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ashington, D.C., is steeped in tradition and vested interests, but committed by law and ideology to the public interest. It draws legal minds of the highest caliber in such quantity that the city probably has more lawyers per capita than does any other American metropolis.
Compared to the Washington alumni of other law schools, those from the UCLA School of Law are young.Yet many have made their ways to positions of extraordinary influence. Most went to Washington because there were things they could accomplish there that they could undertake nowhere else. They have made the public interest their own interests.
Barbara Williams '71 came to Washington because she wanted to have clout. She has it now as Executive Director oftheCongressional Black Caucus."Iwentto law school not because I wanted to be a female Perry Mason but because of what I realized by growing up poor-the laws are made to protect the interestsofthe wealthy and to keep other people in check," she says.
Originally a student in the UCLA School of Social Work, she decided that the building next door, the UCLA School of Law, was where those who would have power were being trained. "In order to help the people I wanted to help, you have to be able to understand how the opposition would view an issue when you are outnumbered in money and votes. I got exactly what I wanted from legal education," says Williams.
She came to Washington originally as an intern with the Center for Law and Social Policy because she had heard that the Center worked closely with Ralph Nader. "I felt someone who could take apart General Motors the way he did was someone I wanted to watch closely," she remembers.
She hated the city itself. "Washington seemed a disgusting and socially stratified place," she says. But she became involved in politics and impressed the membership of the Congressional Black Caucus, and rose to what she now considers the best position in the country for the influence she sought.
The most important issue she sees before her is the equitable distribution of the federal budget. "There are no fewer poor people now than there were when I was in law school," she says. "But we have been able to develop a strategy for making Congress more accessible to thepeoplewe serve.Because ofthe relative clout of the Congressional BlackCaucus, I have access to all the agencies and organizations and people, from senators to the President, thatonewould want to have access to in the search for power for the poor. All over the nation, poor people, even though they may not have a black member of Congress, learn with our help how to get the attention of their representatives. We open the processes of government for them."
For Lucinda Low '77, the view of the public interest is taken from private practice on an international scale. The daughter of two lawyers, conceived while her parents were in law school, she chose UCLA as "the rising star of law schools" and then ventured on
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her own to interview with stellar Washington law fi rms. Interested in international economics and Latin American studies, she saw the growth of the federal government and federal regulation converging with forces in developing countries to make the Washington legal community exciting. "Anybody with a little spirit of adventure couldn't help but be attracted," she says, now with Covington & Burling, one of the most famous firms in the country.
Low has found a special type of international practice. "I want to know that I am doing something to help people and primarily people in developing countries," she says. Her work involves issues of economic development where the law firm represents a developing country. One of her principal endeavors has resulted from implementation ofthe two hundred mile fishing regulations adopted by the United States in 1978.
"This is quintessential Washington practice," she says. "There is a new piece of legislation with a lot of
kinks in it. Its administration is given to an agency which must figure out the implementation of the congressional intent. Problems adse which result in suits and amendments. The issue here goes to the heart of the question of who is going to have access to the ocean's resources.
"The role of the private lawyer here is interesting and creative," says Low. "It's been fun for me to grow up with this piece of legislation and to stay on the cutting edge of its ramifications."
She has been involved in other caseswherethe firm represents the borrowers, rather than the lenders, in international financing transactions She acts as an · · ts adviser to these borrowers who have ongomg proiec in developing countries.
Her career is all she had hoped it would be, if not what others sometimes perceive it to be. "Intern�tional law is thought glamorous," she says. "It 15 perhaps less glamorous. International travel tends to be long nights alone in hotel rooms, and sleeping on
LucindaLow '77
planes, and other times that pale in the actual experience. But I was looking for the best training I could get, and I found that."
Along the way, Low has discovered the human factor in mammothorganizations."Oneof the great revelations in working with international organizations and corporations is that large entities are not what we thought in our radical college days. They are essentially people trying to do things. The outside lawyer can ask these people tough questions and make a client think about things the client may not like to think about. The role of the independent lawyer in Washington is one that to me does not involve intellectual dishonesty.''
Low was originally steered to her furn by the law school faculty, since three of its members had practiced there previously. "I carry very fond feelings for the UCLA School of Law faculty. They are a special gr?up of people who helped me figure out what to do with my life. I feel very close to the law school as an
alumnus partly for that reason," she says.
Since 1977, she has noted a steady trek of UCLA law graduates to Washington. Nearly all the major firms there now have UCLA alums, she reports.The alumni records show some 70 names located in the city. "There is a strong UCLA core growing up here," she says. "We provide mutual assistance in a city that functionsgreatlyon who you know and how well you know the power structure.''
Also in private practice is Richard Brown '72, who made a quick rise to a partnership with Wald, Harkrader & Ross. He got into town via a clerkship at the D.C.Court of Appeals, analyzed theWashington legal scene, and made his move.
"Washington is the toughest market to break into," says Brown. "Your practice grows primarily from expertise in dealing with the government, and your clients are usually out of town. The practical effect is that you have to hustle more to get plugged into a certain legal-government-social scene to make con-
RichardBrown '72
tacts to develop clients."
Brown feels the substantive expertise he acquired at UCLA was as good as any training available."Also, my professors placed a heavy emphasis on policy considerations which has been useful to me ever since," he says. In Washington, policy considerations form a web that a lawyer must tread very carefully between agencies, lest he hopelessly entangle both his client and himself.
"Agencies have different personalities, and they change as administrations change," says Brown. "Washington practice demands that you develop a sixth sense about what makes an administrative agency tick. You canonlygetthat through experience. Also, you have to beawareof what's going on at other agencies and on the Hill and at the White House. It's sort of like playing an organ with more keys."
Often, few precedents are available."I have written plenty of briefs with only one or two citations to cases," says Brown. "When you don't have a rule of
law to control the decision in a case, success depends on your ability to persuade others that a certain decision is in the public interest."
When Brown's furn represented a client who had built a synthetic natural gas plant, other companies argued that a plant with such a facility should not be treated equally in the rationing that followed the 1970s shortage of the cheaper natural resource. "Our argument is that if you reduce our takes because we have built the supplemental plant, you are discouraging companies from taking the initiative and encouraging those who sit on their hands," says Brown.
The decisions he deals with influence some of the biggest projects known to man. One of Brown's most important cases involved cost overruns on the Tr�ns Alaska Pipeline and it will influence the construct10n of the gas line currently being built along the same route.
Brown would like someday to apply directly the knowledge he has gathered in public service, al-
CynthiaLebow '73
though new conflict of interest rules limit such prospects An attorney returning to private practice after service with an agency is now barred for two years from dealing with the agency with which he has acquired the expertise. "This is a considerable barrier to getting good people to join government from private practice," he says.
