UCLA Law - Spring-Summer 1997, Vol. 20, No. 2

State Suprem e Co urt Justice Jani ce Rogers Brown '77, speaks co students and faculty during her vis it to UCLA School of Law lase fa ll. See page 42 for coverage of Justice Brown's visit

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UCLA Law Alumni Association Board of Directors

John F. Runkel '81: President

Richard D. Fybel '71: Vice President

Donna R. Black '75: Secretary/Treasurer

Hon. George P. Schiavelli '74: Alumni Representative

Renee L. Campbell '80: Immediate Past President

Kyle B. Arndt '94

Wendy D. Aron '96

Hon. Valerie L. Baker '75

Stanton P. Belland '59

Harland W Braun '67

Cynthia S. Connors '83

Shedrick 0. Davis '87

David I. Gindler '84

Hon.Joan Dempsey Klein '55

David W Fleming '59

RichardW Havel '71

Glenn L. Krinsky '83

Louis M.Meisinger '67

Hon. Carolyn Richardson Owens '82

Holly R. Paul '91

Carl C. Robinson '77

Sharon F. Rubalcava '75

Shan K. Thever '74

MarcyJ.K. Tiffany '77

David C.Tseng '84

On the cover:

Julian Eule in the Associate Dean's office, 1994

Photography byMaryann Stuehrmann

28 ON CAMPUS:

A collection ofevents andspeakersat UCLA Law

• Graduates Sworn in to the Bar

• Graduation

• Public Interest Awards

• Irving Green Lecture

• Nimmer Lecture

• Drown Fellows

• State Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown 45 FACULTY

• Mark Grady named Dean at George Mason

47 CLASS NOTES

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

• Reunion celebrations and more imide back cover

We cannot think about Julian without celebrating his incredible spirit, his incorrigible humor, his passionate love ofteaching and his dedication to careful, important scholarship. We cannotforget how much he cared about people and loved to talk. He is a spectacular role modelfor us to carryforward.

DEAN SUSAN WESTERBERG PRAGER

ULIAN EULE, A PROFESSOR OF LAW AT UCLA SINCE 1985, FORMER ASSOCIATE DEAN, OUTSTANDING TEACHER AND ACCOMPLISHED CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR DIED OF CANCER THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1997.

"The loss to UCLA and to so many in the UCLA Law family has been both wrenching and incomprehensible," said Dean Susan Prager. "Julian was everything - spectacular teacher and mentor, inventive scholar, and wise colleague, friend, husband and dad, with his irreverent humor and his passion for life permeating it all."

Julian Eule's teaching, which concentrated on constitutional law and appellate advocacy, was legendary. He was honored with the law school's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1988. Three graduating classes (1988, 1990 and 1992) named him Professor of the Year, a record matched only by Professor and former Dean Bill Warren. For the past eight years, Professor Eule (whose own experience included several long courses of chemotherapy and the testing of experimental drugs) taught UCLA medical students about the patient's perspective.

Eule's work in constitutional law, animated by the centrality of process values, ranged from the commerce clause, to entrenchment and retroactivity, the constitutional significance of speaker diversity, and the constitutional pitfalls of the referendum and the initiative process. In 1995, Professor Eule was invited to present his views on the referendum process to the Council of Europe. At the time of his death, he had completed much of the article titled, ''Transporting First Amendment Norms to the Private Sector: With Every Wish There Comes a Curse," which focuses on the free speech problems inherent in making private groups obey free speech obligations. The piece will be completed by Professor Jonathan Varat and presented chis winter at a symposium planned by the UCLA LawReview that will center on Professor Eule's scholarly agenda.

"Structural constitutional issues were at the center of gravity of Julian's scholarship, but he always kept in mind the ways in which those issues bore on the great guarantees of substantive justice," said fellow constitutional law scholar Professor Kenneth Karst. "He cared deeply about racial justice, for example - and he brought his exceptional skills as a legal analyst to bear on that subject. He was serious in his writing, but never solemn. I love reading his stuff- probably because Julian the citizen, Julian the man, shines through at every turn."

Eule also proved to be a skilled administrator, and was known for being one of the best faculty recruiters the law school has known. He served as associate dean from 1992 to 1995. "His genuine attachment to the people we sought to have join us was plain," said Professor Varat, who as Associate Dean recruited Eule and later became a dear friend. "If UCLA could be sold, Julian would have been our salesman of the month. He was, as his friends and colleagues can attest, the premier benefits expert, restaurant guide and critic, tax adviser, vacation planner and consumer reports lending library."

David Sklansky, whom Julian recruited for many years before he came to UCLA in 1994, said Eule was instrumental in not only convincing him to come to UCLA, but to teach. "Were it not for Julian, I might not be teaching at UCLA today- in fact, I might not be teaching at all."

"Julian helped me make up my mind by showing me through his own example how exciting and enlivening the work of a law professor can be," said Sklansky, a former federal prosecutor. "He also guided me through the

hiring process as he has done for countless other job applicants over the years. UCLA became inseparable in my mind from Julian, and it still is."

Professor Ann Carlson, whom Eule recruited to direct the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic, said Julian continued to provide follow-up support in her teaching during her first years. "He would pop into my office to see how I was progressing as a teacher, to question me about how I viewed the dynamics among my students, or about how I was grappling with sometimes tough subject matter."

Before coming to UCLA, Eule graduated from State University of New York at Stony Brook, where at the age of 17 he met his lifelong love, Carole Rubin Eule. They married and had two children, Lisa who is due to graduate from UCLA in 1998 and who has a passion for working with developmentally disabled small children, and Brian who is· headed to Stanford with aspirations for a career in sports journalism. With a law degree from Cornell in 1973 and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1977, Eule clerked on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Judge Ellsworth Van Graafeiland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practiced law in New York at Shearman & Sterling, and served as legal counsel in 1974-75 to then Connecticut Governor Thomas Meskill, who was later appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1977 to 1984, Eule taught at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia, where he also served as associate dean and university counsel.

Professor Joel Handler reflected: "What was special about Julian was that whatever he touched - scholarship, teaching, a good dinner, a basketball game - there was a remarkable enthusiasm, a great joy in life, almost a wondering."

Professor Eule, center, exits UCLA's Law School commencement in 1985 with Professor Jonathan Varat and Dean Susan Prager.

An OpenLetter to Students

Dean SusanPrager wrote thefallowing, which appearedin the law school student newspaper, TheDocket, shortly after Julian's death.

Every single day of the over 12 years Professor Julian Eule spent at UCLA was lived well. These were the years Julian almost didn't have. And, in this living he taught us so much- yes, more than you thought anyone might know about the dormant commerce clause, or the intricacies of the Supreme Court opinions which have been coming along at quite a clip in the religion cases, but these examples do not capture the whole lesson by any means. By his example, Julian taught us allstudents, faculty colleagues here and across the country, staff, and alums alike-that life is important, every day of it. Julian would want you to work hard, to care about important issues and to have fun along the way! He'd also want you to play hard and to form many close and supportive friendships. Julian's innovative, audacious ideas and his impish manner went together.

Ivividly remember that Julian's biggest reservation about becomingAssociate Dean was that he would have togive up some of his teaching. Apartfrom hisfamily, teaching was

Julian'sfavoritepart ofhis life..

DEAN SUSAN PRAGER

He loved people and he loved to talk (who else do you know requests the middle seat of an airplane to increase the chances of having someone interesting to talk with?), but unlike many talkers, Julian was a good and careful listener.

I have never known any person who connected in important ways to so many people. We came to think of Julian as his own kind of Superman who would, if anyone could, overcome even the worst of odds. He came to what turned out to be his last committee discussion, which lasted for over three evening hours, just a week before he died, and his mind was sharp as ever. He was itching to get into that Con Law I class which his close friend Professor Erwin Chemerinsky had so generously volunteered to take over - and that combination would have been something!

Julian often said that his years at UCLA and in Los Angeles were consistently the happiest of his life. You, his students, and the 11 years of your predecessors, played quite a role in making that so. A recent graduate of the law

school wrote to us in support of the law school's nomination of Julian for a University Distinguished Teaching Award:

"Beyond being an outstanding teacher, Professor Eule has been, and remains, an invaluable mentor to me. To an extent unsurpassed by any other faculty member I know, Professor Eule has a genuine concern for the professional and personal development of his students, reflected by the generous amount of time he spends talking with and advising students outside of the classroom. Professor Eule spent countless hours with me while I was a student, over lunches in the Law School courtyard and discussions in his office and in the hallways, sharing his experience as a lawyer and law professor, and advising me about the career options I should consider pursuing. I benefitted enormously from his wisdom and advice in ways that will continue to influence my legal career many years down the line."

I vividly remember that Julian's biggest reservation about becoming Associate Dean was that he would have to give up some of his teaching. Apart from his family, teaching was Julian's favorite part of his life. Of his teaching, Julian said and meant:

"My students teach me as much as I teach them. Every class hour exposes me to wildly different perspectives and demands constant re-examination of my fundamental assumptions."

Innovative thinker, important scholar, exceptional academic administrator, thoughtful community builder, faculty recruiter without peer, and truly great teacher-Julian Eule's magnificent legacy is so deeply embedded in this community that his values will live on in his colleagues, and in the many who have been his students over the years.

We allsuffered a major loss whenJulian died, butIbelieve that the biggest losers are thosefuture students who willnot be able to take constitutional law withJulian.

PROFESSOR E1uc ZOLT

Thefollowingis an excerptfrom a speech byProfessorEricZoltas he receivedthe law school'sRutterAwardforExcellence in Teachingthis spring.

It is special to me to receive this award this year for two reasons. First, I am happy to receive this award in the same year that Julian Eule is the law school nominee for the University Distinguished Teaching Award. Most of you know that Julian passed away last January. Julian was a truly gifted teacher whose enthusiasm for both the teaching exercise and the substantive material knew no bounds. Whenever I talk with former students I ask them what they remember most about UCLA. Almost always, Julian's name would come upsome story about Julian or some story about his class. They would express what an important part Julian played in their law school education and law school experience.

We all suffered a major loss when Julian died, but I believe chat the biggest losers are chose future students who will not be able to take constitutional law with Julian. As Susan mentioned, Julian

and I received our offers to come to UCLA at the same faculty meeting in February of 1985 and our friendly rivalry began almost immediately. We shared two things. We shared a love of teaching. And we shared a love of being acknowledged for our love of teaching.

For a time, Julian and I alternated being chosen by the graduating class as Professor of the Year. When I was first chosen in 1987, Julian was first to congratulate me. When Julian was selected in 1988, Julian was first to inform me.

The pattern was repeated in 1989 and then again in 1990.

Because ofJulian, I would never have to calculate the average numerical scores of my teaching evaluations. By the time I would hand in my grades and pick up my evaluations, Julian had already calculated the scores to several decimal places. And he was there either to offer congratulations or to gloat, depending on the relative results. In those semesters where I scored slightly higher, Julian was convinced my advantage lay in the different courses we were teaching. I did better, he

said, because students expected to dislike tax and left not hating it. They expected to like constitutional law, but left being somewhat frustrated at the lack of answers. So we decided to settle the matter. We agreed one semester that Julian would teach tax and I would teach constitutional law. Fortunately for our students, the administration did not let us carry out this experiment. I can only now admit that I am confident that Julian would have done much better than I.

AtJulian'srequest, thelawschoolhasestablisheda memorialfondinhisname. Contributionsmaybesentto:

Julian Eule Memorial Fund

UCLA School of Law Box 951476

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476

Additionalquotes, excerptsandtributestoJulianEule canbefoundonthelawschool'swebsite: http//www.law.ucla.edu/Faculty/Eule.

Iwasoneofthefortunatefew second-yearstudentswhosecured aseatinwhatwouldturnout tobeProfessorEule'slastclassin ConstitutionalLawIf Everyclass withProfessorEulewasadynamic one, andheprobablypackedmore substantiveinformationintoa 50-minutesessionthananyother professorIhavehad

Mymostpersonalencounterwith ProfessorEulecameoneafternoon inthelawschoolcourtyardwhileI wassittingwithtwootherstudents. IsawProfessorEuleleaning against oneofthebrickpillars. Isawthisas aperfectopportunityto talkto him. Herewasthistop scholarinhis field But, Ineededaquestion, and Icouldn'tthinkofone. So, Icame upwithsomething - Idon't rememberwhat.Helookedatme funny - asifto say, 'Ithinkyou knowthis.'Hegavemeananswer - oneIalreadyknew. Then ProfessorEuleinitiatedaconversationaboutme. Hewanted to know aboutmylifeoutsideoflawschool. IhadcomeallthewayfromNew jersey, andhewantedtoknowhow Iwasadjusting toLosAngeles. ProfessorEuletrulycaredabout me. Iknewthen, Iwasn'tjustanumber, andI'vecarriedthatmoment withmethroughoutlawschool ProfessorEulewasascholar, but hewasmorethanthat. Hewas ateacher, andthatisthehighest complimentwecanpayhim.

JOHN MCKINNEY '97, FROM AN INTERVIEWIN MAY 1997

Professor Eule, right, greets U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor during her visit to campus last fall.

Certain numbers strike terror in the hearts of Southern Californians. Having experienced a 6.8 in January, we worry about an 8.0 in our future. But even the horror that would be associated with such an event pales when compared with the devastation left in the wake of the 13 that occurred in June 1978. I refer, of course, to the infamous Proposition 13, freezing property taxes at one-percent of purchase price. Proposition 13 has left education, welfare, public safety, the economy, and the infrastructure in shambles. California, which once ranked as the nation's leader in primary and secondary education, now relishes a year in which it finishes fortyeighth rather than fiftieth. The University of California may still be a gem among institutions of higher learning, but too often it is less a diamond than a zirconium. When earthquakes fell bridges, highways, and buildings on college campuses, they are merely exploiting structural vulnerability left unattended by initiativeconstrained legislators. While natural disasters strike indiscriminately across socio-economic lines, the brunt of 13 has been borne by the poor and racial minorities.

Small wonder therefore that I find Hans Linde's plea for judicial monitoring of direct lawmaking so compelling. Each day of residence in the Golden State confirms the dangers and the silliness of our exuberance for government by plebiscite.

