Dean and Mrs. Warren greet alumni on May 17. (See page 22)
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SevenYears: ASummation
his is my last dean's report to the alumni. After seven years as dean, I am looking forward to going back to teaching UCLA law students and catching up on my writing. I have found being dean of the UCLA law school the most satisfying and enjoyable experience of my professional life. This is largely owing to the strong support that I have receivedfrom our faculty, our staff, our students, and from you, our alumni group.
We have much to be happy about at the UCLA School of Law. By anyone's definition we have become one of the nation's great law schools. Our faculty, alreadyoneof the best, wasfurther strengthened by six good appointments this year. This has been perhaps our best year for faculty recruitment in a decade.
This year 4,333 graduates of the best colleges and universities in the nation applied for admission-a 20 percent increaseoverthe yearbefore. Only 330or so will be enrolled. The standardsfor admission are absurdly high.
Over 500 law firms and agencies from all over the country came to our campus to hire our studentsa 40 percent increase over the year before. We are placing our graduates in top firms from Wall Street to Honolulu.
In a year of great financial need, alumni giving is already up 50 percent over the year before and the final figures were not yet in when this report was written. In seven years we have gone from about $26,000 in annual giving to more than $270,000, and our development program is justgettingstarted.
Icanmention,inpassing,otheritemsofgoodnews: Chancellor Young has made an addition to the law building a top campus priority and has given us additional space in adjacent Dodd Hall. Our school has been given the $10,000 Emil Gumpert Award for having one of the outstanding clinical programs in the nation.
But the bad news is worse than usual. In my first talktoanalumnigroupin1975, Istatedthatthemost difficult problem facing our school in the coming decadewas findingthemoneytofinancehighquality legal education. In retrospect, none of us could have imaginedthenwhatlayahead. Forthesecondtimein only five years, our faculty and staff will apparently be denied salary increases. The differential between law firm and faculty salaries grows increasingly ridiculous.
How are we going about meeting our problems? Owing to a staff hiring freeze, we are now operating the law school with six of our 32 staff positions unfilled; staff members have closed ranks magnificently. We are investing in word-processing machines to enable our diminished nine-person secretarial staff to meet the ever-growing needs of 60or morefaculty members. We havecut our budget to the bone.
The staff of our placement office is now so small andthe demandforitsservicesisso largethatwecan no longer offer the level of placement services that ourstudentsandtheiremployersdeserve. Hence, we are reluctantly following the lead of Berkeley and other schools andareaskingvoluntarycontributions fromfirmswithtenormorelawyerswhowishtouse our facilities during the fall interview season. The added income will enable us to hire additional personnel and acquire the computing equipment badly needed to make the office more efficient.
ThebestnewsoftheyearwastheselectionofSusan WesterbergPragertobeournewdean. Sheisastrong administrator with great talent for dealing with human concerns. We are most fortunate to have her to leadus over the comingyear. Iwish I could hand the law school over to her in better financial shape, but, withyourcontinuedhelp,wewillsurvive,somehow, and perhaps even excel.
William D. Warren Dean
Susan Westerberg Prager: The School's New Dean
by Ted Hulbert
he day after Susan Westerberg Prager was appointed Dean of the UCLA School of Law, the front page of the Los Angeles Daily Journal was taped to a wall in the school mailroom.
Someone had outlined in red the articleaboutthe new dean, addingtoit thiscomment: "Susan: We love you."
That simple declaration seemed an accurate summary of the law school community's response to the news that Professor Prager had been chosen to become the school's fifth dean.
It was obvious that the search committee, the Chancellor, and the Regents all in turn had made exactly the right decision in selecting a dean. The decision met with a clear consensus of approval among students, faculty and staff, and alumni. There was an air of celebration in the law school corridors on the day when Chancellor Charles E. Young and Dean William D. Warren announced the appointment.
The fact that a law dean's appointment has evoked such a large measure of personal response is interestingtoanalyze. Itcanbe explainedpartially bysomeof the exceptional aspects of this appointment in particular.
Susan Westerberg Prager, when she takes office on July 1, will be the first woman to become Dean of the
UCLASchoolofLaw. Sheis also the firstwomantobe selected dean of any law school in the University of California system, and one of only two women in the nation who will be serving as deans of major law schools. At 39, she will be one of the youngest law deans in UCLA'shistory. (RichardMaxwell was afew months younger when he became dean.) She is the first alumnus ever appointed Dean of the UCLA School of Law.
Those are all noteworthy facts, and the stuff of which news is made. And yet those facts by themselves give only a fragmentary explanation of why Dean Prager's appointment resulted in such a widely favorable response.
The explanation can be found more precisely in Prager's qualities as a law professor at UCLA since 1972, inherstatureofleadership since 1979when she became Associate Dean of the School, and in her achievements as a legal scholar.
Students in Professor Prager'scommunityproperty and family law classes, when asked to describe her classroom style, say that she is a gifted teacher, one with an unusual ability to present specific issues in the wholeness of their contexts. In the classroom, Prager never loses contact with students. She is always human.
Dean Warren commented on Prager's three years as
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the school's associate dean: "She has demonstrated strong leadership abilities and a rare sensitivity to human concerns. She will be a dean who has much to contribute to students, faculty, and alumni of the law school."
Chancellor Young, noting UCLA's clear rank among the nation's leading law schools, told an alumni gathering recently that Dean Prager "will provide the leadership to carry the school forward and to provide continued quality."
Susan Prager's colleagues agree that among her strong points are an ability to see issues in their totality and a constant concern to keep sight of the human dimensions in any situation. Those attributes will be greatly needed as she leads the school through a complex set of problems.
While the law school in 1982 ranks among the top nationally, it also faces severe pressures. Budgetary cutbacks, growing demands for admissions, and overcrowded facilities are some of the problems.
Dean Prager comes right to the point on these issues:
Admissions-"There is a direct relationship between our increased national reputation and the increased pressures upon our admissions process. I believe those pressures will get greater and greater. With more and more highly qualified applicants from all sections of the nation, our need is to make sure that we have a fair and adequate admissions policy. Our diversity program will help to insure that we have a diverse student body. Our minority alumni are going to be called upon to play very significant roles in their lifetimes as lawyers and community leaders. The demands upon them are so great, andthe directions in whichthey can go are so many. Already, we are seeing that this is true."
Educational change-"! think we will see significant changes in the curriculum as the result of what we've learned through clinical education. Some faculty members who did not begin as clinical teachers are adopting this methodology of teaching lawyering skills in a particular substantive context. What will happen, I think, is much more interchange between clinical teaching and traditional law teaching. We will see more focus on the attorney/client relationship, and that is exciting because students will see in their education what is it they are trying to achieve later in their professional lives."
The law building-"Our facility is inadequate. A law building addition is the Chancellor's number one priority for academic construction on the campus. The plan is for an eastward expansion of the library, and an expansion at thenorthwest endof the building toward Dodd Hall for faculty offices and clinical
teaching space. In the interim, we will gain more space in Dodd Hall."
The law library-"Ours is a young library compared to other law libraries. It is a heavily used library. One of my priorities is to improve the library collection and the library facility. This is an area where UCLA is lagging behind the other great law schools. The help of alumni is very important to us in improving the library."
Student fees-"Fee increases are inevitable. The University will meet its budgetary problems through a combination of measures. One way will be to ask students for more of a contribution, and another will be to increase private support. In raising studentfees, we must be careful to see that students in need are supported through loan programs while they are in school."
Budget trouble-"The school's reputation is built upon the faculty. Our ability to keep faculty and to add good people is the key to maintaining and improving the school. We are worried not only about faculty salaries, but about secretarial and other support staff; this year's freeze on support staff has affected thefaculty. It is essential that weincreaseour alumni support program enough to keep up the level of support for the faculty."
Placement costs-"We must ask users of the placement office to begin contributing in the Fall season to the placement program expense. Those contributions will fund a significant part of the office, andwill enable usto improve the program. Placement offices at Boalt Hall and Columbia have been funding their programs in this way for a number of years."