Cynthia Lebow '73 gave up a private practice in Los Angeles to join the federal government on the staff of Senator Robert Byrd, the Senate Majority Leader. Politics had been a hobby of hers in California until she became involved in campaign work. Following the loss of her husband in a plane crash, she turned to public service.
"This is the world's most fantastic job as far as influencing policy," she says. "Working for the majority leader is different than working for any other senator His support is critical in many situations. Being able to advise him is an opportunity to influence the decision making process in a way that you
never could in another job short of the White House."
Lebow is particularly interested in energy matters. "I came to this job with one of the most uncluttered minds on the subject." says Lebow. "The Ayatollah had just cut off oil, and the energy person on the staff had quit. Senator Byrd asked me if I could handle it. Since that time, this area has been left to me."
Says Lebow: "The question of energy is the most important domestic economic and national security problem we have in the U.S. now. It is interwoven with every defense issue and the fight against inflation. In this job, I am concerned not so much with the detailed regulatory scheme as with the broader format for policy."
She also works with the staff to advise the majority leader on a host of matters ranging from communications to civilrights. "In a sense, the staff functions for the majority leader as an overworked combination of the National Security Council and the Domestic Policy Staff for the President," she says.
CongressmanHenry Waxman '64
"Events here change very quickly so that you are constantly forced to respond to a new factual situation. You have to develop a feel for the pulses and personalities that dominate this institution. Anyone whotriestooperatehere as ameretechnicianwillnot besuccessful."
Changes in the factual situation include changes underway within the Senate itself. "We are seeing a shiftfrompartyloyalty amongstmembersofCongress toa loyaltytocertainspecialinterestsorconstituent interest," says Lebow
Sometimes, the effect is to make policy formation all the more difficulton thenationallevel. "There is no question that we are in a state of national emergency," says Lebow. "Oil supplies from the Middle East are very fragile. One of our best defenses is a standby rationing plan. Putting this type of plan togetherisverydifficultaseachcongressman argues to obtain the best possible position for his constituents. In one sense, that's what they are here for,but
there is an overriding national issue which mandates a broader perspective on occasions. In the past, party loyalty could allow the leadership of the party to enforce allegiance under such conditions. Various factors, including political reform laws and campaign financing laws, have made such commandmoredifficult."
These changes have also allowed younger congressmena greaterindependenceandinfluence t�an theywereable towieldin thepast.OntheHouseside, Representative Henry Waxman '64 broke precedent bymoving into a subcommitteechairmanshipovera senior member
Waxman went into politics soon after graduation from law school, was elected to the California Assembly and went to Washington in 1974 as part �f f lil thehugepost-WatergateDemocraticrepresenta ion the House. In 1979, he became chairman of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Commerce Committee, a counterpart to the position
JamesAsperger '78
of Ted Kennedy on the Senate side.
Waxman and Kennedy are now working in conjunction to convince their colleagues and the nation to provide the U.S. with a national health care system. They are cosponsoring a proposal, the Health Care for All Americans Act, different than past legislative attempts in this area. The new bill orients the health care system to use the private sector while maintaining a commitment to universal coverage.
"We have an uphill fight before us," says Waxman, "but there is a growing consensus that the status quo is not acceptable."
The primary obstacles to such legislation, Waxman feels, are misconceptions of the cost and efficiency of such plans. "There are fears that a national health insurance program would lead to the kind of socialized medicine that presently exists in some West�rn European countries where complaints rage about inefficiency But I cannot envision for the U.S. a national health program along those lines. I would hope
we would have an opportunity for consumers to choose between a number of competing alternatives for the delivery of health care."
A liberal Democrat often on the minority side of issues ranging from consumer matters to problems of the elderly, he is gratified to be in Congress at this point in history.
"I came here when the seniority system was so weakened that I realized that if I could articulate my arguments in a way that would convince my colleagues, I had as much chance to prevail as someone who had been here 20 years."
The greatly weakened seniority system has reduced the arbitrariness that accompanied the power of previous chairmen and left the Congress perhaps more contentious. "But even within the House of Representatives, I am more trustful of a process of competing pressures than of the biological process of aging in determininginfluence on politicaldecision," he says.
If Washington has an ivory tower where truths
Judith Wegner '76
may be sought without political contentions, it is the Supreme Court. In some respects, it is the toughest and most purely intellectual game in town. For James Asperger '78 it is a training ground for a career in legal scholarship. He is a clerk for Justice William Rehnquist.
"An opportunity like this arises once, usually right after law school," says Asperger. "This is a natural step from law school, where you are taught to deal with legal concepts and legal issues; here there is the added dimension that statutes are being interpreted and law is actually being made."
In the Supreme Court, nine strong wills and personalities impact on decisions. "That's as it should be," says Asperger. "In many cases there is no right decision and no law to be drawn out of the sky The Constitution is made up of abstract principles which are susceptible to one 's perception of values and interests and history. This process does not disturb me as long as we look faithfully and carefully to the
Constitution and precedent and history in a particular case."
Any influence of law clerks on great national issues is an influence of the mind on another's view of our legal history. "To the extent that a clerk can shed light on the argument that is raised in a brief, he is able to provide the justice with a new way of looking at something. But overall, I have been pleasantly surprised that law clerks have no great influence on the decisions themselves."
Although the court is aware of the political consequences of its judgments, Asperger sees no sway of those judgments in the interest of expediency. And although the Court is less activist now than in the 1960s its problems be come ever more comp lex ' . . t simply because of the greater complexity of socie Y·
Yet the system itself, he feels, continues to work well in the sense that cases are considered in sufficient detail. "The role of the Supreme Court is not to do justice in each particular case," says Asperger.
That is the responsibility of the courts of appeal. The Supreme Court must deal with important issues of Jaw or conflicts among the circuits.
From his clerkship, Asperger intends to move to private practice in Washington for a while before returningtoacademiclife asateacher. "I don'tthinkit is necessary to practice to teach well," he says. "But J need to satisfy myself that I have tried practice and will be happier teaching."
JudithWegner '76 also has dreams of returning to academia someday. For the present, however, she is pioneering with the birth of the new Department of Education under Secretary Shirley Hufstedler. Asthe new entity emerges, most of the staff time is taken up by managerial decisions such as space allocations, personnel matters, and what sort of computers to use. "It's a time of transition to allow the organization to figure out what it is going to look like," she says. The potential is tremendous. "I hope we can serve as a model of what an agency can be-notjusta dull gray institution but onewithvigor and commitment to excellence. A Department of Education should set that sort of example."
