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Alumni on the Bench
by Kathleen Neumeyer
n the short history of the UCLA School of Law, its 7,200 graduates have distinguished themselves in every area of the legal professionand at least 125 of UCLA's law alumni are now members of the judiciary. They wield gavels from the Mariana Islands (where Robert A. Hefner '58 is judge of the Commonwealth Court] to courts in Pennsylvania, Colorado,Arizona,Nevada,andnearlyeverycounty in California.
The highest ranking members of the judiciary to graduate from the School of Law are Dorothy Wright Nelson '53, former dean of the University of Southern California School of Law, and Alex Kozinsky '75, both judges on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dorothy Nelson began preparing to be a judge in her first job after graduation from law school. Her research into the workings of the Los Angeles metropolitancourts,financedbyaprivatefoundation and the American Bar Association, involved observing in courtroomsfor three years, interviewing every municipal and superior court judge in the county, and speaking with more than 2,000 jurors.
The results of the study were published and 22 of the report's recommendations were subsequently adopted by the California Legislature.
Whenshebeganteachingatthe USCLawSchool, she escorted her students on weekly field trips to observe each step of the criminal and civil process, sitting inonmandatorysettlementconferences and hearings in courtrooms ranging from Small Claims Court to the Court of Appeals.
"Most judges don't see each other sitting," she notes. "I have been in the courts constantly, and havebeenwritingaboutthemallofmyprofessional life."
She finds that her opinions on the role of the judiciary carry more weight now that she is on the bench than when she was in academia. "When I was dean, and I expressed the opinion that the courtsought tobedoing thus-and-so, people would say, 'That's very nice,' but they pay more attention to a federal judge," she laughs.
Whileshehasenjoyedputtingmanyofhertheories
Kathleen Neumeyer is a contributing editor to Los Angeles Magazine, a correspondent for the Economist of London, and a frequent contributor to this magazine.
to thetest, andhasbeenactivelyinvolvedinefforts to streamlinethe NinthCircuit,shehashadtomake some concessions to pragmatism.
"When I firstcameonthebenchIwantedtowrite every opinion as a law review article, but you just can't do it and keep up with the workload. Some of the cases are run-of-the-mill, and you have to differentiate andspendyour time on the cases that are on the cutting edge of the law," she says. The court's system of having staff members rate cases by a point system, with one point allotted to cases with fairly simple legal issues and 10 to those with morecomplicatedissues,allowsthejudgestoarrange their court calendars so that they hear cases of varyingcomplexity in a single day.
"Wesitononly 18pointsaday," Nelsonexplains. "We may have one monster, or three 5-pointers." Theyhearbetween25and 30 casesamonth,sitting for one week and writing opinions the other three.
Casesdeemedbystaffattorneystobeworthonly one point are considered independently by three judges, and a short opinion drafted. They dispense with oral argument, although the attorneys are given the opportunity to plead for it, and the court has thus been able to dispose of about 25 percent of the caseload without holding hearings.
"Anotherthingwehavebeenexperimentingwith is holding pre-trial hearings at the appellate level with a view to getting the parties to mediate or at least to simplify the issues," Nelson says. "In our circuit we are also experimenting with arbitration. The advantage to arbitration is that it doesn't need a courtroom, you don't have to wait in line, the clients can be there and can see the merits and demerits of their case. I favor softer forms of dispute resolution which don't require the full panoply of the courtroomprocedure and which help cut into our backlog."
Inadditionto continuingtoteach at USC, Nelson also serves on the board of directors of the CommunityDisputeResolutionCenteroftheSanGabriel Valley, and is a frequent speaker on alternative disputeresolution,whichshestronglyfavors."People need to learn to mediate their own disputes," she says. "Often all they need is a neutral third party to listen."
Nelson enjoys the research involved in appellate law and what she calls the collegiality of decisionmaking with the law clerks who work under her, but feels she would not be suited to being a trial court judge. She says that her husband, Municipal Court Judge James F. Nelson, who presided at the Richard Ramirez preliminary hearing, "is a great trial judge, but I would be terrible, because I am
so critical of the rules of evidence and the rules of procedure. They just don't make sense. To me theyareformalisticandimpedeajustresult.Idon't think that the question-answer system is the most effective way of eliciting factualinformation."
Nelson'snewcolleagueontheNinthCircuit,Alex Kozinski, really enjoyed his tenure as a trial judge, when he was Chief Judge of the U.S. Claims Court in Washington, D.C., before assuming his seat on theNinthCircuitinJanuary, tobecometheyoungest person appointed to the federal appeals bench in this century, the youngest since William Howard Taft in 1892.