Too narrow a focus on any one of those issues will result in a distorted image of the law school. Susan Prager prefers looking at issues in their wholeness. Her own scholarship emphasizes legal issues seen in the context of people's whole lives; that emphasis results partly from the human nature of issues involved in community property and family law.
But Professor Prager disclaims that her scholarly disposition is unique. "A large number of our faculty are wide in their interests, and that is what makes a great law faculty. Someone, for instance, like a Ben Aaron, who has had immense impact on the field of laborlaw. Or KenKarst,whosescholarship has grown and focused on some very large problems such as constitutional law and personal relationships. Dean Warren's work, his contributions to the law affecting consumers, although it has highly technical aspects, also has that broader context. That's what really makes good legal scholarship."
At first glance, observes Prager, her scholarship in community property may seem uniquely "human"
In the 1960s, as an undergraduate and graduate student inhistoryat Stanford,shewaswarnedthat a woman didn't belong in law school.She sensed that was bad advice.She knew also that "in becoming a lawyer, I wanted to work with the problems of individualpeople rather thanlargeentities.Asa law student, I wanted to work with things that touch people in a personal, almost private sense. That is howthisinterestofminegrew.Itwaswell-formedby the time I left law school."
AmemberoftheClassof 1971,Pragerwaseditor-inchief ofthe UCLA Law Review. Inher secondyear of law school,shepublished in the lawreviewin 1970 an analysis of California's 1969 Family Law Act, reform legislation which eliminated the notion of fault from divorce law. While that act made the "major contribution of truly making marital dissolutionamorehonestandrationalevent,"shefoundthat thenewlawwas"tooambiguoustobethemodelnonfault divorce statute."
,, .... because it does focus on individuals and their personal feelings. "But that," she says, "is only a product of the field I have chosen to work in."
Law review articles and book chapters by Prager throughout the 1970s reflected a legal scholarship rooted in her training as a historian.One major work traced separate property concepts in California's community property system since 1849.
In a 1977 article on "Sharing Principles and the Future of Marital Property Law," Professor Prager argued that the debate over marital property policy "hasbecomedistortedbythefocusonequality," and she suggested that "sharing behavior in marital relationships . operates independent of equality concerns.''
Based on the wholeness of human relationships, Prager concluded that "sharing theories should prevail, because they reflect and reinforce commonly held expectations of sharing which grow out of fundamental characteristics of marriage and marriage-like relationships."
AsmileflashesacrossherfaceasPragerrespondsto a question about that article."People really like it," she says, "or else they think it is justawful.People respond to this subject based on their own experiences.''
Eveninaworld freeofsexdiscrimination,"sharing theories are likely to be appropriate" in marital propertylaw,Pragerwroteinanessaypublishedthis yearin Rethinking the Family: SomeFeminist Questions,a text intended to helpcollege students clarify some of life's big issues.
Tracing the two distinct systems of American marital property law,one based on sharing and the
otheronindividualism,Pragerobservedinthatbook: "In marriage, most of us seek an alliance with another individual who will believe in us; who will be loyal to us; who will help us function in a demanding, often hostile world; and who will help makelifesatisfying.Inexchangewewill trytodothe same The expectation of stability and continuity and the desire for a shared life suggest that married people are unlikely to make decisions on an individually oriented basis Individualism can still be recognizedby preservingsuch choices as the right to divorce, but reliance interests formed during the functioning marriage ought to be protected in the marital property laws."
Writingthusinafeministworkmadeheressay"by far the most conservative piece in that book," Prager says."Iamhappy Iwrotethatarticle; itisonewhich students seem to like to read."
ExcitementabouteducatingstudentsisacharacteristicPragertheme.Inherownscholarship,therecent years "have been a time of incredible interest." That is no accident, since interest in the field peaks wheneverthereisaperiodofconcernaboutthestatus of women. "This has been a time of very exciting interest in the field," Prager observes. She and Professor Grace Ganz Blumberg are now collaborating on a case book on California Marital Property Law, to be published by Little, Brown & Co.
In the ten years since she joined the UCLA law faculty,Prager has given leadership to numerous legal education programs, university and community service efforts, and professional and governmental agencies.
She is on the executive committee of the AssociationofAmericanLawSchools.Sheservedasatrustee ofStanfordUniversity,andisontheadvisorycouncil of Stanford's School of Education. Within the University of California,Pragerhas served on the UCLA GraduateCouncil andoncommitteesresponsiblefor continuing education, mental health services, and building construction programs.
Dean Prager is married to Jim Prager, also a 1971 alumnusoftheSchoolofLaw.Heisvicepresidentfor corporate development and general counsel of Six FlagsCorporation.Theyaretheparentsofadaughter, McKinley.
The bonds of familyprovidea metaphor for Susan Prager's concept of lawschool administration."I see myroleintuitivelyastryingtoencourageandsupport this very big family-the many fine members of our faculty,staff,and the students.I think the congenial spirit of our faculty,balanced by high standards and criticism,is extraordinary.It is a spirit tobe guarded and encouraged." D
The Litigators
by Paul Bernstein
harles Vogel '59, a litigator with Sidley & Austin, likes to tell the story of the policeman in Central Park who observes a man throwing bread crumbs on the sidewalk.
"Ifyoureadthesign, sir, itsays, 'Do not feed the pigeons,'" says the policeman.
'Tm not feeding the pigeons," says the man, summoning indignation. 'Tm feeding the sparrows. And I can't help it if the pigeons are horning in."
To which the policeman can only shake his head and mumble the familiar refrain: "Everybody's a lawyer."
Eminences as gray as Chief Justice Warren Burger have been joining in on the refrain of late, pointing out that we have more lawyers per capita than any country in theworld while our law schools continue toproducemoreandsuggestingthatperhapsthetime has come to levy penalties on lawyers who insist on pressing "truly frivolous" cases.
A sampling of top litigators from the list of UCLA SchoolofLawalumni findslittle argument that there istoo much litigation, some of it frivolous. But six of the nine represented here consider themselves commercial litigators, and find that field remarkably free of the excesses noted elsewhere. One reason is its complexity
"It's hard for me to imagine how a judge or jury couldunderstandinsixtotenweeksallthedetailsof how a digital computer is constructed and how the industryworksandwhattheeconomiceffectsareofa particular move," says Thomas McDermott '58, a litigator with Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard & Quinn who managed to learn all that himself while preparing to try a massive case in the late 1960s involving computersystemdesign. "Afteryou'vebeenworking onthecaseforthreeyears, youand thelawyerforthe othersideknow more aboutthecasethananyhuman being is ever going to know. So if you can't settle it,
there's either something wrong with the lawyers or there's something wrong with the client or there's someprinciple atissuethathastoberesolvedorit'sa very, very close question. And even close questions can be resolved and compromised. I think that most good commercial litigators get their cases settled. They do it because both sides clearly understand the risks involved and arrive at a figure that is a reasonable compromise."
The intricacies are what make commercial litigation a challenge for McDermott, a past president of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. For instance, he currently represents a developer of large, independent communities in several consumer protection cases, for which he has had to delve deeply into the law of municipal finance and organization. He represented the Retail Clerks International Associationinanefforttoplace Washington'slocal770, then the largest local union in the country, in a receivership, a case he remembers for its complexity.
McDermott spends most of his time on motions, depositions, document production, and structuring of litigation and settlements.
"Icould notfunctionwithoutwhatIlearnedinlaw school," he says. "At leastwhenI wentto lawschool, I thought it was taught just the way it ought to be taught."
Occasionally he wishes he could be in trial more often. "You're sort of betwixt and between," he says, not too wistfully. "Onone side yousay, 'Sure, I'dlike to have more trials.' But would I really be doing the jobI'm supposedtoifIhadalotoftrials? Theanswer to that is no, absolutely not. To resolve a case and settleitfairlyshould, inmyopinion, betheaimofthe commercial litigator."
Paul Bernstein, a free-lance journalist, has written for The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, New West, and other periodicals.
