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A Stage forthe Lawyers Behindthe Scenes
here's no business like show business, and no law like entertainment law. And no other law school is in a better position than that of UCLA for casting the entertainment bar and di---- rectingthecourseofits development.
Therefore not surprisingly, in only three years the UCLA Entertainment Symposium, presented by the UCLA School of Law and University Extension, has become a major stage for the stars of one of the legal profession's most glamorous specialties.
The UCLA symposium has overcome some of the usual pitfalls that hamper such performances. Industry titans and their legal lions, by nature protective of competitive advantage, are coaxed into surprising frankness. The result is a syllabus that has become a textbook foranyonewho must contend in their arena. The drawing power of the symposium obviously is due in part to the fact that the entertainment community of the nation is clustered within a ten mile radius of the campus. The resources of this community are tapped by making a case for candor to a profession that depends on image and performance.
Says William Hornaday '77 an attorney for AVCO Embassy Pictures Corporation and a member of the Symposium Advisory Committee: "Often a speaker whoaccepts our invitation convinces his company or
clients that his presentation will be great p.r. and reassuresthem that he won't spill any secrets. We say, 'Spill them, it's great p.r.' "
The symposium affords a personal incentive to high quality presentations, Hornaday notes. "There is so much transition in the entertainment business that a speaker thinks, 'I've got to look good because anyone I'm talking to could be my future employer.' This is a business of reputations," says Hornaday Hornaday initiated the symposium while he was still a law student at UCLA by enlisting the aid of prominent UCLAalumni inthe field. Oneoftheentertainment lawyers who formed the symposium was Peter J. Dekom '73 of Pollock, Rigrod & Bloom.
Despite the academic reputation of tlie UCLA School of Law in the field of entertainment law, the relationship between the school and the industry itself had been rather distant,Dekom says. "I thought it was time for UCLA to get into the act," he recalls. "And we decided to do it better than anyone else ever had."
Bornaday and Dekom were joined in the groundwork by Lawrence P. Mortorff ofInternational Creative Management. The school would make its entrance, the founders decided, in a unique role. The advisory board would not be a circle of exclusive figureheads, as is often the case with such symposia.
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People not carryingtheirweightof the work wouldbe eliminatedto make roomfornew people-producers, agents, directors,oranyone else who was both experienced and eager to be a part of the enterprise. Control of the board would rotate to insure that talent and ideas were never stifled.
Particularly important would be the syllabus. "We decided that the syllabus should have a life of its own," says Dekom. Rather than the usual compendium of forms and outlines, the symposium would produce a textbook vital to anyone who must deal in the business of show business.
To make the syllabus live, the editors would insure the candor of their speakers. "We are in the business," says Dekom, "and when we read something that isn't totally correct or forthright, we literally add what's missing." A speaker who seems hesitant about disclosing information is often invited to a lunch where board members hash out his feelings about disclosing delicate information.
"All attorneys must respect client privilege," says Dekom. "But the problem occasionally can be ob· viated by speaking in such a way that a client could not possibly be identified."
To provide fuller coverage of the topics than is usually afforded in such symposia, the program was extended toa day and a half. The full day is broken up by a luncheon speaker who is sometimes controver· sial and informative but also provides a certain relief from the rigorous lectures. One such speaker was Joan Rivers, who epitomizes the artist's struggle to independent production. Rivers recounted the strategies through which she and her husband Edgar formed a limited partnershipin order tofinanceandexploitthe movie Rabbit Test.
The symposium is born of days of exploding complexity when professionals are desperate for information. Inflation, union demands, and new arrangements such as mini-series have reworked the structureoftraditionaldeals. "What people in the business
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most want to know is how to get a project off the ground," says Dekom.
Studioproductionsarebiggerandmorecostlythan ever,andthestakesarehigher thanever.Evenamajor studioislikelytobemakingonly10 to 20 filmsayear now.Inthesedaysofincreasingindependentproduction,the studios generate less than 50 percent of the filmsinthemarket,andyet theyabsorb 85 percentof themoney made in the field. Demands for a share of thepieareintensifying
"It's always been difficult to get money out of a studio But with fewer pictures around it's particu larlytough for artistsunlessthey have star clout and their lawyers know what they are doing," says Dekom.
!hecompetition and fast-action pace seem onlyto ?e1ghtentheprofession's appeal. For everyjobopenlilg at entry level there are easily 50 applicants, Dekomsays. "Thisbusinessisperceivedasaglamour career of wheeling and dealing, and unfortunately a
numberoflawyershavedonenothingtodetract from that image. But the best entertainment attorneys regard their work as substantive law and would have been great in any legal field they had decided to enter."
Those aspiring to join the big time are among the best that legal education is producing. "The profession is dominated by graduates from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Boalt, USC, and UCLA, with UCLA's especially heavy representation growing larger as it attains aninfluencewithinthe industry comparable to itsacademicstature," says Dekom.
"Entertainment offersauniqueopportunityto deal with complicated issues and still deal with people," heexplains."Asymposiumlikeourscanimprovethe quality of the bar, and enhance the communication among people within the industry while drawing alumni back to the school in a way that makes the university part of our working lives."
Another of the prominent entertainment lawyers
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who saw the symposium through its formative days as co-coordinator is Gary Concoff of Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin. "When I wasfirstcontactedabouttheideaofthesymposium,I thought it was very appropriate for UCLA to put on such a program. UCLA provides the entertainment bar in Los Angeles with a tremendous percentage of people who practice in the field, and Los Angeles is now conceded to be the center of the entertainment business as much from a fmancial as from a production standpoint."
The symposium, Concoff notes, gives influential people who are seldom heard from a chance to air theirviews. "This year,televisionnetworkexecutives were given such an opportunity to state their positionsanddidsoeagerly.Ithinktheyfeeltheirsideof the story is often not appreciated by the lawyer or agent who deals with them," says Concoff.
In an industry that must change as constantly as the mood of the country, the past seven years have
seenan expansioninthecomplexityofoperations.A technological explosion is hurling an array of cable television set-ups,videorecordingdevices,andother revolutionary products into homes. "Overall, the entertainment market is constantly expanding so that the total of dollars spent in all media is expanding," says Concoff.
The selection of symposium topics from such a constellationofpossibilitiesisaccomplishedbywhat amounts to a small poll of prominent people in the field who are surveyed by the advisory committeeto determine what's bothering themcurrentlyand what concernstheyseeonthe horizon. Surprisingly,aconsensus has been easy to achieve. "In the last two or three years, those topics that we have chosen for the symposium have been at the core of those crucial to the motionpicture industry," says Concoff.
The moneyraised from the symposium is donated tothe lawschoolasa discretionary fund for the dean to use as he deems necessary. "All of us feel that the
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lawschoolhasagreatneedforsuchfundsinthelight ofstricturesthatareimposedonthewholestateeducational system. That's a very important motivation for the advisory committee and often for the people who speak. The manuscripts that are produced are really a combined product of the speakers and the committee and the editing group. This involves a tremendous number of very expensive man hours. But I hope that this is just the beginning of the involvement ofthe law school in entertainment industry oriented education," says Concoff.