The hours he spent with students outside ofclass were commonplace, and his welcoming ofstudents to his officefor extended class and personal discussionsgave new meaning to the term "open-door policy. "He counseled many a student in deeply caring ways. He wouldjoin them at Springsteen concerts, or drive across country visiting baseballstadiums - and, ofcourse, he would occasionally wear his infamousMets uniform to class. Iguess we could take the boy out ofNew York but neverfully take New York out ofthe boy.

PROFESSOR JONATHAN VARAT FROM HIS EULOGY

Caring about the Constitution's language or its structural preferences is admittedly "uncool." Clever semanticists can make any word look indeterminate. Political economists undermine the Framer's underlying assumptions and historians question their motivations. Time, social change, and technological advances render portions of the document quaint, antiquated, or worse yet-impediments to continued progress. Yet, in defining the judiciary's appropriate role when reviewing the validity of plebiscitary measures, it is important to me not to forget that it is our Constitution we are expounding. It helps, of course, to believe the Framers got it right.

From "Representative Government: The People's Choice," 67 Chicago-KentLaw Review 778 (1992).

BIBLIOGRAPHY ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Constitutional Justice and Consultative Democracy in the United States in La Justice Constitutionnelle et la Democratic Referendaire (Constitutional Justice and the Democratic Referendum), Strasburg, France: Council of Europe. (1996).

Crocodiles in the Bathtub: State Courts, Voter Initiatives and the Threat of Electoral Reprisal, 65 Univ. of Colorado L. Rev. 733-40 (1994).

Contributor, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement I (edited by Leonard W Levy, Kenneth L. Karst et al., New York: MacMillan, 1992).

Representative Government: The People's Choice, 67 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 777-90 (1992).

Judicial Review of Direct Democracy, 99 Yale L.J. 1503-90 (1990).

Promoting Speaker Diversity: Austin and Metro Broadcasting, 1990 Supreme Court Rev. 105-32 (1990).

Checking California's Plebiscite, 17 Hastings Constitutional L.Q. 151-8 (1989).

Process Protection and the Economic Rights Provisions of the Constitution, 11 George Mason Univ. L. Rev. 73-6 (1988).

Curbing State Burdens on Interstate Commerce: The Judicial Thumb on the Federalism Scale, 10 Urban, State and Local Law Newsletter 2 (1987).

Temporal Limits on the Legislative Mandate: Entrenchment and Retroactivity, 1987 American Bar Foundation Research J. 379-459 (1987).

Thoughts on Preventing the Third American Revolution, 21 Beverly Hills Bar Association J. 267-71 (1987).

Laying the Dormant Commerce Clause to Rest, 91 Yale L.J. 425-85 (1982).

The Presumption of Sanity: Bursting the Bubble, 25 UCLA L. Rev. 637-99 (1978).

From "Crocodiles in the Bathtub: State Courts, Voter Initiatives and the Threat of Electoral Reprisal," 65 UniversityofColoradoLaw Review 733 (1994).

Women ofAchievement:

UCLAalumsmaking an impact

PROFILES BY SHEILACASEY AND KAREN NIKOS

henwesetouttofeaturewomenalumsinthismagazine, we quickly realizedthetask wasenormous. UCLA School ofLawhas graduatedsomanywomenwhohavegoneontogreatnessinmyriad fieldsoflaw, businessandpublicservicethatwehad to narrowthe list considerably. Wehaveleftoutjudges, deciding tosavethemanytremendous examplesofouralumsinthejudiciaryforanother issue. (Manyhave beenfeaturedbefore, andothersyouwillfindelsewhereinthisissue).

Wetried, instead, tofeatureavarietyofwomenfromanarrayofage groupswho carry their legaleducationintoagreatmanyfields. From womeninlargeandsmallfirmsandwomeningovernmentservice to those workinginsports, televisionandotherareasoftheentertainmentbusiness -· andone 1987graduatewhoworksforanoilcompanyin Chinawethinkyouwillbeinterestedinreadingabouttheircareers.

DIANA WALKER '69 Partner, O'Melveny &Myers

+ When Diana Walker joined O'Melveny & Myers as a young attorney fresh out of law school in 1969, she was one of only two women among 125 attorneys at the firm. Walker went on to become the firm's first female partner. Now, nearly 30 years later, women represent about half the incoming associates. "I didn't see myself as a pioneer," says the unassuming Walker. "I was fairly independent, and there wasn't a lot of pressure in my family to get married. Plus, I had always wanted to go to graduate school." When she was accepted to the UCLA School of Law in August 1966, she jumped at the chance. There were no women teaching at the law school at that time, but the lack of role models wasn't a problem for Walker - either at UCLA, or later, when she joined O'Melveny, one of the largest law firms in the country. What she cared about was the work, and her chosen niche - the spot where business and law overlap - seems to suit her.

As a corporate lawyer with specialties in executive compensation, corporate ' governance, and mergers and acquisitions, Walker helped client Great Western Bank buy other thrifts, insurance companies and other companies. And, before Coldwell-Banker was acquired by Sears, she helped it buy some half-dozen compames.

A merger transaction must clear major hurdles, and the attorney must participate at every stage: investigate assets and liabilities; obtain regulatory approvals from the appropriate agencies, pass anti-trust review; obtain agreement on the actual deal points; structure employee benefits for the new company; obtain shareholder approvals, transfer assets and liabilities and finally, integrate the business.

Although she protests that "she might put some people to sleep" describing her job, Walker herself finds the work both challenging and diverse. 'Tm comfortable here," she says of O'Melveny. "It is a relatively non-hierarchical, egalitarian environment, with considerable diversity of interests and styles, but consistent in talent. Client relationships are very positive. But on the downside," she laughs, "the work is hard and the hours are long."

Walker has maintained close ties with UCLA. For the first 10 years or so after graduation, she came back yearly to recruit for her firm. For the past few years, she has made a yearly presentation to the Elements of Economic Organization class, in which she and a colleague engage

New methods ofnetworking willevolve

- methods thatcan exist in the cracks around a schedule aspacked as that of an attorney/mother.

in a mock CEO salary negotiation. The negotiation illustrates key points, such as the scope of a CEO's responsibilities, the variables that drive compensation and how to provide incentives. The class is attended by both law and MBA students. Although developed by law Professor Bill Klein, the course is now co-taught by law Professor Eric Zolt and Anderson School of Management Professor Al Osborne.

Although women now comprise about half of the new attorneys at O'Melveny & Myers, Walker thinks that another sea change will come when women permeate the upper echelons of the business world to the same degree that women are represented in the legal world. "The key decision-makers on the business side are typically still men," she says.

And this, she believes, is still a subtle barrier for women. ''A lot of law practice is relationships. And women have often been excluded from the networking activities that form those relationships, often because of the dual demands of work and family, if nothing else," says Walker, who is married with children. Walker says that should change as more women appear in all areas of business. "New methods of networking will evolve - methods that can exist in the cracks around a schedule as packed as that of an attorney/mother."

WILMA WILLIAMS PINDER '76

Assistant City Attorney, Los Angeles

+ At first look, the life of Wilma Williams Pinder appears a bit paradoxical. The African-American woman with a background in sociology and psychology worked for the War on Poverty in the 1960s and was the city of Los Angeles' first human relations adviser. She attended UCLA law school as a wife and the mother of three young children and later took a job as a deputy city attorney prosecuting misdemeanors for the city of Los Angeles.

How, then, does an attorney working for a government salary end up as a founding member of UCLA's Women and Philanthropy, a group dedicated to advancing women in education and raising money for the university?

Pinder, as warm, good-humored and charming as she is positive and intellectual, only laughs. "I really do not like to call attention to myself as a fundraiser," she says modestly, playing down what has been her pivotal role within the university. Pinder is heartened by the notion that most people associate philanthropy with individuals with more material wealth than she. "My small contributions pale in comparison to others, and I couldn't consider myself a philanthropist in the true sense of the word. But I believe in the cause. Those of us as alums who have received so much really need to give back."

The philosophy of giving back is characteristic of the way Pinder lives her life. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, but growing up in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles, she attended USC, where she met her husband, Frank Pinder, a doctor. She was president of her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology in 1962, and moved on to Howard University to earn her master's degree in the same subject. While working toward her master's degree in Washington, D.C., she worked as a counselor for the War on Poverty Program counseling unemployed people who were trying to get

Assistant City Attorney Wilma Pinder at the Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles. Photo by Maryann Stuehrmann.

into the work force. She says that experience opened her eyes to the circumstances in which many poor found themselves. She saw that many poor were in their economic situation through no fault of their own. "This really opened my eyes and my mind to so many different things. It was a very sensitizing period for me."

While working and going to school in D.C., she had failed to witness the Watts riots and the accompanying social unrest that had occurred in her hometown of Los Angeles. She returned in 1966, and began work as Los Angeles' first Human Relations adviser. During this time, her interest in law grew. As her husband began to build his medical practice, she began teaching psychology and sociology courses at Los Angeles City College and later, University of Colorado in Colorado Springs when her family moved there. While living in Colorado in 1973, Wilma was accepted to UCLA School of Law, requiring the Pinder family to move again - this time with three young children in tow - back to Los Angeles for her legal education.

Pinder had in mind she would try to use law to make a difference and took an externship for one quarter at the Center for Law in the Public Interest in 1975. She also was active in the Moot Court Honors program, which gave her invaluable experience for her later life in the courtroom.

In her career in the city attorney's office, where she began working a few years after graduation, she has prosecuted misdemeanor crimes and has defended numerous types of civil torts. She was promoted in 1995 to assistant city attorney for the Department of Water and Power. In that position, in addition to contracts administration and general municipal law, she takes on specially assigned civil litigation. Her most noteworthy case was defending a sexual harassment lawsuit against City Councilman Nate Holden. The judge in the non-jury trial ruled in favor of the city and Holden, citing a lack of evidence of wrongdoing.

When lawsuits are filed against the city, one of her duties is to reduce the damage those lawsuits can do to the city in finances and reputation, Pinder explains. "I represent the people of Los Angeles, and the people do not want their representatives mud-wrestling people. And they don't want us throwing away money."

Pinder's job places her in the courtroom speaking before judges and choosing juries - something she enjoys immensely. "I love being with people, working with people," she says.

Her desire to work with people on a personal level also has led her to participate in various UCLA and community activities - ranging from serving on the boards of the UCLA School of Law Alumni Association, The UCLA Foundation, the Dean Search Committee for the Law School, the Law Library Campaign and serving as president and founder of UCLA's Women and Philanthropy - to working on various committees of the California/Bar and acting as consultant, speaker and writer on issues of race and gender bias.

"I do not look for gratification in earning money, I look for my fulfillment elsewhere," says Pinder. "My community involvement gives me an opportunity to meet people - all kinds of people, not just lawyers. These are the kinds of things that enrich me personally."

My community involvementgives me an opportunity to meet peopleallkinds ofpeople, notjust lawyers. These are the kinds ofthings that enrich me personally.

GERTRUDE CHERN '66

Partner, Chern &Brenneman

+ At 77, Trudy Chern has already had two careers - 24 years in the retail furniture business and 31 years as an attorney - and has played a key role in landmark cases in California law. "I look forward to practicing law well into the 21st Century," says Chern, who is adamantly opposed to retiring. Raised in Duluth, Minnesota, Chern graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1939, gave up a graduate scholarship to Smith College School of Social Work and moved to California to become a 19-year-old bride. When her husband, Dan, returned from overseas service in the Navy in late 1945, they joined his parents' furniture store in Santa Maria, in northern Santa Barbara County. Although necessity made her into a capable businesswoman, Chern's true interest was in the law.

In 1955, Chern was packed and ready to enter Boalt Hall. Her in-laws forced her and her husband to buy them out of the furniture business instead - and Trudy's law school plans were put on hold.

Those plans had been partly inspired by her lawyerfather, an immigrant from the Ukraine. Chern recalls how he despaired over the situation in Minnesota, where the tiny mining towns of the Mesabi Iron Range had as much representation in the state Legislature as the metropolitan Twin Cities. The Legislature refused to redistrict based on census results, even though the Constitution required it, Chern said.

"My father made me aware of how critical to the lives of ordinary people fair enforcement of the law could be," Chern explains. When the United States Supreme Court in 1962 finally ordered state legislatures to obey the constitutional mandate to draw districts according to population, Chern's first thought was: "If only my father could have lived to see this day."

She entered law school at UCLA the following year at age 43. "I had good, friendly - if somewhat maternal - relationships with my classmates."

After graduation in 1966, Chern returned to Santa Maria to work for California Rural Legal Assistance, which was just getting started as one ofthe ground-breaking poverty law firms that were established as part of the federal War on Poverty. While there she specialized in solving consumer credit problems, even though it cost her the friendship of many local growers and business people antagonistic to legal representation of the poor, especially migrant farm workers.

In 1968, Chern opened her own law practice. In those early years, she recalls, there was only one other woman attorney practicing in the local courts. The local Bar remained an "old boys' club" from which women were systematically excluded. Bar meetings were held at a club that women and minorities could not join, Chern adds.

Chern still ruefully remembers when, many years ago, she won a landmark trial court judgment ruling that a divorcing wife could share in her husband's retirement pension. There had been no precedent for treating pensions as

divisible property, and the legal briefing was a heavy task. Since the opposing husband controlled all the funds, Chern sought a fee award for her time$5,000. The judge awarded $500. When Chern demurred that that wasn't fair, the judge's response was "Trudy, if you need money, why don't you go home and ask Dan for it."

After that experience, Chern volunteered as a pro bono amicus curiae to the California Supreme Court in a case on the issue of whether a pension not yet due could be divided between the spouses in a divorce case. Hers was the leading brief, and she also presented oral argument. Representing several women attorneys' groups, she briefed and argued - again pro bono -a number of follow up cases; the opponents of pension division to ex-spouses (invariably men in those days) did not give up after one defeat.

In 1972, Richard C. Brenneman joined Chern's practice, and they remain partners. He focuses on personal injury law, while Chern emphasizes family law, real estate contracts and appeals. "My real passion, though, is defeating unconscionable pre-printed contracts literally forced upon consumers - in bank loans and real estate deals, for example."

Her first battle against an unconscionable loan contract occurred when she took out a loan while working in the furniture business. The bank's calculation of interest on the loan was $3,000 more than what she had calculated. When Chern asked the bank manager how this could happen, he explained that his bank - and every other bank - figured the interest on a 360-day year. When Chern argued with him that the note said "per annum" and that only God could change the' length of the year - and when she told him she'd sue if they didn't refund the ovqcharge - Chern got her money back.