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Commercial litigators get to trial so seldom that some do not even consider themselves trial lawyers. Says Marsha McLean-Utley '64, a litigator with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the incoming president of theAssociation of Business TrialLawyers, "Ithink we are a different breed than lawyers who do a lot of personal injury work, and their recognition of that is that they have formed their own association." As one of six partners working on six distinct issues of Memorex v. IBM, which lasted six months, McLeanUtley became a computer authority; while working on litigation that grew out of the Baldwin Hills dam disaster several years ago, she had to learn a great deal about oil drilling and geology.
It's not just sweet dispositions that enable commercial litigators to settle more often than litigators in general. "In a commercial business entity," explains McLean-Utley, "management quickly realizes that it is not just the attorney fees they're spending. A great many of their employees and management people are spending their time on litigation to the exclusion of
managing the business and making a profit. So they are much more inclined to concentrate on attempting toresolve their strengths andweaknesses andachieve a compromise so they can go back to doing the business they're best qualified for. For a plaintiff in a personal injury action, it's more and more difficult to achieve a settlement because everybody is looking at that possible $4 million punitive damage."
McLean-Utley suggests that commercial litigators have learned one thing thatmighthelpother litigators settle more often-"making sure the client is aware not only of the strength in his case but of the weaknesses, from the beginning, and making sure the client is aware of the risks.
"I think law school gave us all the requisite processes to get prepared, but it's important to have some on-line experience in the fundamentals of trial procedure," she says.
After graduating from UCLA School of Law, McLean-Utley spent a year as a swing clerk for Justices Roger Traynor and Matthew Tobriner of the
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California Supreme Court. Thereshesawthegenesis of a philosophical shift that has had widespread ramifications. "I thought Tobriner was one of the finest men I ever had the privilege of knowing and Traynor was also a very serious jurist. Tobriner was very warm, very compassionate, had a great heart, a greatfeelingforpeoplewhowerelessadvantagedand believed that those in society who had advantages owed an obligation to the less advantaged. Matthew Tobriner was a very strong believer that one of the functionsofthejudicialsystemwastoprovideremedies for persons who had suffered losses. Spreading the risk is an old tort concept, but now we're seeing more and more causes of action being developed. As a practicing lawyer, I am distressed to find that legal principles which I believe had substantial policy reasonsfor their initial creation and enforcement for manyyears arebeing whittledaway outofadesireto enlarge and provide greater vehicles for recovery."
Charles Vogel has also seen litigation from both sides of the rail. As a Municipal Court judge in
Pomona and a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles with a tour of duty on the Court of Appeal, he wrote the opinions in the Onion Field and Manson-Tate-La Bianca cases. Now back in private practice for five years, he finds the advantages to a practicing lawyer of having served on the bench exaggerated. "I think it's believed to be a greater advantage than it is. You have some insight into what it is the judges are looking for, althoughI know of lawyers who seem to have obtained that insight without ever having been on the bench."
In 1977, he left the Superior Court to join Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh-and, within fiveweeks, was in court on a highly publicized challenge to California's usury laws, later made moot by the passage of Proposition 2. While with that firm, he successfully defended Judge Paul Egly against an attempt by Bustop to disqualify him in the Crawford case and became involved in a number of environmental litigation cases. He joined Sidley & Austin in 1980, and there continues to pursue his environmental
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interestsaswellasparticipateintheirentertainment law work.
"AsIlistentomyself,I'vehadafairlyeclectickind of practice," Vogel reflects, in a deliberative, nononsensestylethatmusthaveterrorizedunprepared lawyers when he was a judge. "I seem to have followedapatternthatIhadonthebench,whichwasto have the opportunity-which I think really makes the law an exciting career-of learning something about a lot of things. I guess that's contrary to the contemporary view of what lawyers should be doing-specializing."
Fresh out of UCLA School of Law in 1955, Vogel quickly discovered what his books on evidence had left out. Inhis firstcase, hewent totrialnotknowing that the prosecutor had a signed confessionfrom his client to a charge of oral copulation. Unfazedby this slightsetback, Vogel beganto callhiswitnesses-an illumination engineer, an ophthalmologist, and a meteorologist-and argued that, under the lighting and weather conditions present when the crime oc-
curred,thearrestingofficercouldnothaveseenwhat he said he saw. The juryvoted 11-1 for acquittal and the district attorney dismissed the case. But Vogel found, after paying his expert witnesses for their time, thathehadlearnedanothervaluablelesson. He had used up his entirefee on the witnesses.
William Vaughn '55, a litigator with O'Melveny & Myers, had a similar learning experience in assembling evidence. While working his way through law school as a private investigator, he was assigned to investigate anaccident in which a worker fell into a supposedly unbarricaded hole on government property. The worker claims the accident had occurredat night, thattheareawasimproperlylighted, and that his attention was distracted by a baseball game on the adjacent field. The enterprising young Vaughn made a few phone calls and discovered that the baseball field had no lights. He rushed into the boss'soffice toannouncethathe hadbroken the case open, that the accident could not have occurred at nightifthemanwaswatchingabaseballgameonthe
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unlighted field.
"Who gave you the information?" asked the boss.
"Some guy up there I talked to at the Air Force base," answered Vaughn.
"Well, how are you going to prove it in a courtroom?" Says Vaughn, now older and wiser, "I stopped and I realized immediately that you have to have the names of witnesses and you have to be able to establish the circumstances. It was a bitter lesson."
He credits his experience as a private investigator with teaching him how to assemble evidence, and laments the fact that many law students today deny themselves that kind of training. "That's the way the game is played today. Law students look for summer jobs in the hope of attracting attention for ultimate employment. It wasn't the case back then."
A full bookcase in Vaughn's downtown office is filled with transcripts of the 100-day trial he conducted in Transamerica Computer Co. v. IBM, now in appeal. At the end of seven months in San Francisco federal court, representing IBM, Vaughn says he had
determined once and for all his physical and intellectual limits. Those limits have also been tested on behalf of CBS, when the Smothers Brothers sued (unsuccessfully) over cancellation of their television show Vaughn has been with O'Melveny & Myers since he graduated from law school, with the exception of a stint in the Army. (His draft notice and the notice that he had passed the bar arrived in the same mail; "I went out and got very drunk, and to this day I don't know what the principal motivating force was.") He describes his original job interview with O'Melveny & Myers as "love at first sight," an evaluation that has not apparently dimmed. "One of the things I like about the practice of law here is that basically all of us who do litigation feel that the fundamental skill is advocacy and that it can be applied in many different areas."
Benjamin E. "Tom" King '56, a litigator with Buchalter, Nemer, Fields, Chrystie & Younger, has also applied his advocacy skills in many different areas of commercial litigation, including unfair competition,
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trade secrets, computer technology, fraud, defaulted loans, and eminent domain. In his spare time, he has written articles on travel and the outdoors for such publications as Travel, Sport, Summit, and Carte Blanche, as well as a book on mountaineering, In the Shadow of the Giants, published last year. He is currently at work on a mountaineering accident case he thinks may be the first such case ever brought in this country by one private party against another (as opposed to a landowner, a school, or a manufacturer). His client is accused of causing injury to the plaintiff by knocking a rock loose.
Though King, partly because of congested courts, no longer tries even the six cases ayearhe used to, he concedes that the country is litigation-happy. "This town is litigation-happy. They have causes of action now that probably scarcely existed when we were in law school. Class actions, securities act violations, product liability have been extended over the years. Plus, in a large city, you have the naturaltendency of, 'To hell with you, I'll sue you!' I'm not saying it's
wrong, but it's happened. In Japan, as I understand it, they don't have too many lawyers and it's traditional not to litigate your disputes. I think they stick to their agreements. I think they consider it somewhat of an embarrassment to have to litigate their disputes, whereas here it's no embarrassment at all. I think lawyers have an obligation, which we sometimes default on, not to file cases that don't belong. But who's to judge that? A big city like Los Angeles tends to be not founded so much on traditional values. There's a lot of new people coming through and people moving, so there's no particular inhibition about suing your neighbor, because you don't know your neighbor."
