Monica.
Alex M. Johnson, Jr. '78 was promoted to the rank of Professor of Law and granted tenure at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Ann Kough '78 was appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the Los Angeles Municipal Court. Judge Kough was a deputy Los Angeles city attorney for three years and was in private
practice in Century City and West Los Angeles.
Lisa Greer Quateman '78, who practiced law in a large firm for over 10 years, in February 1989 established the Law Offices of Lisa Greer Quateman in Santa Monica. She is continuing to specialize in corporate and real estate law.
Kneave Riggall '78 published an article entitled "30-Day and 90-Day Letters: Options for Taxpayers Who Receive Them from the IRS," in the Los Angeles Lawyer, March 1989.
Marietta S. Robinson '78, a trial attorney in Detroit, Michigan, was recently appointed by Judge Robert Merhige of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia as one of the five trustees of the $2.2 billion Dalkon Shield Claimants' Trust.
David Weber '78 has retired from the practice of law at Cox, Castle & Nicholson in Los Angeles and has entered the Ph.D. program in the history department at UCLA.
Gwen H. Whitson '78 has joined Warner Brothers, Inc. as counsel to its International Television Distribution Group.
Nancy L. Abell '79, a partner and the assistant chair of the Employment Law Department of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, has been named to the board of governors of the Institute for Corporate Counsel.
Allan E. Cerao '79 has become a partner of Rogers & Wells in the Los Angeles office.
Michael D. Dozier '79 has joined the Sacramento office of Marron, Reid & Sheehy. He had been corporate counsel for the Southern California Edison Company. He will continue to specialize in energy law.
Penelope Glass '79 has taken an extended sabbatical from law practice and is currently producing feature motion pictures. She lives in Venice with musician Travis Dickerson.
Kathryn S. Krause '79 has become associated with the firm of Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson in Denver.
Donald Lively '79 has been awarded
tenure at the University of Toledo, College of Law where he is Professor of Law. His book, Judicial Review and the Consent of the Governed: Activist Ways and Popular Ends, was published this fall.
Jennifer L. Machlin '79 has been staff counsel to the California Commission on Judicial Performance in San Francisco since May 1988. Before leaving private practice, she coauthored a treatise entitled Managing Environmental Risk in Real Estate and Business Transactions (Clark Boardman Co., Ltd., 1988).
The 1980s
Amy L. Applebaum '80 has become a partner of Sidley & Austin. She is resident in the Los Angeles office and concentrates in litigation.
Mark S. Green '80 is an assistant attorney general for the State of Washington. He now represents the University of Washington in Seattle. He previously represented the Department of Natural Resources in Olympia.
Constance B. Harriman '80, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is representing the department on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The independent federal agency advises the President and Congress on broad issues relating to historic preservation.
Katherine L. McDaniel '80 has become a partner in the firm of Alschuler, Grossman & Pines.
Eleanor C. River '80 is associated with Majestic, Parsons,Siebert & Hsue in San Francisco. She practices intellectual property law with a specialty in computer technology.
Robert E. Braun '81 has become associated with the firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmara.
John W. Crittenden '81 of Oakland is a partner in the law firm of Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum.
Susan Fowler McNally '81 has become a member of Gilchrist & Rutter in Santa
Monica. Her practice continues to focus on real estate and business transactions.
Adam H. Kurland '81 has been appointed assistant professor at Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. He has also recently published "The Guarantee Clause as a Basis for Federal Prosecutions of State and Local Officials," 62 Southern California Law Review 367 (1989).
Brent R. Liljestrom '81 has become a partner of Sheppard,Mullin, Richter & Hampton in the firm's Newport Beach office.
Robert B. Orgel '81 is a partner in the Century City law firm of Pachulski, Stang & Ziehl.
Jonathan J. Panzer '81 has become a member of the firm of Shapiro,Posell & Close in Los Angeles.
Benjamin Scheibe '81 has become chairman of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Torts and Insurance Section of the American Bar Association. He is a partner in the firm of Browne & Woods in Beverly Hills.
Jerrold B. Carrington '82 has joined Westpac Banking Corporation as a vice president in the Merchant Banking Group in Chicago. He is responsible for generating and placing equity and debt investments for institutions and security equity positions for Westpac.
Betty S. Chain '82 and G. Arthur Meneses '82 have become partners in the Century City law firm of Parkinson, Wolf & Leo.
Barry L. Goldner '82 is a partner in the firm of Klein,Wegis, DeNatale, Hall, Goldner & Muir (formerly Klein, Wegis & Duggan) in Bakersfield. He maintains a business litigation practice, including partnership disputes, receiverships, agricultural litigation, real estate litigation, banking litigation, and construction litigation.
Theresa A. Goldner '82 is a sole practitioner in real estate transactions, real estate litigation,natural resources law, and general civil litigation in Bakersfield.
Jocelyn Niebur '82 is a partner with the firm of McClintock, Weston, Benshoff, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish.
She practices environmental law.