The desire to cast UCLA as the superstar of entertainmentlawschoolsfollowsanewdriftinthepower structure of industry. Only a decade ago, major films were produced by major studios which controlled both product and profit with an iron grip. "Then alongcame apicture called Easy Rider," explainsthe imposium'sco-coordinato�,E. BarryHaldeman'69 of thosenfeld,Meyer& Susman."EasyRiderwasmadein ebackofastationwagon,butitmadealotofmoney.
All of a sudden we were faced with the visible fact that an independent producer working out of his garage could make films thatwould sell."
Today, major studios are still the major releasing organizations forfilms, but thepossibilities for independently producing and negotiating are tremendouslymorevariedandcomplex. "Thegrowthofthe independent producer as opposed to the salaried producer allows the seller to shop. Studios get very competitive. You can negotiate phenomenal dealswith options." Many stars have either gone into production themselves or at least command such financial clout that they can demandpreviously unheard of concessions. "The big issue breaks down to howbigashareofthepiecanyouobtainfortheartists involved as opposed to the distribution organizations," says Haldeman. "There is no question that artistsgenerally aregettingabettershakethese days, often because their representatives know more about what to ask for."
As the possibilities of themedia expand so do those at the negotiating table. "People used to assume you couldn't get net profits from a studio. Now you can. You hear time and again people saying, 'This is not a precedential deal because we'll never do it again,' " says Haldeman.
Major entertainment firms still represent major industry entities, but the representation of stars who rise so quickly and powerfully is becoming more and more attractive. The roles played by their lawyers have evolved accordingly. "When I graduated from law school lawyers still served a very lawyerly function in the entertainment business,'' says Haldeman. "An agent negotiated the major deal points, and lawyers worked out the legal details. Now those legal issues have risen to the status of major deal points, and the practice is as much one of negotiating as reviewing contracts. Legal problems are dealt with up front, to the benefit of everyone involved." Lawyers are often on the side of artists instinctively, Haldeman feels. "Many are frustrated actors, producers, writers, and directors themselves who want to be close to the business," he says.
Thus the knowledge of current deals made by others and the structure of those deals is crucial to an entertainment lawyer's success. "There is a crying need among the profession for all the information we can get," says Haldeman. A symposium with an advisory committee stacked with executives from agencies and studios as well as major law £inns can provide channels of communication from all sides of the ring.
Each symposium results in a syllabus that is a virtual must for anyone who must operate in the industry today.
Requests for the syllabus come from all over the world to Lillian Rader, the dean's secretary, who runs the operation like her own small business. "People call and ask about the book, and I say, 'Yes, I have it,'" says Rader. "They gasp and say, 'Thank God, you're the sixth or seventh person I've spoken to.' It's like a person crawling on his hands and knees in the desert who comes across the water hole. There's probably no other publication like it."
Since 1978, Rader has sold more than 300 copiesto major studios, agencies, and luminaries such as Neil Simon and Richard Dreyfuss as well as to small film companies from South Africa to Georgia.
The proceeds from the syllabus, like those from the symposium, help the law school through difficult financial straits. "You don't mind the extra work if you're concerned about this project," says Rader. "When I'm too swamped by my own work, I do it on my lunch hour or after work."
The mentor of many of the rising stars of the entertainment bar is UCLA's Professor Melville Nimmer, the nation's foremost authority on copyright, the backbone of entertainment law. "Copyright is the core, but the term 'entertainment law' draws together other areas that impact on literary and artistic works as well," says Nimmer. "These include issues such as right to privacy, libel, unfair competition, and contract and tax problems. Our school is one of the firstto really teach these as a group and look at the interactions. Over the last ten years, substantially more students have been going into this field from UCLA than from any other law school. This is attributable in part to where we are located and also to the emphasis given to this subject here at UCLA.'' D
TheToastmaster General
f lawyers are not by nature laconic, it is particularly impressive that one has commanded respect and affection from his colleagues in part by artful use of silence. UCLA's most taciturn professor of law is also its most eloquent humorist; its most reserved instructor is one of the professors alumni remember most fondly. Nearing retirement, Professor Kenneth York stands as the UCLA School of Law's toastmaster general.
Profiles, as Professor York himself notes, are often "like cosmetic jobs on the dead." But a lively humorist cannot be kept down. Five years ago, one of his colleagues sang his praise in a profile with near fatal enthusiasm "Friends said they looked at that and figured I was dead," he remembers. "One of them wrote and said he felt very bad at the time, and now he was writing to ask why in the hell didn't I stay where I was. All profiles are like obituaries, but that one was too close."
This one will be more to the point. Every fine teacher makes a unique contribution to the transmission of his inherited subject matter Professor York has, as well, influenced the way students and teachers think about his field.
Pulling together the various compartmentalized remedies of the law into a single course was logical and efficient. "Now we are not able to cover in five hours what we previously were not able to cover in 13 hours," explains York. But since the reshaping of the curriculum at UCLA, the casebook generated by Pro�essor York and UCLA's Professor John Bauman has influenced by the sheer momentum of its own logic the way remedies is taught throughout the nation. York finds the development of the law of remedies even more surprising. The course is not a class in
issues. It is a search for solutions. By its very nature, the instruction is a matter of what to do in given situations. "A client who comes into the lawyer's office is not really interested in the substantive law. He is interested in what you are going to do for him. This is the decision that you have to make within the framework of what you have, not what you would like to have," says York.
What is required for such instruction is an innate sense of what is fair. Comments a former student: "Professor York teaching remedies really involved a kind of approach to looking at problems and how they can be solved in a fair way, and how law has evolved to give just results where a rigid adherence to past approaches would not suffice."
In these days of injunctions to regulate court ordered bussing to desegregate schools, the basic principles of remedies are being transported into areas of social conflict with decidedly mixed results. Comments Professor York: "The attempt to use the traditional judicial remedies for litigation in civil rights and to solve certain political problems has been a rather fascinating thing. The course in remedies is concerned primarily with dispute resolution between private parties in civil courts.Theseremedies are fairly well understood, but when you try suddenly to control by injunction the desegregation of public schools, for example, the process has its inherent limitations. Something that will work in a dispute between you and me may not work so well when it involves broad masses of mankind."
For Professor York, a career in teaching law was, in some respects, a remedy as much as an aspiration. On his first job at 12 years old, mixing plaster for molds for false teeth, he realized that life should not be wasted in idle chatter. He decided to go on to high
schoolandcollege,wherehetooksomedecisive falls.
"As a 128 pound freshman, I went out for the wrestling team, for someunknownreason," he remembers. "I was reasonably successful for the first few weeks. Then the conference champion came back to school. When it became necessary for me to wrestle him, I discovered there was a sign on the ceiling of the gym. It said, 'If You Can Read This, You Should Go Out For The Debating Team.' After reading that sign a couple dozentimes,Iwentoutforthedebatingteam, andthat lead me inexorably on a downward path to the law."
The hold ofthe law provedunbreakable. "Isuppose for reasons which would be considered unimportant now (such as the discovery, after several years as a Marine infantry officer, that there is substance to the maxim that 'the life of a soldier is one of great hardship, not infrequently mingled with moments of real danger'), I took a job teaching law and have never been able to escape," he says. "Not that I ever particularly longed to escape.''