The big city of Los Angeles has the entertainment industry to keeplitigatorslike Kenneth Kulzickbusy. Kulzick '56, a litigator with Lillick, McHose & Charles, is a retained West Coast counsel for ABC. He is currently representing both NBC (in a suit brought by Wayne Newton against the NBC Nightly News for defamation) and CBS (in a suit brought by Lawrence
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University against 60 Minutes for defamation and trade libel). For 14 years, he has screened Rona Barrett's broadcasts before they aired and says that the only times she has been sued he was-fortunately or unfortunately-out of town. He did the legal clearances for Stanley Kramer's Judgment series, for Attica, and for Friendly Fire. And he currently represents Lucasfilm in a lawsuit involving Raiders ofthe Lost Ark.
Show biz has clearly rubbed off on Kulzick. "You got me at a bad time," he moans, without evident anguish. "Thefirsttimein25yearsI'velostapreliminary injunction." The preliminary injunction prohibited further showing of the film Great White because of the "significant likelihood" that it would be perceived as "substantially similar" to Jaws, but Kulzick had his comeback all ready for the press: "It was a definite case of overbite." In his office is a videotape machine and a bookcase full of tapesfrom ABC. The current attraction is a videotaped deposition from an underworldfigure Kulzick made for an
upcomingtrial. "Ifyouwriteanything,"saysKulzick, "beabsolutelycertainmywifePatricia-thatbeautiful redhead over on the bureau-gets full credit."
Leaning back in his chair and pointing toa plaque from last year's First Amendment Congress in Philadelphia and Williamsburg, he says, "I am what they call basically a First Amendment lawyer. I have been for 20 years representing what I consider to be freedom of expression-thatis, going against people who attempt to narrow rights of expression."
Florentino Garza '56, of San Bernardino, hasmade no efforts to limit his interests. A member of the International Academy of Trial Advocates, he does tortlitigation, probateandwillcontests, waterandair pollution, contested elections, products liability, medicalmalpractice, andpersonalinjury. Whilepersonal injury makes up 75 percent of his practice, he has also served since 1976 as special counsel for the state ofTexastodetermine, fortaxpurposes, Howard Hughes' domicile at the time of his death. He represents a San Bernardino city councilman who won
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election three years ago as a write-in candidate by a margin of three votes, had five votes deducted by a court challenge, and is now pulling out all the stops to reverse that decision. In the meantime, the candidate has almost finished serving his four-year term, but Garza believes important questions about the use of absentee ballots warrant pressing for a full resolution. Last year, Garza's name was prominently mentioned for nomination to the California Supreme Court.
But it's personal injury that Garza still finds most interesting. "It has certain rewards, not only financial, but really it's a reward of satisfaction when you find that the economic life of an injured party is more secure by virtue of your services." The cases he handles are not repetitive fenderbenders, he says. "The tort area of the casualty field is as broad as you can stretch it."
Some, like the nation's Chief Justice, suggest that field has been stretched too far. "I disagree," says Garza. "I think a measure of any civilized society is the way the laws take care of injured and disabled
people. That is not tosaythateveryone who is injured is automatically entitled to recover. But it means that if there is a legitimate basis under our law to incur recovery based upon culpable conduct or, as in product liability, a corporation placing defective products in the stream of commerce which injure a user, I think there is a logic, I think there is a justice in seeing that the injured party be properly-not unreasonably, but properly-compensated."
When asked about his big cases, he does not assign them dollar values, but rather cites two that had socially significant outcomes. In one, he won "modest" damages for his client and an abatement order from the attorney general to clean up an environmental disaster in Barstow. In another, he won compensation for a young woman left paraplegic in an accident; the woman went on to become director of the cardiac department at a Los Angeles hospital.
Lee Wenzel '57, a founding partner of Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas, has, until recently, been on the other side of personal injury cases, as a defense
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lawyer. Now, however, his practice includes plaintiff work as well. "I like to try plaintiffs' cases," says Wenzel. "They keep you on your toes. Both my partner and I have been criticized by the insurance industry [for doing both]. Perhaps there are some companies that would not retain us on thetheory that we don't have their best interests at heart. But now people are a little more philosophical."
Such criticism has not kept insurance companies from providing the bulk of Wenzel's work, along with most of the big drug companies, Remington Arms, and General Telephone. Wenzel has five lawyers working full time just on discovery for an asbestos case involving the Armstrong Corporation and another four on litigation arising from the fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. He is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and a past president of the American Board of Trial Advocates. As an alumni representative on the University of California Board of Regents, he devoted as much as 40 percent of his time to University affairs.
Wenzel describes his courtroom style as sincere and low-key, though he will admit to some theatrics like facial nuances and an effort to "emote." "As a rule, I am cordial to my opponents and their clients. Some of the nastiest lawyers in town are some of the most respected. That's not my style." Nor is it his style to flaunt his big verdicts. "You go into some lawyers' offices, they'll have a picture of a big check. I've never done that. It is a barometer, but I've lost some big cases and I'm not ashamed of it. You find a lawyer who's never lost a case and he's probably not taking the hard ones. I'd rather try a hard case than one that's a slam dunk."
Alan Halkett '61, a litigator with Latham & Watkins, disagrees with some of his colleagues in commercial litigation that the field is immune to excesses. "I think there is far too much litigation. And I think it's true in the commercial field as well. The stockholder invests $50 a share in a hundred shares and five years later they're worth $10 a share so somebody ought to pay for it. I don't mean there are not legitimate instances
Alan Halkett '61
where stockholders have been fleeced, but I do believethere arecertain risks that areinherentinit and if you are unsuccessful iri a business venture, sometimes you say, 'That's the way it goes.' Everybody seems to thinkthere'sareason whytheyfailedor lost money."
He does feel, however, that making a distinction between the terms "litigation" and "trial" might clarify the process of resolving disputes. "There is perhaps a common conception that litigation and trial are the same thing. They are not. The litigation process itself, short of trial, is part of a legal process which leads towards the resolution of disputes. And that process is an interesting and somewhat convoluted one. The litigator's role very often is to examine the dispute, dissect the dispute, and give to both sides a more objective view and sometimes an imaginative solution to the dispute."
Apast presidentoftheUCLALawAlumniAssociation and a member of the Chancery Club in Los Angeles, Halkett specializes in such commercial liti-
gation as securities, mergers, and takeovers. He recently represented the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation in litigation arising from their takeover of Fidelity Savings and Loan in the San Francisco area. He represented Continental Airlines in their takeover bid for Texas International and PSA in their takeover of Valhi. He spent ten months in Federal District Court in Los Angeles representing Capitol Recordsinwhathethinkswas "thefirststockholders' open market purchaser class action case ever tried." Can litigation skills betaught? Halkett thinks more emphasisoncommunicationandadvocacy skills-a problemhesaysstartslongbeforelawschool-could help. But there are some aspects of litigation only experience can teach, primary among them the acquisitionofathickskin. "Therearesome people who takevery seriouslyany rebuke. Ifyoucan't walk away from the courthouse and forget it, you cannot live in the environment oflitigation." That, he says, is something no law school can anticipate. D
FoundersPaceSchoolSupport
he Founders, a new donor group which is setting the pace for the School of Law's support program in response to an urgent need for increased private support, already has enrolled more than 80 memberswith a goal of 200 charter members before the year ends.
Each member of The Foundersiscommitted to give $10,000, payable at $1,000 or more annually.
By the beginning of June, 82 alumni and friends had joined The Founders in this 1982 charter year. The names of all charter members by December 31, 1982, will appear on a large copper plaque which will be mounted permanently at the entrance of the law building's main corridor-a constant reminder that private support is vital to the school's daily operation.
Individual certificates expressing gratitude to each Founder will be presented at a gala recognition event in July
Marvin Jubas '54 and Ralph Shapiro '58 recently commented on the progress which this new program is achieving to meet the school's critical need for operating funds this year.
Jubas chairs The Founders, and he serves with Shapiro as co-chair of the Dean's Fund Advisory Council, a network of volunteers encouraging support at all levels.