Later, after she became a lawyer, she borrowed from other banks. Again she was subjected to the 360-day charge. One of the banks told her that if she disclosed the 360-day practice to the rest of a group of co-borrowers, the loan would not be made. Chern told UCLA professor Bill Warren about the issue. He put her in touch with Michael Palley '68, who had already litigated unconscionable loan practices and contracts. Palley and his partner, Lawrence Schwartz '66 and Chern teamed up. They all put their own time and money into the case.The team lost on summary judgment at every level except at the California Supreme Coun.

The Supreme Court cases, one in Chern's name and one bearing the name "Fletcher," are cited as leading cases on unfair business practices.

"The moral and intellectual background I got from the UCLA facultyprimarily Professor Warren - gave me the courage and inspiration to fight that battle.There was a risk if the banks won, they might get an attorneys' fee award against us. I could have gone bankrupt."

At an age when most ofher contemporaries are content to relax, Chern ,is still litigating with a passion. Although she acknowledges that she would like to do more traveling, Chern insists that she is far more inspired by her opportunity to focus on the legal cases where she might make a difference to a lot of people. "I am now free to choose what cases I want," says Chern, "and my primary interest is in eliminating the unfair contracts that are now on my desk."

Myfath�r made me aware ofhow critical to the lives of ordinarypeople fair enforcement ofthe law could be.

NANCY R. ALPERT '78

Lifetime Television

Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs; Deputy General Counsel •

+ As a senior executive at the New York headquarters of Lifetime Television, the only television network dedicated to entertainment and informational programming for women, Nancy Alpert confesses she truly does have a "dream job." "The variety of my work, combined with my commitment to women's issues, makes Lifetime the perfect place for me," Alpert says, smiling. Alpert is Lifetime's senior vice president of business and legal affairs and deputy general counsel as well as a member of Lifetime's senior management team charged with the strategic planning and decision-making responsibilities for all aspects of the network.

Pitching cable, satellite and other distributors to carry Lifetime to viewers reminds Alpert of another position she once held. "I look back to when I sold Bar review courses at UCLA," she quips. "This is easier."

Reaching well beyond her law school days, Alpert's responsibilities at Lifetime range from staying abreast of the complicated regulatory regime that governs the telecommunications industry to establishing a Lifetime credit card to responding to the technological advances of satellite dishes. What she loves about her job is the active role Lifetime takes in promoting women's issues and women's programming. In addition to offering its more than 67 million subscribers a variety of programming targeted to women, Lifetime, which is co-owned by ABC Inc. and The Hearst Corp., sponsors and supports numerous women's events and entities such as the recently formed Women's National Basketball Association and the Colorado Silver Bullets all-female baseball team. Alpert contributes at many levels. She recalls negotiating the contract for Lifetime to sponsor America3, the first all-women's team in the America's Cup yacht race two years ago.

'"Of course, I had to have a ride on the yacht," she jokes. Alpert also enjoyed a tour through the crew's state-of-the-art locker room where, she says, she "t1ever saw so many sneakers and makeup in the same place." Lifetime also sponsors top female race car driver Lyn St. James in the celebrated Indy 500. Alpert did not initially target a career in television. When beginning law school, she was drawn to public interest law, but an externship in that field

during her UCLA days clarified her goals. "I was fascinated by the issues at stke in public interest cases, but I didn't like the adversarial nature of litigation. My strengths were negotiating and putting deals together and I soon discovered that I was far more suited to a transactional practice."

Alpert remembers particularly enjoying her courses in commercial law with Bill Warren, tax law with Mike Asimow and trusts and estates with Susan Prager. She became a corporate associate at a Los Angeles law firm, where the Boston native could continue to live in the climate she had grown to love.

Three years after law school, she turned to another venue. Much to her own surprise, she found herself stuck in a late-night blizzard at JFK Airport trying to get to Albany to take the New York Bar exam the next morning. "It struck me as very ironic," Alpert recalls. "I will never forget that a few of my classmates had to miss our UCLA graduation in order to start the New York Bar review course. I felt bad for them and secure in my belief that I would never live in New York."

But after moving to New York to become an associate specializing in mergers and acquisitions at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, she developed a taste for the Big Apple. Her expertise later landed Alpert a five-year stint as vice president and deputy general counsel ofTelemundo Group Inc., a Spanish-language television network, where she caught the television bug.

Alpert is quick to note that the television business presents challenges. "We always have many different, sometimes competing, constituencies to satisfy: our viewers, our advertisers and our affiliates who distribute the network." For example, Lifetime closely monitors what advertisements it carries, cognizant of the tastes and lifestyles of its target audience - women 18 to 49. This level of consciousness led to decisions not to carry certain advertisements, such as the O.J. Simpson home video or commercials for hard liquor. "We believe that Lifetime viewers have certain expectations of Lifetime and would not respond well to these ads," Alpert explains.

''At Lifetime, my personal commitment to women's issues is fulfilled on a day-to-day basis," Alpert says. The network was recently commended by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for bringing national attention to certain HMO practices of encouraging mastectomies on an outpatient basis. After journalist Linda Ellerbee, who hosts a nightly public affairs vignette series for Lifetime, alerted viewers to the practice, Lifetime housed on the internet an on-line petition lobbying for a 48-hour hospital stay. As a result of this campaign, the network submitted over 17,000 signatures to legislators in Washington, and legislation is pending.

In March, Lifetime brought together 100 outstanding women from across the country for the Lifetime Women's Summit to focus on issues and challenges facing women in the 21st century. Alpert served as a group facilitator at the summit, an experience she found both humbling and inspiring. "From Brigadier General Wilma Vaught to gold medalist Donna de Varona, I met women whose vision will shape the next century. I think I am extremely fortunate," says Alpert, "to have a job that I enjoy, working with a terrific group of people, where I am paid to be involved in important women's issues."

At Lifetime, my personalcommitment ) . to womens issues isfulfilledon a day-to-day basis.

VAL ACKERMAN '85

President, Womens NationalBasketballAssociation; Vice President ofBusinessAffairs, NBA

It was always at the back ofmy mindthatIwould practicesports law.

+ Sports has ;µways played a role in Val Ackerman's life. Raised in a "sports family" (her father was a high school athletic director), Ackerman participated in three sports during high school in New Jersey and then earned a basketball scholarship to the University of Virginia.

In college, she was a two-time Academic All-American and four-year starter for the women's basketball team, and then played one season of professional basketball in France. During these years in sports, Ackerman began to see how law played a significant role in professional sports - and she wanted to be part of it.

Ackerman decided to attend law school, choosing UCLA because she knew it had a sports law program. "It was always at the back of my mind that I would practice sports law," reflects Ackerman, who joined the NBA as a staffattorney three years after graduating from law school. She is now president of the recently formed Women's National Basketball Association. Her climb to the pinnacle of a major sports organization was not immediate, however.

Although she purposely had chosen UCLA for its sports law program, she found the class was not on the curriculum when she got there (the program has since returned). Ackerman made the most of law school subjects that would serve her in a sports law career, enrolling in labor law, trademark law and other courses she knew would help her. She expressed her sports interests to her professors - Jim Sumner in contracts, Gary Schwartz in torts, and the late Julian Eule, who during Ackerman's time at law school also coached the Moot Court team on which Ackerman participated. "All three of these gentlemen knew of my interest in sports; they knew I had played basketball. I would often talk to them about my career plans.They encouraged me."

Unable to get a job in sports immediately after law school, she joined the Wall Street law firm of SimpsonThacher & Bartlett, where she gained experience in corporate and banking law. Two years later, she married another lawyer at the firm, Charlie Rappaport. After her marriage, Ackerman took several months off to find her "dream job" in sports, going to work in 1988 as one of three staffattorneys for the NBA. "The story here is that I didn't get what I wanted right out of law school," explains Ackerman. "But I did eventually, and the NBA liked that I had large firm experience and had a background in sports."

Ackerman served as special assistant to Commissioner David Stern from 1990 to 1992, was named director of business affairs in 1992 and then vice president of business affairs in 1994. Being a woman lawyer in what has been largely a man's world has never been a problem for her. "It hasn't been an issue for me. I am so fluent in the language of sports that I am very comfortable in this environment," she says during a telephone interview from her New York office. For Ackerman, her work with the NBA has run the gamut - managing events, marketing, and dealing with trademark issues, contract negotiations and salary matters as well as maintaining a variety of relationships with outside basketball organizations. As a member of the Board of Directors of USA Basketball, Ackerman helped bring women's basketball to the international arena, creating the 1995-96 USA Basketball Women's National Team program. The team was undefeated, and capped off its season by winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She has recently taken on the new and exciting challenge of serving as president of the Women's NBA, which was formed last spring. The eight charter WNBA teams, which kicked off their inaugural season in June, are based in Charlotte, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Sacramento and Salt Lake City. Visibility for women's sports is increasing, and Ackerman - the mother of two young daughters - said that means women's role in the NBA will change. "This is something, I hope, that will grow and develop over time."

by Maryann Stuehnnann

+ Holly R. Paul was in her 20s and working as a production manager for commercial television when she developed diabetes-related blindness, a common complication of the Type 1, insulin-dependent form of the disease she has had since childhood. Rather than dwell on the obvious hindrance to her career and lifestyle her blindness would bring, Paul reached for an opportunity. She decided to study law.

"I always was interested in law, but I had sidetracked into a career I really didn't plan," says Paul. "I figured I had the rest of my life ahead of me, and I wanted to do something interesting."

She had become interested in law as a student at California State University, Northridge, from which she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in urban studies and public administration and was involved in political organizations. At CSUN, Paul was a debater and was active in a variety of community causes and organizations. She worked for the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee for two years. There she researched and participated in campaigns, lobbying and public hearings, and assisted the advance team that prepared for President Carter's visit to Los Angeles.

HOLLY R. PAUL '91

Associate and CertifiedAppellate Specialist, Horvitz & Levy; Encino, California

Paul chaired the L.A. Youth Rights & Advocacy Committee of the city's Youth Advisory Council. After graduation, she was elected to the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee of the 37th Assembly District and became a production manager for FilmFair Inc. in Studio City.

After losing her sight, she applied to law school and soon immersed herself in the academic world while dealing with the occasional setbacks of her illness. "I loved law school -I never once regretted it - and I still love law," says Paul, who reads with the use of a voice-synthesizing computer that transmits written material such as cases and research materials to her by voice. Paul, who does not read Braille, says her method of reading is not much different than the way sighted people read. "You can still go back over material - just as if you are reading it. It's not a problem for me."

Paul pursued a number of activities away from the law school. She worked as an intern for San Fernando Valley Legal Services, where she assisted clients in preparing applications for temporary restraining orders and custody and child support orders. One summer, she worked at Musick, Peeler & Garrett in Los Angeles. She earned an American Jurisprudence Award for Moot Court and graduated Order of the Cai£

Paul says the supportive faculty and students enhanced her own determination in law school. She credits the late Julian Eule with helping her to develop an interest in appellate law. "I took the appellate advocacy course from him. It was a terrific course where we briefed cases that were currently before the Supreme Court. We then argued the

cases before Ken Karst and Julian Eule, who were the justices."

Professor Kenneth Karst said that in five decades of listening to moot court arguments, he remembers Paul's argument best. "Holly was directly responsive to the concerns behind the judges' questions, and unusually thoughtful. When the argument was over, I complimented Holly, not just for the substance of her argument, but also for her manner. She faced each questioner squarely, and the effect was the same as eye contact. This reveals her sensitivity to the human dimensions of even the most analytical legal work."

After law school, Paul clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, where she was able to further hone her appellate writing and research skills. Her experience and scholarship aided her in getting her job in appellate work at Horvitz & Levy, which specializes in appeals and prides itself in well-written work. Paul is proud to be working with a collection of UCLA alums at Horvitz & Levy: Sandra J. Smith '87, who is a partner at the firm, Elizabeth Skorcz Anthony '91, Judith E. Gordon '93 and H. Thomas Watson '92.

"Appeals work is the analytical side of law - it's really what I love best, and I am with the best law firm for that work."

Paul remains active in the law school, and is in her third year of service on the UCLA School of Law Alumni Board of Directors. She gladly attends fund-raising and recruitment events. "I appreciate what the law school did for me, and I want to give back something."

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SILVIA M. DIAZ '74

Supervising DeputyAttorney General, Office oftheAttorney General ofCalifornia, Southern California

+ Teaching at public high schools in East Los Angeles in the 1960s, Silvia M. Diaz got a first-hand look at the turbulent times faced both by the high school students and the teachers, who were increasingly organizing and fighting legal battles. After two years teaching, she went to law school with the hope of learning more about the legal problems she saw in the educational system.

"I never thought .I would teach forever, and when I was teaching I grew more interested in law," says Diaz, who attended University of Arizona on a scholarship that led to a bachelor's degree in political science and secondary education. At UCLA, she pursued a dual degree, earning a master's degree in educational administration through UCLA's Graduate School of Education and a law degree at the same time. "The first two years of law school are really a blur for me. In my third year, I got to take the courses I wanted to take. That was the part of law school I really enjoyedI loved it." adds Diaz, who pursued her interest in labor law and public administration and has worked in those fields ever since. She took administrative law and employment law and began to regard Professor Reginald Alleyne as a mentor.

In her current position as supervising deputy attorney general for the state Attorney General's office, she supervises 22 attorneys in Southern California who

represent the state in employment litigation. Throughout her years as an attorney, she has gained vast experience dealing with the many facets of complicated state and federal employment laws while working for the state agencies that regulate the labor relations of farmworkers and growers, and then for public school teachers and other government workers.

Graduating from law school in 1974, Diaz took a job as board counsel for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board. She moved on to a similar position in 1976 for the Public Employment Relations Board, where she represented and

Supervising Deputy Attorney General Silvia Diaz in the lobby of the Ronald Reagan Seate Office Building in downtown Los Angeles.

Photo byMaryann Stuehrmatzn.

advised a member of the board who oversaw labor relations in the public sector for the state and for public educational institututions. Here again she met with Alleyne, who chaired the board. She says it was a great experience to be working with the very professor who had taught her the human side of law under conditions in which they were thinking about the human side ofissues.""It was great to be able to discuss real-life issues with your former professor."