His impact on others grappling with the law has been far reaching and often subtle. Former students remember his presence and his ways as well as his teachings. Says Charles Vogel '59, a former Superior Court judge, "He would ask questions without an inflection at the end of his voice and then look at you so you didn't know it was a question. That prepares
anybody for trial work in that you learn not only to listen to what people say but to look at their eyes and watch their body language. I can't tell you why, but he influenced my thinking about the law in a profound way. When I left the bench to resume practice, I wanted him to be at the reception."
In his own deadpan way at the rostrum, York wins not only respect but friendship as well. Adds Vogel: "He's a very decent guy. He took a much more personal interest in the students than they sometimes perceived because of his quiet and self-effacing manner. Some years after the fact, I learned that when I graduated he had gone out and asked some people to give me interviews.''
Yet on his accomplishments at directing good studentsdownthepathto careers as fine lawyers, Professor Yorkistypically modest anddry: "AllIcansayisI hope I have not done too much damage to the legal professionbywhatIhavepermittedtogetoutintothe practice of law. I realize that I have a great deal to answer for," he says, noting that he has seen a few of his formerstudents, including some of the Watergate figures, end up in jail and disbarred. "And some of those not caught are worse than those who have been," he adds. "But there have been more than enough compensating successes," he points out. "I don't regard myself as responsible for either the sue-
cesses or the failures," he says. "You can't take credit for some and disclaim the others."
In fact, his regard for his fellow professionals is so high that they take his occasional jabs as the friendly taps they actually are. For 26 years, Professor York edited The Brief, the Phi Delta Phi quarterly, virtually as a family project. With four sons and a wife with journalistic training, he was able to put out acomplete publication. Everything but the printing was done in their home in Topanga Canyon. The editorials became the life of the publication as he scolded or laughed at his colleagues and made them like it.
During the postwar years, Phi Delta Phi grew tremendously and became a brotherhood for legal people all over the country. Professor York's picnics at his home in Topanga Canyon are still the talk of the fraternity.
His ability to handle his colleagues with a minimum of fuss is well-known. The high-powered and formidable Harold Marsh once marched into York's office to inform the professor that his courses were being merged into a basic remedies class. York's reaction was such a total and awesome silence that Marsh fled from the office.
. Master of the shattering silence, he is just as deft with shattering honesty At a remedies presentation for the Continuing Education of the Bar, Professor
York once mounted the podium for an exchange with his friend and colleague Professor Richard Maxwell. Maxwell rose to the occasion with a long and incredibly complex fusillade that seemed to shoot down every possible response. He finished with a flourish, turned to his colleague and said, "Professor York, what do you think of that?"
"I'm sorry," said York. "I wasn't listening."
"With his colleagues, he has a perceptive, quiet, deep-cutting approach. You will discover, if you are fencing with him in his field, that you had better be careful when you turn your heador you may discover that your neck has been severed," says Maxwell. "He is one of the quietest yet one of the wittiest men now extant."
Having won the hearts and minds of both students and colleagues so handily, York has few thoughts on what he might have done differently "I am not given to that type of introspection," he says. "I have never regretted anything I have done. I have regretted a few things Ididn't do." As for what he is most proud of, he says: "I'm proud of my family."
When his son told Professor York that he had decided to become a lawyer, his father answered, "Where did I go wrong?" No doubt his son had realized his father's love for the profession that he toasts with the driest humor and the warmest regards. D
TheProfessorsofProcedure
tudents generally arrive at law school determined to bring justice to the world but not quite sure how to go about it. From the standpoint of shaping professionals, procedure courses may well be the most formative of their academic experience. To UCLA's professors of procedure, the challenge is to show students that justice is inexorably bound to the processes by which it is achieved.
"What I'm concerned to have students come away with is a sense in which th{;) way decisions get made affects the contentof those decisions, the way process creates substance," says Professor Stephen Yeazell. Just as important areproceduralvalues. "I believe we have, if you will, property rights in a form of legal decision making. Certain forms of processes seem to us inherently fair, a person's due. It's possible to say that we haven't substantiverights at all; only rights to forms of processes before certain kinds of things can happen to us."
These same concerns shape Yeazell's writing, which tends toward a social history of procedure, a search for the relationship between procedure and its social context. "A process out of the past that looks the same as something that now happens has very different consequences if you realize that it grew out of very different social circumstances," says Yeazell.
The best example of such a search for the historical truth of procedure is Yeazell's article on class actions A number of scholars have found the roots of modern class actions in the seventeenth century. While rum-
bling around in those cases, Yeazell began to read about the people involved and realized that all were peasant farmers in small rural villages. "At that point, I realized that a process that looked to us as though it aggregated great masses of consumers just didn't work the same way when operating in a village community where everybody knew everybody else. It was used for a different purpose, and it had a different effect," he says.
Today, academics often play major roles in the development of the rules of procedure, perhaps because no one else wants to tackle such problems. Practicing attorneys generally regard procedure as so much pedifoggery and gobbledegook, of use primarily for harassing tactics and delay. The public tends to view it with a sort of resigned hopelessness . Legislators, simmering over such issues as medical malpractice and the legalization of marijuana, generally do not have deep personal convictions on procedural questions. "The result is a sort of power vacuum, and academics tend to rush in wherever there is a power vacuum," says Yeazell, although he himself fears to tread there.
"I suppose it's a sign of resolute academicism thatI tend not to think about law reform," he say s. He has, however, been appointed to a federal appellate court committee set up to worry about the procedural ramifications of complex environmental litigations. "I supposemy role there has been to argue that maybe procedures ought to be kept a little less complicated than my colleagues -all practicing attorneyswould like."
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Usually, it is students, rather than procedures, that Yeazell desires to influence. Not that there is anything wrong with the common student point of view that learning procedure is learning to get past obstacles to justice. "The annals of the law are littered with procedural obstacles to justice," says Yeazell. "But at the same time, I want to suggest that in some deep sense I am not sure that as a society we even have a substantive notion of justice. I'm not sure that as a society we can do a lot better than to say that justice is the outcome of a process that we can agree is fair."
The challenge to delivering such awareness is the absence of the intuitive backdrop that students bring to other law courses. Most students have thought about what sort of behavior is criminal or when a party deserves compensation for an injury, but few have given much thought before law school to what would constitute a fair procedure. "When you teach procedure, you are projecting against an intuitive blank screen. That makes it much harder for students to realize what is at stake because one rule seems just as arbitrary as any other. It also means that you have to do the job well or else students may leave the course thinking of procedure as essentially arbitrary. That could result in an unwillingness to consider any change in it," says Yeazell. "Perhaps that will be true anyway, but at least one tries."
Also trying is Professor Leon Letwin, who approaches procedure from his other areas of interest, evidence and constitutional law. He agrees that the way to influence procedure is through the people who will practice it.
Procedure classes are filled with first year students, lawyers in the rough. "If people come to procedure thinking they will learn how to act like lawyers, that's simply not true," saysLetwin. "The stuff taught is too abstract and theoretical for that. But we have the chance to make them think and then to influence their thought processes. To the degree we can do that, we can let loose a force that thinks in a certain way about procedural matters."
The usual course of legal education is to transform idealistic students interested in social goals into skillful lawyers capable of extracting the maximum value for a client from the situation that exists. "Legal education on the whole socializes people quite quickly to think of much of the status quo as a given. To fight that we have to fight the inertia of the external system they must tackle and also the extent to which we ourselves have been socialized by that system and limited in our imagination."