Wegnercame toWashingtononly threeyearsagoto work at the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, where about twenty attorneys and staff members draft the Attorney General's formal legal opinions. The office is small and not highly visible to those who do not know the government well, but its work is highly influential. The office gives advice to people in government on questions unique to the executive branch. While there, Wegner workedon the constitutional problems offree speech raisedbylegislationrestricting armyunionization, churchand state issues, and the Presidential Papers Act of 1978, which dealtwiththehandlingoffuturepresidents' papersin the wake of the difficulties presented by the Nixon Administration.
"At theOffice of Legal Counsel, I was dealing with
amandatewhichaskedwhatisthelaw andwhatdoes it mean, without the context in which people in an agency must work," she says. "It's enlightening now to see how decisions are made under the existing pressures."
Her legal training, she feels, serves as a backdrop for theformation of department policy and decisions. She retains a particular interest in Indian law, to which she has remained committed since taking a course in that subject while at the UCLA School of Law.
"Above anything, I hope that I can make the department responsive to the needs of Indian peoples. I have a sense that we will be able to do that. If there is commitment at the top, people will fall into line," she says.
Wegner came to Washington on her personal "five year plan" for experience in public service, after which she may return to scholarly life. Much of her time now is spent coping with chaos. "What I miss most about academic life is just a quiet place in the library," she says.
But the value of public service can be as great to those who serve as to those who are served. "It's hard to be a lawyer and be in government, when you see people on the outside making ten or fifteen thousand dollars more while you are doing a substantial part of your own typing due to lack of clerical support. But the interests here are broader than those of a single client, and being in government is a special opportunityfor youngpeopletohavemoreresponsibility and to deal with more interesting problems-given their experience-than might be the case elsewhere.
"As UCLA has become a national law school, it's heartening to see the growing number of alumni from UCLA coming to the capital,"Wegner says. "Our new alumni organization inWashington will be an island forthesepeople, andwewillhelpthemin anywaywe can. Public service is a worthwhile thing to do with your life." D
egal education teaches not only what the law is but also where the law is going. The best way legal scholars can understand where the law is moving is to be part of that movement. Some of the most significant products of current research by the UCLA law faculty illustrate the value of exploring questions that may never be answered, but which can be better understood.
When Governor George Wallace railed that "thugs and federal judges are running the country," he gave vent to popular shock as courts have moved to take over large public institutions, such as those institutions which control the lives of people who are relatively powerless: mental patients, prisoners, and school children. Academics, for their part, have remarked that there is something quite extraordinary and without precedent in what the courts are doing.
In a recent article in the Harvard Law Review, UCLA School of Law Professors Theodore Eisenberg and Stephen Yeazell pointoutthatsuch cases arenot so extraordinary as they seem. "What is different aboutthesecasesisnotwhatpeoplehavebeensaying is different," says Eisenberg. "Courts have been runningrailroads, trusts, andestatesforcenturies. What's actually new is that courts are vindicating new substantive rights in new contexts."
Only recently have constitutional rights invaded the prisons, for example, and these new rights have oftenbeenthrustuponinstitutionsunableorunwilling to protect them.
Comments Yeazell: "Ihaveyettoseea federal judge who wants to start looking over toilet paper requisitionsforastateprison. Theissuearisesonlywhenthe institution is operating in serious violation of a statute or the Constitution. Even then, the court typically gives the institution extraordinary time to clean house on its own."
The Supreme Court decreed segregation unlawful in 1954, Eisenberg and Yeazell point out. The courts virtually cajoled the schools to desegregate for years, allowing them to submit their own plans before finally moving in.
In making their argument, Eisenberg and Yeazell fmd themselves in the unusual academic position of supporting, rather than criticizing, court actions. The result could be a sort of counterbalancing of intellectual forces. "Judges are perfectly capable of doing what they are doing without us," says Eisenberg, "butweareamong ihefirstacademicstotakethe side of the courts in print. Most of these issues have not been spoken to by the Supreme Court. At least
TheMerit OfAcademic Questions
now when the issues get there, there will be some academic support on both sides."
Even more importantly, the article may open people's minds to new ways of thinking aboutlitigation in general. "We claimto beseeinglitigationwith bigger glasses than others have before," says Yeazell. "It justso happens that because of the ways ourinterests fit together we were able to combine expertise in bankruptcy, history procedure, and civil rights in a unique wayinthis article. Theresult is a challengeto the model of the 'normal lawsuit.'"
They hope now to be able to show their students that lawsuits that seem bizarre may not be so bizarre as they appear, and those that appear normal mayn�t benormalatall. "The mostexcitingpartofresearch1s to establish a direct link between your writing and your teaching," says Yeazell. "It's hard to communicate new and useful ideas if you don't have any."
The newideas of Professor Stanley Siegelareatthe heart of both public distrust of big business and efforts to cope with inflation. From doubts about the profits of oil companies to stories of foreign payoffs · ·t· of an aura of skepticism surrounds the activ1 ies American business. "When you analyze all these claims and the regulations involved, there is not one
that does not come down to a question of accounting disclosure," says Siegel.
Siegel is working on a book that will help law students and professionals to better understand the fmancial disclosuresof corporations. "Courses in law and accounting have always been the unwanted stepchild of law schools," Siegel notes. "But the last five years have seen a revolution in financial disclosure, and it is time for a major text that will explain these problems to people who are not accountants."
Siegel is proud of his status as both an active accountant and a legal scholar. "Within the last few years, the accounting profession has come to grips with the problem of inflation for the first time," he says. "In the next few years, we will see a dramatic shift away from traditional cost concepts in accounting toward some kind of financial disclosure based on a flexible dollar."
The implications of such change will affect tax laws, the way savings accrue, and the way investments are counted. The original Jarvis Initiative, he notes, came about because inflation drove up the property values which served as a basis for taxation. "Mr. Jarvis of all people should appreciate efforts to generate some meaningful proposal to buildataxbase which takes into account the changes in the value of the dollar," says Siegel. "Hopefully, my work will move in that direction."
In writing this book, Siegel is moving from traditional legal research into financially based research. "This is a bit of a risk for me becausethereis a tendency among lawyers to view those who work in accounting with some disdain. It is a risk I am willing to take. Much of the work of legal scholars is focused on securities regulation and governmental regulation. If I am successful, I will establish the central importance of understanding accounting and financial data for lawyers and legislators and regulators generally. I don't think they understand it now."
Law students ingeneral, and many lawyers also, do not understand the relationship between the funda-
mental principles of business and law. For that reason, Professor William Kleinstartedout to write what he thought would be "a Dick-and-Jane book of business organizations." The result, Business Organization and Finance, is an easy tounderstandtext which led him to devise a sophisticated mode of analysis of business organizations.
"There has never been anything quite like this book," says Klein. "It has the smallest table of cases in the history of law books. But the legal doctrines are discussed along with their relationshipto underlying economic principles. Once you understand the economic circumstances and consequences in which a rule arises, you get a sense of the meaning and function of the legal rule itself."