"While we now have more than 80 members of The Founders," said Jubas, "we can also take pride in the fact that the amount of total dollars raised by the end of May is $260,000, compared to $173,000 at the same time last year."
Dean William D. Warren, appealing to all alumni for support at this time, said: "We need your support now more than ever in these difficult times of budget
cuts in order to maintain our basic program."
Jubas noted that he and other volunteers who are seeking 200 Founders this calendar year have established what is actually "a modest goal," given the fact that the school has some 6,000 alumni.
Moreover, he said, since each Founder's commitment of $10,000 "can be paid over a 10-year period, it assures the dean a constant base of funds to depend upon."
The commitment of each Founder, Jubas said, "is an act of leadership, showing the way for other alumni to increase their level of giving.
"We have in some 30 years created one of the finest law schools in the nation. The UCLA School of Law is something in whichalumni take greatpride. We who have had the advantage of a nearly free education at UCLA want to help underwrite the future of the school," Jubas said.
Ralph Shapiro made this observation: "Once alumni are aware of the urgent unmet needs of the school, many of us are pleased to respond.
"The Founders program is a tangible way in which alumni can participate in the school in a larger sense. It is an important part of our goal to involve more alumni in giving at all levels."
In addition to The Founders, there are three other major support groups: James H. Chadbourn Fellows, Dean's Advocates, and Dean's Counsel.
The names of all contributors to these support groups will be published in the next issue of UCLA Law.
The names of charter members of The Founders whose gifts hadbeen received through the first ofJune are listed here by their years.
Please contact Karen Stone at (213) 825-3041 for details on membership in The Founders or other support groups.
TheFounders-ThroughJune 1, 1982
1952
Greenberg, Arthur N.
Hanna, Richard T.
1959
Claman, Stephen
Roney, John H.
Hemmerling, Geraldine S. Vogel, Charles S.
1967
Garcetti, Gilbert I.
Josephson, Michael S.
Udko, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ziffren, Lester Wells, Paul B.
1953
Zubieta, Charles A.
1954
1960
Berke, Rodney M.
Boyle, Barbara Dorman
1968
Ross, Leonard M.
1969
Spence, Art Horn, Martin R. Brickner, Sanford
Weston, John H. Juhas, Marvin
Locke, Martin S.
Memel, Sherwin L.
Pettitt, Mr. & Mrs. Roger C.
1955
Byrnes, John S. Jr.
Cohen, Martin
De Castro, Isabel & Hugo D.
Fimberg, Stanley R.
Glickman, Albert B.
Kolod, Leonard
Price, David Glyn
1970
Brittenham, Skip
Chenen, Arthur R.
Friedman, Ellen B.
1971
Karton, David S. "
Halper, Samuel W.
Lasker, Edward
1961
Halkett, Alan N.
1972
Barnes, Curtis 0. Simon, David Steinman, Henry
Glickfeld, Bruce S. Wein, Joseph A.
1956
Calfas, John A.
King, Benjamin E.
1962
Castro, Leonard E.
Freeman, Barry V.
King, Stephen Scott
Lewin, Robert S.
1973
Graham, William W.
McCambridge, George R. Miller, Milton Louis
1958
Dicker, Robert L.
Fischer, B. D.
Gage, Sanford M.
Greenberg, Bernard A.
Saltzburg, Henley
1963
Hoy, David R.
Murphy, Michael M.
Simon, Kenneth M.
1964
Milken, Lowell J.
Palomo, Raul
Sabih, David S.
Wallace, Kirk
1974
Epstein, Buddy Kranitz, Ephraim P.
*Dennis, Morris
Revitz, Steven J. Leydorf, Fred L.
Shapiro, Ralph J.
Ruben, Robert M.
Sperber, David S.
1975
McKinsey, Brenda Powers Silverberg, Lewis H.
Soll, Arthur
Trachman, Lester E.
Wigmore, John Grant
1965
Bard, Norman R.
Bitting, William M.
*Dennis, Cindy
Jones, Stanley R.
Tonkovich, E. Paul
Ziffren, Kenneth
1976
Hoffman, Paul Gordon
*Joint Gift
The Faculty
Benjamin Aaron was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University School of Law in Canberra, Australia, from September through December of 1981. To be published later this year is his comparative study of Australian and U.S. laws regulating union internal affairs, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
His recent publications include an essay, "The Ownership of Jobs: Observations on the American Experience," in Job Equity and Other Studies in Industrial Relations, Essays in Honor of Frederic Meyers (Institute of Industrial Relations, 1982), and a chapter "Settlement of Disputes Over Rights," in Handbook for International and Comparative Labour Law-Industrial Relations scheduled for publication in September by Kluwer; The Netherlands.
Professor Aaron is chairman of the U.S. national branch of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security, and he is principally responsible for the society's Tenth International Congress in Washington, D.C., this September
He is editor-in-chief of Comparative Labor Law.
During Spring of 1981, he concluded his year as full-time chairman of the University's Statewide Academic Senate.
On May 8, 1982, he delivered the 34th annual John Randolph Tucker Lecture at the School of Law, Washington & Lee University, on "Labor Relations Law in the United States from a Comparative Perspective."
Professor Aaron received the American Arbitration Association's Distinguished Service Award in June, 1981.
Richard L. Abel edited The Politics of Informal Justice; Volume 1, The American Experience, and Volume 2, Comparative Studies, published by Academic Press in 1982. He wrote "The Contradictions of Informal Justice" in the first volume.
Professor Abel's other articles include "Why Does the ABA Promulgate Ethical Rules?" 59 Texas Law Review
639 (1981), "Law in Context, the Sociology of Legal Institutions, Litigation in Society," in Robin Luckham (ed.), Law and Social Enquiry, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1981, and "The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming...," 15 Law & Society Review 631 (1981), with William Felstiner and Austin Sarat.
He attended a conference on legal pluralism and contemporary folk at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, in September of 1981.
Professor Abel is acting president of the ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Law, which met in September of 1981 at Oxford.
Norman Abrams has co-authored, with U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein and Professors John Mansfield and Margaret Berger, the seventh edition of Maguire, Weinstein, Chadbourn, and Mansfield, Evidence-Cases and Materials.
Professor Abrams has completed an edition of his casebook, Federal Criminal Law Enforcement-Cases and Materials.
Alison G. Anderson's article entitled "Fraud, Fiduciaries and Insider Trading" will be published in Volume 10, Number 2, Hofstra Law Review.
She delivered a presentation on "Developments in Rule 106-5" at the 13th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation (PLI) in November, 1981, in New York City.
Michael R. Asimow wrote "When the Curtain Falls: Separation of Functions in the Federal Administrative Agencies," 81 Columbia Law Review 759.
He collaborated with Boris Bittker and others on "Federal Taxation of Income, Estates and Gifts" (Warren, Gorham & Lamont) which was published in 1981.
His article "Delegated Legislation: United States and United Kingdom," was submitted for publication in
England.
Professor Asimow gave lectures on "Solving Marriage Dissolution Tax Problems" in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. He also spoke on "Section 83: A Tale of Four Restrictions" at the Beverly Hills Bar Association Employee Compensation Conference. This paper was published in 15 Beverly HiJJs Bar Association Journal 543 (1981).
He was elected professor of the year and delivered the School of Law graduation address last Spring.
Gary O. Concoff lectured at an American Film Institute seminar in Washington, D.C., in March. He addressed an entertainment law seminar in conjunction with the Canadian Film Festival in Toronto in October, and served on the advisory committee of the UCLA Entertainment Symposium.
Jesse J. Dukeminier published with James E. Krier Property (Little, Brown) in June, 1981.
He has been serving as a consultant to the California Law Revision Commission on revision of probate and property law in California.
In June he will chair a panel on the goals of the property course at the AALS meeting of property teachers in Charlottesville, Virginia.
As a result of the 1981 changes in estate and gift tax laws, he is at work on the third edition of Family Wealth Transactions.
He was honored at the School of Law on April 13 by being presented the 1981-82 William A. Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Charles M. Firestone is vice chairman of the ABA Section on Science and Technology, Communications Subcommittee, and is organizing and chairing a panel for August 7, 1982, at the annual ABA Convention on the legalities of owning your own satellite antenna.
