Saucer Magnolia trees sit in their temporary home near the entrance to the law school. They will be kept there during the construction project. See story, page 15.
Vol. 19, No. 2
Spring/Summer 1996
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UCLA Law Alumni Association Board of Directors
Renee L. Campbell '80: President
John F. Runkel Jr. '81: Vice President
John H. Weston '69: Vice President
Richard D. Fybel '71: Secretary-Treasurer
Holly R. Paul '91: Alumni Representative
Hon. Laurence D. Rubin '71: Immediate Past President
Stanton P. Belland '59
Donna R. Black '75
Cynthia S. Conners '83
Shedrick 0. Davis '87
Deborah A. David '75
Raquelle de la Rocha '87
Hon. Joan Dempsey Klein '55
David W Fleming '59
Richard W Havel '71
Fredrick Kuperberg '66
Glenn L. Krinsky '83
Louis M. Meisinger '67
Hon. Carolyn Richardson Owens '82
Mark A. Samuels '82
Hon. George P. Schiavelli '74
Linda Smith '77
Hon. Gary L. Taylor '63
Shan K. Thever '74
David C. Tseng '84
W. Keith Wyatt '77
Nine graduates who have risen to the top oftheir fields
ByKaren Nikos, Editor
EVERY YEAR WHEN Inc. Magazine prepares its list of the "Inc. 500"-the fastest-growing private companies in the United States -Rinaldo Brutoco prepares for the phone to ring. He knows a staffer at the business publication will call to ask if he was joking when he filled out his questionnaire. "I always name Mother Teresa as my business mentor," says a matter-of-fact Brutoco, delighting in the caller's confusion over his unconventional answer."They think that's strange."
"Look, the woman started out with nothing but a handful of lepers, no money and a few followers," explains Brutoco '71. "Now, her followers number in the millions; she has been tremendously successful at raising money; she has thousands of employees all over the world; she is the ultimate example. Sounds like a successful business plan to '1decided then that Iwould sue no more. Ididn't want to use my legal knowledge as a weapon but as a tool to build. "
RINALDO BRUTOCO '71, PRESIDENT OF RED ROSE INC.
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Brutoco, like many of the people featured in this article, decided to use his law degree in a venue other than practice, building up a highly successful series of businesses-including his co-founding of both the first pay cable television network and a high-volume mail order company, Red Rose Collection, which he now operates. Others enjoyed the practice of law for several years, but as time went on became more interested in making a living doing what some of their clients were doing. All of the UCLAW alums you'll meet here clearly used their legal education to their advantage in the business world, in some cases building tremendous business empires lauded for their financial performance or overseeing such endeavors as the marketing of trademarked materials for Major League Baseball, as does '83 graduate Don Gibson. In still other instances, the alumni-run companies have been critically acclaimed for their contributions to the arts or to preservation of the planet. For example, a '75 graduate, Deborah Arron, has made a living giving speeches and writing books for those interested in leaving law to go on to something else-a business she developed after making an emotional decision to leave law. In doing so, she saw that others needed the same kind of career-transition guidance she lacked. Two alumni, Joseph Kornwasser and Jerald Friedman-who did not attend the law school at the same time-teamed up while working at the same Los Angeles law firm. A couple of years later, they formed their own law firm. They went into the commercial real estate business together and have developed Price Club/Costco shopping centers nationwide.
Brutoco was so enthusiastic about practicing law that he took on a number of cases while still at UCLA, which entered him into a fair bit of controversy. "Murray Schwartz-it's a true story-tried to get me kicked out of law school for practicing law without a license," says Brutoco. Besides starting the California Public Interest Law Center out of a small storefront where the Federal Building now stands in Westwood, Brutoco worked on a number of
cases with Los Angeles attorneys. Always a health food connoisseur, Brutoco became involved in a case that set the standards for what is now law in California requiring that produce meet certain specifications before it can truly be considered "organic." He wrote a chapter for a treatise by Professor Monroe Price. ("I took the chapter on insanity," Brutoco quips. "Monroe and I both thought that was appropriate.") He created an externship for himself and IO other students in criminal law-the first at UCLA-where he worked for both the district attorney's office and the public defender's office. He discovered through this experience, he adds, that he did not want to practice criminal law.
While developing the California Public Interest Law Center-the state's first nonprofit law center and a project borne out of Brutoco's original idea to start a West Coast branch of Ralph Nader's Center for Science in the Public Interest-he began working with attorneys on a class-action suit against Pacific Bell. The suit, which came to represent the pinnacle of his short lawyering career, sought to refund to California residents millions of dollars in what the class claimed were illegal rate hikes. The case was appealed all the way to the California Supreme Court, giving the newly graduated lawyer an experience even few veteran attorneys can boast.
"We won. We recovered $130 million," he remembers of the litigation in which he participated with a team of attorneys. But Brutoco was dissatisfied. Although he had achieved monetary damages for his clients, he didn't feel he had accomplished anything to change the system-something he initially sought to accomplish as a lawyer. "I had been before one of the most powerful courts. I had gone against one of the most respected law firms (Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro). And yet I really didn't feel like I had achieved my objective," he says. "I decided then I would sue no more. I didn't want to use my legal knowledge as a weapon, but as a tool to build."
Beyond his unusually expansive list of community and charity endeavors, Brutoco achieves that through
Red Rose Collection is a high-volume, national mail-order company that Rinaldo Brutoco co-founded with his wife, Lalla Shanna, in 1986. The company markets gifts and tools for personal growth - books, tapes, note cards, clothing, jewelry and other items.
Other entrepreneurial endeavors: Founder of the World Business Academy, an international network of business executives and entrepreneurs who utilize their skills and resources to create a positive, sustainable future for the planet. Since 1981, founder and president of Dorason Corporation, a privately-owned merchant bank. He operates a San Francisco retail store, a "magalog," titled Catalist and founded in 1989 Red Rose Naturals Inc., a company designed to encourage good nutritional practices and promote better health. Red Rose collection is about to go public, having pioneered a technique for selling stock to its customers. He recently co-authored a book about to be released tided Profiles in Power, an account of how communiry activists were able to stop the proliferation of nuclear power in the United States.
Education: University of Santa Clara, bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy; law degree from UCLA School of Law in 1971.
Past achievements: Order of the Coif, UCLA-AlaskaLaw Review Managing Editor; pioneer of the cable television industry - co-founding Channel 100, the first pay cable television service in the world, in 1972. He was president of an independent television broadcast network, and was selected by the New York Chapter of the American Marketing Association as the 1981 recipient of an Effie Award for Advertising Effectiveness.
Comments about transition from law to business: After winning a $!JO-million judgment against Pacific Bell and General Telephone before the California Supreme Court his first year out of law school, he walked out of the courthouse and thought: "Is this all ] can do? I thought, you know, this didn't accomplish anything. This didn't change the system. I decided then chat I would sue no more. I didn't want to use my legal knowledge as a weapon but as a tool to build."
Charitable/community work: In addition to numerous charitable activities, he is founder and chairman of the Omega Point Institute, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to assist individual and corporate donors in achieving maximum impact with their charitable contributions by pooling contributors' donations and channeling them to deserving nonprofit organizations.
Family: Wife and business partner, Lalla Shanna Brutoco, with whom he has a son, Orion, IO, and daughter, Darya; 7, two older daughters, Krishna, 23, and Dana, 21, whose mother is Sheila Brutoco, his first wife.
business. He is founder and, since 1981, president of Dorason Corp., a privately owned merchant bank and is CEO of Red Rose Collection Inc., the San Francisco Bay Area company he founded with his wife, Lalla Shanna Brutoco, in 1986. The company, which is about to go public by selling stock to its customers, markets books, tapes and other personal growth items with an attitude toward preserving the planet. While the business is, Brutoco admits, "Californian" in nature, only 17% of its business is from
Rinaldo S. Brutoco '71
President, Red Rose Collection Inc.
California, an indication that this niche market has appeal far beyond the state. The project started humbly enough a decade ago when Lalla Shanna Brutoco presented as a gift to her husband a photo of a red rose she had taken with a quote from an author-friend's inspirational, philosophical book, A Course in Miracles, inscribed in calligraphy. Rinaldo decided they should give one to the publisher, too. Before they knew it, many of the Brutocos' other friends wanted them. They obtained a mailing list and marketed the items. Before they knew it, a business was born.
Their other endeavors include a San Francisco retail store, The Red Rose Gallerie, a "magalog" called Catalist, and Red Rose Naturals Inc., a company centering on nutritional practices. Marketing analysts attribute Red Rose's success, in part,to the personal nature of Catalist, which Lalla designs by putting together personal growth and development articles and photos of products in a format much more reminiscent of a magazine than a marketing effort. Red Rose-a company started on a kitchen table-mailed 7 million catalogs in fiscal 1995 and generated $13.6 million net in sales. Its rapid expansion distinguishes it as only one of two catalog companies in the "Inc. 500" that year.
'1was a woman in this business, yes, but that was superseded by thefact that Iwas a lawyer. Ireally think that made a difference. Without my law degree, given the same intellect and capabilities, Idon't think Iwouldhave stood a chance. "
BARBARA BOYLE '60 BOYLE-TAYLOR PRODUCTIONS
"I've kept using my legal knowledge to get into other areas," proclaims Brutoco, who relishes his business experiences as a furtherance of his lifelong commitment to educating himself. "Part of the reason I've been able to do that was because I went to a law school like UCLA, where I was able to explore many fields."
Barbara Boyle '60, who has produced such films as the recently released "Bottle Rocket," and such classics as "My Left Foot" and "Reversal of Fortune," had no intention of practicing law by the time she reached her third year of law school. In fact, the successful producer, who was one of four women in her graduating class, remembers that during her last year of law school, Professor Murray Schwartz told her she had been a disappointment and had not performed as well as expected. "He basically told me I was unemployable."
Boyle - now a partner in Boyle-Taylor Productions in Los Angeles-remembers explaining to Schwartz that although she planned to take the Bar exam, she did not want to practice law. She told him she intended to continue waiting tables just as she had throughout law school in the Ashgrove, a '5os-style coffee house in West Hollywood. But, a few months later, as finals approached and Boyle sat among the library stacks studying, she was handed a note asking her to go see Schwartz immediately. Thinking there had been a family emergency or some tragedy, she ran to his office in a frenzy. He told her he wanted her to interview for a job as a labor attorney at a studio. When she called the number, she was told to get to the studio immediately.
"At this point in my life, I had hair I could sit on, and I was wearing jeans. I was not dressed for an interview," Boyle recalls. She found a piece of chalk and scrawled a note: "I took the car" in the parking space for her UCLA-student husband, Kevin Boyle. She drove down to La Brea and Sunset to Charlie Chaplin's former studio, which was then American
International Pictures. When she entered the lot, a parking kiosk attendant directed her to the interview.
"When I got there, there were three or four absolutely gorgeous, color-coordinated women sitting there waiting. I didn't know them-at that time I knew all the women law students from UCLA, Boalt and Stanford, and I didn't recognize these women. I thought maybe they were from Harvard or Yale."
Boyle was finally called into the interview, only to find the "prototypical studio guy," she says. "Here he is, feet up on his desk, the whole thing. The first thing this guy said to me is: 'Take off your jeans."' Boyle was outraged, and used her lawyering skills to tell him so. After the confrontation, the interviewer was able to explain. She had been misdirected to a casting call for a beach movie. "We were all supposed to be in swimsuits," she says, laughing. The confusion resolved, Boyle was directed to the right interviewer and she secured the attorney job for $IOO a week.
So Boyle entered the world of entertainment, where she was one of only a handful of women in a business that is today, like many industries, still trying to break gender barriers. Boyle, who has broken tremendous ground in independent film making, admits that being a woman in a man's world was tough, but that it did not consume her.
She emphasizes that she had a credential most women and many male peers did not have. "I was a woman in this business, yes, but that was superseded by the fact that I was a lawyer. I really think that made a difference. Without my law degree, given the same intellect and capabilities, I don't think I would have stood a chance."
Over the years, Boyle has played a spe-
partner in Boyle-Taylor Productions
Company formed with Michael Taylor in 1992 to produce feature-length motion pictures and television films, including "Mrs. Munck" for Showtime in 1995. Boyle-Taylor's second film, the "Boccie Rocket," for Columbia Pictures, was released in February followed by "Phenomenon," for Disney, co be released in July.
Education: UC Berkeley, bachelor's degree in English, 1957; LLB. from UCLA School of Law, 1960.
Past accomplishments: Boyle is one of the most well-known figures in the entertainment industry, and is often cited in che news media for her success in what has largely been considered a man's world. Prior co creation of Boyle-Taylor Productions, Boyle was president of Sovereign Pictures Inc., a company she co-founded in 1988. The company financed and distributed in the international market 25 films, including "My Left Foot," "Cinema Paradiso," "Reversal of Fortune," "Impromptu," "Hamlet" and "The Commitments." The company's films were nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won four.
Prior co the creation of Sovereign, Boyle served as Executive Vice President of Production with RKO Pictures, which produced a collection of successful films. From 1982 to 1986, Boyle was senior vice president of Worldwide Production at Orion Pictures Corp., where she supervised such notable hits as "Desperately Seeking Susan," "The Terminator," "Platoon" and "Robocop." Before her work with Orion, Boyle led Roger Corman's New World Pictures Inc. as chief operating officer and executive vice president, a position she earned after boosting sales and profits co record levels in her four years as executive vice president and general counsel. While at New World, she was responsible for the acquisition of U.S. distribution rights co a collection of pace-setting foreign films such as"Cries & Whispers," "Breaker Morant," "The Tin Drum," and "Small Change."
Career before production: Boyle began her career as corporate counsel for American Internacional Pictures, an independent production and distribution company, where she served until 1965. In 1967, she went into private practice as a partner in che entertainment law firm of Cohen & Boyle.
Community involvement: Boyle is a charter member of Women in Film and served as the organization's presidenc in 1977-78. She served on the board from 1990 co 1993. She is a founding member of che UCLA School of Law's Entertainment Advisory Council and served as its Co-Chairperson in 1979 and 1980. She is presidenc of the Independent Feature Project/West. She also is a founding member of the Women's Encerrainmenc Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and Hollywood Women's Political Committee.
Family: Husband, Kevin Boyle; two adult sons, David and Paul, and one granddaughter, Lili Claire.
cial role as a mentor for young men and women in the entertainment field. She is active in a vast number of professional organizations (see sidebar), and speaks frequently at schools and universities and for organizations. "I just think it's something that is really important to do, " she says. Initially, Boyle was one of, if not the only woman, in the film production business in the 1960s, and felt responsible to offer guidance to young women, as well as men. One of her young proteges was Michael Helfant '83, who is now executive
Barbara Boyle '60
David R. Ginsburg '76 Citadel Entertainment, LP.