A major issue in procedure, asLetwin sees it, is the problem of providing access to the courts for the poor. "As things are today, it's virtually impossible to litigate effectively a case that doesn't involve many thousands of dollars," he says.
Decisions making class action suits more difficult, for example, are procedurally oppressive. "In one way, a class action is a poor man's way of getting into court because he joins with other similarly situated people when no one person would be able to finance a suit."
Professor Richard Delgado is similarly worried about what he sees as the gradual erosion of access to
civil justicein our country. Says he: "The retreat from the improvements in access that was made under the Warren Court is unfortunate, but it is an example of the way in which substantive justice can be easily tilted by procedural changes."
OneofDelgado'smajoreffortsto fightthisdriftisan influential article he coauthored on a case that seems to be a true anomaly, one that no one else had ever written about involving the status of MexicanAmericans as alegally cognizableclass.When a class action suit was brought on behalf of the Chicano people in a given area in New Mexico, a district court held that the action was not maintainable because Mexican-Americans as a class are not sufficiently well-defined. Essentially, the problem wasto help the legal system to realize a class where the judge had refused to see one.
"We analyzed the possibilities for defining Chicanos in a way that would meet the definitional requirements of the federal class action law and also the equal protection clause, which requires that there be a class that is discriminated against or treated differently." Delgado andhis coauthor concludedthat Chicanos are a legally cognizable class under the applicable doctrine.The Supreme Court, by parallelreasoning, agreed in a case that brought up the matter some time later and allowed such an action to go forward.
"There are systematic forces that, if one were not aware of them and did not make conscious efforts to counteractthem,couldeasilycontributetothefeeling that the legal system is essentially a morally neutral
instrument. If unexamined, these forces would continue to assist in the distribution of power roughly along the linesin which it is now andhistorically has been. Procedure teachers have some unique opportunities to encourage students to think critically about the larger impact of legal doctrine and the way it is used by the legal profession to serve social goals of justice, equality, and fairness as well as the more traditional values of efficiency and convenience," says Delgado.
These issues weigh heavily in the thinking of Professor Reginald Alleyne, whose first love is labor law where procedural issues tend to govern the substantive outcome of a case even more than in other areas. "People who think they are discharged because of race or sex or nationality are discouraged enough already. It doesn't take much to make them completely abandon pursuing their legal claim against an employer because they just don't have the stamina to stick out the pretrial procedural maneuvering that takes place before the case is heard on its merits," he says.
Yet he takes exception to the idea that teaching procedure is a matter of teaching students to get by obstacles to justice. "What's so fascinating about procedure is that the rules tend to have a utility for the system. The judicial process is inherently slow. Much ofthetalkofspeedinguptheprocessisadmirable,but I don't think a great deal can be done in rewriting rules that will help make justice less delayed than it tends to be.
"The poor do not have the access to our legal sys-
ternthattheyshouldhave,notsomuchbecauseofthe waytherules ofprocedureare written butbecauseof thewaythelegalprofessionoperates," comments Alleyne. Private lawyers who depend on large fees do thebiddingofwealthy clients capableofpayingthose huge fees for complex cases. Simpler justice for people with less means does not result in fees that maintainexpensivepractices. Theideaof "judi-care" isbeginningtolookmoreviable, hefeels. "Naturally, there would be abuses," says Alleyne, if the governmentweretopaythelegalfeesforthepoor. "Butthere would be a net advantage for indigent people," he suggests.
"There has been a lot of movement for reform of civil ·procedure, but by and large the movement has been in the hands of lawyers," comments Professor John Bauman. "Historically, lawyers have not been the greatest reformers of civil procedure." Bauman has taught procedure for 25 years and has seen casebooks that came out in offset printing through their various editions until they became obsolete, with little improvement along the way. "It's really verydifficult for anybody to come up with anything very startling," he says.
Anypublicoutcryonproceduralissues,suchasthe excessive costs of litigation, tends to miss the target. "The public pressure doesn't get to the real difficult questions of how totryto reformthe system to avoid some of those excessive costs," he says. There is just nosimple way to tackle IBM with an anti-trust suit, henotes.
Reforms that attempted to break down old strategies of keeping one's cards close to the chest before a trial were well-intentioned, but they resulted in carloads of documents and hundreds of hours of depositions to meet the requirements of pretrial disclosure, he points out.
"It's just not a simple society anymore," he says. "Allkindsofregulationsimpactontheordinaryperson nowadays, and people are litigating like crazy There are so many regulations that companies can hardlymove without talking toa lawyer. Idontknow ifprocedurehasmuchtodowiththat. Aslongasyou havethekindof system thatwehave,I don'tseewhat youcandootherthan just shiftthecost tosomebody else."
As for the danger that procedure may be taught in such a way that it would sanctify the status quo, he says: "Idon'tseehow Youspendhalfyourtimepointingouthow foolish something is."
Butofcourse procedure canbenotonlyfoolishbut unfair as well. A major concern to Professor Carole Goldberg-Ambroseis the wayjurisdictionalrulesare used to achieve substantive results. She does not agree with the body of legal opinion that would
rationalize influencingthedriftofsubstantivelawby cutting off access to the federalcourts.
"Many of the most controversial Supreme Court decisions come down in the context of procedure because of the court'spreferencefor resolving issues on procedural grounds rather than overturning the Warren Court on its merits. Thiscertainly coincides with a lot of substantive developments going in the same direction whether it is intentional or not. I feel thatitisimportanttotrytoexposethelack of consistency in a lot of jurisdictional decision-making. Otherwise, you allow courts to achieve substantive results without appearing to do so."
Hersuccessinsuchendeavorshasbeensubstantial. While still a graduate student, she wrote a paper on federal jurisdiction over Indian tribes. The paper dealt with the issue of whether a particular statute authorizedstatesto taxreservationIndians. Her conclusion was that the Indians could not be taxed. The paper was cited for the U.S.Supreme Court and the court agreed.
Her major workon procedure, however, is ahighly theoreticalarticleontheinfluenceofproceduralrules onfederaljurisdiction.Thoughoriginallywrittenasa purely intellectual exercise, the article has served as the basis on which other scholars have built. "I actuallyknowsomepractitionerswho have read it," says Goldberg-Ambrose. "AndthejudgeIclerkedfor said some lawyer cited it to him. I practically fell over whenIheardthat.Ididn't writeitexpectingtohavea major impact on the way courts decide things. But I think that's true of a lot of law professors. You try to say whatyou think is rightand makes sense. If it has an impact, that's nice."
Of even greater practical impact has been a statement which she wrote for the Board of Governors of theSociety of American Law Teachers entitled "The BurgerCourt'sEffortstoClosetheFederalCourthouse to Public Interest Litigation." The paper has influenced legislation in both the United States and Canada.