Klein is proud of his text originally intended for beginners because of what it can offer even a knowledgeable reader. "I love the book," he says. "There is a lot in it that's new An economist can readit and learn about the problems of forming a partnership and how that relates to questions of economics. Nobody else ever tried to tie together law and economics in this way.Ihavespenta lot of mycareerthinking aboutjust this. I ended up with what is at this time a primitive set of theories that are scatteredthroughout the book. They provide a framework for dealing with the law and the economics of business organizations."
"Thelastfiveyears have seena revolutioninfinancialdisclosure,anditis time foratextthat willexplaintheseproblems."
The corporation itself, Klein feels, is misunderstood. "The reaction to corporations is nonrational," he says. "I want people to understand that these entities are complex amalgams of people trying to achieve certain economic objectives."
Just as importantly, he would like to provide a handle that will be useful in understanding the common basis of any business deal. "I want to familiarize people with the interactions among those who involve themselves in these deals and the common issues that arise. Because of that approach, someone
who has studied business organizations with this book will have a better ability to analyze these problems than a person who has just learned a set of straight legal doctrines."
The joy of scholarship, Klein insists, is in the making. "It's like building a pyramid," he says. "The result is a sign of the joy of learning and creation. You can't have that without constantly reworking it."
Yet creativeresearch, though not necessarily by the intention of the researcher, can help to resolve some of the mostsensationalcasesof ourtime. Suits involving product liability and medical malpractice are among themostconspicuouslegalbattles in theheadlines of the last two decades. But in the judgment of Professor Gary Schwartz, the development of the law itself in this area is subtle rather than sensational, moderate rather than radical, and evolutionary rather than revolutionary Schwartz comes to this conclusion following several years of work on a series of articles on torts, in which he draws on other disciplines including psychology, economics, moral philosophy, and history. "Traditional writings have suggested that when you have covered the efficiency and effects of a rule on the distribution of wealth, you have nearly exhausted the relevant commentary," says Schwartz. Althoughhe respects thepowerofeconomic analysis, he feels this single approach tends to cloud out issues of fairness and justice.
"I am generally concerned with questions of legal theory which themselves have little relevance to actual judicial decisions," he says. His recent article, "Understanding Products Liability" in the California Law Review, will be useful to legislatorsand judges as well as academics. In that article, he suggests when the rule of hindsight is appropriate in determining the liability of a producer of a faulty product.
Suits against the Ford Motor Company involving the design of its Pinto have resulted in multi-million dollar awards. The same questions could have been raised in 1960, Schwartz suggests. But since then,
courts have shifted their thinking from neglect in designing a product toward concern for adefectin the design of a product. "That is precisely the kind of distinction that I would regard as subtle rather than sensational," he says.
Lawyers have better skills now regardless of legal doctrine, Schwartz suggests, and lawyers' awareness of opportunities to sue is in itself an important determinate of what the patterns of tort litigation will be. "Despite what we see as the dramatic rise in products liability and malpractice cases, an even more dramatic rise may lie on the horizon," says Schwartz.
More lawsuits may result also from the fact that there are more lawyers. The impact of the profession itself on the society it serves is central to much of the work of Professor Richard Abel. For two years, he edited the Law and Society Review and retained responsibility for additional special issues. Further extensive writing on the subject has led him to question the direction in which dispute resolution is headedin America.
During field work in Africa several yearsago, Abel developed a hypothesis that the legal institutions imposed by colonials, though initially accepted, later become distasteful to indigenous people who saw these courts as instruments of social control. Where no traditional alternative, such as resort to elders, was available for dispute resolution, litigation continued to rise-even though it served to diffuse the common grievances of classes. "I became concerned that a similar tendency might be found in America, a tendency that we are now coming to regret," says Abel.
He believes that routine disputes between ordinary persons once helped to create a sense of community. "People had to struggle with their differences rather than just walk away from each other, as in contemporary America," he notes.
The last decades in an American society of the alienated have seen several initiatives to create institutions, such as neighborhood tribunals, that would be accessible to ordinary people. Such efforts, Abel fears, are ill conceived. As in some African countries, they would serve to diffuse legitimate politic�! protest. "These neighborhood justice centers typ1-
cally are suitable only for problems of neighbor against neighbor," he notes. "They are not capable of handling work place disputes, for example. If we channel grievance behavior in the direction of the available remedy and away from other kinds of problems, people fail to see what is common in their situation."
The legal profession itself, Abel notes, has lost control of the supply of lawyers due to the explosion of the law school student population. It will never regain such control of the market while society remains committed to the ideals of equal opportunity and the right to university education. The only way to maintain the status and rewards of the profession is to increase the demand for lawyers. This trend is obvious in the growth of legal aid and state subsidies for legal services.
"Clearly, the result is to spread work between older lawyers and younger ones who are now the vast majority," he says. The legitimization of advertising typifies this trend.
The appearance of mass volume legal clinics raises problems of control and legitimacy. Mammoth law firms which now employ hundreds of attorneys are not subject to the same control by peers as were individuallawyers. Also, the formerly all white male professionis becomingmore heterogeneous, but inaway that reproduces racial inequities. "The establishment of 'ghetto chambers' where women and minorities findthemselvesstuckmusthaverepercussionsforthe future," says Abel.
This line of research is essential to educating good lawyers. "I think students fall too readily into work positions without adequate awareness of why they choose their positions and the consequences of those positionsfor society.Inorderto teachthose questions, I have to understand them, and research is the only way to do that," says Abel.
Few scholars have delved into the responsibilities of the legal profession with the thoroughness of Professor Murray Schwartz, whose new book Lawyers and the Legal Profession is the product of intellectual seedsthathavebeengerminatingduringtwentyyears of teaching. Dissatisfied with available texts that present series of ad hoc problems unbound by a coherent theme, he has produced a book that is organized around two axes: the role of the lawyer as a client representative and the legal services distribution system. The book is part of a larger effort to develop a general theory of professionalism.
The payoff for students will be in their preparation for practice. They will be better informed about the basic rules of the game and sensitized to ethical considerations they might not otherwise have thoughtof.
Even more importantly, he hopes to force them to think about the reasons for these rules.
"The codes of professional conduct, once learned, are relatively easy to follow," says Schwartz. But the adversary system requires lawyers to engagein behavior that laymen might consider immoral.
These questions become more difficult when the lawyer moves from the role of adversary to that of counselor or negotiator. Professor Schwartz argues that attorneys acting as nonadvocates cannot claim the immunity from moral accountability for their actions that is accorded advocates operating within the adversary system.
Other casebooks have pointed to this difference in roles, but Schwartz' is the first book to develop the idea in an extended and systematic way.