Citadel is a joint venture of Home Box Office and Anglia Television (United Kingdom). Ginsburg supervises all corporate, financial and creative matters for the company and serves as executive producer of all Citadel productions.
Education: UCLA, bachelor's degree, 1972; law degree, 1976. He is reasonably conversational in Hungarian and Russian languages, which he learned from his college studies and in business.
Past accomplishments: UCLA LawReview Editor in Chief; did graduate work as a Danforth Foundation Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an exchange student at Leningrad State University; clerked for Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; was a partner of the entertainment law department of the law firm of Sidley & Austin in Los Angeles.
Comments about transition from law to business: "I wanted to stop representing clients and start becoming one. I wasn't fleeing a law practice that I disliked; rather, I felt that I was expanding my skills in an area of natural outgrowth."
A favorite adage: "Chance favors the well-prepared, for luck is the residue of design."
Significant recent projects: Productions include "Rasputin," filmed on location in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Budapest, Hungary; and "Citizen X" (Best movie of 1995, CableACE awards), both for HBO. CBS Schoolbreak Special, "Between Mother and Daughter," was awarded the prestigious Humanitas Prize as outstanding production in its category.
Family: Wife, Dena; and two children, Lev, 19, a freshman at UCLA, and Lauren, 17, who begins at UCLA in September.
vice president of lnterscope Communications Inc. Boyle's initial contact with law student Helfant was at UCLA Law, where Boyle was speaking on alternative careers for law graduates. She encouraged him to pursue his career, and has continued to give him guidance and friendship throughout the intervening years. "I feel an enormous obligation to mentor young people." Helfant, in introducing Boyle at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium in February, added: "She doesn't just mentor them, she adopts them, or so she thinks. All her kids out there have actually adopted her."
Unlike Boyle, David Ginsburg, now president of Citadel Entertainment, went to law school with the thought that he would one day work in the entertainment business. "I grew up in Los Angeles. I don't know how you can grow up in Los Angeles and not be touched by the entertainment business in some way," explains the '76 graduate. He also was drawn to business, trade and Soviet issues, an interest cultivated by his studies abroad in Eastern Europe. He would later learn to capitalize on every facet of his extensive background, building his production company into an international business with a special expertise on work done in Eastern Europe.
Cultivating his interest in entertainment law early in law school, Ginsburg spent his first summer working on an article for the UCLA Law Review, focusing on the rights of celebrities to control their names and likenesses. He took every entertainment law class offered at the law school and enrolled in additional classes in the Theater Department, in what is now known at the School of Theater, Film and Television. He took journalism courses. He adds that he was fortunate to be placed in the section that was taught its first-year contracts class by the late Mel Nimmer. "Other professors might give contract examples from industry," Ginsburg explained. " Mel's hypos would generally be drawn from entertainment cases," says Ginsburg, who funds a law school scholarship named for Nimmer.
After graduation, Ginsburg clerked for the Ninth Circuit, and then practiced law, becoming a founding partner of the Entertainment Law Department in the international law firm of Sidley & Austin in Los Angeles. After seven years at the firm, he took a sabbatical to work with a client in his production company's relocation from Toronto to Los Angeles. Returning to the firm after his sabbatical, he stayed for an 18-month commitment, then left for fulltime production work with his client, Robert Cooper. The company they ran as partners in 1986 was the precursor to Citadel Entertainment. "I decided I wanted to stop representing clients and start becoming one," Ginsburg says. "I wanted the challenge of the entrepreneurial and production environment."
But Ginsburg is quick to add he was not an unhappy lawyer. "I was not fleeing a law practice that I disliked. I felt that I was expanding my skills in an area of natural outgrowth. It was a natural transition."
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Two years later, Cooper left to become senior vice president of HBO Pictures. Ginsburg expanded the business and changed its name. From an average of one to two productions annually at the time he joined the company, Citadel's volume now has reached IO projects a year ordered to production by various networks. In addition to recent productions such as "Rasputin," produced on location in Russia and Hungary for HBO, and "Citizen X" (which won Best Cable Movie of 1995), Ginsburg takes pride in smaller projects that are "true labors of love." In a 1995 CBS Schoolbreak Special produced by Citadel, "Between Mother and Daughter," writers dealt with the subject of breast cancer in an unconventional way-illustrating a daughter's reaction to her mother's disease. Ginsburg felt a personal connection with the story from the time it was presented to Citadel. "I reacted to it immediately," he says. "It resonated in me," he explains. "My mother died of breast cancer." The work won the prestigious Humanitas Prize as the outstanding production in its category.
Another of Ginsburg's business endeavors that encompasses all of his legal and international background was his company's founding of Transatlantic Media Associates, a production facility in Budapest, Hungary.TMA's credits include, among others, HBO's "The Josephine Baker Story," NBC's "Passport to Murder," the recent Michael Jackson video, "History," and an upcoming feature motion picture of "Evita" for Cinergi. Ginsburg and his partners purchased the company-acquiring an experienced Hungarian production crew -just as the regimes of Eastern Europe were collapsing in the late 1980s. He says the transaction brought full circle all of his interest and experience. "In one test case, I used my college background, my interest in Eastern Europe, my law school background, my business experience and especially my experience as a producer."
He finds that this time in law school has proved especially beneficial in his career. "Thank God for law school. Every day of my business life, in planning, in decision-making, in negotiation, in contract work, in deal-making, and when I am called upon to take an adversarial position...every day I draw upon both my university and especially my iaw school training." "Sometimes, attorneys can'tsee theforestfor the trees, andthat can killadeal. We know what theforestis."
Like Ginsburg, Joseph Kornwasser '72 and Jerald Friedman '69 became attracted to some of the work their clients were doing when they ran their own law firm in Los Angeles. "We were representing some clients in commercial real estate who were buying retail shopping centers and hiring prop-
JERALD FRIEDMAN '69, CEO OF K & F DEVELOPMENT
CO erty managers to manage them. It was a good business," explains Friedman '69, who had no previous real estate experience when the two began their real estate partnership in the late 1970s . "We saw what they were doing. It seemed like fun. And we said, 'hey, we can do that."'
Their speculation led to what is today K & F Development Co., an outgrowth of a series of the business team's enterprises. K & F was a joint-venture partner of Price/Costco Inc. and Price Enterprises Inc., a major developer of regional and "power" shopping centers, referring to the grand-scale shopping centers anchored by a large warehouse or department store. Both men also serve on the board of National Bank of California, a bank they founded in 1984.
During the next year, they met Sol Price, for whom the Price Club is named. "He said he wanted to work with us as a joint-venture developer developing shopping centers adjacent to Price Club stores," Friedman explained. In that joint venture, Kornwasser and Friedman developed land throughout Southern California initially and then throughout the
Joseph J. Kornwasser Jerald Friedman
Joseph J. Komwasser '72 and Jerald Friedman '69 K & F Development Company
K & F is che successor to Kornwasser & Friedman Shopping Center Properties, developers of major shopping centers, entertainment centers and community shopping centers nationwide since 1981. K & F is a former joint-venture partner of Price/Costco Inc. and is an affiliate of the Price REIT Inc. Both men also serve on the board of National Bank of California, a bank they founded and whose headquarters they developed at Fairfax and Third in Los Angeles. They operate K&F and the Price REIT out of the office complex, as well.
Kornwasser
Role: Serves as president and chief executive officer of the Price REIT Inc., a real estate investment crust specializing in regional and "power" shopping centers. He is Chairman of the Board of National Bank of California.
Education: UCLA, bachelor's degree in finance/business, 1968; J.D., 1972. Also attended classes in the Graduate School of Management in 1970-71.
Family: Wife of 27 years, Hana; two grown children: daughter, Helena, married to '95 UCLA Law graduate Stephen Usdan; son, Laizer, attending Harvard MBA program.
Charitable/community work: Kornwasser has been active in redevelopment efforts in the Fairfax area, and he also has been active in religious and charitable organizations including having served as past president of the Yavneh Hebrew Academy. He is a member of the Young Israel of Hancock Park synagogue.
Friedman
Role: Serves as CEO of K&F Development Company, and as Secretary and Director of the National Bank of California.
Education: UCLA, bachelor's degree in political science in 1966; J.D. in 1969; first in his class, staff editor for UCLA Law Review, clerked for State Supreme Court following graduation. Family: Wife, Judi; son, Josh, obtaining a master's degree in journalism; son, Ari, a senior in high school.
Charitable/community work: Has served as president of the Los Angeles Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy Association and has been on its executive committee for 10 years. Currently, national corporate member of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and was a board member of Oakwood School in North Hollywood for 12 years.
The partnership
Kornwasser and Friedman met while practicing law at a now-defunct law firm in Los Angeles that specialized in corporate securities. They formed a partnership to develop property in 1973 after seeing several of their clients succeed in the business. Theirfavorite saying: "A smart person learns from his mistakes; a wise person learns from other people's mistakes." Says Friedman: "Unfortunately, most of the time we have been just smart; I would rather have been wise."
Significant events in business: In mid-198os met Sol Price, who said he wanted to work with chem in a joint venture developing adjacent to Price Clubs. Since then, the joint venture has built large-scale shopping centers throughout the country.
nation. K & F has offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and New York. As the joint venture evolved, Friedman became chief executive officer of K&F Development Co. And Kornwasser became chief executive �fficer of The Price REIT Inc., a real estate investment trust affiliate of K & F.
Friedman and Kornwasser both entertained some notions of going into business while still in law school-Kornwasser having entered law school the fall after Friedman had graduated. To boost his business knowhow, Kornwasser had taken course work at the UCLA School of Management for a year during law school. As an undergraduate at UCLA, he had majored in finance and business. Friedman had started out in chemistry, switching his major to political science at UCLA. He attended law school, graduating first in his class and having served as an editor on UCLA Law Review.
Both say their legal education has helped them immensely in business. "If nothing else, we can move things along faster," says Kornwasser. Additionally, they cart feel more confident in their decisions when making transactions, deal making, negotiating purchase agreements and conducting other business, Kornwassers says. "We don't have to rely on our attorneys," he explained. "We can make negotiations shorter and more meaningful."
Friedman finds that their legal experience enhances their business deals because they can keep in mind the best interests of their business while operating within the law. "Sometimes, attorneys can't see the forest for the trees, and that can kill a deal," Friedman philosophizes. "We know what the forest is."
Jon Chait '75 was a partner in a Milwaukee law firm representing Manpower Inc. when he decided in 1989 to leave law practice to work for Manpower. But he joined the temporary employment company only under the agreement that he would never practice law for
them."The lawyers don't report to me, I don't look at any of their work. I am strictly working on the business end," explains Chait, who currently is managing director of the company's International Division, a position that will take him with his family to Belgium next year.
Chait's interest in business developed as he practiced law and negotiated leveraged buyouts and financial restructurings for clients. Among his more well-known clients was the company Esprit de Corp, the clothing company once owned by a husband-wife team Chait organized the company's restructuring, which was further complicated by the team's divorce before the sale of Esprit. In 1987, Chait represented Manpower in a deal in which the company was bought out by a British company. The British company turned out to have legal and financial problems, and in a series of management changes, Chait was hired to help usher the company into a more sound future. An ensuing investigation by the British government, in which Chait and other company officials were witnesses, resulted in the prosecution of financial advisers to the company.
In 1991, Chait and his colleagues performed a feat never accomplished previously when they successfully changed the jurisdiction of the British-owned company to the United States, despite complications with corporate-takeover laws of both countries in conflict. Chait continued to guide the company along its cleanup path, becoming chief financial officer in 1993. As the company expanded -doubling its revenues between 1989 and the present-Chait became managing director of the international division in late 1995.
Today, Manpower is the country's largest employer, with 1,100 offices in the United States and in excess of 2,000 offices worldwide with sales of more than $6 billion. By employing high-quality temporary employees who are computer programmers and other skilled professionals, Manpower situates itself in a different category than secretarial temporary employers. The company also distinguishes itself by investing in skills assessments for its employees and providing a vast number of workers for the industrial fields "Our philosophy is that no one is unskilled," explains Chait. "There is something they can do." He added that someone who can't compute numbers
Jon F. Chait '75 Managing Director, International Division, Manpower Inc.
Chait has led various divisions of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based temporary employment company since the 1980s. Before working for Manpower-the largest employer in the world-he was a partner in the law firm of Godfrey & Kahn That firm had represented Manpower Inc., and Chait had worked closely with the company during that period
Education: Bachelor's degree in 1972 from UCLA, Phi Beta Kappa; law degree from UCLA, 1,975, where he was articles editor of the UCLA Law Review
Past accomplishments: From 1975 to 1979, Chait practiced law with the firm of Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee. He was appointed Executive Vice President of Manpower Inc in 1989, and elected Chief Financial Officer in 1993. He was appointed Managing Director-Internacional Division, in 1995 and in that position, will move co Belgium next year.
Memberships/service: He is a member of the Board of Directors of Krueger International Inc. (manufacturer of office products), Marshall & Ilsley Corp (bank holding company) and M & I Daras Services Inc., which provides data processing services and sofrware to financial institutions
Family: Wife, Mary; two daughters: Meredith, 5, and Jamie, 18
or chink analytically may have outstanding dexterity with machinery, or be able to eye a strip of numbers quickly to compare serial numbers on goods. "We have a commitment to assessing skills "
Chait says he could not have predicted when he was in law school chat he would be involved in business one day. "I liked law school...and I felt very prepared for my first job-as a lawyer-when I graduated from law school. le was more of a situation where my interests evolved as I practiced law and became more involved in business."
Deborah Arron '75, the daughter of a lawyer, attended law school with the thought of possibly becoming a public defender or going into politics. While in law school, she enrolled in now-Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul Boland's yearlong trial advocacy course, she was an editor on UCLA Law Review and was a good student When she graduated, she returned to her home state of Washington to practice law, and became the first female associate at a Seattle law firm dealing mostly in civil litigation She lacer became a partner in a small firm, and lacer was a solo practitioner. After 10 years , she decided to cry something else. But she didn't know what.
Deborah Arron '75 Career Counselor to the Legal Profession
Arron speaks throughout the world on career development issues for lawyers and law students. Ten years into her Seattle, Washington legal career, she took off a year and began writing a book about lawyers who had left law, and why, and how they had made that decision. Recognizing that other lawyers were looking to get out of the legal profession, three years lacer, in 1988, she founded an information-and-support group for lawyers that grew into a public speaking and consulting business. She has never returned to law practice.