He won a Court of Appeals decision in Gottfried v FCC, which questioned the FCC's policy regarding rights of the deaf in TV service.
Firestone testified before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance on "Diversity in the Electronic Information Marketplace" for a rewrite of Title II of the Communications Act.
He coordinated and moderated a
series of three colloquia entitled "Privacy and Democracy in 1984: A Humanistic View of the New Communications Technologies."
He was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Media Law and Practice (London, England).
Professor Firestone has spoken at numerous conferences on telecommunications policy, including the UC San Diego Annual Earl Warren Symposium on Science, the Law of Property and Cable Television.
Donald G. Hagman has enjoyed teaching Property in the Spring semester, the first time he has taught first year students since 1966.
He organized a conference at the School on "Born Again Special Assess-
ments and Other Creative Public and Development Finance Techniques."
Professor Hagman has organized or spoken at a number of other continuing education programs and conferences. His colleagues are considering nominating him as "Bureaucracy Buster of the Year" for the successful conclusion of his two-year fight to secure a key from University Plant and Services to a law school janitor's closet, wherein a shower for staff joggers has been installed.
Paul G. Hoffman has published "Salary-Continuation Plans" in 27 Taxation for Accountants 88 (1981) and 9 Taxation for Lawyers 376 (1981).
He has given numerous speeches including "Estate Planning for Execu-
tives" at the 12th Annual Employee Benefits Institute (PLI), a seminar on "Estate Planning Consequences or Deferred Compensation" at the 34th Annual Institute on Federal Taxation (USC), and "New Tax Avoidance Schemes for Businesses" at the National Tax Advisors Association.
He also spoke on "Personal Tax and Financial Planning for Professionals" for a CEB panel, on "Distribution from Qualified Plans After ERTA" at the 34th Annual Forum (TI), and on "Estate Planning for Deferred Compensation" for the Los Angeles County Bar Employee Benefits Section.
Edgar A. Jones is serving as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators for 1981-1982.
He delivered the keynote address on "Arbitration in the Eighties" at the annual Arbitration Day of the American Arbitration Association in Los Angeles. Professor Jones will deliver the presidential address titled "His Own Brand of Industrial Justice" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Arbitrators in Washington, D.C., May 25-28, 1982.
He will be lecturing on "Decisional Thinking of Labor Arbitrators" at the annual Southwestern Legal Foundation short labor law course in Dallas.
Kenneth L. Karst lectured on "Constitutional Equality and the Role of the Judiciary" in the Tocqueville Forum at Wake Forest University, WinstonSalem, N.C., in March.
He is associate editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (editor: Leonard W. Levy, Claremont Graduate School), which is scheduled for publication in 1987.
James E. Krier delivered a paper at the law and economics workshop of Emory Law School in February, and attended a conference on cost-benefit analysis given by the Emory Law and Economics Center
In May, he delivered a paper at the Duke Law School conference on health and safety regulation of the chemical industry.
Forthcoming is an article on the taking problem which will appear in the first volume of the Supreme Court Economic Review.
Wesley J. Liebeler delivered a paper entitled "Some Problems with Interpreting GTE Sylvania" at the Institute for Corporate Counsel 1982 seminar in Los Angeles in March.
He has been working as consultant to the FTC since November, 1981.
This summer, Professor Liebeler will teach a class on antitrust at the University of Texas, Austin.
Gerald Lopez is author of an article titled "Undocumented Mexican Migration: In Search of A Just Immigration Law and Policy" in 28 UCLA Law Review 615 (1981).
In progress is a series of essays on Lawyering as well as the third edition of Contract Law and Its Application, which he co-authored with Arthur Rosett.
Daniel Lowenstein is author of an
article titled "Campaign Spending and Ballot Propositions," forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review. His work in progess is "What Counts As a Bribe?"
William M. McGovern will serve as Associate Dean of the School of Law during the year 1983-84.
Professor McGovern reviewed Atiyah's The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract in 66 Minnesota Law Review 550 (1982).
David Mellinkoff's new book Legal Writing: Sense and Nonsense was published this year by Scribner's in hardcover and by West in paperback. It was the main selection for April of the Lawyers' Literary Club.
Professor Mellinkoff spoke on simplifying legal language at the 1982 California Continuing Judicial Studies Program in January, and also at the 28th National Conference of Law Reviews in March.
He has been appointed a member of the new Legal Drafting Committee of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow published an article on "The Legacy of Clinical Legal Education: Theories About Lawyering" in 29 Cleveland State Law Review 555 (1980). She is completing an article, "Toward Another View of Negotiation: The Structure of Legal Problem Solving."
She presented papers on "Resource Allocation in Legal Services and Bureaucratization of the Profession" to the Midwest Political Science Association and the Law and Society Association.
Menkel-Meadow was the panel chair and commentator on sexual politics and the law at the sixth annual Critical Legal Studies Conference in Boston. She chaired a panel on "The Law's Impact on Women" at the AALS annual meeting in Philadelphia, where she also spoke on "Using Social Science to Study What Lawyers Do."
Professor Menkel-Meadow completed development of a Lawyering Skills Institute program on teaching skills of interviewing, counseling, and negotiation to lawyers for the American Bar Association's Consortium for Professional Education, with David Binder
Herbert Morris authored "A Pater-
nalistic Theory of Punishment" in American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 4 (1981), which was the winning entry in the 1981 APQ Prize Essay Competition.
His other articles include "The Status of Rights," Ethics, Volume 92, Number 1 (1981), and "Reflections on Feeling Guilty," Philosophical Studies, Volume 40 (1981).
WilliamPatton argued In Re Deborah C. before the California Supreme Court. He lectured on the "Legal Aspects of Child Abuse" at both the UCLA Medical School and at St. John's Hospital.
His works in progress include "California's Dual Adoption Scheme," "California/Foreign Consecutive Sentences," and "The Right to Privacy Under Article I, Section 1: State Action and the Exclusionary Rule."
Monroe Price has been appointed dean of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshira University, New York.
Professor Price was a member of the board of editors of the 1982 edition of Cohen's Federal Indian Law. He is coeditor of the casebook Law and The American Indian which will be published in 1983. He is also writing a treatise on cable television.
He was appointed to the board of the KCRW Foundation and helped develop the CORO Foundation program for Hispanic Law Students.
He has spent much of the last year founding and developing The Jewish Television Network.
Ralph S. Rice notes that the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 has afforded him the occasion to extensively revise his looseleaf volumes on California Family Tax Planning as well as the federal edition of that work. Both revisions will appear in late fall. He is also at work on a Deskbook for Tax Planners.
Rice, who retired some years ago as Cornell Professor of Law, continues to counsel emeriti of UCLA on tax and related factors in estate planning.
Arthur I. Rosett lectured at Zhongshan University in Canton and East China Institute of Finance and Economics in Shanghai during May and June of 1981.
Gary T. Schwartz was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia
Law School during Fall semester of 1981.
He is author of "Tort Law and the Economy in Nineteenth-Century America: A Reinterpretation" in 90 Yale Law Journal 1717 (1981). He has alsowritten an article on "The Vitality of Negligence and theEthics of Strict Liability" for a "Symposium on ModernTort Theory," 15 Georgia Law Review 963 (1981).
Murray L. Schwartz was elected vice-chairman of theAcademicSenate for 1981-1982, is a member of the Academic Senate Executive Board, and a member of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee onNCAAAthletic Investigation. He also chairedthe search committee for Provost of the UCLACollege of Letters and Science. He is a member of the Law School Advisory Committee and the Law School Admissions Committee.
His publicationsinclude "The Other ThingsThat Courts Do," 28 UCLA Law Review 438 (1981)and "Richard C. Maxwell, Dean of the UCLASchool of Law, 1958-69," 28 UCLA Law Review 151 (1980).
Work in progressincludes "The Zeal of the Civil Advocate," University of Maryland Program in Philosophy and Public Policy, and "The Reach and Limits of LegalEducation," Journal of Legal Education.