Yet another casebook destined to influence the way law is taught is Professor George McGovern's Cases, Statutes and Readings on the Law of Contractsprobably the shortest casebook on contractsever published, yet one unique in its field.
McGovern has drastically abridged the usual judicialopinions,whichheconsidersoflittlevaluetofirst year students beyond providing them experience at picking wheat from chaff. Some of the saved space is devotedto legal literature,especiallylaw review articles and statutes, the latter of which have achieved growingimportancein the common law world. Overall, the focus of the book is on problems like those students will face in later life.
Thus the contributionof thebook is not so much to contract law as to thetraining of lawyers, perhaps the most important improvement legal research can make in the legal system. "I personally can't say that I have done a great deal about law reform with this book," he says. "I have done a lot of thinking about teachingwhilewritingandalotofwritingwhileteaching. I am a believer in the interrelationship between teaching and research to the point that I am not always sure when I am doing one and when I am doing the other." D
TheFaculty
BenjaminAaron hascompleteda chapterfor the labor law volume of the International Encyclopedia ofComparative Law onsettlementof labor disputesoverrights. He also addressed the Administrative Law Judges Conference on "The Union's DutyofFair Representation" inFebruary. Professor Aaron is vice chairman andchairmanelectof the statewide Academic Senate and is editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal, Comparative Labor Law.
Norman Abrams authoredastudy, "Administrative Process Alternatives to the Criminal Process," which was publishedbythe NationalCenterfor Administrative Justice. Hisbrief paper, "Some Observations on BasicResearch on Administrative Procedure andthe Ideaof aProcedural Continuum" was publishedin anAdministrative Law Review symposium.
At a conference on white collar crime at Temple University, he gave a paperon "White Collar Crime and the Federal Role in Law Enforcement," which will bepublishedin the Temple Law Review. He also presented apaper on "The LiabilityofCorporateOfficers for the Strict LiabilityOffensesoftheir Corporations-ACommenton Dotterweich andPark" at theCorporateLaw Institute in New York.
Professor Abrams, whois teaching a new course on "FederalCriminalLaw Enforcement" inwhichhe is usinghis own casebook materials, is on the steering committee of UCLA's Center for International and StrategicAffairs. This spring he is the center's acting co-director.
Reginald Alleyne recentlypublished an articlein Hastings Law Journal on the new collective bargaining law for California universities and colleges. Along with Joseph Grodin and Donald Wallett, Professor Alleyne edited a casebook on public sector collective bargainingpublished by the Bureau of National Affairs.
He addressed a conference of California Administrative Law Judges on arbitration and unfair labor practice remedies and was a seminarleader at a
California School Employees Associationconferenceon administrative practicesbefore the California Public EmploymentRelations Board.
MichaelR.Asimow has completeda studyfortheAdministrativeConference of the United States on the separation of functionsin federal administrative agencies.
He plans to study the functioning of English administrative agencies during his spring semester sabbatical.
John A. Bauman has been appointed executive director of the Association of American Law Schools, and will be on a two-year leave from the University to take uphisdutiesinWashington, D. C.
Helen Bendix has completed work on Supreme Court Practice and Jurisdiction (withMooreandRingle) tobepublished by Matthew Bender Company
Paul Bergmanis a faculty member for the 1980 AALS Clinical Teachers Conferenceto be held in Montana this June. He hassupervised the drafting of new problemsforthe 1980 experimentalportionof the California bar exam to testthepracticalskills of the examinees. Bergmanis also writing an articledealingwith the relationship betweenclassactionclass representatives andattorneysfor the class.
David Binder has developed an estate planning curriculum for the American BarAssociation'spilot program on lawoffice skills. He was an instructor onthat subject for ABApilot projectsin Berkeley and Chicago.
Professor Binder also has published an Instructor's Manualon Legal Interviewingand Counseling.
Grace Blumberg has completed an article, "Adult Derivative Benefits in Social Security," to be published by the Stanford Law Review. She is currently writing onseveral aspects of unmarried cohabitation.
ProfessorBlumbergis serving on the advisory board and litigation subcommittee of the "ERA ImpactProject"
undertaken by the NOW Legal Defense and EducationFund and the Women's Law Project.
Richard Delgado delivered papers at New York University Law School and the New School for Social Research, and testified beforetwolegislativecommittees on issues relating to religious movements and thelaw. His article, "Active Rationality inJudicialReview" appears as the leadarticlein theMinnesota Law Review.
TheNew YorkReviewofLaw&Social Action will publish a second article, "Religious Totalism as Slavery" and he has co-authored an article onmedical malpractice with second-yearlawstudent Joan Vogel. Professor Delgado is now working on an article, "The Moralist As ExpertWitness."
George P. Fletcher prepared a 500page volume ofcase histories andlegal analysis for the UCLA-hosted conference on "Soviet Jews Under Soviet Law," which is now available in law libraries around the country. Hespent two weeks in the Soviet Unionworking on the Shcharansky caseandlater returned to Moscow on an academic exchange to present a paper on the "Presumption of Innocencein Soviet and American Law" at the Soviet Institute of State and Law The institute's journal will publisha Russian translation of the paper.
Professor Fletcher alsopresenteda paper on German approaches to the "taking" problem at the US� C?nference on Comparative Conshtut10nal Law. He will teachcourses oncriminal law and legal philosophy as avisiting professor at the University ofFrankfurt this spring.
Carole Goldberg-Ambrose is�ervi�g asprincipalinvestigatorof a Umversity grant to produce a series of filmson Indian Law.
She recently delivered areporton "Energy Mobilization and the Bal�ce ofFederal, State and Tribal Po"".er, and plans to turn that research mto several articles.
Donald G. Hagmanwill teach "�ublic Control of Land" at the U�iversit�e of Michigan this summer, hopmgt?.u the recently completed sec�ndeditrnn of hiscasebook onthat subject. . The southern section of the Amencan Planning Association recently
honored Professor Hagman for his outstanding contributions to planning in this area.
William A. Klein has published Business Organization and Finance: Legal and Economic Principles with Foundation Press this year.
He is also participating in a new course called "Motion Picture Business Transactions," along with instructors Gary 0.Concoff and David R. Ginsburg, both of Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin.
Wesley J. Liebeler recently published a review of Bork's The Antitrust Paradox and has completed a manuscript on the antitrust activities of the FTC to be published by Oxford University
Press. He gave papers at the Western Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the Southwestern University Antitrust Symposium, and an antitrust symposium sponsored by the Law and Economics Center.
Professor Liebeler is working on a paper on the implications of the GTE Sylvania case and a review of current antitrust problems for the Hoover Institute. He is also preparing an article on Friedman vs. Rogers (Texas) for the Law and Economics Center as well as a paper on the 1901 U.S. Steel merger for the Law & Economics Program at the University of Chicago.