Education: University of Washington, bachelor's degree in history, phi beta kappa, magna cum laude, UCLA School of Law, J.D. 1975.
Past accomplishments: Editor on UCLA Law Review; practiced as first female associate at one of Seattle's large law firms, was a partner in a small firm and worked as a solo practitioner. She served on the Board of Trustees of the King County (Seattle) Bar Association after serving as chair of its Young Lawyers Section. Author of two nationally recognized books, What Can You Do with a Law Degree?: A Lawyers Guide to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside and Around the Law and Runningfrom the Law: Wiry Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession. She also co-authored The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering.
Comments about transition &om law to business: "Lawyers considering a change often have problems doing so, especially if they want to leave the profession. I wrote my first book because I was looking for someone to tell me it was O.K. not to be a lawyer. Law school, especially my clinical education experience, was an invaluable education for me, even though I'm not now practicing law. My experiences at UCLA contributed greatly to the success I have achieved."
Family: Husband is Mark Jaroslaw.
"It was a very depressing time for me," says Arron of her decision to take a year off to figure out her next career move. "So much of my self esteem came from being a lawyer. When I quit, I felt worthless." What Arron found outside law practice was a number of lawyers who felt the same way she did, and they too were looking for answers. She talked to a number of them and started a support group. The result was her first book in 1989: Runningfrom theLaw: Why GoodLawyersare Getting OutoftheLegal Profession (now in its fourth printing). Seminars and workshops followed in what became Arron's new career as a consultant and motivational speaker, first locally, then nationally and recently internationally for lawyers in transition and law students or those looking for more satisfying careers inside, outside and around the law. A second nationally recognized book by Arron, What Can YouDowithaLaw Degree?:ALawyer's Guideto CareerAlternativesInside, OutsideandAroundtheLaw, offers a self-paced workbook approach to career change and is now in its second edition. She is co-author of The Complete Guideto Contract Lawyering, aimed at those who still want to practice law, but in a different way.
"What a lot of lawyers don't realize is that law school provides you with an excellent education that can be used in other fields besides law," she explains. "Law school teaches you how to think analytically, to handle enormous workloads under pressure and to deal with difficult people." Arron adds that her participation in the clinical program and in law school, in general, helped to hone her skills in public speaking, something she both immensely enjoys and depends on in her new career. She explains that for many people with good grades but no clear career goals, including herself, law school was a logical next step after college. But, she continues, many people make the mistake of believing they have to stay in law when they are no longer enjoying it, or simply want to try something new."We say, 'Law school was hard; I was able to do it. It must mean I ought to stay in law."' She says this attitude permeates the lawyer population so intensely that lawyers are sometimes afraid to admit they don't want to be lawyers anymore. "I have people come up to me and whisper, so no one can hear: 'Thanks so much for doing what you do. I want to change careers, but don't know how to go about it."'
In her writings and presentations, she tries to teach attorneys how to integrate "their left and right brains. A lot of lawyers don't know how to do that." Arron elaborates: "Lawyers distrust their intuitive-their feeling-side, but they need to pay attention to it when they are thinking about a career change. I try to appeal to their left brains, and to make them think about why they are doing what they do; what it is they really want to express through their work?"
James (Jim) Eisenberg '83 was practicing tax and corporate law in a Beverly Hills law firm when he stumbled across a business opportunity he learned about through one of his clients.The company, which was having financial difficulties, manufactured printed circuit boards. He didn't even know what one was.
"It's funny, I had to ask," explains Eisenberg, president of Santa Ana, California-based Power Circuits Inc.
In researching the circuit board business, he found out that VCRs, stereos, telephones and everything that runs by some form of computerization requires a circuit board. He decided it would be a good business if run properly. With a partner to handle the manufacturing side, Eisenberg purchased the fledgling business, sought out customers and has turned it into a profitable, 150-employee company whose clients include Motorola, IBM and Hughes.
"There were only 12 employees, little business, and I was out of money," he says, explaining the risk he took as a young man only two years out of law school. "It was awful. My partner took cash advances on his credit cards to make payroll and I moved in with friends. And it was all worth it."
As president, Eisenberg devotes his time to corporate affairs, which includes overseeing the company's contracts, pricing, sales and human resources. His partner, Dale Anderson, handles the manufacturing side. Eisenberg says he enjoys the "people" side of the business.
"We employ a lot of minorities from the local area, and I enjoy that opportunity," says Eisenberg. "They are not working in low-level jobs, but higher-paying, supervisorial and management positions. I am proud of that. At our annual company picnic, I enjoy looking around at all of the faces from different cultures."
James (Jim) Eisenberg '83 President, Power Circuits Inc.
Power Circuits is a Santa Ana-based electronic equipment and supplies manufacturer.As president, Eisenberg oversees corporate affairs, including all business transactions, contracts, pricing, sales and human resources. Clients include Motorola, IBM and Hughes.
Education: The Chicago native graduated from the University ofIllinois in 1978 and UCLA School ofLaw in 1983. He is also a CPA.
Accomplishments: After practicing law for two years for the firm ofHochman, Salkin & Deroy (Bruce Hochman '52, Avram Salkin '59, George DeRoy '51),Eisenberg left practice to pursue his business interests.When he scarred at Power Circuits in 1985, the company employed 12 people, had no money and little business. Power Circuits is now a nationwide company that employs more than 150 employees.
Eisenberg adds that his relationships with people, and the time it takes to develop relationships and trust, are invaluable working in the business world. "You can't buy time," he says. "I feel very fortunate that I had the freedom to roll the dice and take a chance at a new business."
Eisenberg is also proud of the efforts he and his partner have made to maintain an environmentally clean-running company. Printed circuit board manufacturers frequently have problems with hazardous waste disposal, he explains.The California Water Environment Association recently gave Power Circuits the "Industry of the Year Award" for Southern California for controlling its hazardous wastes.
He explains that he likes working with law in a business setting. "I use my legal education a lot," he says, adding that liability issues, employment situations and many other areas of his business require legal knowledge.The most valuable class he had in law school was a business course with Professor Michael Asimow. He adds not only was the subject matter helpful, but Asimow was his first professor who required students to use a computer.
Don Eugene-Nolan Gibson '83
Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, Major League Baseball Properties Inc.
Gibson is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Major League Baseball Properties, the licensing, marketing and publishing arm of Major League Baseball. In that position, he oversees, among other things, the corporate sponsorship and retail licensing of Major League Baseball merchandise--from T-shirts to coffee mugs - which peaked at an estimated $3 billion in retail sales in 1993. MLB Properties seeks to protect MLB from infringement of its trademark and other proprietary rights.
Education: Born in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, Gibson has a bachelor's degree in economics from Bucknell University, 1980; UCLA School of Law, 1983.
Accomplishments: Served as ChiefComment Editor of UCLA Law Review; clerked for U.S. District Judge David Williams in Los Angeles; caught Legal Research and Writing at Stanford Law School; worked as an associate at Stein & Kahan, Santa Monica, which specializes in handling litigation on behalf of persons and entities in the music, motion picture and television industries. Gibson joined the Office of the Commissioner as Associate Counsel in 1989, where he was responsible for drafring contracts, conducting and coordinating trademark protection efforts and for other legal matters for Major League Baseball. In 1982 he was named Vice President and General Counsel for Major League Baseball Properties.
"It was the funniest thing. PCs were just starting to be used, and the law school had just acquired an IBM personal computer." Eisenberg remembers that Asimow required students in the class to complete a project using the spreadsheet program installed on the computer, a task that many students in the class not having been exposed to computers-found daunting. "That was probably one of the most practical and valuable experience I had in law school."
Eisenberg's classmate and good friend, Don Eugene-Nolan (Buzz) Gibson, Senior Vice President of Business Affairs/Major League Baseball Properties Inc., claims it was mostly happenstance that landed him a job for Major League Baseball. But those who know of his successes in law school, and of his boyhood dream to be a baseball player, might attest to another series of destinies at work for Gibson.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, Gibson-the man who oversees MLB's merchandising of everything from baseball caps to sheets and towels bearing Major League team, logos or names-had never heard of baseball when his parents moved to New York when he was a boy. "Cricket was my first sport," he explains. "However, I was first exposed to baseball during the 1968 World Series and vividly recall watching Bob Gibson pitch against the Tigers. The next year, the Miracle Mets won the Series. That was it. I loved the game, and I dreamed of one day being a professional player. But I could never hit that breaking pitch."
So Don Gibson studied economics at Bucknell University, and decided to apply to law school. He never even thought of applying to UCLA, but UCLA recruiters encouraged him to apply. "I decided at that time that if I was going to go attend law school I might as well go where it's nice and sunny instead of cold." He wrote on to the UCLA Law Review with an article, he notes ironically, about violence in professional sports. Gibson, who later would become Chief Comment Editor on the Law Review, at that time had his eye on possibly entering sports law. He sent a copy of the article to several labor attorneys in professional sports. Somehow, excerpts of his article ended up in Sports Illustrated, and he was in danger of being pre-empted by his own article. With permission from Law Review editors, he sent his Comment to the Communications andEntertainment Lawjournal (Comm/Enc) at Hastings Law School where it was published during his second year.
Following graduation in 1983, Gibson clerked for U.S. District Judge David Williams in Los Angeles and taught Legal Research and Writing at Stanford Law School. In 1986 he secured a job with the Santa Monica firm of Stein & Kahan, which specializes in litigation on behalf of persons and entities in the music, motion picture and television industries. Gibson traveled to Arizona in 1988 to observe the annual rite of passage-baseball spring training. Following a week of two-game days, he knew he wanted to be a lawyer in baseball. "I wanted to get involved in the game."
Here's where luck, Gibson maintains, started taking over his life. He put the word out that he wanted to obtain a position in Major League Baseball. And through a series of connections-starting with a Stanford faculty member with whom he had become friends and who had a number of high-level contacts in baseball-Gibson was put in touch in May 1988 with the Director of Legal Affairs for the Office of the Commissioner for Major League Baseball. The director told Gibson that there were no positions available, but if Gibson ever was in New York, he would be pleased to talk to Gibson. In August of that year, Gibson took a trip to Baltimore and decided to take a side trip to New York. He arranged a meeting with the Director of Legal Affairs, and at the beginning of the meeting was told there was a position that had just come open-associate counsel for the Office of the Commissioner. He was the first person interviewed. Gibson was hired, and in that position was responsible for drafting licensing, sponsorship and broadcast agreements and for protection of the trademarks of Major League Baseball. In 1992, Gibson was named to the position of Vice President and General Counsel of Major League Baseball Properties. His ascent continued, and when the president left the company in January 1994, Gibson became responsible for the day-to-day operations of MLB Properties. In April 1995, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and is still responsible for the company's day-to-day operations. The president has yet to be replaced. "It all happened very quickly," he says of his swift climb. "I had to become a sponge and absorb as much knowledge as I could in a short amount of time."
In Gibson's time with Major League Baseball, the sport has endured a dip in popularity after the players' strike, and has had to reconfigure the way it markets to customers, Gibson explains. He says the sport must better promote its players, making them national stars and heroes. He adds that the players must, in turn, build closer relationships with the fans, who have to be shown that they are highest priority. In that vein, Gibson is spearheading a new advertising campaign for Major League Baseball. In the past few years, Major League Baseball also has undertaken judicious enforcement of trademark laws, aiding law enforcement and utilizing its own security forces to aggressively pursue companies that illegally copy MLB merchandise, a business that cuts deeply into the revenues of professional sports. Merchandising, Gibson adds, is one of baseball's greatest sources of revenue ranking only below ticket sales and television revenues. "That's a lot of baseball caps, baseball cards, sheets and other things being sold."
Elizabeth Vella 96provided researchfor this article.
Thefollowing alums, who have had exceptional careers as entrepreneurs, have beenfeaturedin previous alumni magazines:
Albert B. Glickman '60, founder and sole proprietor of Albert B. Glickman and Associates
A real estate and shopping center developer, Glickman was Alumnus of the Year in 1992. He has been active in real estate and shopping center development for 35 years, and has participated in the development of hundreds of commercial projects. He serves on the Board of Directors and is former Chairman of Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston.
David G. Price '60, Chairman, American Golf Corporation
Price was a practicing attorney with O'Melveny & Myers before he entered business. American Golf Corporation, which he founded, is the nation's largest golf-course management firm, now operating more than 250 golf courses.
Stewart A. Resnick '62, Roll International Corp. (Paramount Farms, TeleFlora, the Franklin Mint)
Resnick worked his way through law school washing windows, and formed a successful janitorial company that he sold to ITT less than a decade after he graduated from law school. He and his wife, Lynda, bought the Franklin Mint, the world's largest direct marketing company, in 1985. Another major holding, Paramount Farms, is the No. 1 pistachio grower in the United States and grows oranges for Sunkist. •!•
Library under construction and due to open 1n 1997
WITH THE CEREMONIAL TURN OF A SHOVEL, the UCLA School of Law broke ground on its long-anticipated library project, turning the page to a new era when a premier law school will also boast a state-of-theart law library.
"We've made it," said Richard Stack, trustee of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation, which funded the first $5 million of the project's cost. ''And, quite frankly, I never had any doubt we would."
The library renovation, which will expand the building's height to four floors plus a basement and double its usable space, was first envisioned in the 1970s by Bill Warren, the school's fourth dean. Dean Warren collaborated with then-Law Librarian Frederick Smith in planning for a library that would not only meet intense campus usage needs but regional demands as well.
In the coming years, the need for an expanded library intensified. Evaluations by the law school's accrediting agencies continually pointed out that the existing library did not meet space requirements for the size of the school's student population.
The Darling Foundation's $5-million contribution in 1989 was the cornerstone for what was to become a multi-million-dollar fund raising effort for the future Hugh and Hazel Darling Library, a project funded roughly half by state and half by private contributions. David Price '60 and Stanley Fimberg '60 co-chaired the Library Campaign Committee in its earlier stages. Ralph J. Shapiro '58-who with his wife Shirley are together the single largest donors to the law schoolchairs the current Major Gifts Committee.
Richard J. Burdge '79 and Deborah David '75 co-chair the Alumni Campaign for the Law Library, which has delivered more than $1.5 million in gifts ranging from the $25,000 to $50,000 levels.
Instrumental in the project's success were private gifts that included a major gift from the Ahmanson Foundation.
TREES ARE SAVED IN LIBRARY PROJECT
As the calendar opened to a new year in January, heavy construction equipment began tearing through rhe lawn in front ofthe law school in preparation for the building ofthe new library. But even as the excitement built that the construction on the long-waited project would finally begin, there was trepidation among the ranks ofstudents and staffas well as the faculty
It wasn't so much that the law school was fast becoming a construction zone. And ir wasn't even that getting materials from the temporary library might be a little more inconvenient than people were accustomed. No, the main topic ofconversation in earlyJanuary was the trees.