"It was interesting. The board member I worked with had a different policy perspective than Reg Alleyne, and I frequently found myselfon the opposite side of cases from my old professorcertainly more often than when we were in the classroom," Diaz explains. A pivotal area of law on which they worked was that of the right of teachers to strike. In a San Diego case, the State Supreme Court ultimately ruled that teachers could strike.•But Diaz argued for her client that while employees have an interest in their terms of employment, the rights of children and parents also had to be considered.

In 1979, Diaz became field attorney for the Federal Labor Relations Authority. In that job, she prosecuted unfair labor practices by federal agencies, employees and employee organizations at federal facilities throughout the Southwestern United States and the Pacific. 'There was a lot of travel in that

job because of the size of the region. It was a very exciting time," says Diaz. In that post, she helped to conduct elections in Panama with the Canal Authority and handled labor relations issues throughout the region.

In 1981, Diaz - who is the parent of two children with husband Michael Strumwasser '73, a Malibu attorneyjoined the Attorney General's Office of California. She began supervising the civil section that defends various state agencies in the office's southern region. She supervises attorneys in the San Diego and Los Angeles offices who must keep on top of the vast collection of laws that govern employment law. The complicated area is subject to both federal and state laws, governed by statute and case law, and falls under the purview of various governmental board policies. She must stay on top of the ever-changing laws governing sexual harassment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and other aspects of civil rights litigation. Cases handled in her office range from harassment complaints by law enforcement employees and claims of disparate promotional systems to suits claiming there is inadequate access to freeway call boxes. Among her largest clients are the state prison system and the California Highway Patrol, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the California Department of Corrections.

To help her supervise the deputies, she has instituted a team system whereby senior deputy attorneys general mentor other deputies in an attempt to determine when deputies are overloaded and need help or guidance on cases. To manage the workload, Diaz too jumps in and tries cases when needed.

But even more challenging, at times, are the human dimensions of her job. "It takes a lot of time to learn how to work with people - how to approach people and how to work with people in various situations." Diaz says she faces this challenge not only in her supervisorial capacity, but in the day-to-day work. "We are dealing with some sensitive employment and human relationship situationsaccess for the disabled, harassment issues. We have to represent the state agencies - our clients - the best we can. There are jobs at stake in some situations. There's the financial consideration - litigation is expensive," says Diaz. However, in responding to the person making the complaint, the attorney general's office must make sure it uses sensitivity. "We still have to look at the very real human dimensions. These are some of the greatest challenges."

GRACE YEH '87

Legal Counsel

Exxon ChinaInc., Beijing

+ Grace Yeh knew when she was in junior high that she wanted to be a lawyer. "I only had to decide what kind of law to practice," says the Taiwan native and daughter of a college professor, reflecting on her early goal.

A summer clerk's position with Exxon during her second summer of law school narrowed her choices. This year, she approaches her I0th anniversary with the oil company for which she has worked in Houston, Texas; Thousand Oaks, California - where she earned an MBA during weekends at local California Lutheran University - and in the corporate office in Dallas. In late 1995, she traveled to Beijing to head Exxon's legal office in the People's Republic of China, her most challenging assignment to date. "It's been an incredible experience," she says after nearly two years in that assignment.

Yeh, who grew up in San Luis Obispo and earned her bachelor's degree in political science at UC Berkeley, said her China experience has been enormously different than any of her other assignments. "Well, it's China," says the good-humored Yeh. In the Chinese legal system, she elaborates further, there is no case law, for example. "The law is all dictated by statute," she explains. "I had no training in Chinese law before I got here."

However, Yeh explains, she is never more than a phone call away from an Exxon counterpart - colleagues she has come to rely on as her legal family since law school. "We really work as a team, and everyone is supportive of each other.

I found that true at Exxon from the time I worked there as a clerk in law school. It is not what I had expected from such a large company."

Yeh finds the economic and energy issues in a developing communist country fascinating. China, which recently has allowed more corporate activity within its borders, has become increasingly attractive to corporate investors and developers outside China.

Additionally, energy sourcesExxon's primary commodity - are still primitive by American standards with the Chinese people relying primarily on highly polluting coal for heat. The Chinese, in the process of converting to alternative energy sources, seek the services of Exxon. "We are pursuing opportunities across the board - in power, exploration, chemicals, petroleum and gas," Yeh says. ''And with China's overwhelming population, they have a lot on their hands here. There are a lot of people here to take care of."

Socially and emotionally, the adjustments are somewhat difficult. Her sister, Ann, an investment consultant and lawyer, recently joined her in China last year after the two had been separated for

many years by their various jobs and educational pursuits. And she misses her parents, who still live in San Luis Obispo. She says news of the United States is often delayed or absent, and she often goes weeks before hearing about major U.S. events.

But she also looks to her good fortune. Yeh appreciates that her parents forced her to speak Chinese at home as a child, even though she had come to the United States at age 8, and learned English early. "I only speak Chinese, though," Yeh says apologetically. "I don't read it."

Yeh remembers fondly her experiences in law school as contributing to her professional and personal growth, and draws upon those experiences still. She was an editor for the former UCLA-based Federal Communications LawJournal and served on the staff of the UCLA journalofEnvironmental Law andPolicy,, She also participated in the Moot Court Honors Program. With the help and inspiration of one of her favorite teachers, Bill Warren, during her third year she authored an article addressing bankruptcy law -a field of law in which she later worked with Exxon.

The most important lesson she learned in law school, however, is a philosophy she has drawn on throughout her life: "The message was - You are only competing with yourself. You really need to learn to work with your colleagues," Yeh remembers. "That's what drew me to UCLA, and later to Exxon."

DEBORAH DAVID '75

Partner, Lebovits &David

+ Deborah David's parents had big plans for her from the very start: They named her as they did because Deborah is a judge in the Bible, and they planned on her having a legal career. "As time went on," says David, "I began to agree with them."

David graduated from Scripps College in Claremont in 1972. She obtained her law degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1975, and then spent eight years at Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, specializing in defending manufacturers against personal injury claims.

In 1983, she joined forces with classmate Moses Lebovits '75 and opened Lebovits & David in Century City. She also switched her practice from defending against personal injury claims to bringing claims on behalf of plaintiffs. "At the end of the day, it means more to me to help an individual than to help a corporation," says David.

In January 1997, David became the fim :woman president in the 48-year history of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (formerly the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association). The association is the largest local specialty bar .in the country, having roughly 2,800 members who specialize in the representation of plaintiffs. "I look forward to continuing the mission of the consumer attorneys, to preserve the civil justice system and protect the rights and interests of consumers."

David can point with pride to a number of cases where a badly injured person has found redress through her persistence in pursuing justice. In one case, a young husband and fatlier of three small children went into the hospital for routine knee surgery and wound up in a vegetative coma. David won a settlement of $14.9 million, of which roughly $4 million has been collected. "I was able to set up trust funds for each of the children," says David, "ensuring that, although they will not have a father, they will have access to the finest educational opportunities possible."

David also handled the case of a hemophiliac who contracted the HIV virus through tainted blood products. "T he hemophiliac community has been devastated by AIDS," says David, "largely because of the negligence and indifference of the blood industry." But proving that contamination came from a specific source is usually impossible, since hemophiliacs typically use products from a number of different sources. However, because David was able to prove which·

company made the product that caused her client's HIV infection, he was one of the only hemophiliacs in this country to recover money for his injuries.

David is an outspoken advocate for lawyers and the value of the work they do. "I love being in a courthouse," she says. "I love walking down the hall and knowing that at every moment, people's rights are being decided." Although she can intellectually appreciate that there are many other kinds of lawyers, to David, "a lawyer is someone who stands up in a courtroom and fights for people's rights."

David, who served as co-chair of the Alumni Campaign for the Law Library, is particularly proud of the success of that effort. She and co-chair Dick Burdge '79 were responsible for encouraging donations at the $25,000 to $100,000 level.

"Many think there are already too many lawyers, and they feel that the need for quality education of additional lawyers is not compelling," says David. "People can think of many other worthy causes to which to donate money. But in their calmer moments, people recognize that lawyers are an essential component of a democratic society." David caps that with a telling historical anecdote: "In 1939, a world leader said that he would not rest until every lawyer in his country was gone. That world leader was Adolph Hitler, who knew that lawyers stood between him and his ultimate goal."

+ Maria Hummer's physician father was so sure that she would grow up to be a doctor that he gave her the middle name of Denise, so that she could be "M.D. Hummer, M.D."

But by her sophomore year of college, Hummer realized that her interests were decidedly more verbal than scientificshe decided on law school. Still, it was a while in coming.

Her husband had been drafted, so she followed him first to an Army base in Texas and then to a four-year surgical residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After her son was born in 1970, she spent three years at home with him. "When he left for nursery school, I left for law school." Her son died tragically of cancer at age 21.

So it was 11 years after she left Scripps College that Hummer received her J.D from UCLA School of Law . "Even then, at commencement, my father said, 'You're so young. You can go to medical school in the fall,"' Hummer recalls.

MARIA HUMMER '76

Chair, Land UseSection, Manatt, Phelps &Phillips

Hummer has spent her entire career at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. She is the only woman to ever have served as comanaging partner at her firm; a function she fulfilled for two years in the mid80s. As chair of its Land Use and Environmental section, she and her group assist both individuals and corporations in overcoming the legal obstacles to acquiring and developing land.

In the early '90s, for example, Hummer, with other lawyers, worked with a major motion picture studio to expand its lot. Hummer's group reviewed the environmental impact report, negotiated the development agreement with the city of Los Angeles and developed a mitigation plan.

As an impassioned advocate for the alternative of all-women schools, Hummer is on the board of the two in Southern California, Scripps College and Mount St. Mary's College. "I think that option should exist for girls and women," says Hummer. "In the high school years, girls develop more quickly in a same-sex environment. Plus, the girl can be the hero on the sports field."

Hummer has personal experience with an all-girls environment, having graduated from Marymount High School and Scripps College.

Hummer has been recognized for her achievements in the community. This year, she received the Learned

Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee. The award goes to "outstanding leaders of the legal profession who have been voices of understanding and good will." In 1994, she was honored by the Century City Chamber of Commerce for achievement in the field of law.

Hummer serves on a variety of different boards, including First Coastal Bank, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the Music Center Operating Company of Los Angeles. For five years in the mid-80s she was on the Board of Airport Commissioners, City of Los Angeles Department of Airports.

In 1989 she received the BUDDY Award (Bringing Up Daughters Differently) Award from the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. The award honors both women of achievement and their parents.

"It recognizes the important role that parents play in the success of their daughters," says Hummer. She acknowledges that although she didn't follow her father's plans for a medical career, "the fact that he did see a profession for me created a certain mindset. It never occurred to me that I couldn't be a professional."

+ At 43,Melanie Cook seems to have never heard the word "aging." Described by her husband as a "fun-hog," Cook recently learned to surf, and is lean from countless hours spent running, skiing, mountain biking and playing tennis.

Physical activity has always been a large part of Cook's life. Although ultimately graduating with a communications major of her own design, Cook entered UCLA as a dance major. After graduation, she was living the life of a self-described ski bum/waitress in Mammoth when her father (a judge) suggested she take the LSAT. She did well, and returned to UCLA in 1975 to enter law school.

Even in law school, her love of dance continued to influence her life. She won the Nathan Burkan Award for her UCLA LawReview article "Moving to a New Beat: Copyright Protection for Choreographic Works." She also performed, for the annual law school talent show, the dance routine "Greased Lightning," from the musical "Grease," with Kim Wardlaw '79 (now a U.S. Federal District Court judge).

At the same time, her interest in intellectual property was burgeoning.

MELANIE COOK '78

Partner, Bloom, Hergott, Cook, Diemer & Klein

She took copyright law with Professor Mel Nimmer. "I was learning at the feet of the master," she says. She was thrilled to take Law/Entertainment from Peter Guber, who had just produced "The Deep." "The class had nothing to do with law," says Cook. "It was all about Peter's enthusiasm and the business."

While with her first employer, Rosenfeld,Meyer & Susman, Cook learned how to conduct research, write and prepare pleadings, make discovery motions and appear in court. "It was excellent training, but I don't do any of that now," says Cook. "What I do now is talk on the phone and make deals. But behind that is a solid foundation of legal and business knowledge."

She started doing motion picture and music work at her next job, at Cooper Epstein & Hurewitz. "I loved it," says Cook. "I found my niche in representing creative people."

Cook came to her current firm in 1987, and in 1992 was made a named partner - the first time ever for a woman in an established major entertainment law firm. Cook's present client list includes names such as Holly Hunter,Tim Burton, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ed Harris and Madonna.

Although names such as these evoke an image of a life of fun and glamour, Cook quickly dispells such notions. "I work like a dog," she says. "I am in my office every Saturday morning from 6 a.m. until I get done - however long that takes."

Cook's job as entertainment attorney is as much business adviser as lawyer. "We are extremely pro-active," says Cook. "We are on the front lines of the business."

Cook, for example, has represented Scott Rudin -a producer with movies such as "First Wives Club," "Ransom," "Nobody's Fool," "The Firm" and "Sister Act" to his credit - since the beginning of his film career.

"Scott and I talk every single day, an average of three times a day," says Cook. "These conversations range from an analysis of Scott's financial participation in a successful motion picture to the structuring of a co-financing and distribution agreement to intellectual property matters. And every call with Scott generates about three other calls I need to make to agents or studio executives."

As much as possible, Cook handles the business side of her clients' careers so they can focus on the creative work at which they excel. "Scott will call up a studio and say 'I want Billy Bob Thornton in the movie,' and I'll call them and say 'I want Scott to have X million dollars and final cut,"' says Cook.

As closely as Cook works with Rudin, she has other clients who are more dependent on her for business guidance. "Scott was president of production at a studio," says Cook. "He is very sophisticated about his business."

Although the business acumen needed to do her job was gained through onthe-job training, Cook stresses that her

law school studies provided the education she needed to learn to think clearly and analyze critically. "In law school, you learn to cut through masses of material to find that one fact or principle that is critical, that deserves your focus," says Cook.