"It seems to me that one of the main roles that lawyers playin oursocietyistoprovide a sensitivity to the fairness of how things are done," says Goldberg-Ambrose. "In a procedure course, we can helptodevelopandcreateanintuitivefeelforwhatis the fair way to get things done. A system can determineallsortsofthingsbeyondstructuring litigation, eventothe point ofshiftingthe balanceof social and economic power. That's the wonderful part about teachingthiscourse.It'stheonlycourseinwhichfirst year students are really thinking about themselves notasphilosopherkingsconjecturingwhattheworld should be like, but as lawyers considering what a given system can accomplish." D
The Faculty
Benjamin Aaron was Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School during winter, 1979. He presented the general report on "Arbitration and the Role of the Courts: The Administration of Justice in Labor Law" to the International Congress of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security in Munich.
Professor Aaron is chief editor of Public Sector Bargaining, a volume in the research series sponsored by the Industrial Relations Research Association.
Richard L. Abel chaired a panel on "The Politics of Informal Justice" and also presented a paper on "Delegalization" at the second national meeting of the Conference on Critical Legal Studies in November. His article on "Socializing the Legal Profession: Can Redistributing Lawyers' Services Achieve Social Justice?" appeared in the inaugural issue of Law & Policy Quarterly (January, 1979). He serves on the editorial advisory board of that journal.
Professor Abel's review essay, "The Problem of Values in the Analysis of Political Order: Myths of Tribal Society and Liberal Democracy," discussing Elizabeth Colson's Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Order, appeared in 16 African Law Studies (1978).
Norman Abrams is author of a paper on "Administrative Process Alternatives to the Criminal Process," being published by the National Center for Administrative Justice. He was appointed to the executive committee of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs at UCLA.
Professor Abrams spoke at a UCLA Law Faculty Colloquium on "G. Fletcher's Approach to the Law of Criminal Attempts," and the board of the Los Angeles Hillel Council on "Prospects for Peace After the Camp David Accords."
Reginald Alleyne is editor, with Joseph Grodin of Hastings and Donald Wallett of McGeorge, of a soon-to-bepublished revised casebook on public sector labor law.
As Associate Director of UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations, Professor Alleyne is directing the academic training of 20 new labor arbitrators, who were selected by the Industrial Relations Research Association, an organization of labor and management representatives who are aware of a need for more labor arbitrators.
Alison Anderson lectured on "Materiality and Soft Information" at the ALI-ABA postgraduate course in Federal Security Regulations" at Stanford Law School in July. Born January 2, 1979: Patrick Grey Anderson.
Michael Asimow gave a seminar on the taxation of compensation paid in the form of restricted property at the USC Tax Institute. He also delivered lectures on the tax problems of marriage and divorce for National Practice Institute.
John A. Bauman was a panelist on "A Code of Professional Responsibility for Law Teachers" at the Conference of Western Law Schools. Dean Bauman was reappointed to the governing committee of Continuing Education of the Bar.
David A. Binder was principal consultant and lecturer for the CEB program on Effective Interviewing and Counseling Techniques, and he lectured in the University series, Beyond the Classroom.
Professor Binder is a consultant to the ABA's president-elect on formation of a National Institute for the Teaching of Non-Litigation Lawyering Skills, and is a member of the committee designing the institute's first program. He is also a consultant to the American Association of Law Schools on its clinical teaching clinic.
Paul Boland was a panelist on "Clinical Education at the End of the First Decade: The Problems and the Future" for the State Bar Committee on Legal Education, and he was a CEB panelist on "Effective Interviewing and Counseling Techniques." He lectured on "Expectations, Training and Evaluation
ofClinical Field Supervisors" at the National Clinical Teachers' Training College sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools
ProfessorBoland coordinated the California Law Schools' response to the People v. Perez decision. From January to July, he is on sabbatical ]eave,servingas special counsel to the Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court and referee, Juvenile Departments of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Richard H. Borow is co-author, with Theodore E. Guth, of "The AttorneyClient Relationship: Special Considerations in Connection with SEC Enforcement Proceedings and Related Actions" and "Problems Related to the Settlement of Private Civil Securities (Class)Actions Usually Filed Contemporaneously with SEC Consent Decrees," both in a two-volume compendium on Negotiating SEC Consent Decrees: Targets & Tactics for Settling Civil Injunctive Actions, published by HarcourtBrace Jovanovich. Professor Borowwas a faculty member at a seminaron that topic in New York and San Francisco.
He also was on the faculty of a program on "Current Problems in Federal CivilPractice" sponsored by the Practising Law Institute in Los Angeles.
Richard Delgado is author of "Ascription of Criminal States of Mind: Towarda Defense Theory for the CoercivelyPersuaded ('Brainwashed') Defendant," published in 63 Minnesota Law Review 1 (1979). While in galley proofs, a copy was requested by Patty Hearst's attorneys and submitted with her pardon petition to the Attorney General.
Professor Delgado's work on behavior modification also has been applied to the current controversy on religious c�lts; he testified before two Congress10nal committees on legal and constitutional aspects of cults, and gave addresses or colloquia on the topic at the annual meeting of the New York StateBar Association, USC Law School, UCLA Law School, and Loyola Marymount University
. Essays by Professor Delgado on religious movements and the law have appeared in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. His article, "Religious Totalism: Gentle and Ungentle Persuasion Under the First Amendment," 51 Southern California Law Re-
view 1 (1977), was recently reprinted in the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
Jesse J. Dukeminier gave the Marshall Lecture at the University of Iowa College of Law on the topic, "Lawyer Malpractice Liability as a Force for Reform in Property Law." Notes Professor Dukeminier: "My thesis is that we have finally found, in lawyer malpractice liability, the powerful river that will cleanse the Augean stables of property."
Charles Firestone, director of the Communications Law Program, served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission's staff in the children's television advertising proceeding. He devised and analyzed various options for imposing the remedy of supplemental nutritional disclosures for a certain type of commercial.
Professor Firestone presented a paper on concentration of control of local mass media at the FTC's Media Concentration Symposium in Washington, D.C. He is co-author, with Phillip Jacklin, of a chapter for a book on Telecommunications Policy and the Citizen, to be published by Praeger. Professor Firestone and students in the Communications Law Program
edited and published a legal resource manual for the two-day symposium on "The Forseeable Future of Television Networks." (See story in News section.)
George P. Fletcher has published Rethinking Criminal Law (Little, Brown 1978), presented papers on law and economics at Stanford andBerkeley, and attended a meeting in West Germany of the Task Force to Propose an Alternative Code of Criminal Procedure. He has been a working member of that commission for several years.
Bernard Greenberg has been appointed Southern Chairman of the Federal Gift Tax Committeeof the State Bar EstatePlanning, Trust and Probate Law Section; he welcomes any suggestions of problemsand other comments from UCLA law alumni.
Professor Greenbergcontinues to focus on theareas of estate planning and estate and gift tax law.
Donald G. Hagman received an A in his English literature course at Santa Monica City College last Fall. The post Prop-13 cut in his real income forced him to abandon culture for the practicum of acoursein Foreign Auto Repair for t�e Spring semester.
During 1978 he also published one book, four articles and seventeen less formal writings. He made thirty speaking appearancesoutside the law school. Following the expiration of his term as Chair of the Law SchoolAppointments Committee and of the Academic Senate committee charged with investigating violations of the Faculty Code of Conduct, he is looking forward to the summer teaching Comparative Land Use Planning Law at the Institute of International & Comparative Law, Oxford, England.
Edgar A.Jones, Jr., completed service as founding editor of The Chronicle, periodical of the National Academy of Arbitrators. He lectured at a seminar on Arbitration of Labor Disputes for the U.S. Air Force and AmericanArbitration Association.