In nearly a half-century, as the law school grew in size and prestige, a clump oftrees had also grown in stature and grace.
"It was an emotional issue for people," said Charles Cannon, administrative officer for the library who is coordinating project management for the law school during construction.
"Everyone said, 'you can't just rip out 45 years ofhistory.' And we didn't," he said smiling.
In consultation with a botanist hired by UCLA for this project, five ofseven Australian Ficus trees (those are the very large trees that dotted the southern corner ofthe lawn) were spared. Two others, Cannon explained, were deemed not likely to survive a move.
The five remaining trees were gingerly moved into very large planters built especially for chem. For this, contractors had to dig down around each tree and build planters around the tree so that the roots would have very little exposure to the air. They were then moved under the cover ofdarkness by flatbed truck to the Wesrwood entrance to campus on Le Conte Avenue. The night-time removal was required for minimal disturbance to city streets, Cannon explained. Signal lights and street signs on some
left: A tree is bound and readied to be removed to another location as a back hoe, in background, prepares for more digging.
The barren soil, trees removed, at the southeast corner ofthe law school's space, evolves into a construction site last January.
Westwood streets had to be removed to accommodate the wide load. "Remember, these are very large trees," Cannon said. "This is like moving a house."
"It was amazing to watch," said rhird-year student Bruce Barnett, who like most people at the law school witnessed rhe project unfold during a two-week period.
"My son even mentioned it to me-he is very concerned about rhe environment and was worried what would happen to them," Barnett said of 12-year-old Michael. "Those are great trees. You could not replace rhem."
And, Cannon adds, the saving of rhe trees carried the added bonus of beautifying an area of campus on Le Conte Avenue that lacked substantial landscaping until now. The new landscaping caught the eye and attention of many, including Michael Bobrow, chair of the Westwood Village Community Alliance's Planning and Design Committee and design principal for Bobrow/Thomas and Associates -an architecture firm in Westwood. Bobrow said the relocation of trees showed the school's commitment to preserving UCLA's ambience.
"The real architecrure of rhe UCLA campus has really always been its landscaping. That's what pulls everyrhing together-not the buildings," rhe architect said. "Those trees show a real commitment to preserving the edge of the community between UCLA and Westwood, which is so important to cultivate and maintain.''
In addition to rhe Ficus trees, a collection of Saucer Magnolias (commonly called tulip trees) and shrubs were also saved. The Saucer Magnolias were, like rhe trees, placed into individual planters and remain on the lawn in a daunting scale that makes passers-by feel like Lilliputians making rheir way rhrough a collection of Gulliver's house plants. Those trees later will be replanted on the south and east sides of the new library building, which will form rhe new courtyard.
"The entire campus has benefited," said Cannon. "The once-barren campus gateway looks as if the avenue of Ficus trees has been growing there for 50 years. And rhe expanded law building will still sit serenely behind a screen of immense trees as it always has."
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"We have been gratified by the significant private support for the library project," said Myra Saunders, Law Librarian. "We feel that such support comes in recognition ofthe quality of the library and its role as both a campus and regional resource for legal research. Without this support, it is clear that this much-needed project would not have gone forward. We are extremely pleased that the Ahmanson Foundation, which had already done so much to help us develop our East Asian Legal Collection, chose to support this project."
With more than $II million raised by the time of the groundbreaking January 23, the school still needs to raise nearly $2 million in private donations.
right: Dean Susan Prager, Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Trustee Richard Stack, former dean and Professor Bill Warren and Chancellor Charles E. Young open January's ground-breaking ceremony for the new library
"This ground-breaking is truly a culmination ofthe tremendous time andenergy taken by the law school and the universiry communiry. The committee's work and our new library arejust two additional reasons to beproud of UCLA Law."
MICHELLE LOGAN-STERN '95 FORMER LIBRARY COMMITTEE MEMBER
LAW SCHOOL RECEIVES KRESGE CHALLENGE GRANT FOR LIBRARY PROJECT
UCLA School of Law has been awarded a $I-million challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation for the renovation and expansion of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library -a building project that will nearly double the library's current storage space and greatly advance its technological capabilities.
The grant is contingent on the law school's raising of the remaining funds needed to complete the library project by December 1996. Already, the law school has raised more than $II million out of the $14 million needed in private funds to complete the planned four-story, towered structure. The expansion of the library, which houses one of the largest collections of bound volumes of any California law school, is being partly funded with state money.
"It is a tremendous honor for The Kresge Foundation to have chosen UCLA's law school as a recipient of one of its highly competitive grants," said UCLA School of Law Dean Susan Prager. "This grant will help us secure the future of UCLA with a library facility that serves the needs of the students and community."
One of the most prestigious private foundations, The Kresge Foundation, located in Troy, Michigan, is one of the few foundations that makes grants for capital projects. All Kresge grants are made on a challenge basis, requiring the institution to ensure the project's completion.
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Richard Ellis '59; Richard Stack, Trustee of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation; and Phil Magararn '6r.
Professor Arthur Rosett, Librarian Emeritus Frederick Smith and Professor Emeritus David Mellinkoff eye the building plans.
Richard J. Burdge '79, and Deborah David '75, Co-Chairs of the Alumni Campaign for the Law Library
Ralph Shapiro '58, David Karton '71 and Cheryl Karton.
GTE FOUNDATION MAKES
$350,000 GRANT PROJECT
The GTE Foundation has made the largest corporate grant ever received by the UCLA Law School to help fund the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library building project. UCLA has agreed to recognize the $350,000 grant by identifying GTE as the underwriter of the major conference room in the new library.
Dean Susan Prager, reflecting on the grant said: "We are indebted to GTE, both here in California and at the corporate headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut for their interest in and support of our library project. I am convinced chat a grant of this magnitude from GTE will not only help us complete the private fund-raising effort for our library project but will draw the attention of ocher corporate donors to the law school and to UCLA."
"GTE is pleased to be a part of the UCLA Law Library project. Given our shared interest in the vitality of the Los Angeles area, we are pleased to assist the law school in continuing its tradition of leadership while enhancing its ability to provide state-of-the-art facilities for its students and the greater UCLA and Los Angeles communities," Michael T. Masin '69, GTE vice chairman and president, international, said.
Made near the end of calendar year 1995, the GTE grant was a crucial piece in helping the law school compete for The Kresge Foundation's $I-million challenge grant. "Without the GTE commitment, which demonstrated corporate interest in the library project, I am certain we would not be in the position we are today with respect to the Kresge Challenge," Dean Prager remarked. "GTE executives were aware of the Kresge requirements and stepped forward at a critical time in the law school's history to help us qualify for the Challenge Grant."
With revenues of $20 billion in 1995, GTE is one of the largest publicly held telecommunications companies in the world. GTE is also the largest U.S.-based local telephone company and a leading cellular-service provider-with wireline and wireless operations chat form a market area covering about one third of the country's population, serving more than 3.5 million customers in California. Outside the United States, where GTE has operated for more than 40 years, the company serves over six million customers. GTE also is a worldwide leader in government and defense communications systems and equipment, aircraft-passenger telecommunications, directories and telecommunicationsbased information services and systems. •!•
"This building gives new energy to the campus, uniting the best ofthe old andnew."
BUZZ YUDELL, THE PROJECT'S PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT, OF THE FIRM MOORE RUBLE YUDELL, SANTA MONICA
Nikola Mikulicich '93, a member of the library committee while a student at UCLA; Jeannie Chen and John Ruble, of Moore Ruble Yudell; Michelle Logan-Stern '95, former student library committee member; and Buzz Yudell view the model of the future library.
Buzz Yudell, principal architect of the library project, of Moore Ruble Yudell.
Professor Jesse Dukeminier and UCLA Chancellor Charles Young share a moment during the ground-breaking ceremony.
'1spoke at theground-breaking ofthe clinical building, andIwasn'tsure that this building wouldmake it during my teaching career here. I'm very glad that our persistent dean pushed and pushed and that we are going to have this building."
PROFESSOR EMERITUS JESSE DUKEMINIER
Photos byMaryann Stuehrmann
Workers in late April tear down the outer walls at the southwest corner of the law school as they make way for the expansion of the law library.
Linda and Lawrin S. Lewin '63, and DeDe and Moses Lebovits '75 at the reception that followed the ground-breaking Jan. 23.
Littleton challenges her students to challenge standards
ByAlisaPerren
CHRISTINE
LITTLETON WAS A YOUNG
LEGAL SECRETARY
in the 1970s when she sat in a New York City courtroom, observing women being brought in on charges of prostitution. These women, although not yet convicted of any offenses, were nonetheless thrust into the hall of justice, bound together by chains, and subjected to various forms of poor treatment. The future UCLA law professor and UCLA Women's Studies Department Director became angry as she watched the proceedings. "Seeing these women bound by chains, I became motivated by the prospect that I could alter such conditions as an attorney."
Chris Littleton's distress over the treatment of these women was to become a foundation for her future legal studies in which she would contribute to expanding the range of feminist legal theory and challenge legal standards on such issues as sexual orientation and discriminatory employment practices. Raised in a traditional family in rural Pennsylvania, the prospect of pursuing the law was only a fleeting thought during her undergraduate career at Penn State. By the time she suggested to counselors the possibility of studying law, she was told she was already too far along in her studies. Lacking the funds and encouragement to try law school, she set aside her dream of being a lawyer. She chose instead a more traditional route for women in the 197os-teaching English, speech and theater in a Connecticut High School. When teaching proved to be too constraining after a few years, she headed to New York, acting in off-Broadway theater and working as a legal secretary.
As a legal secretary, she found herself among nonsexist attorneys who were passionate in their pursuit of justice. "I was encouraged to explore the law, rekindling the dream I had of being a lawyer when I was younger."
She applied to law school, enrolling at Harvard in 1979. "I loved thinking about the law and loved the way that legal cases presented themselves," she said of her early law school experience. By the end of her first year, she found her secretarial skills useful in her role as managing editor of the WomensLawjournal. Following her first year, she worked in the Special Prosecutions Bureau of the New York State Department of Law.
Littleton increasingly attained satisfaction in law school as she questioned existing standards and challenged barriers. As one of only three women in her year to be selected for the Harvard Law Review, she challenged the structure of the review itself. When she wrote a piece on sexual equality, she asked that the article be indexed under the category of "feminist legal theory." Hearing that no such category existed, Littleton told the editors to make one. They did.
Littleton headed west for the first time the summer after her second year of law school to work for the firm of lrell & Manella in Los Angeles. She realized she loved the area. "It's more politically open here. Los Angeles offered more opportunities for women and a burgeoning legal profession."
She graduated from Harvard in 1982 and returned to Los Angeles, serving as a law clerk to Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Warren J. Ferguson, who became a role model for Littleton.
She had intended to return to Irell & Manella after completing the clerkship. Then UCLA called. Following a lunch with Professor Kenneth Karst, whose legal philosophies she had admired greatly, she considered teaching for a couple of years at the law school. Professors Stephen Yeazell and Alison Anderson provided further encouragement as they assured her of the possibility of being both a litigator and a teacher. Seeing a female dean and women faculty who were supportive of other women, she became more convinced it would be a wise decision. An offer to teach a course on Women and the Law sealed her fate, and she began teaching that course and the first-year contracts class in the 1983-84 year.
Littleton became increasingly absorbed in instruction and activist pursuits during her time at UCLA. During the 1980s, Littleton added the demanding Remedies course to her teaching schedule along with Employment Discrimination, Feminist Legal Theory, and Sexual Orientation and the Law.
Dean Susan Prager credits Littleton with a creative restructuring of the Remedies course in which Littleton condenses the material covered on the Bar exam to two units, which is then
"Her enthusiasm for civil rights andpublic interest
work ishighly contagious.
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STEVE HAYDON, 2L
concentrated in the first half of the semester. Students then can master this material as the foundation for a more in-depth experience they can pursue for the rest of the semester if they wish. Dean Prager says that with Remedies, as in all her work, Littleton is especially adept at bringing law to life for students. "Using actual cases, she brings into her classroom leading public interest lawyers to explain how they crafted the remedial portions of specific landmark litigation. Students thus learn the material in a different way, and are encouraged to think about remedies as solutions rather than rules to be mastered."
Littleton wrote articles on sexual equality and feminist jurisprudence, culminating in an early career highlight with an amicus brief on reproductive equality in the workplace, submitted to the Supreme Court in 1985, a project which she regards as one of the highlights of her career. From 1984 to 1989, she served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California ACLU, where she became involved in litigation concerning sexual harassment and discrimination against persons with AIDS as well as advocacy projects on women's rights and family law. In 1989, she became one of the founding directors of the California Women's Law Center, where she defended the rights of women forced to choose between custody of their children and their economic and social well-being. Through the Association of American Law Schools, she helped expand legal education's commitment to racial and ethnic diversity, acceptance of lesbians and gay men and inclusion of feminist legal theory on a national level. She successfully blends her community work with classroom instruction. In her spring Remedies course, for example, students studied a consent decree formulated by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a housing discrimination case. Littleton serves as the special master, appointed to implement several of the provisions.
Littleton's devotion to educating students about gender roles and equality reaches beyond the law school. One of Littleton's greatest responsibilities has come from her role as director of UCLA's undergraduate Women's Studies Program for the past three years. The interdisciplinary academic program, which offers both an undergraduate major and a specialization, was established in 1975 and spans departments, disciplines and ideologies.
Littleton oversees the development of the Women's Studies curriculum for the program. She teaches several courses in the program, including the general education course, Introduction to Women's Studies and upper division Women's Studies departmental courses that integrate legal topics, such as Feminist Theory and the Jurisprudence of Sexual Equality. This is the
program's 20th year, and it marks Littleton's last year as its director. "I leave in June with the program stronger, more diverse and more respected," she said. "I am proud of that."
Dean of UCLA Life Sciences Fred Eiserling, who oversees the Women's Studies P.rogram, praises Littleton's contributions. "Under her leadership, the program has strengthened its ethnic and international studies development, completed and filed a proposal for a graduate program in women's studies, greatly increased both the number of courses and the range of departments involved and developed strong ties between the college and professional schools."
Littleton's achievements have been recognized by the campus and community. In 1991, she received the Fredric P. Sutherland Public Interest Award from the UCLA School of Law, followed by a nomination during the 1993-94 year for the Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award for her undergraduate and law teaching. In addition, Littleton was recognized in March by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women for her volunteer work in women's issues.