Gerald Lopez is nearing completion of his article, "Undocumented Mexican Migration: In Search of a Just Immigration Law," and is researching
the development of law surrounding Section 1983.
Professor Lopez was invited to deliver a lecture on "Civil Rights Litigation" at California's first Minority State BarConvention. He has also been invited to testify before PresidentCarter's SelectCommission on Immigration and Refugee Policy.
Daniel Lowenstein is a member of the national governing board ofCommonCause, and an active member of the campaign advisory committee of Californians for Smoking and NoSmoking Sections.
Michael D. Rappaport delivered a paper comparing minority and white placement patterns in the legal profession before the National Conference of
Black Lawyers meeting at Georgetown University Law School in March.
Murray L. Schwartz will deliver a lecture on "The Reorganization of the Legal Profession" as the annual Will E. Orgain Lecture at the University of Texas this spring.
He recently published "Lawyers and the Legal Profession" as a Michie Bobbs-Merrill casebook. He also participated on a panel presentation of "The New ABA Code of Professional Conduct" at the annual AALS meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
Stanley Siegel is working on a text, Accounting and Financial Disclosure, to be published by West Publications. His major publication for 1979, along with Schulman and Moscow, was entitled "Michigan Business Corporations."
Henry W. McGee, Jr. is the principal consultant and investigator of a yearlong study of displacement and revitalization sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the study contains empirical surveys of neighborhood change in Venice, Pasadena and North University Park.
Professor McGee, in concert with professors at other law schools, is also preparing a casebook on housing and community development to be published by Bobbs-Merrill.
WilliamM. McGovern is on leave during 1979-80 while at the University of Minnesota as visiting professor
Richard C. Maxwell is on leave during 1979-80 while at Duke University as visiting professor.
David Mellinkoff is writing a sequel to The Language of the Law, using as his working title, How To Write In English.
Professor Mellinkoff recently spoke on "How to Read an Opinion" at the Institute for California Superior Court Judges, under the auspices of the California Center for Judicial Education and Research.
CarrieMenkel-Meadow has published The 59th Street Legal Clinic: Evaluation of the Experiment (ABA Press, Chicago). She is a consultant to the ABA Special Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, is on the board of governors of the Society of American Law Teachers and is on the faculty of the ABA Lawyering Skills Institute. She is also chair-elect of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and is educational consultant to the Project for the Study and
Application of Humanistic Education in Law.
Professor Menkel-Meadow was speaker and facilitator for the Society of American Law Teachers conference on goals in law teaching and for the Southern California Clinical Education Consortium conference on clinical teaching and supervision.
Melville B. Nimmer has published Chapter 17 of the treatise Nimmer on Copyright, entitled "Foreign and International Copyright." Also published was the second edition of Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Law Pertaining to Literary, Musical and Artistic Works (West Publishing Co. )
Professor Nimmer delivered four lectures on American copyright law at the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law and taught a course in "Comparative Israeli-American Constitutional Law" as the Lady Davis Visiting Professor of Law at Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem. He also lectured before the Copyright Research Institute of Japan in Tokyo and the Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He will be a visiting professor this summer at University of San Diego School of Law overseas program to be held at the University of London, and also at the Louisiana State University Summer Program for French Lawyers. Professor Nimmer is a recipient of the UCLA Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award in 1980. •
Susan Westerberg Prager became associate dean of the School of Law on July 1, 1979.
She was elected a member of the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools, and was elected the first woman director of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Monroe Price is on leave during 1979-80 while in private practice with a Los Angeles law firm.
Joel Rabinovitz is on leave during 1979-80 while in Washington, D.C., with the Department of the Treasury
Jonathan Varat has been active as the vice chairman of the amicus briefs committee of the Los Angeles County Bar. He is working on a forthcoming publication entitled "Variable Justiciability and the Duke Power Case."
William D. Warren has been appointed to chair the new special committee on clinical programs of the Association of American Law Schools. He spoke on clinical education at the Council on Legal Education and Professional Responsibility meeting at Key Biscayne in October. He also chaired meetings of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and spoke at numerous alumni gatherings throughout California.
William J. Winslade was organizer
of the National Conference on the Role of Professionals in Undergraduate Education, which was sponsored by UCLA and AAAS. He is co-principal investigator of a three-year NEH grant, "Transdisciplinary Perspectives," received for developing undergraduate programs in medicine, law and human values.
Professor Winslade presented a paper on "Ethics in Psychiatry: Historical Patterns and Conceptual Changes" at the American College of Psychiatrists annual meeting in February. His article, "Enigmatic Justice: Judicial Decision and Psychiatric Discretion," appears in The Law-Medicine Relationship: A Philosophical Critique (Englehardt and Spicker, eds). He has completed chapters on "Teaching Forensic Psychiatry" and "Ethical Issues in Psychiatry" for two books pending publication.
Stephen Yeazell has completed an article entitled "The Ordinary and the Extraordinary in Institutional Litigation," along with Ted Eisenberg, appearing in the Harvard Law Review, January 1980.
Parts I and II of his work, "From Group Litigation to Class Action," are forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review
Kenneth York, Professor Emeritus, went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in April to deliver a lecture on "Recent Developments in Equitable Monetary Awards" before the ABA Appellate Judges Conference
Second Circuit Judge Amalya L.Kearse, Mr. Justice Byron R.White...
Deans and members ofMoot Court board atRoscoePoundcompetition.
...and Secretary of Education Hufstedlerhear argument.
Second-year student Steve Dickinsonis best advocate.
Distinguished Panel Hears Argument Before Moot Court
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, Secretary of Education Shirley M. Hufstedler, and Second Circuit Judge Amalya L. Kearse heard oral argument by four second-year students at the UCLAMoot Court's annual Roscoe Poundcompetition on April 3.
Named bythe panel as the best advocate was second-year student Steve Dickinson. The Moot Court judges also ranked second the argument of Joan McCarthy.
A thirdmemberofUCLA'snational Roscoe Pound team will be Eric Emanuel,honoredas recipient of the best brief award.
In the April 3argument,Steve Dickinson andJoan McCarthy,representing EnvironmentalGenetics Laboratories, were opposed by Jennifer Cody and David Babbe, representing Microwonder,Inc.,inanappealtotheUnited States Supreme Court concerning the right to ajurytrialin complex civil litigation.
These four student advocates were chosen from theMoot Court's 1980 DistinguishedAdvocates, based on theirsuperioradvocacyskills.
The DistinguishedAdvocates representthetop 20percentofthemore than 90 second-year students who participated in Fall and Spring Moot Court rounds this year
RobertW.Barnes, Chief Justice of the Moot Court Honors Program, said that the highcaliberof the advocates combined withthedistinguishedpanel of judges createdan exciting climate for this year'sRoscoe Pound competition.