Professor Jones spoke on arbitration topics at the University of Houston, the American Arbitration Association conference in San Diego, the annual meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators in New Orleans, the Pacific CoastLabor Law Conferencein Seattle, UC Davis Law School, Port Ludlow Conference on LaborLaw, and the annual conference of the King County Bar Association and Federal Mediation Service.
Kenneth L. Karst spoke in January to the AALS meeting in Chicago on "Bakke: A Constitutional Analysis."
Gail Kass was appointed as an arbitrator for Kaiser Steel Corporation and the United Steelworkers of America.
Rowan K. Klein authored a supplement to Chapter 23 of the CEB California Criminal Procedure relating to the determinate sentencing law and prisons, lectured to California Attorneys for Criminal Justice on recent developments in the determinate sentencing law, and is advisor to the State Bar Commission on Corrections.
William A. Klein's book entitledAn Introduction to Business Organization and Finance: Basic Legal and Economic Principles is nearing completion and will be published this fall by Foundation Press. He was a panelist at a Brookings Institution conference in Washington on Income vs. Expenditure Taxation.
Professor Klein co-directed the First Annual Palisades-Will Rogers 10
Kilometer Run last July 4, and willdo so again when that event is repeated this coming Fourth of July.
Gerald Lopez is continuing work on an article which undertakes a structural analysis of the undocumented alien phenomena. He is co-counsel for a group of Chicano plaintiffs in a police misconduct action that raises numerous questions under the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871.
R. C. Maxwell has been involved in a comprehensive revision of the Oil and Gas coursebook, and the new fourth edition takes into account many developments in tax and regulatory law.
Henry W. McGee, Jr., heads a research projectsurveying the problems of linguisticand cultural minorities in American courts, an especially acute problem in the Southwest states. He is also doing research on the impact of federal, state, and local laws on the displacement of inner-city and urban residents as the result of publicly and privately financed "revitalization efforts," a project of the Los Angeles County BarAssociation Housing and Urban Development Committee's Lawyers for Housing.
David Mellinkoffhas been appointed a member of the Standing Committee on Legal Drafting of the American Bar Association. Professor Mellinkoff has been re-appointed an
advisory member of the Ethics Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Herbert Morris delivered a paper on "The Status of Rights" at the American Philosophical Association meetings in WashingtonlastDecember , andwilloffer one of the National Endowment for the Humanities' four summer seminarson Law and Humanities, on "Topicsin Moral and Legal Responsibility."
Melville B. Nimmer is on sabbatical leave during the spring semester In March he lectured on copyright at the University of Amsterdam. During May and June he will teach a seminar in comparative Israeli-American constitutional law as Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the HebrewUniversityFaculty of Law, Jerusalem. He will deliver twolecturesinTokyoin July, oneon American copyright law and the other on international copyright law, under auspices of the Copyright Research . Institute of Japan, which is celebratmg its 30th anniversary.
Monroe E. Price spoke at the Federal Trade Commission Washington conference on Media Concentration His topic was "Taming Red Lion: The First Amendment and Structural Approaches to Media Regulation." He completed a report for the Commumty Dispute Service of the American . A . rbitration Association on non-judicial dispute settlement on Indian reserva-
lions. He is continuing to serve as the court-appointed referee in the Los Angelesschool desegregation case.
Ralph S. Rice, Connell Professor of Law Emeritus, recently completed his annualrevisions of California Family Tax Planning and Family Tax Planning, particularly incorporating The RevenueAct of 1978. The third edition ofhisProblems and Materials in Federal Income Taxation, prepared by Professor Solomon, is to be published this year by West. Meanwhile, work continues on his Tax Factors in Planning for Retirement, now in preparation.
Neal Roberts, a visiting professor this year, is the author of various books and articles on comparativeland use. He editsLand Use Law and Zoning Digest and Urban Law and Policy, and directs aresearch project for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Recently, he delivered a paper to the ALI-ABA conference in San Diego entitled "Tax Subsidies for Rural America: The Big Giveaway Called Preferential Assessment."
Arthur Rosett has been pursuing his long-term interest in personal service contracts involving professionals and clients.
Last summer, Professor Rosett taught the CEB program onlawyers' retainer agreementswith their clients. In the fall,with William Winslade and Ervin Deutsch of the University of Gottingen, he offered a seminar comparing relationships between lawyers and clients, doctorsand patients, experimenters and subjects. In the spring, Rosett will visit at the law school in Gottingen for aparallel seminarofferedto German students. Always the great linguist, Rosett will lecture in Gottingen (as he issojustlyfamous for lecturing at UCLA) in pure Gibberish.
Murray L. Schwartz has recently published "Professional Responsibility" in1 LosAngeles Lawyer 20 (1978), "How Can Legal Education Respond to Changesin the LegalProfession?" in 53 New York University Law Review 440 (1978), and "The Professionalism and Accountability of Lawyers" in 66 California Law Review 669 (1978).
Professor Schwartz serves on the ABA President-elect's advisory committees on court reform and lawyer competence. He recently became
chairman of the editorial advisory board of the Michie Bobbs-Merrill Contemporary Legal Education Series. He is a member of the board of directors and executive committee of the Social Science Research Council. He was a discussion leader for the Los Angeles conference on the Media and the Law, and spoke on Supreme Court practice at the Los Angeles seminar sponsored by the Federal Bar Association and Bureau of National Affairs.
Stanley Siegel has been appointed to the executive committee of the Business & CorporationsLaw Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and to the business law committee of the Board of Examiners, American Institute of Certifi.ed Public Accountants. Recently he lectured on business planning for the Southwest Legal Foundation's short course in Dallas.
William D. Warren has been named chairman of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board, which advises the board on its role in consumer credit regulation. He served as program chairman for the plenary session of the Association of American Law Schools' meeting in Chicago in January. He chaired a roundtable at the Deans' Workshop at the midyearmeeting of the American Bar Association in Atlanta in February.
William J. Winslade is the author of "EnigmaticJustice: Judicial Decision and Psychotherapeutic Discretion" in Philosophy and Medicine: The LawMedicine Relation, Spicker and Englehardt, editors (D. Reidel, 1979); and "Contracts to Cure" in Contemporary Surgery (January, 1979).
Professor Winslade spoke on "The Role of the Professions in Undergraduate General Education" to the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Houston in January
Stephen Yeazell has collaborated with Ted Eisenberg on an essay concerning institutional litigation, and he is examining the relation of group litigation to the development of the business corporation and the friendly societies of the 18th and 19th Centuries. He is completing work for the Ninth Circuit Subcommittee on Environmental Litigation.
News
May 18-19 Institute On Estate Planning
At Beverly Hilton
The School of Law andContinuing Education ofthe Bar are collaborating on the fi.rst UCLA-CEB Estate Planning Institute, to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotelon May 18 and19,The advisory board, chaired by Geraldine Hemmerling '52 of Los Angeles, has scheduled anattractive slate of topics and speakers.