Gary L. Urwin '82 has been elected to partnership in the firm of Baker & McKenzie, where he specializes in business litigation. Gary and Darlene E. Erwin,formerly Darlene E. Rabe '82, celebrated the birth of their first child, Elizabeth Sarah, on November26, 1988. Darlene is currently on a two year leave of absence from Baker & McKenzie.
Justin E. Budare '83 has become associated with the law firm of Aran & Miller in Westwood. He specializes in title insurance matters and real estate litigation.
Don E.N. Gibson '83 is assistant counsel in the Office of the Commissioner,Major League Baseball in New York City.
Larry S. Lee '83 has joined the staff of Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas of the California Supreme Court as a senior staff attorney. He continues to specialize in criminal law and the death penalty.
Paul V.L. Campo '84 has become associated with the firm of Rushall, McGeever and Sappington in Carlsbad, Calif.
Dennis Mitchell '84 has established a law firm, Kirsch & Mitchell,located in Century City with emphasis on civil litigation. He is married to Joyce I. Craig '84, an associate of Kirsch and Mitchell. They are the proud parents of Katie M. Mitchell.
Lise A. Rehberg '84 has been appointed counsel at Westwood One, Inc. She will be responsible for assisting in the coordination of business and legal affairs for the Westwood One Radio Networks, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the NBC Radio Networks, Radio & Records and radio stations KQLZ-FM in Los Angeles and WNEW-AM and WYNY-FM in New York City. She will be based in Westwood One's Los Angeles headquarters.
Betsy R. Rosenthal '84 and her husband, David, are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Adam Warren. She serves as Western States counsel for the Anti-defamation League.
Daniel W. Skubik '84 was awarded
his Ph.D. in legal philosophy from Australian National University in March1989. He was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Legal Studies,Nova College,Ft Lauderdale, Fla. He also published an article in the American Journal of Jurisprudence entitled "Positivism & Polygamy."
Val Ackerman '85 is currently staff attorney and assistant to the executive vice president of the National Basketball Association in New York.
Julie J. Bisceglia '85 has become associated with the firm of Shapiro, Posell & Close in Los Angeles.
Joseph P. Breen '85 is associated with Jordan, Lawrence,Dawson & Martin in San Francisco, specializing in real estate and business litigation. He and his wife, Sue, are expecting a child in February 1990.
Kenneth D. Freundlich '85 is associated with Robinson, Silverman,Pearce, Aronsohn & Berman in New York City.
Suzanne A. Luban '85 moved to Sacramento to become an assistant federal defender. She reports that after a year and several jury trials, she still loves it.
Susan Abraham '86 is now a part-time associate specializing in probate and estate planning at Valenti, Rose and Magaram in Century City. She and her husband,Naren Ramanuj, had their first child, Renna, on December 27, 1987.
TerriL. Cheney '86 has become associated with the law firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman in Beverly Hills.
Lolita K. Buckner Inniss '86 has become associated with the firm of Blackburn and Dixon in Trenton, N.J. She was formerly an assistant prosecutor in Union County,N.J.
Frank Sayre '86 is division legal counsel for the Coca-Cola Export Corporation in Bangkok,Thailand. The division covers Indonesia to Afghanistan.
Jonathan S. Storper '86 has become associated with the firm of Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy in San Francisco.
Laurie J. Taylor '86, who took a year off
following the birth of Amelia, her second child, isnow clerkingfor a second year for seniorJudge Robert Boochevev of the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena.Her son Frederickis three years old.
Dawn M. Cica '87 is transferring from the San Francisco office of Shearman & Sterlingtothe New York office for two years.
Natasha Ray '87 has become associated with the office of T. Michael Turner in Palo Alto, specializingin commercial litigation.
Andrew Shapiro '87 is now vice president of FirstCityCapital in New YorkCity where he works with membersof the Belzbergfamily.
Frank Benton '88 and his wife Durenda ofGlendale, Ariz., write that they "havebecome the proud parentsof a Republican baby girl, Camille Marie Benton."
Robert B. Hutchins '88 has become associated with the firm ofJeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmara.
IN MEMORIAM
Gary Ian Boren '61
Adah H. Larisch '61
JackM. Peters '57
Richard Armand Richards '62
Calendar of Events
Monday, December 18, 1989-Assistant Dean Michael Rappaport describesthe current admissions process in the nation'slaw schools, with advice for prospectivestudents and their parents, Room 1359Law Building, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 6, 1990-AALS Annual Meetingin San FranciscoUCLA Dinner for alums in Law Teaching-Jack'sRestaurant, 615 SacramentoSt.-6:30p.m. ContactCarol Afshar, (213) 825-2899.
Saturday, February 24, 1990Fourteenth Annual Entertainment Symposium-Dickson Auditorium; 8:30 a.m.-5:30p.m.ContactCarol Afshar-(213) 825-2899.
Tuesday, April 3, 1990-Melville B. Nimmer MemorialLecture-UCLA Faculty Center-Guest speaker, ProfessorKentGreenawaltof theColumbia University Law School--8:00p.m.
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