Of her goals as an instructor, Littleton said: "I want to give students a sense of empowerment as well as a sense of their responsibility-to themselves, their clients and the community."
Steve Haydon, a second-year law student and the Articles Editor of UCLA LawReview, said that Littleton has played an important role in his legal education. They became acquainted when Littleton was his first-year, small section contracts professor. Littleton then advised him on a Comment he wrote and helped him to secure employment his first summer. "Professor Littleton is a terrific teacher; she's extremely engaging," said Haydon, who signed up this year for Littleton's Remedies course." And outside the classroom, she is extraordinarily generous with her time and sage advice. She is a source of great inspiration: I drop by her office pretty regularly because her enthusiasm for civil rights and public interest work is highly contagious."
Ultimately, the advice that she tries to convey to her classes reflects how she lives her life as well: "You are a participant in this field, not just a spectator," she tells them."Law is not just rules in the books. Everyone who w�rks with law is part of the creation of the law."
Professor Littleton speaks with members of the Women's Law Union.
� new regular column ofthis magazine that represents our attempt to bring you usefol information you can use to keep up with the school, orjust keep up inyour practice or business. This is written by UCLA Law Magazine Editor Karen Nikos with information supplied by Electronic Resources LibrarianJune Hsiao Liebert faculty and various Web wanderers. Ifyou have something you'd like to share, please let us know. Enjoy.
Resources available on UCLA Law's Web page
IF YOU HAVEN'T LOOKED at UCLAW's Web page lately (http://www.law.ucla.edu), or at all, you might want to peek at the resources now available there. In addition to the alumni events calendar, you can find the law school's Admissions Bulletin and a host of interesting links (through the research page), where you can look up everything from how Congress is voting on particular matters to book reviews on the latest mysteries. You can even look at the schedule of exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art or check out a travel page to see what flight to take to your reunion. All of the link sites are organized in a manner that's very easy to follow. You may find the law-related sites particularly interesting.
The law school's Web page also allows you easy access to the UCLA page, which gives you a vast amount of information about the whole university. You may want to point this site out to your college/law school-bound children, friends and relatives.
Also new on the library page, you'll find some information about the ground-breaking along with a collection of photos from that event-the same ones you'll find in this magazine.
The Internet as teaching tool
Professor Susan French, who you may remember was profiled in the fall '95 magazine, has begun using the law school's Web server to distribute a variety of class materials such as assignments, notes and articles. Only internal law school audiences can access these materials. Recently, French's property students were asked to analyze a real case provided by a local attorney. All the materials related to the case (maps, pleadings, etc.) were placed online for the students to examine. The
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attorney further brought the case to life by visiting the class and discussing the litigation with students.
New student law journal
Robert Wasserman, a second-year UCLAW student, is leading a group of students who have started the UCLA Bulletin ofLaw and Technology. You can link to it through the Web page or go to "http://www.law.ucla.edu/student/organizations/blt/ind ex.html". The online journal is meant as a forum for short essays on current issues in technology law. There will also be a chat line and a section for works in progress, where readers can view some work that will appear months later in other law journals. The Bulletin ofLaw and Technology is expected to be up and running with its submissions later this spring.
MCLE Credit on the Net
Through the Internet, you can find information about Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) programs and also work directly on the Net for MCLE credit. Counsel Connect, which recently severed , its affiliation with Lexis, offers "seminars" on the Internet. Typically, each seminar has a moderator and a panel of experts. For more information, go to "http://www.counsel.com/sems.htm".
A less interactive program is provided by the CLE Group through de.Net. This program requires a computer with a sound card, speakers and an Internet connection. Go to: "http://www.clegroup.com/cle_net/" and "http://www.realaudio.com/".
Attention alums who are academics
For the constitutionally inclined, UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh has set up a distribution list with the help of Jim Milles at St. Louis University Law School. CONLAW-ABSTRACTS is intended for academics to circulate abstracts of recently accepted articles on constitutional law issues. To subscribe, people should send the command "subscribe conlaw-abstracts" to "listserv@lawlib.slu.edu" To submit an abstract, academics should send their work to Professor Volokh: "Volokh@law.ucla.edu" or to the list at "Conlawabstracts@lawlib.slu.edu." Message should be in the following format: Author; author's institution; e-mail
address, followed by "preprints available" or "preprints not available." Then, indicate the law review where it will be published; the forthcoming date; title; claims (bulleted or numbered list of the main claims the article is making); consequences (list any consequences these claims will have if accepted); and rationale (a summary of the article's rationale).
Also, don't forget about the Internet Law page set up by Stuart Biegel, a lecturer for both the UCLA School of Law and the School of Education and Information Studies. Find out about the latest cases and articles about cyberspace law by going to: "http://www.gse.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html."You can also link to it from the law school's site. You'll also find reprints of his monthly cyberspace law column from the Los Angeles DailyJournal.
Beigel's Web site was chosen "Web Site of the Week'' by PC Week magazine (April 29 edition). He and Professor Jerry Kang are planning to post student cyberlaw papers on the site beginning in June.
Also, for the audio-equipped
Professor Jerry Goldman in the Political Science Department at Northwestern University has set up a test Web site where you can access digitized, full-length oral arguments from the Supreme Court. The initial list contains eight hours of audio in some of the most important or engaging constitutional cases in the past few decades. You can find the site at: "http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/supreme/oa."
Correction: The fall magazine omitted some information about Eugene Volokh's online poetry magazine. To subscribe, send the text: subscribe occasional-screenful; to listserv@netcom.com. You can also e-mail Volokh at volokh@law.ucla.edu for further information.
"Justice Mall: Pictures ofSome Exhibitionists"
Law faculty, administrators, students, law review and even the library project took their share of gibes in the annual law school musical, directed and written, as always, by Professor Kenneth GrahamJr.Ticket receipts from the production support the Public Interest Law Foundation. This year's production in February compared the law school to a shopping mall and adapted music of "Pictures at an Exhibition." We'd explain its ironies, but, as former musical observers may remember, these productions generally defy explanation and you just have to be there.
The cast's version of a law school orientation reception. One hamburger per name tag, please
The orchestra, with band arrangements by 3L Jason Axe, meets the challenge.
Librarian Emeritus Fred Smith, right, as janitor, grimaces while student "priest" J.B. (Richard Jackson) delivers a line to fellow "janitor" Deborah Westerberg, assistant director of the annual fund.
The faculty, a.k.a. Con Law Mafia, rehearses its scene; from left, Christine Goodman, Diane Birnholz, Susan Prager, Gary Schwartz and Laura Gomez
Professor and Direcror Ken Graham instructs during a dress rehearsal.
"Bless me Father " (the protagonist was an "unfrocked" priest played in this scene by Sean Morris).
Hello again. Professor Kenneth Karst shyly inquires of the phone sex operator.
Professor and Director Ken Graham instructs during a dress rehearsal.
"Bless me Father " (the protagonist was an "unfrocked" priest played in this scene by Sean Morris).
Hello again. Professor Kenneth Karst shyly inquires of the phone sex operaror.
Nimmer Lecturer William Van Alstyne
Van Alstyne addresses commercial speech
PROFESSOR WILLIAM VAN ALSTYNE, of Duke University, addressed what he sees as the dangers in current commercial speech doctrine in the 10th annual Nimmer lecture in November.
Discussing several Supreme Court cases, Professor Van Alstyne warned that granting full First Amendment protection to commercial speech will dilute the protection given,to other kinds of speech and therefore lessen the protection the First Amendment provides for all speech. Professor and fellow constitutional law scholar Kenneth Karst, introducing Van Alstyne, told the audience at Schoenberg Hall they would only get "a sampling of his knowledge. But," Karst continued, "you will get a dear picture of his independence of mind."
As if to demonstrate that independence, Van Alstyne argued that Mel Nimmer, a scholar both of copyright and the First Amendment, would finally have argreed that intellectual property should yield to First Amendment laws.
"Mel Nimmer was, first of all, a great copyright lawyer, even before he became a valued member of the UCLA law faculty," Van Alstyne said. ''And as a copyright lawyer, he frequently represented parties to enforce their copyright claims-to assist them ro suppress unlicensed, unauthorized excerpting, quoting, borrowed renderings, even remote 'derivative' byproducts his clients would not permit others to produce without such payments as they demanded, if at all. It was, in short, from an objective point of view, a substantial part of Melville Nimmer's practice to serve business interests (commercial interests of large companies), to put out to their service his expertise in copyright-to interfere, if you will, with the freedom of others to repeat what his clients did not want repeated, did not want to be played, performed, or merely copied, save on such terms as the law vested in his clients an exclusive right to command."
That biographical fact, said Van Alstyne, gives one the false impression that Nimmer would embrace ever-enlarging entitlements of commercial speech doctrine. "Rather, it was the case that Nimmer's deep experience in the trenches of copyright law put him in a better position than others held-including a large number of First Amendment experts-to see how all speech cannot, ought not, by any means, be treated as constitutionally the same." Citing Nimmer's own legal briefs, Van Alstyne contended that Nimmer understood the dangers of a First Amendment protection that becomes shallower as it broadens to encompass even more claims.
During the past three decades, Professor Van Alstyne's professional writings, ranging over all major subjects in the field of American constitutional law, have appeared in most of the principal law journals in the United States. Selections from his writings are used for reference in the primary constitutional law casebooks. His work often is cited in judicial opinions, including those of the U.S. Supreme Court. The lecture will appear in the UCLA Law Review, Volume 43, No. 5.
Daryl Hall and Michelle Logan-Stern are sworn in to the Bar with fellow '95 grads at ceremonies in Schoenberg Hall.
Judge Pamela Rymer introduces Professor Cruz Reynoso.
Judge Gary L. Taylor introduces Professor John Shepard Wiley Jr.
1995 grads sworn in to the bar
UCLA Law's 1995 graduates were sworn in to the federal and state Bars on December 7 at the law's school third annual Bar Admission Ceremony in Schoenberg Hall at UCLA. The law school was fortunate to have two alums who are judges, as well as U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Pamela A. Rymer, swear students in to the federal and state Bars.
Judge Jon M. Mayeda '71, chair of the Los Angeles Municipal Court's Judges Association, swore students in to the State Bar of California.
U.S. District Judge Judge Gary L. Taylor '63, Central District of California, admitted graduates to the United States District Court of the Central District of California.
Judge Rymer, who received her LLB. from Stanford University, administered the oath for admission to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where she has served since 1989.
Professors Cruz Reynoso, former California Supreme Court Justice, and John Shepard Wiley Jr., former federal prosecutor, assisted in administering oaths to the graduates.
Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Jon M. Mayeda; Judge Pamela Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; and Judge Gary L. Taylor, U.S. District Court, Central District.
On Campus
Speakersfrom alloverthe nation came to UCLA Law during thepast severalmonths to speak atsymposia, to address student groups and to make presentationsfor other occasions.
Entertainment Symposium
WomensLawjournal Symposium
The 20th Annual Entertainment Symposium Feb. 9 and IO in UCLA's Schoenberg Hall attracted a record 500plus crowd and a vast collection of participating panelists from the entertainment field. Above David R. Ginsburg '76, presidenr of Ciradel Entertainment, L.P. moderates a panel: Entertainmment Industry Guilds and Unions. To Ginsburg's right are two of five panelists: Warren Adler, Western Executive Director, Directors Guild of America; and Alan Brunswick, a partner in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips.
Michael Kuhn, president, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, delivers the keynote address at Entertainment Symposium Feb. IO.
UCLA School of Law Visiting Professor Cheryl Harris; former Clinical Professor Lucie White, who now reaches at Harvard Law School; and Professor Grace Blumberg were among the faculty and members of the community who spoke at a Womens LawJournal Symposium: "Instirurional Barriers co Women in the Workplace" in March at the law school.
Professor Peter Arenella speaks at a special event for donors ro the law school in January: "The O.J. Simpson CaseExplaining the unexplainable: How should we interpret the jury's verdict?"
U.S.Trade Representative, now Secretary ofCommerce, Mickey KantorrevisitedUCLALaw in Ocrober 1995 to hold an informal forum with students. In the fall of1993, Kantor delivered the keynote address at a symposium dealing with NAFTA. On his return to campus, Representative Kanror hailed UCLALaw as "one of the great law schools in the world," and followed his briefspeech with a question-and-answer session. His visit, sponsoredby UCLALaw's Internacional Law Society and the UCLA InternationalStudents Association, was welcomed by a crowd of more than 150 students, faculty and members ofthe press.
Mercedes Marquez, Lite & Marquez, who was the keynote speaker for Southern California Public Interest Career Day, speaks ro students after a panel discussion at the nth annual event held at UCLASchool of Law in February. About 375 students from law schools throughout the region and 100 representatives from 60 law firms and organizations attended the program.
Judge Stephen Reinhardt, right, of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court ofAppeals, delivers the opening address for the UCLA Law Review Symposium: "Affirmative Action: Promise and Problems in the Search for Equality." Professor Kenneth Karst, left, was the moderaror for the daylong symposium March 2 ac DicksonAudirorium on the UCLA campus.
Estate Planning
This is thefifth in a regular series on estate planning. Much ofthe permanent endowment which supports law schools, private and public, was established through gifts in wills and other plannedgiving vehicles. As the UCLA law school moves to the end ofitsfifth decade, itsfuture will depend increasingly on the help ofits alumni.
Jon] Gallo*
One aspect of estate planning-known as planned giving-has always reminded me of the old Hawaiian saying about the 19th century Christian missionaries who came to civilize the natives and ended up owning much of the islands: As Hawaiians like to say, the missionaries came to do good and did right well!
Planned giving refers to various forms of sophisticated charitable giving that benefit both you and the charity. It is not an exaggeration to say that some forms of charitable giving actually result in you or your family having more income or assets than would have occurred had you not made the gift in the first place. Planned giving is the old Hawaiian saying come to life in, of all places, the pages of the Internal Revenue Code.
Before turning to the various planned giving techniques which allow you to do good while doing right well for yourself and your family, let us consider why these extraordinary results are possible. Since the founding of the United States, governmental welfare (federal, state and local combined) has never accounted for more that one-third of the total charitable spending of the country. The other two-thirds has always emanated from the private sector. If private sector charitable contributions significantly decreased, all levels of government would be faced with need for the most massive tax increase in American history. For that reason, the tax laws (income, estate and gift) have always encouraged charitable giving. And as the magnitude of the gift increases, so also do the tax benefits!