On May 18, ProfessorEdward C. Halbach of Berkeley will speak on selected recent developments and some current.problems; Harold Weinstock of Los Angeles on trusts: planning for college education of children; Max Gutierrez and William S. Hoisington, both of San Francisco, on irrevocable life insurance trusts; and Edmond R. Davis of Los Angeles will chair a panel on pre- and post-death administration and tax problems of revocable trusts, featuring as panelists Jon J. Gallo,Edward A.Landry,Joseph L. Wyatt, all of Los Angeles, and Charles W. Ufford of New York.
On May 19, StephenL. Newnham III of La Jolla will speak on diversion of business opportunities through intrafamily transactions; Ronald Gather and James C. Opel,both of Los Angeles, on using the California closed corporation in estateplanning; Arthur 0. Armstrong of Los Angeles on recapitalizations and unwinding recapitalizations; John A. Wallace of Atlanta on payment of death taxes on business inventories; K. Bruce Friedman and Judith Jones, both of San Francisco, on executive compensation.
Ms. Hemmerling, Mr. Davis, Mr. Gather, and Fred L. Leydorf of Los Angeles will chair sessions of the institute.
A brochure sent out in December announcing the Institute resulted in more than 300 pre-enrollments.
Communications Law Symposium Focuses On Media's Future
Nearly 300 persons attended a two-day symposium on "The Forseeable Future of Television Networks" sponsored by the Communications Law Program of the UCLA School of Law and UCLA Extension on Feb. 2-3 at the Ambassador Hotel.
The symposium, intended as a neutral forum for the discussionof the major developments and controversies surrounding governmental regulation of networks, featured U.S. Circuit Judge David Bazelon, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Charles Ferris, Public Broadcasting System Chairman Newton Minow, producer NormanLear, AssistantSecretary of Commerce Henry Geller, and more than 20 other experts.
Professor Charles Firestone, director of the Communications Law Program at theSchool ofLaw, and students in the program edited and published a legal resource manual for the symposium.
As the dominant force in delivery of video services into the home today, the television networks have attracted the regulatory attention of the FCC, FTC, and Department of Justice Antitrust Division. With the proposed rewrite of the Communications Act in Congress, the networks are being discussed in that context also.
The highly-successful February symposium brought together the Washington regulatory community with the Los Angeles and New York entertainment communities, and provided public interest and academic viewpoints as well.
Judge Bazelon, in keynoting the UCLA symposium, criticized the FCC for failing to stimulate diversity through regulation, and he called for an emphasis on structural rather than "behavioral" regulation of the media. He said that new technologies call into question time-worn assumptions about the need for government regulation.
"The FCC's policies such as intermixture (of UHF and VHF stations within a single market), restrictions on cable, and the fairness doctrine have hindered diversity, suppressed creativ-
Communications
ity, and fostered the domination of three large, but virtually identical, networks," said Judge Bazelon.
"Yet thesenetworks, far from being a bulwark of independence from the government, have been made to cringe at the slightestquestioning glance of the regulator. We reluctantly accepted content regulation in order to promote diversity, yet we have not achieved significantdiversity, and all we are left with is content regulation. I join those who lament television's apparent inability to promote creativity and variety, but I fear direct government intrusion into program content even more. What promise telecommunications may hold largely depends on the market and the potential of the new technology."
Judge Bazelon said the key to diversity is to give up trying to regulate the media's behavior, and to regulatethem instead through their structuresthrough antitrust policies, limits o� media crossownership, and a requirement of mandatory access to cable television systems.
Chairman Ferris of the FCC also talked of structural change as the answer to the problem of providing the diversity of voices which he saidis a principle rooted in the First Amendment. He suggested the commission should learn how to bring that about in television by looking at the history of radio, which has developed such diversity that the FCC a few years ago
law symposium at Ambassador Hotel attractedaudience of300.
decided to eliminate most of its rules affecting radio networks. At a time when such developments as nationwide pay cable television and satellite interconnection of public television stations are sweeping the industry, Ferris said the best thing government can do is to stand aside and let diversity take its course.
In the long run, said Ferris, "the public interest can most effectively be voiced by the public itself as it turns the dials of television sets across the country to choose among an abundance of program choices."
However, not everyone at the symposium accepted this noninterventionist stance. Economist Allan Pearce, aformer FCC staff member, agreed that deregulation is "politically fashionable," but he warned: "Don't hold your breath; deregulation does not necessarily promise us a better future."
Observed Pearce: "The so-called free marketplace doesn't exist. And in any eveµt, the marketplace generally results in the haves attempting to perpetrate their power at the expense of the have-nots."
Katrina Renouf, another former FCC staffer and counsel for the National Association of Independent Television Producers and Distributors, said that without "radical preliminaries" such as forcing the networks to divest themselves of their owned-and-operated tv stations, deregulation by the FCC represents an abdication of leadership. "To cancel the regulation doesn't do anything except enshrine the monopoly," she suggested.
A potential problem presented by the growing use of paid television was outlined by Richard H. Frank, presi dent of the television distribution division of Paramount Pictures Corporat�on. The initial major source of theatrical programming for the pay systems, he said, will be already existing programs. However, if it becomes more rewarding both financially and in a creative sense, then producers and their talent are likely to turn to pay television. The result would be a twotiered system with a second level of talent producing more mediocre programming for the advertiser-supported television system.
This might accelerate the decline of the commercial network, but it also would mean that those least able to afford the higher costs of pay tv-the Poor, the aged, and the ethnic minorities -will be watching the less-expensive,
and presumably lower quality, programming on the network. "Diversity," warned Frank, "will only exist for the privileged."
Prentice O'Leary Is ElectedPresident OfThe Law Alumni
Prentice O'Leary '68 of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton was elected president of the board of directors of the Law Alumni Association at the Nov. 14, 1978, meeting. He succeeds Paul J. Shettler, whose term ended Dec. 31.
New directors: Five new members of the board have been recently elected to a three year term. They are Michael Gering '71; Sharon Green '68; David A. Horowitz '66; Fred Leydorf '58 and Billy G. Mills '54.
Continuing members of the board are Charles Althouse, Charles R. English, Victor Epport, Arthur Greenberg, Cynthia Lebow, Martin Majestic, Henry Nelson, Ann Parade, and Richard Schauer.
New officers: When the board of directors met on Jan. 24, four new officers were elected: Charles R. English, vice president; Henry Nelson, secretary; Arthur Greenberg, treasurer; and Billy G. Mills, alumni representative.
Dean'sDinner-Dance
On November 17, 1978, some 200 alumni and guests gathered at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for the annual Dean's Dinner and Dance. Dean William D. Warren thanked members of the Dean's Counsel and Dean's Advocates for their loyalty to the school and announced the establishment of a new support group: the James H. Chadbourn Fellows, honoring one of the pioneers of the School of Law.
The dean also introduced members of the faculty present that evening and Ralph D. Fertig, president of the Student Bar Association, was called to the podium to describe what it is like to be a law student today and what the school looks like from inside.
Classnotes
Linda T. Abrams '74 has opened new offices in Los Angeles where she specializes in constitutional law and litigation against government agencies. She is also West Coast counsel for the National Taxpayers' Legal Fund, a public interest law foundation.
Phil Adams '77 is working in the office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender
Steven A. Anderson '76 and John B. Golper '75 have become associated with the firm of Parker, Milliken, Clark & O'Hara.