"Wealwaysinvitetop judges," Barnes noted, "but the quality of this panelespeciallyhonors the School of Law andthestudentsin our program.
"Moreover,since Justice White penned the Ross-Bernhard footnote whose interpretation is crucial to the appeal, oral argument became more than meresuppositionsas to the meaning ofobscure law."
To that, second-year coordinator Tom Kellerman added: "Today's competition was aperfectculminatiQll of the year's events, for what has to be one of the most active Moot Court programs
in the nation."
At issue on April 3 was whether the SeventhAmendment compels retrial to a jury even if the issues are beyond the practical abilities and limitations of a jury.
Both Environmental Genetics Laboratories and Microwonder, the hypothetical litigants, are engaged in genetic engineering, and the appeal grew out of a patent infringement action filed by Microwonder against En-Gen regarding microorganisms used to "eat" oil spills.
Trial of the action consumed 96 days of complex scientific testimony over a six-month period, and included two Nobel Laureates who disagreed as to the scientific facts underlying the alleged patent.
Although the jury returned a $158 million general verdict for Microwonder, the trial judge granted a mistrial when the jury failed to answer any of the special interrogatories that they werepresented.
Paul Boland Heads Clinical Program
Professor Paul Boland has been appointedAssociateDean, Clinical Programs for theSchool of Law.
Boland will have administrative responsibility for an extensive program which involvestendifferentcourse offerings and approximately 300 students annually
Professor Boland will continue to teachtrial advocacy.
Boland came to the School in 1970 at the beginning of the clinical program, which has grown to its present scope of five full-timeclinicalprofessors and another ten who devote a portion of their time to clinical teaching.
The program isgenerallyviewed as perhaps thelargestof its kind in the
nation, and the one with the most experienced faculty.
Bolandhas served as judge protern of the juvenile department of the Superior Court since 1976, and also was special counsel to the presiding judge of the Superior Court, working on a range of court reform projects. He also has served on the facultyof the Association of AmericanLaw Schools, Clinical Teachers Training College.
McDermott to Teach At U of Santa Clara
Tony McDermott, assistant dean for alumni and development at the School of Law since 1975, has accepted an appointment to the faculty of the University of Santa Clara School of Law. McDermott will teach taxation and corporations at Santa Clara beginning with the fall semester.
During 1967 to 1969, he was assistant dean for admissions and student affairs at the UCLA School ofLaw, and was involved in institution and administration of the special admissions program.
From 1969 to 1975, McDermott was on the faculties of law schools at the University of Denver, Loyola University, and the University of Oregon He served also on the board of trustees of the LSAT.
Helen I. Bendix Is Appointed to Faculty
Helen I. Bendix has been appointed to the faculty of the School of Law. She began teaching in theSpring, 1980, semester with courses in public international law and Japanese law. Professor Bendix wasgraduatedfrom YaleLaw School in 1976.She clerked for then Judge Shirley M.Hufstedler andlaterwas associated withtheWashington, D.C., law firmof Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.
Bendix has co-authored with James William Moore and Brett Ringle a book, Supreme Court Practice and
Moot Court ChiefJustice Robert W. Barnes presents Dean William Warren a symbol ofappreciation attheconclusion ofthis year's Roscoe Pound competition.
Helen I. Bendix
Jurisdiction, which is being published this June by Matthew Bender.
It is a comprehensive study of Supreme Court jurisdiction and related issues of federalism, and it also serves as a manual on Supreme Court practice.
Bendix has also co-authored with James William Moore a two-volume treatise on federal rules of evidence.
She is particularly interested in Japan/American relations, both political and economic, and the role of the Far East in American foreign relations.
Bendix has a continued interest in practice and procedure, and the form of the judicial system.
Her personal interests include music and running. She plays violin and viola, and has run marathons in New York City and Washington, D.C.
HarmlessErrors: TheyOftenLose
A faculty softball team, The Harmless Errors, which has been reorganized this year at the School of Law takes considerable pride in being good losers.
Professor Jonathan D. Varat, who teaches contracts, constitutional law
and federal courts when he's not coaching the team, admits readily that his players have a proven record for losses.
There are as many as 20 faculty members on the team, but it's a rotating group. "Usually we have 10 or 12, enough for a game," says Varat.
"There was a faculty team several years ago, and many of us this year thought it would be a nice thing to do again. It's fun to play the students, to meet as people in a situation not dealing with course work."
Although the School has an intramural student softball league, many of the faculty games are played with ad hoc groups of students. These might be sections of a first year class, or students from the Law Review, Moot Court, or other organizations.
"We have won a few," Varat notes, "but most of the time we lose."
UCLALawWomen HaveActiveYear
The UCLA Law Women's Union is completing a year of more than usual activity in support of issues relating to women.
On March 20, some 50 students attended a Women in the Law conference at the UCLA School of Law, with the emphasis on legal employment opportunities. Expertise for that program was provided by alumni of the School.
In February, several UCLA students attended the eleventh annual national Women in the Law conference in San Francisco, where many simultaneous
seminars covered a range of women's issues.
This year the UCLA studentsalso have contributedlegal support to projectsincluding abatteredwomen's clinicand legal education among women prisoners atTerminalIsland.
Chairperson of the UCLA Women's Law Union is Dee Sheffer, andtreasurer is Flory Pinigis.
More than one-third of UCLA's one thousand law students are women.
WashingtonAlumni FormNewGroup
Alumni of the School of Law have organizeda new group in Washington, D.C.,witha variety ofrecentactivities.
Alumni andstudent externsmeton March15 at the law offices of Wald, Harkrader & Ross to hear Tracy Westen, former director of the Communications Law Program at UCLA, andcurrently with the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal TradeCommission. Westen spoke on new developmentsin FTC and communications law.
The Washington group also has produced a directory of UCLA alumniin the national capital area.
Future plans include a talkby Professor Murray Schwartz on June2 anda summer picnic.
All alumni of the School of Lawin the Washington area are invitedto becomeinvolvedin the groupby contacting David G. Epstein at Wald, Harkrader & Ross,1300 19th Street,
Charles R. English '65, apartnerin the SantaMonicalaw firm of Lafaille, Chaleff & English, was electedpresident of the boardof directors of the LawAlumniAssociation at the January16 meeting. He succeeds Prentice O'Leary '68 whose term ended December31,1979.
Five new directors have been elected to a three-year term. They are Kenneth Drexler '69, Hiroshi Fujisaki '62, David Glickman '57, George Mccambridge '73 and Marjorie S. Steinberg '75.
Kenneth I.Clayman'66 and William Vaughn '55 were elected to a one-year term to fill the vacancies left by the resignation ofCynthia Lebow '73 and Victor Epport'54.