Professor Schwartz is also chairman of the executivecommitteeof the SocialScienceResearch Council, chairman of theeditorialadvisory board of Michie Bobbs-Merrill, and amember of the board of directors of Mattell, Inc.
Stanley Siegel recently completed a series of lectures for CEB and the Los Angeles County Bar on California's new Limited Partnership Act. He has
been involved for thetaxsectionof the State Bar in securingarulingon the status of partnershipsformedunder the new law.
Hehas written an article, "Accounting and Inflation: AnAnalysisand A Proposal" which willappear in the December, 1981, issue of the UCLALaw Review. Also forthcomingis the third edition of Enterprise Organization (with Conard and Knauss)issued by Foundation Press.
Presently, he isworkingon atext on Accountingto be published by West.
Phillip R. Trimble was awarded the Ohio University Medal of Merit in October, 1981, for contributions to international diplomacy.
He was elected to the board of directors of the American Alpine Club in December andhas beenappointedto various specialized committees of the American Branch of the International LawAssociation.
Jonathan D. Varat will serve as Associate Dean of theSchoolof Lawfor 1982-83.
Professor Varat has published "State 'Citizenship' and InterstateEquality," in 48 University of Chicago Law Review 487 (1981).
He is a member of theStateBar Federal Courts Committee andvice-chairman of the Los AngelesCounty Bar Public Interest Law Committee and Amicus Briefs Committee.
He made a guest appearance on KNXT-TV in June, 1981, todiscuss the FirstAmendment. In addition, hewas apanelmemberin the "Cameras in Courtrooms" conference at UCLA Schoolof Law on March 13, 1982, to discuss constitutional issues concerning televised court proceedings.
William D. Warren is chairman of the California Retail Credit Advisory Committee and presided over several hearings before the meetings of that committee during 1981 and 1982. Hechaired the American Bar Association ReinspectionTeamfor the Yale Law School in October, 1981. Hewas also discussion leaderof a panelon financialaids at theAmerican Bar Association Deans' Workshop at Chicago in January, 1982.
Dean Warren was named Professor of the Yearby thisyear's graduating class.
William J. Winslade isco-author withAlbert Jansen and MarkSiegerof Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Medicine, published in 1982 by MacMillan. He also authored the "Report on Privacy and Confidentiality in Health Care," for the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Hisbook, Why the Guilty Go Free: The Role of Psychiatrists in the Criminal Justice System, is being published this year by Scribner's. Hehas written articles on "Paternalism and Individualismin Legal and EthicalAspects of Medicine," in the proceedings of the 1981 Heidelberg Kolloquium, andon "Tarasoff andPost-Tarasoff: Legal Significanceand Psychotherapeutic Impact."
Stephen Yeazell willbe aparticipantin the Legal History Workshop at the University of Wisconsin in June and July.
Hecontributedthe essay "Convention, Fiction, and Law" toa symposiumon genres in the October, 1981, issueof New Literary History.
TheWarrenYears: AGratefulSchool VoicesItsThanks
Gratitudefor DeanWilliam D. Warren's seven years of extraordinary leadership of the School of Law was expressed by leaders of thelaw school community and UCLA during a May 17 reception at theJames E. West Center.
Tributes by Chancellor Charles E. Young, by alumni and by faculty all agreedthat the Warren touch has made the school a more humane placewhile Dean Warren's administration has immeasurably strengthened the school.
Dean Warren, who steps down on July 1 to return to his full-time teaching and research as a professor oflaw at UCLA, responded to those who honored him by saying: "I think the best years of the UCLA School of Law are still ahead of it, and Sue (Mrs. Warren) and I want to share some of those years with you."
Chancellor Young said that because of BillWarren's service in the deanship, "everything in the school has become better than it would have been. He leaves a school in superb shape, even more excellent under his service as dean."
Alumnus Ralph Shapiro '58 observed: "We all know how articulate he is, and how well he writes, but his deeds speak louder than anything else. During his deanship, he has done an awfullot for those of us who are lawyers. As Chancellor Young has said, Dean Warren is leaving the school right at its peak."
Professor Kenneth L. Karst spoke for the faculty
A law dean, said Karst, "must encourage excellence in scholarship, and Bill Warren is as good at that as anyone I know." Karst praised Dean Warren's support in developing the clinical legal education program, in securing recognition for excellent
Dean Warren (above) and Chancellor Young (below) greet alumni during the May 17 reception honoring the dean.
classroom teaching, and in fostering the "informal" curriculum.
"The schoolteachesnot only by precept but by example," said Karst. "In a lot oflittleways, Bill has made
theschoola morehumaneplace.
"The law school's faculty and staff-all of us as individuals-teach by example as we conduct the school's business both in and outside the
classroom. Bill Warren has his own personal style for that sort of teaching, and it is a stylecharacterized by courage, sensitivity, decency, and civility. We have learned from his example, and I can't think of anything better to sayabout a leader.
"Bill Warren has given us marvelous leadershipinpursuingthe goals of excellence and community, and he has given us more of himself than we had any right to claim," noted Karst.
Dean Warren took the occasion of the reception in his honor to thank all of those who have supported the school. StartingwithChancellor Young, Warren said: "It is difficult to express fully enoughmy appreciation to the chancellor. He has been a marvelous help to our law school."
Associate Dean Susan Prager, who succeeds him as dean, also received thanks. "You are very fortunate indeed to have her lead this law school in years to come," said Warren.
The support of alumni has been invaluable, Dean Warren concluded in his May17 remarks. "The dean doesn't doanythingby himself orherself," he said. "We are helped by all of you."
Trial Lawyers Awards Honor Three Schools For Trial Advocacy
The American College ofTrial Lawyers has selected UCLA School of Law as one of three recipients for the1982 Emil Gumpert Award for Excellence in the Teaching ofTrial Advocacy.
The award includes a $10,000 grant to the School. Awards also were given to lawschoolsof the University of Denver and Loyola University of Chicago.
A committee of the American College ofTrial Lawyers examined the merits of trialadvocacycourses in leadinglaw schools of the United States. The trial advocacy course at UCLA is part of an extensive program of clinical legal education which has been recognized widely for its innovation and leadership.
The trial lawyers established the Emil GumpertAward in honor of JudgeGumpert, thechancellor and founder of the American College. In hiscareerofmorethanhalfa century, he was an eminent trial lawyer and judge who devoted himself to the administration of justice and the improvement of trial practice.
Classnotes
James Anthony Albracht '67 has been appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Elizabeth Ebey Benes '73 became a partner of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps on January1, 1982. She specializes in estate planning and administration, estate and gift tax.
Karen E. Bertero '81, JeffDankworth '80 and Therese H. Maynard '81 have become associated with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Lana Borsook '68 has recently returned to law practice in Los Angeles after11years of practice in NewYork. She is now associated with Hahn, Cazier & Leff.
Barbara D. Boyle '60 isseniorvice president of production for Filmways.
Joy Braun '76 is a partner in Longtin & Braun, specializing in the practice of land use, environment and local governmentlaw. The new firm is located in Santa Monica.
Richard Douglas Brew '71 is engaged in practice of corporate, securities and international commercial law with the law offices of Gianelli & Israelis in Modesto.
Clark Brown '71 opened his own prac-
tice in Westwood. He specializes in business and labor litigation.
Michael J. Budzyn '75 and Thomas E. Shardlow '76 are principals in the Vernon Edward Murray Professional Corporation. The firm has announced a change in name to Murray, Shardlow & Budzyn, a Law Corporation. They specialize in pension law for professional and closely held corporations, also providing actuarial and administration services.
Victoria Marie Bunsen '80 transferred to the Denver office of Nossaman, Krueger and Marsh. She will continue to specialize in land, water, minerals and energy resources.
Pamela J. Cochran '.81 has become associatedwith the law firm of Rodi, Pollock, Pettker, Galbraithand Phillips.
Deborah A. David '75 has become a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon. She is the administrative partner in charge of the firm's Los Angeles office.