Cook's multiple talents were recognized this spring when she was named tht! first woman Entertainment Lawyer of the Year by the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Dean Susan Prager presented the award to Cook at a packed gathering at the Beverly Hills Hotel on April 15. In homage paid to Cook that night, director and Cook client Barry Sonnenfeld, obviously pleased with Cook's representation of him, addressed one of the critical factors in Cook's blazing success:

"The thing about Melanie, as a person and a lawyer, is that when Melanie decides she wants something for a client, (she believes) it will happen that way. There is never, ever 'look, I'll try, but you have to understand that the precedent on this kind of thing .' kind of talk. She actually believes that once she decides to do something, she will succeed."

ANN PARODE '71

Campus Counsel, University ofCalifornia, SanDiego FormerlyExecutive VicePresident and General Counselfor San Diego Trust &Savings Bank

+ Ann Parode worked in the corporate world most of her life, serving as general counsel to the 1,600 employee-San Diego Trust & Savings Bank -a $2 billion corporation. But a buyout of the institution by First Interstate Bank in 1994 and corporate downsizing squeezed Parode, a 19-year employee, and many others out of the business. Now, a job as the first campus counsel of University of California, San Diego means a whole new life for Parode.

"This is a different world here," Parode says of her job on the sprawling, tree-laden campus in La Jolla. Yet, her former world of high-volume litigation, major financial transactions and corporate account management transfers to the 30,000-person campus community easier than some might initially think. Risk analysis, employee issues and litigation are as much a part of a campus environment as a corporate one, for example. She has, however, had to learn more about other laws, such as the Public Records Act and government employer laws. "I try to learn something new, to try at least one new thing, every day," she says of the new job she took in January 1997.

Between jobs, she plunged head-first into her community work - something that has been important to Parode throughout her career. During her employment hiatus, she chaired the board of the San Diego Community Foundation, a $130 million general purpose foundation that distributes funds to nonprofit groups in San Diego. She is a member of the board of directors of the Girard Foundation, a private foundation

specializing in grantmaking for kindergarten through 12th grade, and serves on the board of the Burnham Institute, which is formerly the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation. She served as president and founded the San Diego Bar Foundation in the 1980s.

Law school and the practice of law was "almost an afterthought" for Parode, an American studies major who graduated from Pomona College. In law school, Parode participated in public interest activities and along the way developed an interest in commercial law as she took courses from two of her favorite professors - Bill Warren and Michael Asimow. She also helped edit a book co-authored by Professor Arthur Rosett, Contracts in Context, during her law school years.

"What I really liked about commercial law is that the context is so varied and the opportunities for problemsolving so diverse," says Parode. "Some people are the gladiators and love the battle," she says. "I would rather manage the risks and address the challenges before they become problems."

Parode says she plans to bring that philosophy into her tasks at UCSD. "Because it's a new position, I can develop a vision for what this campus needs from me and from this role. It's an exciting challenge."

Pam Brockie '75

Senior VicePresident ofBusinessAffairs, ICM

+ As a high school student in the 1960s, Pam Brockie never dreamed that she would wind up with a prestigious position at a top talent agency. In those prehome-video days, Brockie would cut school to stay home and watch classic films on television. "I still love to go to the movies," says Brockie. "But now there is often the added fun of having had a hand in it."

Brockie is senior vice president of business affairs at International Creative Management, one of the Big Three cadre of talent agencies that includes William Morris and Creative Artists Agency. ICM represents some of the top actors, writers and directors for film and television, such as Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Barry Levinson.

Brockie's initial foray into the work world came while she was still a law student. She took a patent law class from distinguished practitioner Lawrence

Pretty in her second year, and Pretty hired Brockie and two other students from the class.

Pretty's firm referred Brockie for a job as a trademark lawyer at Universal. After two years, Brockie moved to the production side, where she remained for five years. Then a co-worker left Universal to join ICM and recruited Brockie to join her.

Brockie was immediately glad she made the move. "I like being on the talent side," says Brockie. "I find that it is more fun to come up with creative solutions to achieve our clients' goals than to be the one selling studio policy."

Another bonus, from Brockie's point of view, is that there are no more time sheets. "Being in-house, I don't have to prioritize my work based on billable hours. I just do whatever it takes to get the job done."

Now, after 13 years at ICM, Brockie feels very comfortable and confident in her work - while still finding it interesting. "You learn a little more with every deal," she says. "Since our clients frequently have their own attorneys, I'm constantly exposed to the state of the art work of the entertainment community."

Of her law school days, Brockie recalls Susan Prager as being one of her favorite profo;sors. "She did something that was totally unlike the other profs," says Brockie. "If she didn't know the answer to a question, she would respond with, 'That's an interesting question. I don't know, but I'll find out and get back to you.' And by the next class, she would have looked into it and found the answer to the student's question."

Karen Randall '76 General Counsel, UniversalStudios

+ Karen Randall seemed destined for success from a young age. Her grandfather was a judge - one of the first African-American judges appointed in the United States, she believes. By high school - which she spent at a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania - she knew she was headed for either law or medicine. She whipped through Vassar in three years, graduating cum laude, and then headed west for law school.

Now, as general counsel for Universal Studios, Randall feels that neither her gender nor her race have been a liability in her career. "I've always felt that it was an advantage to be a minority woman," she says. "But if you believe the world is against you, you will fail."

By contrast, Randall feels that her positive attitude has been a major

contributing factor in her success. "In show biz, people say that image is everything, and there is a lot of truth to that," says Randall. "If you can visualize things going well, you have a better chance of them actually going well."

Randall's career is potent evidence that her philosophy works. It has progressed seamlessly from her first job at Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert, where she stayed for 15 years, to five years at Katten Muchin & Zavis, to Universal in 1996. "One job has flowed into the next," says Randall.

Randall's success has not escaped the attention of the news media. While at Katten Muchin & Zavis, California Lawyer noted that she was the first black woman to hold a managing partner position in a major law firm. She was also profiled in the December 1995 issue of American Lawyer, in the feature "Forty-five Under 45."

Now, from the vantage point of the top legal post at a major entertainment conglomerate, Randall has become comfortable with who she is - and feels that her feminine perspective is an asset to her employer. "When you're younger, you try to be like everybody else," she says. "But I'm not one of the guys. I definitely bring something different to the table."

Karin Krogius '82

Executive Vice President, Pacific Bay Homes

+ Karin Krogius has never strayed too far from home. Raised in Laguna Beach, educated at UCI and UCLA, and now living in Corona del Mar and working in Newport Beach, her geographically contained life is rich with the multiple satisfactions of career and family.

Her day-care situation alone would bring gasps of envy from many a working mom. Each morning Krogius, executive vice president of Pacific Bay Homes, drops her kids off at her parents' house - as do her five brothers and sisters. That adds up to 15 grandchildren (with No.16 on the way) for Grandma to care for every working day.

As the icing on the day-care cake, Krogius and her brothers and sisters take turns dropping off a bag of groceries along with the kids each morning, and Grandma and her two helpers make dinner for the entire crew: children and grandchildren alike. Not only does Krogius have the satisfaction of knowing her children are safe and happy with their grandparents and cousins all day, she doesn't even have to cook dinner.

"We all have demanding careers," says Krogius of her siblings, "and this arrangement has been a big factor in making those careers possible." Among Krogius' siblings and siblings-in-law are an investment banker, a marketing manager, a partner in a large advertising agency, a city councilwoman and a coordinator for World Team Tennis.

After receiving her J.D. in 1982, Krogius spent 11 years at Rutan & Tucker as a real estate attorney. In 1990, the real estate market crashed, "and a fun business got un-fun real fast," she says.

One client, a senior executive with The William Lyon Co, started turning to Krogius for help on the business as well as the legal side of the company In 1993 that executive, John Markley, left The William Lyon Co. and began managing a portfolio of troubled properties for Ford Motor Co.

A new company was formedwith Krogius as an integral part. At that company, Pacific Bay Homes of Newport Beach, Krogius oversees sales and marketing, project management, construction and human resources, as well as preparing business plans and managing a portfolio of incomeproducing assets. The company had 88 employees and revenues of more than $100 million in 1996.

Although Krogius' responsibilities now encompass far more than law, she feels that her law school education provided an excellent foundation for all chat came later. "One of the biggest assets I gained from law school was learning how to write and learning how to think."

She has fond words for the teaching assistant from her Legal Research and Writing class, Gregory Bernstein '80. "I can still remember things he taught me," says Krogius. 'Don't write like a lawyer, write in the active voice, be concise.' Now, in my company, I end up writing anything important chat gets circulated.''

Graduates are sworn in to the Bar

Lissett Taucfest '96 (above), is one of 145 recent graduates being sworn in to the State Bar of California and the federal courts in ceremonies at UCLA in December.

Judge Arthur L. Alarcon (left) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, U.S. District Court Judge Kim Mclane Wardlaw '79 (center) and Judge Veronica Simmons McBerh '75 (below), of the Los Angeles Municipal Court preside.

Professor Cruz Reynoso, former Scace Supreme Court Justice, looks on.

The Law School celebrates its 46th commencement

The most diverse class in the law school's history graduated in May, and ceremonies throughout the weekend were punctuated with a call for students to advocate for the richness diversity can bring to the law profession. The graduates dedicated the ceremony to the memory ofProfessor Julian Eule and made a class gift in his honor.

"As we go on from here in our respective careers, regardless of whether we will practice law or not, may we never forget that inherent in our degrees is the power, the power to effect changes, the power to affect lives. I say this because I know too well what it is like to be powerless and to rel y on someone who isn't.

Two years after coming to this country, during the beginning of my senior year in high school, I decided to meet with my high school counselor. I had received a number of recruitment letters from several universities, m ost of which I was not familiar wi th. I wanted to talk to someone who wo uld know about these schools and the programs they offer. However, righ t when I walked into her office, m y counselor handed me a bunch of brochures to different technical schools and community colleges. When I told her I wanted to be a lawyer, she laughed and said, " Don't we all?" and started talking about a secretarial program she knew about. And I guess as her way of making me feel better, she said she even knew of several employers who might not mind having their secretaries with accents, and if I wanted she could put in a good word for me. When I left her office that day, I remembered thinking that maybe I was setting my dreams too high.

In retrospect, I knew I should have said something. I could have told her that she should have looked at me as a person with eyes unfettered b y her prejudice If she did, she would have seen that m y accent didn't mean I was inept, only that I grew up in another country. If she did, she would have seen that my status as an immigrant didn't mean I was in this country to take its resources but that I came here to enrich it. If she did, she would have seen m y quiet demeanor didn't mean I was a slacker, only that I respected her. Fortunately, I had other people who believed in me and gave me the encouragement to pursue my dreams."

Commencement photography by Maryann Stuehrmann

Third-year class pres ident Teresa Magno

T HIRD- YEAR CLASS PRESID ENT T ERESA MAGNO

Third-year class pres ident Teresa Magno, the Reverend Jesse Jackso n and Dean Susan Prager celebrate

"If you are able to sit in a class and hear a viewpoint that you didn't agree with, but were able to respect and analyze and respond to it, then we've done our job because the odds are, when you go out and practice law, your client, your opposing counsel, your co-counsel, your managing partner or your judge may well be someone who doesn't look like you, but you'll be able to work with and respect that person .... That is a critical part of your education here at UCLA, and I hope it is something that you have learned well."

Graduates "jump for joy" as they celebrate their accomplishments.

to set priorities as they embark on legal careers. H e told chem to regard law practice as a service , and recomm end ed "preparation, preparation, preparation "

KRJSTINE KNAPLVND, PROFESS OR OF THE YEAR

(left) Keynote speaker at Black Law Students Association (BLSA) celebration Rickey Ivie ' 77 urges graduates

"Beyond color, beyond culture, is something called character. Character involves risk, sacrifice, care, hope and the will to make a difference. Class of 1997, go forward by hope and healing, never backward by hate and hysteria. Let's leave this place and make America better and better and better."

"Dr. King's victories are now being rolled back. You may be the best and the last class of this century to make America better. You must not surrender to the madness of the move backwards. We are now trapped in a new form of separate but unequal, reversing the gains that Marshall and Dr. King made possible. 1996 began to look a lot like 1896, with churches burning, political empowerment being restricted by the Congress and civil rights law being destroyed by the courts."

THE REVEREND JESSE JACKSON, COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

(above) Jose Guerrero and daughter receive stole from Professor Cruz Reynoso at La Raza ceremonies during commencement weekend.

State Senator Richard Polanco addresses La Raza students.

(above) Jackson exhorts the graduating class co continue the civil rights successes of the past.

(left) Student speaker Michael Tai-Chi Yang

(below} Mark Melo sings the Beatles song "In My Life," a capella.

8th Annual Public InterestAwards

UCLA Law celebratedthe 8th Annual PublicInterestAwards ceremony lastMay. In addition to recognizingthe many students andfaculty who earned "Give 35"public interest service awardsfor performing35or more hours ofpro bono work duringthe year, the ceremony honored the recipients of several special public interest service awards.

Professor Gerald L6pez receives the Fredric P. Sutherland Public Interest Award from Professor William Warren. Lopez rejoined the UCLA faculty in 1994 after nine years at Stanford. Through his reaching and professional affiliations, Lopez has worked with community residents, social service providers, lawyers, business leaders, government agencies and policy makers. His projects have included: providing health and safety training for low-wage industrial workers and housekeepers, devising "Know: Yoµr Rights" workshops for small business owners and low-income residents affected by redevelopment projects, and creating post-Proposition 187 immigrant and social service provider education programs.

Joseph Hairston Duff '71 (far left) presented his epony\nous,award to Jessica Aronoff (left). Aronoff, a second-year student;' volunteers with the Hqmeless Assistance Project of Public Couns�J; and Break . the Cycle, which works to prevent teen dating violen�e. Break the Cycle was founded by Meredith Blake '96, the 1995 recipient of the Nancy J. Mintie Public Interest Award.

The UCLAPublicInterest LawFoundationAnnual Auction raisesfundsfor grantsfor UCLALaw Studentswhodopublic interestorpro bono work during thesummer. The 1997Auctionsawa record profitofnearly$19,000.

Mimi Keller '97 accepts the NancyJ. Mintie Public Interest Award. Keller works for the Sunday Free Legal Clinic, both as a volunteer and as a committee member. She is also a mediaror with the Dispute Resolution Program at rhe Los Angeles CityAttorney's Office.