Continuingmembersof the board are Michael Gering '71, Sharon Green '68, David Horowitz'66, Fred L.Leydorf '58, Billy G. Mills '54, Henry P.Nelson '61 andAnn Parade '71
Officers electedat the January16 meeting areCharlesR.English, president; Billy G.Mills; vice president; Henry P.Nelson,secretary; Kenneth I. Clayman,treasurer; and David Horowitz,alumnirepresentative.
Classnotes
Richard W. Abbey '72 is the new president of the Sonoma County Bar Association.HeisapartnerintheSanta Rosa firm of Anderson, McDonald, Belden & Kelley and specializes in commercial law.
Edward W. Abramowitz '72 has become a partner of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Reuss, McConville, King and Green. Abramowitzwas a trial attorney with the Federal Trade Commission from1972 until 1976 and later engaged in private practicein Washington, D.C.
Charlotte Ashmun '79 is clerking for United States District Judge William P. Gray in LosAngeles.
Douglas A. Bagby '71 announcesthe formation of a partnership with Richard N. Piantadosi tobe known as Piantadosi & Bagby
Julian W. Bailey, Jr. '74, James W. Brott '72 and Gregory Jones have joinedJohn P.Dolan and Gerald J. Reopelle '75 as partners. The expandedfirm willbe known as Dolan, Bailey, Reopelle, Brott and Jones and will continue to specialize in criminal defense andcivil litigationwith officesin Tustin.
Joseph Bogan '72 has opened his own practice in Glendale andspecializesin personal injury defense litigation.
Richard J. Chrystie '66 and Robert Schirn '66 are co-authors of the Search Warrant Manualpublished jointly by the L.A.County District Attorney's office and the California DistrictAttorneys Association. Both Chrystie a�d. Schirn are members of the L.A. District Attorney's office. Schirnis currently in charge of the OrganizedCrime Division and Chrystie ispresidentof the L.A. County Association of Deputy DistrictAttorneys.
John R. Domingos '69 and David Olson '70, partners of the San Francisco law firm of Domingos, Olson & Grice, have merged with Jonas & Matthews to continue the general practice of law as
Jonas, Matthews, Domingos, Olson & Grice.
James P. Donohue '76 is associated with the Seattle law furn of Sax and Maciver, where he specializes in commercial litigation.
David G. Epstein '78 has become associated with the Washington, D.C., firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.
Norman Epstein '58 has been elevated from Municipal Court to the bench of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Joan Whitehead Evans '79, Roxanne Lippe} '79, and Andrew S. Pauly '79 have become associated with the Century City law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney.
Paul L. Gale '75 has become associated with the Newport Beach law firm of Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth.
Lorna C. Greenhill '78 opened her own office in Long Beach and is practicing general civil law as a solo practitioner.
Lisa Greer '78 has become associated with the New York City firm of Gelberg & Kronovet, a new firm composed primarily of attorneys who formerly practiced with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. Attorneys at the new firm specialize in tax, real estate, corporate and general business law, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, employee compensation and litigation. Greer works in the real estate department.
L. Christian Hauck '65 was elected vice president, legal affairs, for the Florida Power and Light Company.
Robert A. Hefner '58 was sworn in as chief judge of the Commonwealth Court, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in September, 1979. He resigned as an associate justice of the High Court of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands after five and a half years on that court.
Robert Higa '66 has been elevated from Los Angeles Municipal Court to the bench of the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Rodney C. Hill '62 has become of counsel to the Century City law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney.
David Horowitz '66 has been appointed by Governor Brown to Los Angeles Municipal Court.
Richard C. Hubbell '58 has been appointed to Los Angeles Municipal Court bench.
Jay W. Jeffcoat '70 has become a partner in the law firm of Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye. Jeffcoat is one of two resident partners opening the Imperial County office of the San Diego based law firm.
Gail D. Kass '75 has joined the law firm of De Castro, West & Chodorow, Inc.
William B. Keene '52 received the first annual Outstanding Trial Jurist Award conferred by the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He has just completed his fifteenth year on the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.
Annette Keller '77 has been appointed
supervising attorney for the Hill Street Division of the L.A. City Attorney's office.
Mary Keller '73 is now staff attorney with the ACLU in Austin.
George David Kieffer '73 has been named treasurer of Citizens for California-No on Nine Committee.
Ivan Lawner '72 has been with the Alaska Department of Law for seven and a half years and since 1978 has been chief of the Anchorage Attorney General's office, supervising 29 attorneys.
Lydia Levin '79 is serving as law clerk to Judge Warren Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Steven E. Levy '73 has become a partner in the firm of Pollock, Bloom and Dekom.
Eldwood Lui '69 has been elevated from Los AngelesMunicipal Court to Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor Brown. Lui has been a Municipal Court judge since 1975. He is a CPA and former deputy attorney general. He received his B.A., M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from UCLA.
Sheldon H. Lytton '73 has become a member of the law firm of Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine & Underberg.
Thomas M. Many '68 has been named vice president and general counsel of Hunt International Resources Corp.
Henry P. Nelson '61 has been appointed by Governor Brown to the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Norman A. Pedersen '75 has joined the Washington D.C., office of Kadison,
Bob Lewin '72 has been elected to the board of directors of the Orange County Bar Association. He has also moved to new office facilities in Irvine specializing in commercial collections and business litigation.
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Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & Rossi. He will specialize in energy law.
Michael A. Sandberg '77 has become associated with the Chicago law firm of Altheimer & Gray.
Rand Schrader '72, until recently head of the Appellate Section of the L.A. City Attorney's Office, has been appointed by Governor Brown to the Los Angeles Municipal Court. He is also president of the board of directors of the Gay Community Services Center
George Schraer '71 opened his own law office in Berkeley as a solo practitioner.
Wayne W. Smith '72 has become a partner in the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Nancy Spero-Regos '74 has become a partner in Macdonald, Halsted & Laybourne. She specializes in equal employment opportunity law and civil litigation.
Daphne M. Stegman '74 has become a member of the law firm of Blecher, Collins & Hoecker.
Michael R. Sullivan '73 has become a member of the law firm of Rutter & Ebbert, Inc.
Jeffrey E. Sultan '73 has joined the firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney as partner.
David M. Weber '78 has received an LL.M. in taxation from the New York University School of Law and has joined the Newport Beach law firm of Drummy, Garrett & King.
Bob Weeks '67 has been a deputy public defender for the County of Santa Clara since 1970. In 1979 he became a certified specialist in criminal law. He is chair of the resolutions committee for the 1980 Conference of Delegates of the State Bar of California.
Dorrie E. Whitlock '76 has opened her own office in Modesto, California. (An earlier Classnotes column gave the wrong city; we regret the error.)