Let's begin our tour of planned giving with the charitable income trust. This is a trust that provides for the payment of an annuity (a fixed sum of money) to one or more charitable organizations for a period of years selected by the donor. Upon expiration of the annuity period, the principal ofthe trust is either distributed to family members or retained in further trust for their benefit, as the donor specifies. The present value of the charity's income interest is allowed as a gift tax charitable deduction if the gift is made during lifetime, or as an estate tax charitable deduction if the gift is made at your death.
For example, Mrs. Smith, a 60-year-old successful attorney, wishes to help the Law School with its fundraising while reducing the transfer taxes (gift or estate) involved in giving property to her children. Mrs. Smith contributes $1,000,000 to a charitable income trust which pays a $70,000 annuity to the UCLA Law
School for 20 years. At the end of the 20 years, the trust will pass to her children. Mrs. Smith would be entitled to a gift tax charitable contribution of $652,000 and would be treated as having made a present gift to her children of only $348,000, all of which would be sheltered by her $600,000 gift tax exemption. If the fund produces iYo a year so that it is unnecessary to invade principal during the 20-year term, the entire $1,000,000 would pass to her children without additional taxes when the trust terminates. And the Law School would have received $1,400,000 in benefits.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis used a charitable income trust to eliminate practically all estate taxes on a residual estate estimated at close to $IOO,ooo,ooo. Mrs. Onassis left the residue of her estate to a charitable income trust, which she called the C & J Foundation. The trust will pay an annuity of 8% ofits initial value to charities selected by the Trustees (Caroline, John, Alexander D. Forger and MauriceTempelsman). Upon expiration of the 24-year term of the trust, the principal will be distributed to Mrs. Onassis' heirs. The resulting estate tax deduction equaled 96.8% of the trust principal. Assuming an initial value of $100,000,000, the charitable deduction amounted to $96,800,000, resulting in total estate taxes of less than $2,000,000!
The next column will look at charitable remainder trustsa technique that allows you to substantially increase your income by creating a trust that eventually passes to charity.
* Jon Gallo, class of 1967, is a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman, & Machtinger. A Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law, California Board of Legal Specialization, Gallo serves as Chair of the annual UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, which draws approximately 300 experienced estate planners ro a two-day program each year.
For more information on planned giving contact Joan Tyndall in the Alumni & Development Office (3w) 206-II2I.
Wardlaw appointed to federal bench
ByElizabeth Vella 96
Kim Mclane Wardlaw, named outstanding graduate of the class of 1979 by the UCLAW Alumni Association, earned her "dream job" when the Senate recently confirmed her appointment by President Clinton to the federal bench in Los Angeles. Wardlaw's nomination for the U.S. District Court for the Central District was widely supported by influential political, legal and community leaders including Senator Dianne Feinstein, who nominated Wardlaw to President Clinton, and federal appeals court Judge Joseph T. Sneed. Wardlaw's confirmation adds to her exceptional record of legal experience and public service. Prior to her appointment,Wardlaw, 41, was a business litigation partner with the downtown office of O'Melveny and Myers.
Her path to the judiciary may have been predestined. In filling out a career questionnaire in her first year of law school, she responded that she wanted to be a federal judge. Explains Wardlaw, "I felt, probably because of the law school, that I could do whatever I wanted to do. If I worked hard and did well in school, the doors would be open. That's what UCLA teaches you."
In the next few years, Wardlaw obtained firsthand judicial experience when she externed for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. She spent the year after graduation clerking for U.S. District Judge William P. Gray.
Despite her top law school credentials, including Order of the Coif and serving on the UCLA Law Review, Wardlaw realized that competition for the bench included many highly qualified people. "I knew that even if I never had the chance to be a judge, I would be the best lawyer that I could be. Then, if the opportunity presented itself, I would be ready."
Her chance came when Feinstein recommended Wardlaw to President Clinton in May 1995. Letters of support poured in, and Wardlaw received the President's nomination in August. To prepare for her October confirmation hearing,Wardlaw scrupulously reviewed her own writings and transcripts of similar hearings. After her careful preparation, the hearing flew by in six minutes. Wardlaw was sworn into office on January 8, 1996.
Since then, she and her husband, Bill Wardlaw '72, who co-chaired Clinton's California campaign and is a political advisor to Mayor Richard Riordan, and their two children have learned to cope with the demands of her judgeship. ''Although we are working seven days a week, early mornings and late nights, it doesn't feel like work because I find every bit of it challenging and rewarding."
Throughout her professional career,Wardlaw has balanced legal practice with a strong commitment to serving on behalf of the disadvantaged. After graduating from UCLA summa cum laude, Wardlaw decided law school could help further her commitment to public service. "I loved law school," says Wardlaw, who made lasting friendships during her years at UCLA. "Two of my closest friends today, Gail Lees and Dick Burdge, were in my first-year section, my study group and we did Law Review together."
Wardlaw reserves special praise for the law school faculty She enjoyed many professors, including Susan Prager and the late Mel Nimmer. Of Professor Ken Karst, Wardlaw says:"He was a phenomenal teacher.To chis day, I look at some of my notes from his federal courts class. I reviewed them throughout my confirmation process."
Professor Karst returns the praise. "If you were to sec our to list the qualities that make a good judge, I think you would find that Kim has chem all," Karst says. "She is very bright, she has her feet on the ground, she has good judgment and she is a genuinely caring person. What more could anyone want?"
During her career, Wardlaw has served as president of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, on the board of governors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, as a trustee for the Los Angeles County Bar Association and as a founding member and officer of the Women Lawyers' Public Action Grant Foundation, which funds law students who pursue public interest summer projects.
During the 1994 gubernatorial campaign, Wardlaw chaired Kathleen Brown's Debate Negotiations and Preparation Team. Wardlaw also was active in Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's run for office and worked on his transition team. During the 1992 campaign, she was a Clinton delegate to the Democratic convention and oversaw Hillary Clinton's California campaign schedule. Wardlaw later became part of the Clinton Administration's transition team, serving in the Justice/Civil Rights cluster.
Now on the bench, Judge Wardlaw looks forward to helping those who visit her courtroom understand the legal system. "Our system seems to be suffering in the public eye as a result of some recent high-profile trials, and I believe it is important that each person who comes into the courtroom walks away feeling that the process was fair. They may not agree with the outcome, but at least they will feel that the judges are doing their best to do what is right."
Randall selected for top post at MCA Inc.
ByAlisa Perren
Karen Randall '76 left her position as co-managing partner at Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman on March 1 to become senior vice president and general counsel at MCA Inc. in Los Angeles. Randall, who gained experience both as an entertainment lawyer and a corporate litigator at Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman in Los Angeles, has already found that her new position has broadened her outlook on the law. "It is very refreshing to have a new perspective on the business of our profession," says Randall. ''After 20 years as an outside counsel, the move to the inside has opened my eyes to a different level and view of client service. New experiences and a vast wealth of information lie ahead in this exciting transition."
Among the clients for whom Randall has previously handled litigation are the Mobil Oil Corporation, Spelling Entertainment Group Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Forest Whitaker. She also recently negotiated Earvin "Magic" Johnson's ioo/o purchase of the Los Angeles Lakers as well as his partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment to develop, build and operate multiplex movie theaters.
A number of publications have profiled Randall recently for her continuing successes in entertainment and corporate law. The December issue of American Lawyer selected Randall in their feature, "Forty-Five Under 45," foreseeing her as one of 45 young lawyers who are making their mark now and seem certain to
lead the profession in the future. In addition, the March issue of California Lawyer featured Randall and described some of the unprecedented successes she has had in entertainment law. The article noted that last year, she became the first black woman to hold a managing partner position with a major law firm.
Randall also made inroads into protecting celebrities' privacy through her role in the Tony Danza case, in which the actor chased away two photographers and grabbed their cameras. When the photographers sued Danza, Randall countersued, charging invasion of privacy and stalking-the latter charge an unusual one for such a case. Of the suit, Randall explained to California Lawyer that "attorneys who represent celebrities are facing the challenge of innovating to protect their clients' valuable images and rights of publicity from being taken from them."
In addition to her contributions to entertainment law, Randall has remained active in the community. She represented the Watts Health Foundation, which operates the largest HMO in South-Central Los Angeles, and also served as deputy counsel, pro bono, to William Webster, special adviser to the Los Angeles Police Commission during the course of the investigation of the LAPD response to the 1992 uprising. "It's invigorating to be involved with those types of clients and their missions," she said.
Randall also is a member of the American Bar Association and has served on the Advisory Committee of the ABA Conference of Minority Partners in Majority/Corporate Law Firms and the Law Practice Management Section.
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1950s
John C.McCarthy '52, member of the first UCLAW class, placed eighth among all of California's 70-to-79year-old males in the pnblic ski racing program, Budweiser Challenge NASTAR (National Standard Race). McCarthy was ranked against U.S. Ski Team member and 1994 Olympic gold medalist, Tommy Moe, along with about 190,000 other recreational ski racers who participated in the 1994-95 All Stars. This marks the second consecutive year that he has placed highly in the competition. McCarthy, who has practiced the law for 40 years, continues his practice in Claremont. "I owe everything to the Law School," quips McCarthy of his skiing successes. "They taught me all the right moves."
Justice Charles S. Vogel '59 was appointed as Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District, Division Four (Los Angeles). Justice Vogel previously served as Associate Justice of the Second Appellate District, Division Four. He was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Presiding Justice Arleigh Woods.
1960s
Judge Alban I. Niles '63, Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court, has been appointed to be the 1995-1996 Chairperson of the Minorities in the Judiciary Committee of the ABA National Conference of Special Court Judges. As Chair of this committee, Judge Niles is responsible for the promotion of judicial opportunities for minority lawyers and the development of networking and communication between minority judges for the solving of common problems. Judge Niles
has been a Los Angeles Municipal Court judge since 1982. He recently has been instrumental in the training of judges about domestic violence.
IRoger Cossack '66, has been appointed chief legal analyst for CNN. He also CNN phow co-hosts a daily television talk show "Burden of Proof," on which Cossack and co-host Greta VanSusteren, along with guest analysts and key trial figures, debate the legal ramifications of news stories and courtroom issues that impact people's lives. The program premiered in October. Cossack was Assistant Dean at the law school from 1970 to 1972. He has served as a Los Angeles Deputy Distrct Attorney, and was in private practice, specializing in federal criminal litigation, prior to working for CNN.
Gil Garcetti '67, Los Angeles County District Attorney, received the Latino Alumnus of the Year award from the UCLA Latino Alumni Association at its annual scholarship banquet, "Fiesta de Inspiraci6n." Garcetti was honored for his professional accomplishments and his support of the association's scholarship fund, which provides financial assistance to UCLA students.
Charles L. Goldberg '67 has joined the San Diego-based firm of Selrzer Caplan Wilkins & McMahon to head the firm's newly formed Specialized Criminal Defense Practice Group. The formation of the new practice group developed as a result of increased governmental regulation of businesses and the firm's interest in expanding its level of services to new and existing clients. Goldberg specializes in complex criminal and civil defense litigation, and is the immediate outgoing president of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. In addition to being listed in "The
WILSON APPOINTS
JOSIAH L. NEEPER TO STATE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Josiah L. Neeper '59 was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission by Governor Pete Wilson on September 20, 1995. He will serve a six-year term ending December 31, 2000.
Neeper, of San Diego, has been an attorney with Gray, Cary, Ware & Friedenrich (formerly Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye), a San Diego law firm since 1960. He was a partner from 1965 to 1993 and has been of counsel since 1993.
Neeper has served as chair of the city of Los Angeles Employee Relations Board since 1972. He was an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego from 1968 to 1987.
Neeper's background also includes: general counsel to the University of San Diego; general counsel to the Zoological Society of San Diego; labor consultant and counsel to the Port of San Diego; and labor consultant and special counsel to the City of San Diego.
Neeper earned a bachelor's degree in economics from California State University, San Diego in 1951 and an LLB. degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1959.
He serves as one of five commissioners who set regulations and rates for privately owned gas, electric, telephone, water and sewer system compames.
Neeper and his wife, Rita, have two children and one grandchild.
Said Governor Wilson in a news release on the appointment: "Joe has been a distinguished attorney and active leader in the San Diego community for many years. He will bring an experienced and effective voice to the PUC and I'm pleased he has agreed to serve Californians in this role."
Best Lawyers in An1erica," Goldberg is also a past recipient of the "1rial Anorney of the Year" award from the Crimioal Defense Bar Association of San Diego and "Outsranding Trial Lawyer Award" from the San Diego Lawyers Association. He is also a frequent lecturer on the ropic of criminal defense for local and national bar associations and legal organizations.
Lita O'Neill Blatner '68, County Counsel ofTulare County, has been elected President of the County Counsels' Association of California.
InternationalLaw asLaw of the United States, written by Professor Jordan Paust '68 of the University of Houston Law Center, has juse been published by Carolina Academic Press. Professor Pause and his wife Paula are also the proud parents of daughter Christine, who rcccndy graduated from the University of Houston Law Center, was married to Lance Bowers, passed the Texas B,H exam, and is a member of the Texas Bar.
Raymond H. Goldstone '69 writes that he recently received the Donald D. Gehring Award presented annually in "Recognition for Sustained Performance Over Time in Service to the Association for Student Judicial Affairs. "This year, the award was presented at the Association's Annual International Conference, which convened in Clearwater Beach, Florida from february 8 through February 11.
Gary T. Walker '69 has been elected a director of the 19,500memberDefense Research Institute (DR!), the nation's largest association of civil litigation defense lawyers. He is a partner in the law firm of Preuss, Walker & Shanagher in San Francisco, specializing in products liability, toxic and environmental litigation, insurance matters, and contract litigation. Walker has also written and lectured
extensively on trial practice, products liability and insurance coverage. He lives with his wife, Celia, and family in Atherton, California.
1970s
Joel S. Moskowitz '70, formerly a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Chief of California's Toxic Substances Conrrol Programs and Deputy Attorney General, is a founding partner of Moskowitz, Wood & Nyznyk in Century City. The firm emphasizes environmt:ntal litigation and transactions. Moskowitz is also the author of Environmental Liability and Real Property Transactions: Lflw and Pmctice Oohn Wiley & Sons, 2d. Ed. 1995).
Andrew Von Sonn ' 70 writes that his book on "Money, Taxes, and Rebellion" is out. TheMoney Rebellion, a satire that Von Sann has written, is also available at his Internet site: "http//maui.ner/-andy."
recently became a partner in the Dallas office of Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & LaBoon, LLP. in the Corporate and Securities section. His experience includes representation of publicly owned and closely held corporate and partnership clients in a wide variety of matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and public and private offerings of debt and equity, in addition to representing clients utilizing technology in their commercial activities.