Professor Gary Blasi (left) presents the Antonia Hernandez Public Interesr Award ro Paul Freese '88 (right). Freese is Directing Attorney of Public Counsel's Homeless Assistance Program for Youth & Adults.

Ben Fox '97 receives a NancyJ. Mintie Honorable Mention Award from Mintie '79. Kim Orbeck (not pictured) also received an honorable mention. Fox and Orbeck are co-chairs of El Centro Legal, which provides legal services to rhose who might otherwise go wirhout.

The Irving Green Lecture

Ned Goodoffers inspiration tofuture trial lawyers

Everybody is somebody. Treatevery clientas your bestfriend.

NED Goon

When Ned Good started out as a young lawyer in 1952, he was in a 22-by-7foot office with wall to wall concrete on the floor. His wife was his receptionist. He was so desperate to get some experience under his belt that he approached other attorneys, offering to do legal work for free if they would pay the costs.

Now, 44 years later, Good is widely considered one of California's best trial lawyers, and acknowledged as one of the nation's most accomplished aircraft acc;:ident lawyers. Good shared some of his trials, tribulations, pleasures and feats with UCLA law students, faculty and staff at the annual Irving H. Green Memorial Lecture in the fall.

He regaled the crowd with tales of his days as a lawyer and gave the future lawyers in the crowd some advice: "One way to impress your clients is to call

Ned Good dramatizes a poinr in his lecture to students and faculty last fall.

them at 8 p.m. on a Friday night and say that you have just a few questions on their case," says Good. "Or call them on Thanksgiving. That client will never forget you."

"Two things you should always do as a lawyer," he adds. "Give extensions, and stay away from sanctions. Every time you grant an extension, you make a friend, and every time you request a sanction, you make an enemy."

Good urged students to dream their wildest dreams. "Don't be shy, don't be embarrassed. Whatever you want, you can make it happen. You have as much time in your day as any other lawyer. And if you are willing to work, you can make your dreams come true."

Good has served as president of both the California Trial Lawyers Association and the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association, and has taught at USC Law Center, Southern Methodist University Law School and the UC Hastings College of the Law.

Although Good was eventually successful as an independent lawyer, he advises new lawyers against trying to go it alone as he did. "If you get in with a good firm, they will teach you and you will learn. On your own, there is no way to learn other than trial and error. And I'll tell you, there's a lot more error than trial."

And most of all, Good told the assemblage, to be a lawyer you have to care. "Everybody is somebody. Treat every client as your best friend."

TheIrvingH Green MemorialLecture is named for a much honored trial lawyer who was a tireless advocatefor the underdog in a host ofcases in courts across the country. Through his trials, Irving Green had a significant impact on changing the law. After his death in 1990, his widow, Fay Bettye GreenMarcus, and his son, UCLA mathematics professorMark Green, chose to honor him by creating this program. The series brings outstanding trial lawyers to UCLA to inspire law students and to initiate discussion about the often unpopular image ofthe lawyer.

Ned Good is the third speaker in the series.

Fay Bettye Green Marcus has said ofher; late husband: ''Irving was never afraid ofa legal challenge. He would try cases consideredby other lawyers to be 'un-winnable,'"and he'd win them and thereby change the law."

Ned Good speaks to students after delivering the Irving Green Memorial lecture at the UCLA School of Law.

The Nimmer Lecture

judge Leval, a 'member ofthegreatprofessor'sflock,'delivers

Nimmer Lecture

U.S. Court ofAppeals Judge Pierre Leval, (Second Circuit) delivers the annual Melville B. Nimmer lecture at the UCLA School of Law last winter. His topic was "Not by Bread Alone: Fair Use Rescued."

A complete text ofJudge Leval's speech is available in the current UCLALaw Review (Vol. 44, issue 5).

U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Pierre N. Leval traced the history of copyright law with poignant case histories and praised the work of the late Mel Nimmer for its "bare bones" approach to copyright law in the annual Nimmer Lecture in February.

Judge Leval, of the Second Circuit in New York, discussed a series of opinions on cases that answered some fair use questions, but created other points of confusion because the court cited reasons for its rulings that were subsequently over-interpreted by lower courts making other fair use decisions. In his speech, "Not By Bread Alone: Fair Use Rescued," Leval said courts should follow more closely the ideas of Nimmer, who maintained that copyright law should "be kept to the bare bones." "Had his wisdom been followed, many of these Quixotic misadventures might have been avoided."

Leval reflected on the wisdom he had gained from Nimmer's writings after becoming a federal judge. "I was told: 'Get yourself a Nimmer without a Nimmer you'll be lost.' I was told Nimmer is the shepherd who guides the bleating flock of federal judges. ... That afternoon, I ordered my Nimmer and became a member of the great professor's flock."

Leval, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief Assistant District Attorney in New York who was appointed to the federal bench for the Southern District of New York in 1978 and to the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in 1993. He is the 11th Nimmer lecturer in the history of the lecture named for Professor Nimmer, a distinguished teacher, lawyer and scholar who taught at UCLA from 1962 until his death in 1985.

In introducing Judge Leval, Associate Dean Stephen Yeazell drew a parallel between Nimmer and Leval, who in his career as a judge has not only made a number of important rulings but has written a series of important articles on intellectual property, libel and the constitution. "These works, often dealing with themes elsewhere taken up by Mel Nimmer, make them both part of a small distinguished group of writers to whom we turn for our understanding of how our tradition of intellectual and political freedom coexists with our

laws of intellectual property." In the latest Supreme Court case addressing fair use, Campbellv. Acuff-Rose (which addressed whether the song, "Oh Pretty Woman" as sung by a rap group constituted fair use of the original version), only three non-case authorities are cited, Yeazell continued. One was the treatise on copyright by Mel and his son, David Nimmer, and another was written by Leval.

Leval later peppered his discussion of the case by singing a few bars of both the original piece and the 2 Live Crew version and praised the Supreme Court opinion on the case. He said the opinion, by Justice David Souter, appropriately re-examined earlier overstatements on fair use and offered that commercial use is not presumptively unfair.

The judge told the audience in the UCLA Fowler Museum auditorium of the inconsistencies in fair use law over the years, and said Congress made matters only more confusing in 1976 by enacting a fair use statute. Although the statute set out standards, outlining four factors to be considered in deciding what was fair use, it did not define fair use, he said. "Fair use became a comedy of miscommunication -a legal version of the child's game of telephone in which each whispered repetition of a message causes it to be further mangled," Leval said. "This was because judges began seeking the answers to the questions placed before them in the wrong place.The doctrine was thus broken into a haphazard assortment of non-functional fragments, its core elements forgotten."

Leval discussed a videotape recorder case in which the Supreme Court ruled that videotape recorders did not infringe on fair use. He then pointed to a case in which The Nation magazine was found to have infringed on fair use by quoting key passages of former President Gerald Ford's memoirs a few days before their publication. In the videotape recorder case, for example, Leval said the court's ruling finding that taping of one show while watching another was permissible because it is non-commercial, but the ruling was unhelpful because almost all fair use is commercial in some way. Courts could then interpret that any use that was in some way commercial could not be fair use.

In The Nation case the ruling, while correct on the whole, stated that the royalties lost to the author because of the prepublication was the "single-most important factor" in deciding the case. Leval views this opinion as troubling because other fair uses, such as book reviews, can also either increase or decrease the value of a work.

'Getyourself aNimmer... without a Nimmer you'llbe lost.'

Iwas told (when Ibecame afederaljudge) Nimmer is the shepherd who guides the bleatingflock offederaljudges. That afternoon, Iordered my Nimmer andbecame a member ofthe great professor'sflock.

JUDGE PIERRE N. LEVAL

CNN commentator Roger Cossack '66 discusses criminal law issues

Roger Cossack '66 (left) speaks to students and facu l ty in January about his role as legal commentator for "Burden of Proof " on CNN. The presentation was part of the Dean's Lecture Series.

Raymond Finn, IL, (below) watches Professor Peter Arenella and Cossack debate the role of th~ press in high-profile criminal cases.

Craig Rutenberg, IL, (bottom left) reacts mirthfully to Cossack's presentation.

Professor Peter Arenella joins Roger Cossack at the podium as they exp lain their differing views on having cameras in the courtroom in high-profile criminal cases.

Photos by Todd Cheney, ASUCLA

District Attorney visits

Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti (above) speaks about the rewards of working as a prosecutor in a talk given to students last fall as part of the Dean's Lecture Series.

(right) Kenneth Zifften '65, of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca & Fisher, and John Agoglia , President of NBC Enterpris~~, speak to a record audience for the 21st Annual UCLA School of Law Entertainment Symposium in February Ziffren moderated the Television/Cable Consolidation panel for the two-day event.

Entertainment Symposium

Jeff Sagansky (above) , co-president of Sony Pictures Entertainment, delivered rhe keynote address to the 21st Annual Entertainment Symposium. Sagansky reviewed the opportunities chat Hollywood has missed in recent years and urged the assembled guests not to make the same mistake in spotting the coming expansion in the international market.

Anti-Kids 'n Fun: The Musical

Rupa Goswami, Armine Baltazar, Vay Williams, David Danson, Teri Ph.:m and Julie Drew (1-r) play out a scene from this year's Law School Musical, "Anti-Kids 'n Fun." Based on Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun," the 15th Anniversary of the zany production by Professor Ken Graham poked fun at lawyers, law professors and administrators. Alums from previous year's shows attended this anniversary production.

the latest show.

Andrea Hoffman attempts ro resuscitate Matt Williams in

Students recognized for academic achievement and public service by Drown Foundation

Philip Magaram '61 presents a scholarship to Aimee Contreras during ceremonies last fall for the Joseph Drown Scholars and Fellows, a scholarship program created by Magaram, a Trustee of the Joseph Drown Foundation. The Drown Scholars are summer program students with the highest first-year grade point averages.

The Drown Fellows were students nominated by faculty to receive a stipend to work in the public sector in the summer following their first year of law school. Fellows worked in all aspects of the public sector, including the U.S. Attorney's Office, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and city and district attorney's offices as well as in judicial externships. The program strives not only to increase students working in the public sector, but also seeks to assist students who have no family background in law.

California Supreme Court Justice Brown '77 visits Law School

Once you complete you r legal education, you will never approach problems in the same way. You never shake this pla ce.

Justice Janice Rogers Brown '77, appointed to the California Supreme Court in 1996 by Governor Pete Wilson, spoke to law students last fall as part of our Dean's Speakers Series. Students took advantage of the opportunity to interact with her in an informal setting about her achievements, her path to the Supreme Court, her time in law school and her feelings about certain issues Brown, raised in the South during some of the nation's greatest segregation struggles , is the first AfricanAmerican woman - and the second UCLA law alum - to serve on the state Supreme Court. (The first alum was John Arguelles '54, who has retired from the bench and now practices law.)

1 We print here some of the questions posed by students, and Justice Brown's answers.

How did you first get involved in public service?

I thought I wanted to work in the public sector even in law school. But then I was very naive. There were no lawyers or judges in my family. I had my impressions from Perry Mason and what was on TV

Which ofyour public positions have you enjoyed the most?

I have enjoyed all of them a great deal. I'm grateful to have had the opportunities that I have had. I always said in job interviews that I wanted a challenge. The truth is, I like to have fun, and meeting challenges is my way of doing it. Of course, I have never had a bad job . My most exciting job was in the governor's office It was very exciting, exhilarating!

The role I have loved the most is serving in the appellate courts. All of my life, people have asked me: if money were no object, what would you do? I would be a professional student. To spend my time reading and thinking and writing seems to me the ideal job. I can't believe they pay me to do this!

Which ofyour legal skills is most important?

I don't know that there is one single skill that stands out the ability to communicate, both in writing or orally is a critical skill. It's also important to be a reader, and to like problem solving. When you have done all that, you need to be able to communicate in a way that is accessible to people.

How hasyour perception ofthe legal profession changed in20years?

I had only two visions of lawyers. Until I was 7, I didn't know that the term "shyster lawyer" was two words.

On the other hand, the lawyers of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund were doing positive things. I grew into the idea of lawyers working to strengthen the society.

Fred Gray is a well-known civil rights lawyer who represented both Martin Luther King, Jr., in his various encounters with authorities, and Rosa Parks. Mr. Gray grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, about 50 miles from my hometown. In the '50s when Fred Gray decided to become a lawyer, African Americans could not attend law school at the University of Alabama, so he went to Case Western Reserve. Fred Gray was also a minister and a member of the same denomination as my grandparents. Because of Fred Gray, my grandparents could at least entertain the possibility that it was possible to be a lawyer and a decent person.

The perception of law and lawyers has changed. From heroes and agents of change to mercenaries out to make a buck. The law is no longer viewed as a noble profession; now it is seen as a business like any business. But the positive role - the one Fred Gray represented - is an avenue for you to pursue.

What are the advantages and disadvantages ofa career in the public sector?

On the positive side, I have not found any door closed to me that I could not open. Also, my timing was very good because people at that time were looking to hire women, looking to hire minorities. I had the chance to really make a contribution on some key issues.

Scace Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown '77 greets Professor John Shepard Wiley Jr. and srudenrs during her vis.it ro the law school lase fall.

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judge is a human being with a life and with experience. The process offarming an . . . . opznton zs very organicit is pulled out ofyou and it takes everything ' youve got. J UST JCE

OGERS BROWN '77

The down side is that compared to the private sector, the pay is not that good. Lawyers, in the public sector often are not seen as real lawyers. I used to characterize the management style in the (state) Attorney General's office the "stick and stick approach " The harder you work, the worse they treat you State attorneys don't have the same level of paralegal help - they may even do their own copying.

To what extent are you obligated to support the political views of the person who appointed you?

What is being reflected here is that a governor is likely to appoint somebody whose philosophy he agrees with but this does not dictate how the judge decides.

Judges do not make decisions in a vacuum. We are not free agents doing whatever we want to do . There is a real structure in what we do - always looking backward to what has come before. It is an evolutionary process. We work within a structure. It is a difficult task to fashion an opinion within the framework.

People want to think of judges as if we are units, like a computer. A judge is a human being with a life and with experience. The process of forming an opinion is very organic - it is pulled out of you and it takes everything you've got.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of a law school education?

Once you complete your legal education, you will never approach problems in the same way. You never shake this place. I don't think there were disadvantages. It was humbling, which was probably good.