Henry S. Barbosa '73, Robert G. Holderness '68 and Ralph M. Ochoa '69 are partners of the firm Ochoa, Holderness, Barbosa & Crook with offices in Sacramento and Los Angeles.
Paul L. Basile, Jr. '71 has opened offices in Los Angeles for the practice of law. Emphasis will be given to business and corporate law, taxation and estate planning.
Victoria (Tori) Block '75 after two and a half years as a Staff Attorney for Northeast Kentucky Legal Services, Inc., Morehead, Kentucky, is now Managing Attorney of the program's new branch office in Ashland, Kentucky.
M. Alan Bunnage '60 and Ronald J. Grueskin '60 announce the merger of their respective practices and the formation of Grueskin & Bunnage, a Professional Law Corporation.
Ernest P. Burger '72 has become associated with the firm of Willis, Butler, Scheifly, Leydorf and Grant. He was formerly a partner in the firm of Howard & Burger.
Robert T. Burke '72 has become a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Pettit & Martin where he practices corporate and securities law.
Frederick W. Clough '68 is City Attorney of the City of Santa Barbara.
John Dobroth '71 has worked for the Ventura County District Attorney since graduation and took one year leave of absence (1974-75) tobe Directorof the California District Attorneys Association.
William H. Erner '72 hasbecomea partner of the furn Parker, Milliken, Clark & O'Hara.
Robert J. Enders '75 has beenappointed an Assistant Regional Director in the Federal Trade Commission's Los Angeles Regional Office.
Leon A. Farley '59 has openedthe Washington, D.C.area office of his National Executive Search furn.
Barry A. Fisher '69 practiceslaw in Beverly Hills with threeassociates, including Robert Moest '74 and David Grosz '75.Practicefocuses on public law,particularlycivil rights and con-
stitutional law throughout the United States and free speech litigation in Canada and Germany. Previously he was a member of Fleishman, Brown, Weston and Rhodeof Beverly Hills.
Kenneth Friedman '76 has become associated with the Beverly Hills law firm of Freshman, Marantz, Comsky & Deutsch.
Jonathan C. Gordon '71, formerly associated withthe Los Angeles furn of Parker, Milliken, Clark & O'Hara, isattendingthe University of Florida College ofLaw,enrolled in the LL.M. program intaxation.
Judy L. Gray '75 ispracticing withthe Century City law firm of Stone & Wolfe, isteachingin the evening programat Loyola Law School, and has been appointed to the State Bar Committee on Rules of Court.
Suzanne Harris '77 is workingatthe Century Citylaw furnof Walzer, Weinstock, Manion & King.
Linda Hume '70 has been promotedto full Professor of Law, Universityof Washington School of Law Sheisalso Commissioner, Washington State Human Rights Commission.
Laurence M. Karlin '62 established in 1976 the Larry Karlin Agency, a licensed talent agency primarily representing writers for motion pictures and television. Recently he has begun representing authors as well.
Paul R. Katz '75,formerly Assistant General Counsel of Lawry's Foods, Inc., has accepted a position withthe Corporate Legal Department of AM International, located in Century City.
James L. Keane '71 has been appointed General Counsel to the Law in a Free Society Projectof the State Barof California. He has served previously as the education project's Directorof Curriculum Development and will continue to participatein all phases ofthe project's activities.Jim was previously associated with the Los Angeles law fums of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and Sandler & Rosen.
Peter Kent '66 has movedto Hawaii and formed the partnership of Schweiger & Kent, locatedinHonolulu.
Robert S. Kirschenbaum '74 hasbeen appointed Legal Counsel for W.A. Krueger Co. with corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Gerald G. Knapton '76 formerly with Kirtland and Packard has become an associate in the Litigation Department ofthe Los Angelesoffice ofHahn, Cazier & Leff.
Bruce M. Kramer '72 has been recently promotedto Professor of Law atthe School of Law, Texas Tech University.
Michael D. Luppi '72 has recentlybecome an associate atthe law offices of William R.Dickerson & Associates.
F. Jay Lutz '64 has returned to Los Angeles after several years in the San Francisco Bay Areaand Portland, Oregon.He is now Associate General Counsel and Western Regional Manager of Midwest Mutual Insurance Company.From1970 to1974 he was Director of Legal Services of the State
Bar of California and later Executive Director of the Oregon State Bar's prepaid legal services program.
Martin F. Majestic '67 is a partner in the San Francisco furn of Phillips, Moore, Weissenberger, Lempio & Majestic, which specializes in patent, trademark and copyright law. The furn has recently established its Southern California office at Newport Beach.
Robert Y. Nakagawa'70 is a Workers' Compensation Judge at the Los Angelesbranch of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. He is also a board member of the Japanese American Bar Association and Association of California State Attorneys. He serves on the State Bar Committee on Workers' Compensation.
Steven B. Plumer '69 has been elected District Attorney of Siskiyou County, California. Previous to this position he was Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County; associated with the firm of Adams, Duque and Hazeltine; Law Clerk, California Court of Appeal.
Leonora Gertrude Poe '76 is currently associated with the Long Beach Bryson Agency of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Vance Gary Prutsman '70 is senior Partner of the law offices of Vance Gary Prutsman, Inc. They now have five
offices in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kenneth Ross '73 works for Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh involved in products liability prevention and litigation. He has lectured and written extensively on products liability for the American Bar Association and various state bar associations. He is a Vice Chairman of the ABA Committee on Manufactures' Liability Litigation and a member of the Board of Editors of the Journalof Products Liability as well as a member of the ABA Journal Advisory Board.
Maggie Roth '63 has been electedpresident of the Sacramento Women Lawyers. She has also recently been appointed to the Legislative Committee of the Family Law Section of the State Bar.
William Roth '67 is an associate professor of law at the University of La Verne College of Law, teaching criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence. Prior to joining the law faculty in1975, he spent three and a half years as a deputy public defender in Los Angeles County and then four years as deputy district attorney.
David M. Simmonds'76 has established his own law practice in Seattle, Washington. For the past two years he has been associated with the Seattle firm of Sax and Maciver
Raymond J. Sinetar '62 has been appointed Chief Deputy District Attorney, Ventura County District Attorney's Ofice. He was formerly with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office for14 years, leaving as Head Deputy, Planning and Training Division.
Marc R. Stein '76 has become a member of the Los Angeles firm of Slaff, Mask & Rudman.
Sandra Stillwater '72 has opened her own law office for the general practice of law with special emphasis on business planning, civil litigation and art law.
J. Anthony Vittal '74 has become associated with the Century City firm of Scheinman & Bell.
John D. Watt '56 has been appointed Acting Presiding Workers' Compensation Judge, San Jose District Office of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.
Henry Waxman'64 has become chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Health.
Jimmie D. White '76 is now Assistant Dean, Office of International Students and Scholars, UCLA. His office is in Dodd Hall.
Kenneth A. Wood '66 has written and published the book Law for the Horsebreeder, Wood Publications. In1973 he wroteand published The Business of Horses. Law for the Horsebreeder will be expanded and maintained by the issuance of quarterly supplements.
NECROLOGY
Matthew Kearney '60 of the San Bernardino Bar, in October 1978.
Robert E. Mundy '71 of the Century City Bar on March5, 1979.
Norman T. Ollestad '60 of the Los Angeles Bar on February19, 1979.