Armando Duron '79, Anthony Madrigal '77, Rene Ramos '80 and Modesto Rios '78 have associated with the law firm of Cardenas, Fifield & Aguirre. The firm's partners are: Rudy Aguirre '78, Rudy Cardenas '76 and Harold Fifield '76. The firm has offices in Alhambra, Brawley, El Centro and In-
Information Is Asked for Alumni Directory
All law alumni shouldhavereceived a first and second mailing requesting information for the directory scheduled for publication in early1983. Those who have not received a questionnaire should contact the School of Law alumni office, (213) 825-7049. Publication of the directorywill be handled by Harris Publishing Company of White Plains, NewYork.
Alumniwho have not returned their questionnaires and who are not reached by telephone by the publishing firm will be listed in the directory with the address, if current, provided by alumni records. Alumni who do not want to appear in the directory should notify the alumni office by writing to Alumni Association, School of Law, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
dio, and conducts a general practice with an emphasis on immigration law.
Robert J. Enders '75, formerly regional director of the Federal Trade Commission, will be of counsel to the law firm of Weissburg and Aronson, Inc.
Stephen L. Englert '77 has formed the law firm of Epstein, Cole-Chu and Englert with offices in San Francisco. The firm specializes in real estate and general business matters.
James M. Eisenman '78 and William D. Klibanow '79 have become associated with the Century City law firm of Lappen and Lappen.
Kenneth J. Fransen '77 has been named a partner in the Fresno law firm of Baker, Manock & Jensen. He specializes in real estate and water law matters.
Paul L. Gale '75 has become a partner of the Newport Beach firm of Stradling, Yocca, Carlson and Rauth.
Robert M. Gans '75 has become a partner in the San Diego law firm of Peterson, Thelan & Price, specializing in civil litigation.
Martha Goldin '63 has been elevated to the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Raymond Goldstone '69, Dean of Students at UCLA, has been elected to the editorial board, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Journal.
Ann J. Graham '77 opened a legal clinic for battered women in San Francisco. (An earlier Classnotes column omitted the location of the clinic; we regret the error.)
Robert Grossman '78 has associated with the firm of Freshman, Mulvaney, Marantz, Comsky and Deutsch, joining their Beverly Hills office. He will be practicing in the area of sports and business law.
David Gurewitz '77 is in sole practice in Westwood after dissolving his former partnership. He concentrates in commercial, business and real estate law.
E. Barry Haldeman '69, after 13 years with the Beverly Hills firm of Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, the last seven of which were as a partner, became a founding partner of the new firm of Garey, Mason & Sloane. The firm will specialize in entertainment law. Offices are located in the Wilshire Palisades Building in Santa Monica.
Michael Harris '81 is associated with
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the law firm of Paul N. Crane with offices in Westwood.
Creighton C. Horton, II '76 currently resides in Utah, working as a deputy Salt Lake County attorney assigned to the justice division.
Ragna Olausen Henrichs '69 was recently elected a partner in Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle. The law firm has offices in Rochester, N.Y., Washington, D.C., New York City, and Palm Beach and Jupiter, Florida. Ragna resides in Rochester, N.Y.
B. Paul Husband '77 opened his own office in Century City. His practice emphasizes equine law: syndications of stallions, mares and herds; defense of "hobby loss" cases; contracts, general business, and civil litigation relating to the horse industry.
David A. Juhnke '80 is associated with the Los Angeles law firm of Murphy, Thornton, Hinerfeld & Cahill.
Hayward J. Kaiser '75 has become a partner in the Century City law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.
Craig S. Kamansky '73 was appointed chief deputy district attorney of San Bernardino County, the third highest position in an office of more than 100 prosecutors.
H. Stuart Kinder '71, after eight years with the San Francisco district attorney's office, joined the law firm of Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson and Tatum.
Ann Kough '78 left the Los Angeles City Attorney's office and is now an associate at Loeb & Loeb in the litigation department.
Kurt Lewin '63 was appointed to Los Angeles Municipal Court.
Gary W. Maeder '75 has become a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Kindel & Anderson.
Martin F. Majestic '67, formerly a partner in the firm of Phillips, Moore, Lempio and Majestic, announces the opening of a new firm specializing in patent, trademark, copyright, and related causes. The name of the firm is Majestic, Gallagher, Parsons and
Siebert with offices in the historic Jackson Square area of San Francisco.
Steven A. Micheli '79 recently associated withthe San Diego law firm of Ault, Midlam and Reynolds.
Norbert J. Mietus '52 isa professor of law and management at California State University,Sacramento. With twoco-authors, he has justcompleted the12theditionof Applied Business Law, a widely usedtextbook at the secondary level. Last year withco-author Bill West, Norbert completed the secondeditionof Personal Law, a textbook for college level courses in general education.
John L. Moriarity '60, Colonel, United States Army Reserve, has been appointedCommanderof the78th Military Law Center.
William G. Morrissey '66, former OrangeCountydeputy district attorney assigned to homicide prosecutions, has recently entered privatepractice in Orange, inassociationwith the law firm of Quigley and Livingston.
Doug Neilsson '73 recentlybecame a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He continuestospecializeincorporate, partnership, and securities law in the firm'sSan Jose office.
Alban I. Niles '63 has been appointed by GovernorBrownto the Los Angeles Muncipal Court.
Margaret S. Oppel '78 has joinedthe law firm of Botein, Hays, Sklar & Herzberg in New York City.
Kenneth Ross '73 was recently appointed to thepositionof products liability counsel at Emerson Electric Co. in St. Louis, Missouri. He is currently chairman of the ABALitigation Section's Committee on Corporate Counsel andco-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Products Liability.
Neil J. Rubenstein'77 has recently joined the Los Angeles office of Kim & Chang, a law firm basedin Seoul, Korea.
Laurence D. Rubin'71hasbecome a counsel to the firmof Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.
Eric H. Schunk '81 is currently clerking forJudge Kennedy ofthe Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Harold Ellis Shabo '66 has been appointedto the LosAngelesSuperior Court.
Richard H. Shay '65 wasappointed to serve the Reagan administration as chiefcounsel, National Telecommunications and Information Administrationof the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C.
Diana Sherman '81 isclerkingfor Judge Consuelo B. Marshallofthe U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
Irving Shimer'57 has been appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court. Judge Shimer has lectured for several CEBprograms and serveson the legal advisory committee to the Beverly Hills Board of Education.
Stanley L. Smith '68, aSan Diego certified family law specialist, has recently been elected a Fellowof the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Michael E. Swaim '71 opened a law
officeinSalem, Oregon. He specializes in trial and appellate advocacy. He is pastpresident of Mount Jefferson group of the Sierra Club and he is presently engaged in wilderness protection litigation.
Timothy D. Taron'76 became apartner in the Sacramento law firm of Hefner, Stark & Marois.
Richard P. Towne'79 has becomeassociated with the Beverly Hillsfirm of Hayes & Hume. He willcontinue to practice business litigation.
CarlShusterman'73 has joined Barst & Mukamal specializing in immigration law. He was formerly with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for six years.
Rick Vogel '72 was promotedtothe position of senior tax attorney at Getty Oil Company corporate headquarters in Los Angeles.
Michael Waldorf'67 has becomevice presidentof Wells Search Associates in the Los Angeles office of the firm. He specializes in partner level placements, mergers, branch office acquisitions, general counsel andother senior counsel assignments for law firm and corporate clients.
Thomas E. Warriner '67 has been appointed by the Secretary ofthe U.S. Departmentof Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Environmental Health Services Council. Thecouncil includes fifteen members who are leaders in the fields of fundamental sciences, medical sciences or public affairs.
Timothy J. White'78 isnow assistant counsel at Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corporation's western regional officein Los Angeles.
W. Herbert Young '62, formerly a partner with the law firmof Young & Young, has become vice president andgeneral counsel for Powerine Oil Company.
G. Keith Wisot '66 was appointedto the Los AngelesSuperior Court by GovernorBrown. Judge Wisot alsocontinues to serve as an adjunct professor of lawat Southwestern University Schoolof Law.