Joshua Dressler '73, Professor of Law at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, was honored as an Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar. He recently contracted with West Publishing Company to author a Criminal Procedure casebook. His criminal law casebook for West has now been adopted by more than 50 law schools in the first yearand-a-half. Dressler recently was guest speaker at Drake University, where he gave papers on the subjects of battered women and rape. He has also served as a legal consultant to the defense for
Timothy McVeigh, in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
Peter C. Brousou '74 and wife, Carolyn, welcomed twin daughters Kristin Kelly and Caroline Paige on November 30, 1995. Peter is a partner in Bryan Cave L.L.P., practicing in the firm's Orange County and Santa Monica offices. His practice emphasizes bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
Antonia Hernandez '74 is among the first seven recipients of the American Bar Association Spirit of Excellence Award. The award was created this year by the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession to recognize professional achievement by minority lawyers. Hernandez is currently president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The organization uses the law, community education techniques and research co protect the civil rights of the nation's 24 million Latinos.Hernandez is also a member of the ABA coalition for Justice, and has served on the Commission on Presidential Debates, the President's Commission on Wbire House Fellowships, the National Committee on Innovations in State and Local Government and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Profile in Courage Award.
Tom Oldham '74 spent the fall 1995 term as a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and served as a member of the law faculty
Ron Sofen '74 has joined the Century City firm of Gibbs, Giden, Locher & Acret. Other UCLA School of Law graduates at the firm include Jim Acree '57, Ken Gibbs '74, Larry Lasnik '74, Jeriel Smith '74, Bob Brina '84, Barbara Gadbois '85,Barbara Hamilton '92, Dana Rudnick '93, Jill Schecter '93, and Steve Cunio '94-
Suzanne Sorknes '76 recently joined the corporate practice of the Seattle law firm Preston Gates & Ellis as a partner.
Sorknes' primary practice areas include intellectual property law, mergers and acquisitions, communications law and general business.
Steven H. Sunshine '76 has been named Regional Resident Managing Partner of the Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Orange County Offices of Bryan Cave L.L.P.
After having been a partner at Morrison & Foerster for the past 13 years, Caryl B. Welborn '76 has formed her own law firm in San Francisco.Welborn specializes in real estate transactions as well as partnerships and limited liability company matters. Last year, Welborn was elected co the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.Welborn writes that her daughter, Cameron (Ruby), has reached the incredible age of 4.
David W. Evans '77 has joined Haight, Brown & Bonesteel as a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Formerly a partner with Long & Levit, he will continue to defend lawyers and accountants in professional liability matters; he also represents directors' and officers, ptoperry/casualty and errors and omissions liability insurers in coverage and bad faith litigation.
IEdwin F. Feo '77 was recently appointed Managing Partner in the Los Angeles office of the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. The Los Angeles office represents Californiabased, as well as national and international clients, in corporate mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking, project finance, and real estate transactions, as well as in bankruptcy and litigation matters.
Feo specializes in the development and financing of power, infrastructure and environmental projects. Among his clients are project sponsors and financial institutions, including Mitsubishi Corporation, Bank of
America NT & SA, Sumitomo Corporation, The Fuji Bank Limited, Banque Nationale de Paris and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
Paul Glad '77, managing partner at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in San Francisco, has co-authored the CaliforniaInsurance Law Handbook:r995A Reference and Guide with John K. DiMugno.
The Strange Career ofLegal Liberalism, by Laura Kalman '77, will be published this coming spring by Yale University Press. In her book, Kalman suggests that reliance on history in legal thinking maltes sense at a time when the Supreme Court repeatedly declares that it will protect only those liberties rooted in history and tradition.
Kalman currently teaches history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among her published works are AbeFortas:A Biography and Legal Realism atYale.
Joseph Kruth '77 writes that he and his wife, Donna, were joined in the idyllic setting of Tahoe by Daniel Parker, who is a real character and the joy of their lives. Kruth ceased practicing law upon leaving DeCastro West & Chodorow in 1981 and is now selfemployed as an international business development consultant. His largest current assignment is in Hong Kong, and he has worked on projects in Russia since 1988. On the nonprofit side, Krurh founded the Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future, a 501(c)(3) organization that uses information technologies and innovative computer tools to understand the environmental, economic and human issues inherent in sustainability.
Richard J. Stone '77 recently won a landmark jury verdict against the national accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Stone is the chief trial lawyer for The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in the complex securities fraud case, which is being tried by a federal court in Pittsburgh. Other plaintiffs in the case include Sears, Roebuck & Co. and
Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The result is unusual because few cases of this size and complexity ever go to a jury verdict.
Stone is currencly the Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office for Zelle & Larson. Highly regarded for his skills in large cases, he has successfully resolved several multi-billion dollar cases, and was recognized by California Law Business as one of the best litigators in California. Stone led the Police Commission's investigation of LAPD actions during the city's 1992 civil unrest, and served in the Caner Administration at the Pentagon and rhe Department of Energy.
Bernida Reagan '79, Executive Director ofthe Berkeley Community Law Cenrer, was inducted into the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame by the Highland Foundation and the Commission on the Starns of Women. Each year the Hall of Fame recognizes outstanding women, their achievements and their contributions to the overall well-being ofAlameda County and its citizens. Reagan was selected as the 1995 awardee in the Justice category for her role in increasing the availability of legal services to poor and other disenfranchised members of the community.
James I. Montgomery Jr. '81 is the newly elected President ofthe John M. Langston Bar Association for 1996. James is currently a partner in rhe firm ofDaniels, Barana & Fine of Los Angeles, specializing in tort insurance litigation.
Steven M. Strauss '81, who heads the real estate/construction ream at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves and s�ivitch, was featured in rhe January 1996 issue of San Diego Magazine as one of"Tbe San Diego 50: People to Watch in 1996."For the past two years, Strauss, 36, has won the covered Outstanding Trial Anorney award from the San Diego Lawyers Association-as well as cases totaling more than $I5 million. The article also cites his successful involvement in
one of the first cases where real estate brokers were held liable for construction defects.
Henry Beck '82 joined Cowan Liebowitz & Larman, P.C. in New York as a partner. He continues his representation ofco1npanies in the computer information technology and other high technology, media industries and intellectual property matters.
John M. Dab '82 has been named General Counsel of American Technologies Group, Inc., a public company committed to developing technological solutions ro environmental problems.
Steven Glickman '82 continues with his partner, David Glickman, '57 in Beverly Hills specializing in plaintiff's personal injury, medical malpractice and other civil litigation. He was admitted to the American Board ofTrial Advocates in 1993 and together with bis father became the first father-son admittees in the Los Angeles Chapter. He has served for three years on the Board of Governors for the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles and is the editor ofthe recently published Representing the Injured Patient: The Consumer Attorneys Association ofLos Angeles Medical Malpractice Handbook.
Thomas Kapp '83, partner of the law firm Menold Herrlinger Reinking & Partner, has moved to Berlin to set up a new branch office there. Menold Herrlinger Reinking & Partner is a German multi-local law firm which specializes in national and international business transactions.
Glenn L. Krinksy '83 has been named general counsel at the City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research lnsticute. As general counsel, he will represent the legal interests related to the clinical, research, health care delivery, technology transfer, development and financial aspects of City of Hope's operations.
Prior to joining the City of Hope, Krinksy was a partner and tax department chairman at the law firm of Hanna & Morton in Los Angeles where he specialized in advising major charities and other tax-exempt organizations with respect to their business, financial and investment affairs. Krinsky currently chairs the Exempt Organizations Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Taxation Section. He also has served as an adjunct professor, teaching courses on federal income taxation at the University of Southern California Law Center and Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Lairy S. Lee '83 is leaving the staff of Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas of the California Supreme Court to join the staffof Associate Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar.
Robina Royer '83 has been appointed Director of Client Services at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon in San Francisco. In addition, she recencly completed coursework for the Master of Arts in Writing degree at the University of San Francisco. She is now working on a novel.
Paul Anderson '84 and his wife, Lisa, are the proud parents of a baby boy, Daniel, born July 6, 1995. Paul is Vice-President, Pacific Rim, at the computer software company Adobe Systems.
Laura J. Cairoll '84 is practicing environmental law at Turtle & Taylor in Los Angeles. Carroll's environmental expertise includes: liabilities associated with real property contamination; real estate and business transactions, including due diligence obligations; regulatory and administrative actions; compliance counseling; lender liability; overseeing and coordinating private environmental cleanups; Superfund representation; defense of citizen group actions; and state and federal court litigation, including CERCLA, RCRA, CEQA and common law
ASSEMBLYMAN ROGAN '83 GETS HIGH MARKS
In the February edition of California Journal, James Rogan '83, Assemblyman of the 43rd Assembly District, ranked highly in the magazine's fourth biennial survey of the Legislature. In addition to being ranked first overall for his legislative performance, Rogan also appeared within the top five of all categories of the survey, including integrity, intelligence, effectiveness, energy, problem solving and potential.
claims. Carroll is a co-author of the 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995 editions of the California Environmental Law Handbook, published by Government Institutes.
Craig Goldman '84 and his wife Dolores Barron announce the December 30, 1995 birch of three daughters: Jordan, Claire and Teresa. Goldman has been teaching fifth grade in Burlingame since leaving legal practice six years ago.
Valerie B. Ackerman '85 is the Vice President of Business Affairs for the National Basketball Association in New York. She serves on the Board of Directors for USA Basketball and the Board of Trustees for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. She and her husband, Charlie Rappaport, have two daughters, Emily, 3, and Sally, I.
Andrea Bradley '85 and husband recently welcomed twins, Connor and Nora, into their home in Bethesda, Maryland. With the twins as well as son, Nicholas, 2, the Bradley family members find themselves busy with feeding and sleeping schedules.
Andrea Bradley also is back to work as General Counsel of Carr Realry Corporation, a publicly traded REIT which owns office buildings. She writes that the corporate legal route fits in well with being a mom, but she does admit to reviewing a Form rn-Q while in labor with the twins.
Bryan K Fair '85 became a tenured professor of Law at the Universiry of Alabama Law School in November. He is the first African-American to become a tenured professor in the Universiry of Alabama Law School's history. He has just completed a book on the subject of affirmative action that will be published shortly.
Lynette Berg Robe '85 was honored as Pro Bono Panel Attorney of the Year for 1995 by the Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law, an organization that offers assistance in family law matters to lowincome clients.
Steven H. Zidell '85 states that effective January 1, 1996, his firm name will change
from Law Offices of Lisa Greer Quateman to Quateman & Zidell L.L.P., Attorneys at Law.
Richard}. Grabowski '86 has been named a Partner in the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Grabowski's practice, operating our of the Irvine office, involves every area of business litigation, including high technology disputes, antitrust investigations, unfair competition, construction disputes and employment litigation.
Stuart W. Price '86 became one of 27 associates elevated to partnership at the international law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery. Working our of the Newport Beach office, Price is a member of McDermott, Will & Emery's Litigation Department. He focuses his practice on construction lirigation, creditors' rights, and real estate litigation.
Gary L. Bradus '87 has become a shareholder in Weintraub Genshlea & Sproul, a full service business law and business litigation firm. Bradus emphasizes business, commercial and corporate law in his practice. He also recently co-authored "Cashier's Checks and the Collecting Bank: As Good As Money in the Bank'' in Business Law News. Bradus is a member of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Sacramento Program.
Lily Chow '87 was among seven attorneys elevated to partner at the firm of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold Chow, resident in the Orange Counry office, practices in the areas of product liabiliry, environmental and general liabiliry legislation.
Marc H. Edelson '87 is currently a partner in Hoffman & Edelson, practicing in the areas of real estate, corporate law, class action antitrust and
shareholder and consumer product litigation. He has offices in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania and Princeton, New Jersey. Marc and his wife, Emily, are celebrating the birth of daughter, Andie, born October 27.
John J. Tormey III '87 has just been named Senior Counsel, Litigation for Miramax Films. He writes that it is encouraging to see the film industry grow in Manhattan and, particularly, in that neighborhood where he works, which is known as "TriBeCa'' (named as such for the "triangle below Canal [street]"). He claims that "the New York entertainment inertia helps all of us," including father, actor John Jr., who recently shot an episode of "Law and Order" in New York.
Jean B. LeBlanc '87 and Gary B. Rosenbaum '87 have become shareholders of the firm Murphy Weir & Buder in Los Angeles. LeB!anc specializes in creditors' remedies and commercial lending while Rosenbaum practices commercial lending.
Grace Yeh '87 writes that Exxon asked her to head up their law office in Beijing, China. She writes that she is applying many of the principles of commercial law, caught to her by Professor Warren, in structuring projects for the corporation.
Frank W. Chen '88 and Pan! A. Larsen '88 have become partners of Ku & Fong in Los Angeles. The firm practices in the areas of corporate, real estate, insurance, intellectual properry and business litigation, with an emphasis in the Pacific Rim.
Alain Decombe '88 LL.M was promoted to partner at S.G. Archibald in Paris, a member of the Archibald Andersen Association, which is linked to Arthur Andersen. The third largest law firm in France, Archibald has 220 lawyers. Decombe specializes in mergers and acquisitions for American and U.K. clients.
Leeanna Iznel '88 has joined in the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. as an associate in the firm's Los Angeles office. lzuel concentrates on public finance law.
Douglas D. Roberts '88 has been named partner of the law firm of Graydon, Head & Ritchey. Roberts joined Graydon, Head & Ritchey in 1992. His expertise is in the general business and corporate area, with emphasis on securities and banking regulatory law, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, commercial finance, and international trade (including the North American Free Trade Agreement). He and his wife, Elaine, reside in West Chester, Ohio.
Amy H. Wells '88 was named partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson, one of the largest law firms in the United States devoted to representation of clients in the real estate, financial services and construction industries. Wells is a transactional attorney practicing in the area of real estate law with a special emphasis in the representation of institutional investors and of lenders and borrowers in a wide range of finance transactions.
Heather Whipple Allison '89 is now an attorney in the Legal Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Allison works in the Monetary & Reserve Bank Affairs section.
Erich D. Andersen '89 recently left private practice to join the in-house legal department of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, where he continues to focus on corporate and intellectual properry law while managing the legal affairs of Microsoft's Consumer and Developer Divisions. He writes that he can be reached at (206) 703,6785 or on the Internet at erichand@microsofc.com.
Bruce Kuyper '89 has been admitted to partnership at the firm of lrell & Manella, Resident in the Century Ciry
office, Kuyper specializes in intellectual properry law. He represents computer and other high technology companies, primarily in litigating cases involving complex software and orher con1puter related patents and technology, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He is also experienced in prosecuting patent, trademark and copyright applications, and writing and negotiating complex licensing and joint development agreements involving intellectual property rights.