Do you have a specialty?

Judges are probably the last generali sts. I'm most intrigued by constitutional issues , but it's early yet.

What would you most like to write about?

I developed an interest while at the governor's office in federalism I've seen articles on the death of federalism. My favorite quote is from an article "The Third Death of Federalism": 'Maybe federalism, as a constitutional principle , isn't quite dead But surely, like Tinkerbell , it must be close to expiring because no one believes in it anymore.'

What is it like to be an African-American woman in the public sector?

My experience has been fabulous. I have gotten every job I wanted. I have had many mentors It is not a perfect world, but law is one of those professions that has just opened up to women and one in which women have fit very comfortably

Is being a judge a lonely job?

Yes. For an appellate judge, there is a lot of laboring in seclusion. Judges tend to socialize with other judges, not because they want to isolate (themselves), but because non-judges so often want to talk about things you cannot discuss.

What is your most important non-law quality?

I am something of a workaholic. I go as long as it takes, as hard as I have to, to get the job done

How did you ensure while in law school that you would get a job in public service? I didn't . We weren't that sophisticated . Who was your favorite professor at UCLA?

There were two: Ken Graham [who is still teaching] and Richard Maxwell [who is retired]

Grady appointed Dean at George Mason

Mark F. Grady, a 1973 graduate who has taught at UCLA School of Law since 1992, has been appointed Dean of George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.

Grady joins an impressive number of law school deans who are UCLA School of Law graduates including University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dean Judith Wegner '76 (former president of the Association of American Law Schools); Dean Susan Prager '71; Dean Richard Morgan '71, Arizona State University School of Law and former dean at University of Wyoming; and former deans: Marilyn Yarbrough '73, University of Tennessee Law School; Paul Marcus '71, University of Arizona; Dorothy Wright Nelson '53, USC (now Judge U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit); and Don Lively '79, founding dean of Florida Coastal School of Law.

Dean Prager said Grady's appointment speaks well for Grady and UCLA. "Mark will be much missed here. He is an important and energetic scholar and a much loved teacher, who intensely interacts with his students. I like to think that Mark's years as a faculty member at UCLA will influence the way he approaches the role of Dean, but even more I hope that we will be able to convince him to return to UCLA when he concludes his years as Dean."

Grady said his education and experiences at UCLA have made major contributions to his life in many ways: "I first arrived at UCLA as a sophomore, when I was 18, and graduated from the law school six years later. I did not fully realize what an outstanding education I had received until I got to the Federal Trade Commission immediately after

law school and began to work in the policy planning office then headed by Professor Jim Liebeler, on leave from UCLA for two years.

"At UCLA, I had learned law and economics from the best teachers in the country, and in Washington I discovered that law and economics was the leading edge of domestic policy, which I remember was a total surprise to me at the time.·I had received exactly the education that I needed to do the work that I wanted to do."

Of Liebeler, Grady says, "He was the best mentor anyone could ever have, not only to me, but also to other UCLA law graduates whom he hired at the FTC. Since those days, I have always felt a great debt to UCLA, and I was glad to have these five years at the law school to tty to repay part of it. This time too,

I chink chat I got much more back than I paid in."

"Although I will miss my colleagues and students, I know from past experience that I will always carry UCLA with me in my heart and mind."

An expert in tort, antitrust and intellectual property law, Professor Grady has been a law professor and scholar since 1980, when he began teaching at University oflowa College of Law. He was recruited to UCLA from Northwestern University School of Law. Grady headed the Office of Planning and Evaluation at the Federal Trade Commission and was minority counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for one year.

George Mason was founded in 1979, and focuses its curriculum on law and economics.

Professor Mark Grady, center, chats with students, clockwise, Nikki Nguyen (left, seated), Marrin Goldberg, Sarah Dusseault, Jake Simon, Kathy Perkins and Samantha Grant.

Reynoso receivesABA award

Professor Cruz Reynoso was honored with the Spirit of Excellence award in February by the American Bar Association's Commission on Opportunitites for Minorities in the Legal Profession.

Reynoso, a former California Supreme Court Justice who is now Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, was presented the award at the

ABA's mid-year meeting in San Antonio, Texas. He has taught at UCLA School of Law since 1991. The award is given annually to individuals who have furthered opportunities for minorities in the legal profession.

Reynoso teaches professional responsibility, remedies and appellate advocacy.

Two law professors lauded for 209 work

Professor Evan Caminker and Visiting Professor Vik Amar, of UC Davis School of Law, received the ACLU's Law Professor Award this spring for their work challenging the constitutionality of the anti-affirmative action initiative, Proposition 209, which recently was upheld as constitutional in a federal appeals court.

Last summer, Caminker and Amar wrote an article, "Equal Protection, Unequal Burdens and the CCRI," (23 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 1019, 1996) arguing that 209 should be found unconstitutional. They cited cases suggesting that while affirmative action programs that remedy past wrongs can be repealed, a state may not entrench an appeal of such programs in a manner that uniquely disadvantages racial minorities. The analysis served as the basis for the ACLU's legal challenge of the measure. Caminker served as co-counsel in the

suit filed last fall that challenged the initiative as it progressed to a hearing before a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, where the initiative was upheld.

Amar and Caminker were two of eight lawyers honored by the ACLU of Southern California, which honored the attorneys for free legal work on behalf of poor or disadvantaged people.

Evan Caminker

Cruz Reynoso

Vik Amar

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• 1960s

Riane Tennenhaus Eisler '65 has been elected a fellow in the World Academy of Att and Sciences and given the Humanist Pioneer Award for "her contributions to a clearer understanding of our past, present and the possibilities for our future." Eisler is best known for her bestseller, The Chalice and the B/,ade: Our History, Our Future, (1987) which has been translated into 14 languages. Her most recent books, Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics ofthe Body and Women, Men, and the Global Quality ofLife, draw from her work as a cultural historian and systems scientist, an area in which she says her legal training for pattern recognition has been invaluable.

David Gould '65 is one of 42 attorneys who have been inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy. Gould is.a litigation parrner in the Los Angeles office of McDermott, Will and Emery.

Edward Poll '65 has been elecred to serve a twoyear term on the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Los Angeles County Public Defender Michael P. Judge '68 delivered the keynote address at the June 1996 commencement for the School of Law of West LosAngeles.Judge was also awarded an honorary doctorate at the ceremony.

• 1970s

Nicholas Budd '70 has been listed in "Leading Banking Lawyers of the World" by the International Financial Law Review. He is a partner in the Paris, France office of White & Case, and was recentlyappointed head of its International Trade and Commodity Finance Practice Group.

Paul Freeman '71 has joined Chevalier, Allen and Liebman as a partner in its Irvine office.The firm specializes in aviation, environmental and commercial law.Previously Freeman was in private practice in Irvine.

Bruce Kramer '72 has taken over the Williams & Meyers Oil and Gas multi-volume treatise, which is widely considered to be the "Bible" for oil and gas lawyers. He is the Maddox Professor of Law at Texas Tech University.

Forrest S. Mosten '72 has written The Complete Guide to Mediation: The Cutting-EdgeApproach to Family Law Practice. It was published by the ABA Family Law Section.

Henry Barbosa '73 has been re-elected to a fouryear term as Director of the Metropolitan Water District. He also co-manages the 16-attorney law firm that he founded, Barbosa Garcia & Barnes, which specializes in corporate and public agencies practice.

Joe W Hilberman '73 and Peter M. Fonda '73 have formed a new partnership, Fonda and Hilberman, LLP. They have been practicing together since 1984 and specialize in civil litigation, professional liability, risk management and insurance matters. Previous to the creation of their new, 11person firm, both attorneys worked at Fonda, Garrard, Hilberman & Davis.

Ethan Lipsig '74 has authored Downsizing: Law and Practice, the first complete treatise on all aspects of downsizing.The book discusses layoff selection, exit incentive strategies, benefirs and the WARN Act. Lipsig is a senior partner in the LA firm of Paul, Hastings,Janofsky &Walker. He founded and co-chairs its Employee Benefits National Practice Group.The book is published by BNA.

Franz E. Miller '74 has been elected 1997 President of the Orange County Bar Association. In the past five years, the 6,500-member association has won four national awards for outstanding services to the public. For his year as president, Miller's goal is to showcase the good things that lawyers do.

Florence Tsu Sinay '74 has relocated to San Francisco afrer 25 years in LA. She will be of counsel to Minami, Lew & Tamaki, specializing in civil litigation. She married PatrickJohn Phillips, a fourth-generation San Franciscan and owner of a contracting business, in February 1997.

UCLA School ofLaw was the most-represented school in theLosAngeles Businessjournal's February 10, 1997 feature on50 LA lawyers. The ten UCLA alums who werefeaturedare:

Carla Barboza '82, JohnBranca '75, Mario Camara '73, William Elperin '72, DavidFleming '59, Barry Freeman '62, Deborah Koejfier '75, Louis "Skip"Miller '72, johnMoscarino '85 and KennethZiffeen '65.

The article was titled '1n a city rich with lawyers, here are50 who standout."

James R. Brueggemann '75 (left) and Gary A. Clark '75 (below) have joined che LA firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as partners. The two '75 alums were formerly co-founders and shareholders of Pretty, Schroeder, Brueggemann & Clark. They formerly practiced intellectual property lawwirh an emphasis on patent law.

Stephanie Joyce (Topliss) Cole '75 has been selected to be the Administrative Director of the Alaska Supreme Court, effective February 1997. Cole had been Deputy Administrative Director of the Court System since 1983.

Charles M. Kilpatrick '75 writes to tell us chat he continues to be a partner in the Carson City, Nevada firm of Kilpatrick, Johnston and Adler. He practices personal injury law.

Gary W: Maeder '75 has joined the law firm of Heller,Ehrman White and McAuliffe as a shareholder, while continuing his tax and corporate law practice in downtown LA. He lives with wife Sue and children Stephen (17) and Charlene (15) in West LA.

David Weisbrot '75, Dean of che Law Faculty at the University of Sydney, Australia, has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the same university. He will be in charge of the new College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Weisbrot may be reached by email at davidw@law.usyd.edu.au

Gregory C. Fant '76, J. David Oswalt '76, and James I. Ham '81 have joined Arnold & Porter's LA office along wirh rheir entire firm, Quinn, Kully and Morrow. The merger of Quinn, Kully and Morrow wirh Arnold & Porter further expands the growing Arnold & Porter firm.

James Donohue '76 has been elected to serve as chair of the Intellectual and Industrial Property Section for the Washington state bar. He is a partner in the Seattle office of Miller, Nash, Weiner, Hager & Carlsen.

David Ginsburg '76 and his wife Dena are pleased to report that rheir two children, Lev (born 1976) and Lauren (born 1977) are both undergraduate students at UCLA. David and his producing partners won a 1997 Golden Globe Award in the "Motion Picture for Television" category for "Rasputin."

Eugene Tillman '76 and Bonnie E. Thomson '76 live with their two teenage sons in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Eugene is president of the 8,000-member National Health Lawyers Association

(www.nhla.org/nhla) and is partner in rhe Washington, D.C office of Reed Smith Shaw & McClay (www.rssm.com). Bonnie in involved in the development of affordable housing for the elderly.

Mark T. Johnson '77 has taken a position wirh Loyola Law School as Adjunct Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Western Law Center for Disability Rights. Founded in 1975, the center has a long history of success representing disabled people and affirming their right to full participation in and access to public services, community activities and educational and employment opportunities. The Center's newest project is the Cancer Outreach Project which provides resources on a broad array of legal issues to people with cancer.

Lucinda A. Low '77 is the first woman to be elected to the Chair of the Section oflnternational Law and Practice of the ABA. She has been an officer of the section for six years, as well as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security. Her practice emphasizes complex, multi•party international trade and investment transactions such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, project financing and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act counseling.

Stephanie C. Silvers '77 was recencly promoted to partner at Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a national real estate law firm headquartered in Los Angeles.

Michael D. Briggs '78 is now Senior International Counsel for US WEST in London. US WEST has cellular and cable TV businesses in Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and western Europe, He can be reached at mbriggs@uswest.com

Melanie Cook '78 has been named entertainment lawyer of the year by the Beverly Hills Bar Assocation - the first woman ever to receive the award. Her clients include director Tim Burton, actor Ed Harris and Madonna.

Richard Freer '78 was voted Law Professor of the Year at Emory University for the fifth time in 13 years. He is a national civil procedure lecturer for the BAR/BRI bar review, and will deliver 37 lectures in 24 cities this summer. He is author of one volume and co-author of a second of rhe new edition of MooresFederalPractice (Mathew Bender 1997). It is the first wholly new edition of rhat treatise since 1949. The second edition of his casebook on civil procedure (with Wendy Perdue of Georgetown) will be published shortly (Anderson 1997). In March of rhis year he delivered the University Great Teachers Lecture, "The Politics of Judicial Selection: Ten Years After Bork."

Deborah Crandall Saxe '78 has joined Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe as a shareholder. Saxe will spearhead the Los Angeles office's labor practice. She represents employers exclusively.

Nancy E. Lasater '79 has been elected to chair both the Litigation Section and the Law Practice Management Section of the Washington, D.C. Bar. It is the first time in the D.C. bar's history chat one person has chaired two sections simultaneously. Nancy also publishes often in legal periodicals, including "How to Avoid the Firm From Hell," in the April 1996 American Lawyer. She was considered for rhac magazine's recent cover article, "The Top 45 Lawyers Under 45," but the magazine instead chose Nancy's husband, John Guttmann. "If you're going to lose," she says, "at least keep it in the family!"

• 1980s

Bill DeGrandis '80 recently acted as advisor to Bolivia concerning privatization of the Bolivian Railway Company. He has also advised on rhe proposed privatization of the Lima, Peru water supply and on electric power assets in South America and Asia. Bill practices with the Washington, D.C. office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and specializes in domestic and international energy, transportation and infrastructure regulatory matters, transactions and privatizations.

Mark Stephen Green '80 has been appointed General Counsel for the Seattle School District. The district is Washington's largest wirh 46,000 students. Previously he represented rhe University of Washington.

John Petrovich '80 has joined Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Petrovich represents start-up companies rhac develop multimedia and internet-related products and services.

Gary S. Craig '81 now pastors a pioneer church in Nashville, called the Coasdands. He and his wife, Bonny, have rhree daughters, ages 2, 4 and 6.

Mary Rose Brusewitz '82 has joined the New York office Chadbourne & Parke LLP as a partner. Brusewitz is considered to be one of rhe foremost practitioners in the area of Latin America financial transactions.

Carolyn Barnes '83 is Assistant City Attorney with the City of Burbank, California.

Elizabeth G. Chilton '83 has joined che litigation boutique of Christa & Jackson, where she continues to practice commercial and real estate litigation. She was previously a partner in the litigation department of Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger.

iDon E. N. Gibson '83 has joined the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachussets as Executive VP for Marketing and Development. Previously he was Sr. VP for Business Affairs at Major League Baseball Properties.

Robert Kenneth Olsen '83 joined the firm of Aldrich & Bonefin, PLC in Irvine, California in 1996. He specializes in bank regulation and consumer credit. He writes that he has three children, ages 6, 3, and 0, and a wife, Lisa Ann.

IDavid D. Powell '83 has joined the Denver office of Holland & Hart as a partner. He works in Labor and Employment Litigation. '

Jonathan Rosenoer '83 has written a comprehensive book on online legal issues, entitled Cyberlaw: TheLaw oftheInternet. Jonathan recently joined Arthur Anderson Knowledge Enterprises, specializing in electronic commerce. He is based in San Francisco, and lives in Marin County with his wife, Sherry, and three children, Lauren, Nicholas and Sophie.

Terri (Batson) Zaelke '83, Ed Zaelke '83 write that their daughter Lauren welcomed Austin Edward on Election Day, November 1996. Ed is a real estate partner with Arnold and Porter in LA and Terri is legal counsel to Agricultural Producers in Valencia, California.

Kent Brockelman '84 reports the formation of Brockelman & Brodman in Phoenix, Ariz. The firm will specialize in commercial litigation, labor and employment matters and construction law.

Mike Ellickson '85 has joined rhe law offices of Gary L. Wolfsrone in Seattle. Mike practices civil litigation, with an emphasis on personal injury.

Edward Carr '87 has been promoted ro partner ar the Houston office ofVinson & Elkins. His area is commercial litigation.

John Irons '87 was recentl y promoted to partner at Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a national real estate law firm headquartered in Los Angeles.

John Kern '87 has been promoted to partner at Janis, Schuelke & Wechsler, where he has worked since 1992. The firm works exclusively on white collar crime, representing both individuals and corporations.

Bryan Fair '85 writes book about affirmative action

Bryan Fair '85, professor oflaw at the University ofAlabama School ofLaw, has written a book, Notes of a Racial Caste Baby - Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action (NYUPress).

In his book, Fair, the eighth often children born to a single motheron public assistance in an Ohioghetto, combines two histories- that ofthe country and his own- to offer a defense ofaffirmative action.

In the book, Fair surveys the most common argumentsfor and against affirmative action. He argues that one must distinguish between the United States in the pre-civil rights movement era - when the law was explicitly anti-black - and today's remedial affirmative action policies - which are decidedly not anti-white. He defends remedial policies, stating ''centuries ofracial caste cannot be swept aside ina few short years. "

Fair, an expert in constitutional law, said he initially had not intendedfor the book to be so personal. "While writing, Irealized that the personal history was most important to my own biasand my own perspective and that often people who write negatively about affirmative action telltragic stories and my story isn't tragicatall,"Fair said

"The educational opportunities that Ireceivedat Duke and UCLA opened enormous opportunities to discover the worldonefar beyond where Igrew up. "

Timothy B. McOsker '87 has joined Burke, Williams and Sorenson as partner and chair of the firm's public law section. He is also the Contract City Attorney for the city of Downey, California.

Robert Stephen Roden '87 writes: "After five years at LucasArts Entertainment Company, I moved 8/96 to a position as VP of Business Affairs and General Counsel at Maxis, publisher of entertainment software including Sim City. My daughter, Natalie, started kindergarten in September."

Scott P. Lenga '88 writes that he has accepted a position as general counsel and VP of Business Development with Memco Software Ltd., an Israeli computer security system company. He can be reached at scott@memco.co.il.

Charles Owen Geerhart '88 has been named a partner at Amelie, Hastie, McGee, Willis and Greene in San Francisco. He is a products liability litigator as well as a general civil litigator. He writes that he tried three cases last year and found them all quite educational.

Mark}. Price '88 has been appointed partner at Roetzel & Andress. Mark practices in the Naples, Florida office of the Ohiobased firm. He primarily practices real estate law and represents clients with the financing, acquisitions, zoning, development, leasing and sale of commercial and large-scale residential projects.

Ronald 0. Sally '88 has been named Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Ascent Sports. Ascent Sports is a division of the Ascent Entertainment Group, the owner of the Denver Nuggets, Command Video and Beacon Communications.

Robin Toma '88 was honored by the Asian Pacifr'c American Legal Center of Southern California, in the Pro Bono Awards category. The aw;rds dinner reflected the input of many UCLA Law alums, including Elwood Lui '69, dinner co-chair, and, on the Board of Directors: Casimiro Tolentino '75, Jai Ho Rho '84, Stewart Kwoh '74, Martin Lee '82, S.J. Yim '89, Reginald Chun '89 and Leslie Furukawa '76.

Susan Stott Azad '89 has joined the litigation department of the LA office of Latham and Watkins.

David R. Gabor '89 has been elevated to partner in the Los Angeles office of McDermott, Will & Emery. Gabor's practice focuses on general commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on copyright law.

• 1990s

Margaret Bang '90 is Senior Counsel for Consolidated Transportation Services, a subsidiary of Consolidated Freightways, a trucking, transportation and communication services company. She is based in Palo Alto, California.

Mara! Donoyan '90 and Wilmer J. Harris '90 announce the birth of their daughter, Amanda Ani Harris.

Francis J. James '90 was featured in a New York Times article for his work in Cambodia as founder and legal advisor to Legal Aid of Cambodia. It is the first legal aid society in Cambodia and is helping to rebuild the legal system after the excesses of the Khmer Rouge. Last spring, in association with the University of San Francisco School of Law and Hanoi Law University, he organized a training for· 110 Vietnamese judges on the new Vietnamese civil code. In 1997, he will help launch Vietnam's first legal aid pilot project since the war's end. He can be contacted at http://www.alaska.net/"miguel/cambodia or at lac@pactok.peg,apc.org.

Katie A. Traxler '90 and George W. Abele '90 had their first child, a daughter (Genevieve) on 10/14/96. Both Karie and George continue to practice with the LA office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker.

Karen I. Tse '90 works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as a legal consultant to the UN Center for Human Rights and as a Judicial Mentor to the Cambodian judiciary. Her work, which was featured in The New York Times (along with Francis James, see above) has launched the country's first arraignment court and helped stem human rights abuses by the military, police and prison officials. Now fluent in Khmer, Karen has been accepted by both Harvard and Yale Divinity Schools for the fall 1997 term.

Jill Ilana Brown '91 has received a pro bono award from Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. The firm will make a $2,500 contribution to a charity of her choice.

Leean_na Izuel '91 has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as an associate in the Lc:,s Angeles offfice. As a member of the corporations department, Leanna will focus on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

Daniel Robbins '91 has accepted a position as Domestic Counsel with the Motion Picture Association of America. He worked previously in antitrust and intellectual property law at Graham and James.

Mary Christine Sungaila '91 writes that she is counsel of record for the Southern Poverty Law Center, California Women's Law Center and the National Association of Human Rights Workers, as amica curiae in support of the U.S. Solicitor General in US vs. Lanier. US vs. Lanier, which was before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, raises the issue of whether "women have a constitutional right not to be sexually assaulted by public officials." Sungaila also led the successful amicus effort ro gain certiorari in the case.

Melinda Joy Burns '92 has started a law practice in Oakland, California. She will emphasize insurance litigation, business law, real estate and criminal defense. The firm regularly accepts matters on behalf of indigent clients and those who would otherwise have difficulty obtaining legal services. The firm also strives to maintain an active and effective presence in California's lesbian and gay community.

Kenny Chan '92 and Udo Strutynski '92 have formed a partnership for general practice under the name Chan & Strutynski.

Lisa A. Anderson '93 and James D. Kozmor '93 were married on August 31, 1996 at Stone Manor in Malibu, California. Lisa is an attorney in the Children Services Division of Los Angeles County Counsel. Jim is an associate at Browne & Woods.

Brian Jones '93 has been hired as general counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. He was previously president of the Center for New Black Leadership and Contributor to MSNBC cable news network.

Marc Koonin '93 and Ho Cho Koonin had their first child, Joy Kyoung Koonin, in February 1997.

Stephen Cope '94 has joined the Los Angeles office of Lord, Bissel & Brook. Before joining the firm, Cope worked for Quisenberry and Barbanel as a litigation associate.

Travis Mann '93 has joined the entertainment department of Rosenfield, Meyer and Susman. Previously he worked in the theatrical legal affairs department of a major studio.

Helen Diem Sunga '93 received a 1996 Pamana USA Award in civic achievement for her involvement in the Pilipino community. She is 1997 membership chair of the Philippine American Bar Association, and has a solo practice in Estate Planning, Family Law and Probate.

Daniel Zohar '93 has joined the firm of Paul , Hastings, Janofsky & Walker as a litigation associate. He also reporcs chat he is engaged co Kimberly Sperling, whom he met on a blind date set up by her parents. They will be married this summer.

Brette Simon '94 recently left O'Melveny & Myers and "lateraled" co Gibson, Dunn & Cruccher's Los Angeles office. Brette is in the corporate group and focuses on securities and mergers and acquisitions.

Raul Canez '95 has gone into private practice in Texas, specializing in tax and business transactions

S. Elizabeth Foster '95 writes that she was thrilled to h ave worked pro bono on Baehr v. Miike, t h e ground-breaking Hawaii decision that legalizes same-sex marriage. Foster filed rwo amicus briefs for the case. Foster has now turned her attention back to international corporate transac tions but p lans to contin ue working toward equal marriage rights for all.

Alex Tamin '95 and Jennifer Barbosa Tamin ' 95 were married in September 1996. They live in Valencia and work in Century City.

Hardy R. Murphy '96 has joined the LA office of Fulbright and Jaworski. H e will focus on litigation

CORRECTIONS

The following are corrections for last falls magazine as well as the School ofLaw Alumni Directory:

Paul M Mahoney '68 was inadvertently listed as deceased in the the UCLA School of Law A lumni Directory, 1995 He practices law in Claremont with the firm ofJon es, Mahoney, Brayton & Soll.

In the fall 1996 H onor Roll ofDonors, we fa iled to note that Leah S. Fischer is a 1982 alum

Laurie Genevro Cole '85 has made donations for the p ast two years in memory ofher friend Elisa Halpern. We regret tha t those donations were not noted in the Hon or Roll ofDonors in the fall magazine.

IN MEMORIAM

Mark Resnik '72, founding partner of grocery chain

Mark Resnik '72, general counsel and a founding partner in the Yucaipa Companies - t h e investment firm chat controls the Ralphs supermarket chain - died of cancer January 31, 1997. He was 49.

Resnik had a strong sense of social responsibility, and he and h is wife, Shelley, contributed their rime and resources co many causes including the UCLA School of Law Library Campaign, t h e Democratic Party, che Jewis h Federation, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Foundation and the Museum ofToleran ce.

Professo r Paul Bergma n , a friend of Resnik's who ca ught h im when h e a ttended law school, said Resnik will be missed deepl y " Mark loved his business d ealings not for the economi c rewards they brought, but for the opportunities they offered to find solutions co complex problems, " Bergman said. "Mark had an amazing ability to identify the human dynamics lurking in social or economic problems and devise workable responses to them. "

Resnik's friend since junior high , Jeff Abell, said the rwo had shared their lives, attending separate law schools a t the same time a nd even working for one another later. "H e accepted us, flaws and all , and always with a keen se nse of humor; always with a chuckle Another wonderful quality o f Mark's that I know touched everyone was his generosity. H e gave freely of this rime, support and advice, and h e greatly loved to share what h e thought of as h is good fortune, but wh ich I think we all recognized as his welld eserved reward."

Resnik played an important role in Yucaipa's acquisition of Ralphs in 1995 and in the merger with the Food 4 Less and Boys scores to create the largest grocery com p any in Southern California. Before the formation of Yucaipa, he was director, vice president and secretary of Jurgensens, a former Southern California chain of gourmet scores He also was general co unsel for the Scarer Brother supe rmarket chain.

He p racticed law before entering t he investment business, specializing in mergers and acquisitions with the Santa M onica firm of Grossman, Barr & Grant, n ow known as G ross man, Grant & Cramer. Resnik is survived by his wife, Shelley, and his d aughter, Jen n ife r.

Memorial Award named for Judge Jerry Pachc

T h e fa mily of retired Judge Jerry Pac ht , a Los Angeles Superi o r C ourt judge resp ected for h is rulings t h at favored the rights of individuals, h as set up a cons titution al law award in his memory at U C LA Sch ool of Law.

Afre r attending U C LA, Judge Pach c graduat ed from US C law school; U CLA's law school h ad not yet bee n founded. In 1969, Judge Pachc struck down a policy of the University of Californi a that barred Communises from employment. Hi s decision, based on the Fiest Amendment, reversed the Bo ard of Regents' firin g of Angela Davis as an ass istant professor of philosophy because she was a m ember of the C ommunise Party.

In 19 77 , h e ruled that Californi ans h ave the right to su e for damages if they foun d that th eir cred itcard company h ad sold their n am es and addresses for use on other companies' mail-order lists H e sat on th e Commi ssion on Judi cial Qualifications in 1977 when it undertook a public examin ation of how the Califo rnia Supreme Court conducted its business

Judge Pachc, 75, died of a ce rebral hemorrhage on April 1. Survivors include his wife , Judith; a d aughter, Jane M onson; rwo son s, Robert Pacht and Jonathan Siegel; a brother, Rudolph; a sist er, Patricia Sni tze r ; and a granddaughter, Jessica Siegel.

Memorial contributions can b e directed co the Judge Jerry Pac h c M emorial Fund, UCLA School of Law, Box 95 14 76, Los Angeles, CA 9 00 95.

I N M E MORIAM

Douglas M cKee '65

M aria Es cher Enriquez '84

Nira H ardo n Long '64

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