Caroline S. Katz '89 was recently hired as Trademark Counsel for the Coca-Cola Company, as one of four trademark attorneys overseeing the corporation's domestic and international trademark rights.
Kevin Kelly '89 became one of six new partners at Irell & Manella. Kelly specializes in entertainment transactions, primarily in the motion picture and television industries.
Anna McLean '89 was admitted as a partner specializing in litigation at the law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco on January I. Her practice emphasizes policyholder-side insurance coverage litigation and counseling, class action defense, and general business litigation. On weekends, she and her husband race their J-29 sailboat on San Francisco Bay.
Kenneth E. Petersen '89 is presently senior consultant with the Newport Beach office of The New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, specializing in the implementation and funding of pension, employee benefit, and insurance plans for businesses and individuals. He works closely with both legal and accounting professionals to provide his clients with a wide array of products and services, including disabiliry/income replacement insurance, term life insurance, traditional whole life insurance and many other rypes of assistance.
1990s
Wilmer J. Harris '90, formerly of the law offices of Johnnie L. CochranJr., has joined VJames De Simone '85 and Michael D. Seplow '90 at Schonbrun & De Simone. The Venice firm handles a variety of plaintiffs' litigation matters, including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, and general tort litigation as well as personal injury.
David L. Klatsky '90 was named to partnership by the international law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery in their Los Angeles office. He is a member of McDermott, Will & Emery's Health Law Department, where he focuses his practice on hospital affiliated group practices and other mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, and marketing arrangements among hospitals, medical groups and physicians.
Steve Sosa '90 was featured in the fall 1995 issue of Of Counsel, Whittier Law School's magazine, for his new role as evening and weekend counselor in Career Services at Whittier Law School. In addition to counseling students, Sosa engages in legal community outreach. He is also involved in organizing the mock interview program and developing the Sole Practice Symposium for new graduates and students. Outside of his position at Whittier, Sosa is in sole practice emphasizing wills, trusts and estate planning. He also finds time co pursue his passion for rock climbing as well as serve on the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Barristers.
Cynthia Gouw '91, an Anchor/Reporter with KXTV-TV in Sacramento, was recently awarded the 1995 Community Service Award from the Asian Bar Association of Sacramento. In addition, she was named 1995 Honoree of the Year by the Chinese American Council of Sacramento for her community involvement.
Victoria E. King '91 has become associated with the firm Burton & Norris. King
specializes in civil litigation, previously working with the law firm ofJohnnie L. CochranJr. She has also authored a treatise entitled ManhandledBlackFemales.
Luz Nagle '91 LL.M. has coauthored a paper on the NAFTA trilateral agreements with UCLA School of Law Professor Emeritus, Henry McGee. The paper was delivered at the Inter-American Bar Association meeting in Quito, Ecuador. She also wrote an article discussing judicial activism in the U.S. and Colombian supreme courts, which was published in the fall '95 issue of The IndianaInternational & Comparative Law Review. A former Colombian judge, Nagle has been a guest speaker at various Bar association groups. She was also profiled on public radio's "The Law Show" and was featured in articles appearing in the National LawJournal and in numerous newspapers across the country. She was also recently featured in the ABAJournal and the Richmond Times Dispatch. Both articles described her transition from district judge in Medellin, Colombia to her present position as staff attorney for the Virginia Supreme Court. As a magistrate in Medellin from 1983 to 1986, she handled criminal cases involving drug traffickers and also investigated all manner of civil and criminal matters.
William J. Healey '92 recently became a partner in the litigation department of Obion, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neuscadt, an intellectual property firm in Arlington, Virginia. In addition, he and wife, Lynn, are celebrating the birch of their fourth daughter Sloane, who joins Auden, Adrienne and Maren.
Lisa M. Salas '92 and Chris Engels '90 LL.M. are proud to announce the birth of their son, DavidJoseph. David was born on September 27 in Leuven, Belgium, where the family lives.
Kelly L. Harris '93 and Cheryl L. Angeletti '93 are engaged to be married in
October 1996. Harris is a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Seatrle,Washingcon. Angeletti is a litigation associate with a firm in Pasadena. They will live in Seattle.
Jennifer Ann Aragon '94 announces her marriage to Wolfgang Senft of Auerback, Germany on March 23, 1996.
Laura Terrell Lewis '94 and Craig Aldredge Shelburne '94, former Co-ChiefJustices of the UCLA Moot Court Honors Program, were married on September 30, 1995, at Episcopal Chuch of the Epiphany, in New Iberia, Louisiana. Ken Button '94 served as a groomsman, and Tina Rooke '94 attended the wedding. Lewis and Shelburne currently practice at the firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alco.
Joshua Lichtman '94 has joined the international law firm of Fulbright &Jaworski L.L.P. as an associate. Lichtman practices in the firm's Los Angeles office and is developing a practice in litigation.
David "Fish" Warner '95 can be found at Arthur Andersen, San Francisco, combining the best, he writes, of borh professors Eric Zaic and Grant Nelson by working on the taxation problems found in international real estate transactions. He writes that he has also recently given up coffee Monday through Friday.
Please note thefollowing correction to theAlumni Directory:
The business phone number for Charles Getto '76 was incorrectly listed. The correct number is (913) 371-3838.
'95 GRAD STARTS PUBLIC INTEREST PROJECT
Meredith Blake '95, who has received such awards as the Nancy J. Mintie Public Interest Award and the Hortense Fishbaugh Memorial Scholarship Award for her public interest legal work and community service, is now developing a non-profit organization focused on domestic violence issues. As founder and executive director of the Alliance for Safety & Abuse Prevention (ASAP), Blake is developing educational programs on teen dating violence as well as legal services and intervention for young women in need of assistance.
The law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler has already committed to help ASAP with pro bono aid, including undertaking the initial incorporation and tax exemption work to gain 501 (c) (3) status. As a grassroots organization, Blake sees a range of opportunities for those in the legal community who have an interest in helping-whether through personal involvement, development assistance, or in contacting others who might be interested in working with ASAP. Interested alums can contact Meredith Blake at (310) 820-0351. •:•
Edward J. Candelaria '90
Dewey W Cr�ise '53
Thomas P. Dunlap '74
Elbert E. Hensley '57
Joe Ingber '60
John P. Jeffreys '58
Mark P. Leach '78
Robert L. Loeb '64
Robert R. Lux '65
James F. Rowe '81
Gale P. Sonnenberg '82
Sumner J. Spielman '55
Michael A. Yaffa '83
William B. Wong '85
Stephen Meyers, '67, killed in car accident
Stephen Meyers, who with his law school classmate, Leonard Jacoby, is credited with making law financially accessible to the middle class, was killed in a car accident April 19 near his vacation home in Connecticut.
Meyers, 53, co-founder of the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers, was driving his 27-year-old stepdaughter from New York to his weekend home in West Cornwall, Connecticut, when his car collided with a delivery truck on a winding country road. Meyers' stepdaughter, Brooke Harmon Berryman, whom he raised since she was a child, was injured in the crash. Meyers also is survived by his wife, Millie Harmon Meyers, the chief of protocol for Madeleine Albright, U.S. representative to the United Nations.
Although Jacoby and Meyers recently split their business interests, the pair and a third partner, Gail Koff, broke ground in lawyering by offering low-cost legal services for those too rich to qualify for legal aid but too poor to hire a lawyer. The firm started with one office in Van Nuys and grew into a nationwide business. The news of Meyers' death was carried in newspapers and other publications and newscasts across the country and in Europe.
Professor Emeritus Jesse Dukeminier said he remembers Meyers as one of the outstanding students in his class. "He was a great addition to a memorable class of excellent and enthusiastic students," Dukeminier said. "He had a wonderful sense of humor."
Professor Cruz Reynoso said he had met Meyers, who worked with California Rural Legal Assistance after law school, at professional conferences, and admired his path breaking work to help the working class obtain legal services.
"Meyers was a pioneer in the effort to respond to the needs of the middle class. He saw that need while working for California Rural LegalAssistance in his early years as a lawyer," said Reynoso, a former California Supreme Court Justice who once directed CRLA.
Harland Braun, a law school classmate of Meyers who served as one of the speakers at a memorial service April 22, said he was saddened and shocked by the news of his friend's death. "He was greatly admired by a wide circle of people." He said that the list of speakers in the Central Park service included Meyers' close friend and NBC news commentator Tom Brokaw, National Public Radio reporter Cokie Roberts and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor.
Braun, who attended University High School in West Los Angeles as well as law school with Meyers, said Meyers got him involved in the Young Democrats as a teenager. "He was involved in trying to reorganize the state Democrats. Even then, he was trying to change the way things were done," he quipped. Meyers was part of the UCLA family in other ways. His father, Frederic Meyers, is a professor emeritus of UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, where he began teaching in 1958.
John M. Provenzano '58
Los Angeles newspapers and newscasts, including the Los Angeles Times, carried the story of the death of prominent former Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John M. Provenzano '58, who passed away of a heart attack in Palos Verdes Estates on December 31, 1995.
Provenzano, 66, was born in Huntington, New York, and attended New York's Hamilton College prior to entering UCLA School of Law. The retired prosecutor received national media attention in 1965 when he prosecuted police over the slaying of a black man, Leonard Deadwyler. Deadwyler was fatally shot when police pursued and pulled over his car as he was rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital. Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. represented the Deadwyler family in a civil suit.
Lee Worthington Cake '63
Lee Worthington Cake died of a stroke at his home in Oakland, California, April 9, 1996. He was Executive Director of the California Supreme Court Historical Society after retiring from the law firm of Cresswell, Cake and Etchegurin. While at UCLA, Cake was Managing Editor of the UCLA Daily Bruin. Subsequently, he became the first editor of the Disneyland News and later worked with a State Senator. Cake practiced law in the East Bay for 30 years. He is survived by his wife, Sue. Cake was 64.
Come back to UCLA Law
Position open for Director for Major Gifts/Associate Director ofDevelopment
As UCLA begins to plan for its campus-wide campaign, the law school is seeking a strong professional to work with its Assistant Dean for Development, Joan Tyndall, in an ongoing effort to strengthen the school's major gifts program. Dean Susan Prager wanted to let alumni know about this newly established, fulltime position in the Alumni and Development Office. Many alums are involved in a variety of nonprofit organizations and either might know of a development professional who is looking to advance or might be drawn to this opportunity themselves.
The Director will be responsible for growing a comprehensive major gifts program at the law school. An important piece of this effort will be to build a meaningful planned giving program, thus experience in the area of wills and trusts and estate planning would be beneficial. The Director will be responsible for identifying and working with individual, foundation and corporate sources for major gifts. Together with the Dean and Assistant Dean, the Director will make personal contacts, develop solicitation strategies, write proposals, and design and implement appropriate programs in order to reach both short- and longerterm goals. The Director will assist in managing the Alumni and Development Office professional and support staff.
The school encourages alumni who have worked as volunteers, served on nonprofit boards or have in other important ways been involved in the development program of an organization or institution to apply. Alums with estate planning experience or other relevant experience are also encouraged to apply. Finally, if you know of a strong development professional who would like to come to UCLA and help the school secure its future through raising private funds, then please keep this opportunity in mind.
Law school seeks Assistant Dean for Career Services and Placement Officer
The School of Law is seeking two professionals with strong interpersonal, organizational and counseling skills to join the Office of Career Services as the Assistant Dean for Career Services and as Placement Officer. These positions offer an exciting opportunity to work with a distinguished and diverse population of students and alumni.
As the leader of the expanding Career Services team, the Assistant Dean has managerial responsibility for all phases of the Career Services operation. This position involves designing and implementing services and resources for students, alumni and employers; career education and placement programming; training and overseeing the professional staff members as they develop potential sources of employment and serve as career planners and employment counselors; and counseling current law students, alumni and potential law students regarding career developmenc, job search strategies and skill development.
The Placement Officer is responsible for developing and coordinating job placement opportunities, providing career counseling, and assisting with the development of career education programs. The Placement Officer must be able to understand and communicate a wide range of applications of the J.D. degree, employ excellent counseling and marketing skills to place law students and alumni with appropriate employers, and have the ability to expand the traditional employment market scope substantively and geographically.
The Assistant Dean for Career Services and the Placement Officer must demonstrate a high level of initiative and resourcefulness to respond effectively to the career placement needs of law studencs and alumni. Both positions require a firm commitment to excellent service to students and alumni in a demanding and challenging employment environment.
A Juris Doctor degree, experience as a lawyer, and knowledge of the legal profession, particularly in California, are suongly preferred. Excellent oral and written communication skills are required. A strong working knowledge of computer systems to increase access of career search and education information to students and alumni via computer is required for one of these positions.
For rhese positions, a letter of interest together with a resume and at least two work-related letters of recommendation should be sent by July 15, 1996 to:
Marylene Foreman c/o UCLA School of Law Post Office Box 951476
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473 (310) 825-4143
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DCareer Services Programs
OAlumni Advisory Program
OFund raising for the school
OOther interests:
Alumni Career Network: Interested in giving some practical experience to a student? The Office of Career Services encourages alumni to consider UCLA School of Law students for part-time work, full-time summer positions or externships. Call the Career Services Office, (3rn) 206-1117
Don't miss being included in tbe next Alumni Classnotes. Take a moment to share some news about yourself or classmates in the next issue of UCLA Law. Tell us about your career, hobbies and family.
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News:
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Alums: lookfor updates to the calendar on the /,aw school's Web page, "http.-!lwww.law.uc/,a.edu''.
August 1996
American Bar Association Alumni Luncheon
Orlando, Florida
TBA
September 1996
Class Reunions for 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986
September 28
UCLA
October 1996
Irving Green Memorial Lecture
Thursday, October 3, UCLA
Attorney Ned Good
California State Bar Annual Meeting Friday, October u, Long Beach
Location: TBA
Alumni Association Luncheon Thursday, October 17
Downtown Los Angeles
Career Development: "Running From the Law-Re-energize your legal career and/or find a new career"
October 26, 1996
9 a.m. to 1 p.m., UCLA campus Speaker: Deborah Arron '75, Career Counselor to the Legal Profession (An event sponsored by UCLA School of Law's Office of Career Services' Career Information Network and UCLA Career Planning and Placement. Watch for mailer with more details.)
MCLE Credit
In-Home Dinner Program
October 21-25
December 1996
Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture
TBA
Bar Swearing-In Ceremony
Thursday, December 12
In the fall magazine, watch for:
Alison Anderson wins Rutter Award Alumni of the Year Awards
The Honor Roll of Donors
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