"I liked being a trial judge," he says. "It was a lot of fun. It lets you get into the legal issues, and you have the case a long enough time to see it develop. In the appellate courts, the cases go by so fast. They go in and out in large numbers."
Now ensconced in blue-carpeted offices in the newfederalcourthouseinPasadena,Kozinskilooks forward to the challenges of being an appellate judge.
'Tm not so sure there is such a thing as judicial philosophy," he says. "What I believe in is written documents and the rule of law." He considers his youth an advantage, noting that "lots of cases are new to me, and there are issues that I've never confrontedbefore,butIfindthatIcanseetwosides. Ialwayswinduppickingone-someonehastowin. But I tend not to reject an argument out of hand."
Kozinski, his wife and his two sons, aged four and 18 months, are living on the Westside. He spends most of his leisure time with his family, but he says "I take my job very seriously, and to me, workisfun. I don'tneed a lot of recreation."
Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Kozinski came to the UnitedStatesattheageof 12. Hisfamilyarrived in Baltimore with $5 to their name, and opened a small grocery store with the help of Jewish relief organizations.Later,theyrelocatedtoLosAngeles, where his parents operated another grocery in Hollywood,nearthe ABC studios.
KozinskiattendedJohnMarshallHighSchooland then studied economics as an undergraduate at UCLA before attending the School of Law, where he graduated first in his class.
He clerkedfor Judge Anthony M. Kennedy of the Ninth Circuit, and then for Chief Justice Warren Burger. He spent two years with Forry, Gilbert, Singer & Gelles and then went to Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., before joining the office of President-Elect Ronald Reagan as deputy legalcounsel.HewasWhiteHouseassistantcounsel for sixmonthsbefore beingnamedSpecial Counsel
Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson '53, Judge AlexKozinsky '75
Judge Veronica Simmons McBeth '75
to the Merit Systems Protection Board in 1981.
Fourteenmonthslater, Reagannamedhimtohead the U.S. Claims Court, whichhandlesnon-tortsuits againstthegovernment. Hedrewwidespreadpraise forstreamliningcourtproceduresandreducingcase backlog.Hecutdownthenumberofwrittendecisions and encouraged decisions from the bench. "My feeling is that if I can't look the litigants in the face and say my judgment, there is something wrong," he says.
Judge Kozinski's classmate, Veronica Simmons McBeth '75, has been a Municipal Court judge for five years. The administration of criminal justice had been her interest since law school, when then City Attorney Burt Pines visited the school. "He said he wanted the best people to come to work for him, that he was going to be a progressive prosecutor, sensitive to the needs of victims, and that young lawyers could go as far as their talents would take them. I believed him."
Sheenjoyedtrialworkinthecityattorney'soffice so much "that I was amazed they were paying me for it." She specialized in domestic violence cases andserved aschief deputyinthe West LosAngeles division. The biggest adjustment when she became a judge, she says, "was shedding the old skin, and adjusting to the role of impartial advocate. At first it was hard to sit back and watch and not ask the questions. But I didn't want thereputationof being a judge whowon'tlet lawyerstry theirowncases."
Even after five years, she says, it still takes her somewhatbysurprisethatwhenthebailiffintones, "All rise," they're standing up for her. "I still kind of chuckle and think, 'Oh, boy, this is me,"' she says.
Shegainednationwidepublicityasthejudgewho sentenced a slumlord to live in his own tenement, but she isastonishedat the commotion.
"It just seemed like common sense to me," she says. "In so many landlord cases, the landlords
JusticeJohn A. Arguelles '54
really aren't any better off than the tenants. They live under the same conditions, are basically lawabiding,andjustdon'tknowhowtogetthingsfixed. Butinthiskindofcase,wherealandlordhasmoney and has the sophistication, and just absolutely refusestobringthebuildingintocompliance,there's just no excuse.
"The number one goal is notto punish the owner, although I do think that that is a legitimate end ofsentencing,buttogetthebuildingsincompliance. Mostlandlords are not basically criminals andjust the threat of jail is enough. It's frustrating when that is not enough."
McBeth says she gets the most satisfaction out of cases where she feels that she is doing some good.
"Themunicipalcourtusedtobethecourtoffirsttime offenders when I was a prosecutor," she says. "Now we are getting really serious offenders and neighborhooddisputeswhichreallyaffectthequality
of life. Prostitution is the perfect example. People call it a victimless crime, but if there is any crime which directly affects the quality of life, it is prostitution, because of the robbery, murder and dope that go along with it. Prostitution really puts a blight on a neighborhood."
JohnA.Arguelles'54grewupinEastLosAngeles, graduated from Garfield High School, and earned his undergraduate degree at UCLA in 1950 with a major in economics and a minor in Spanish, then embarked on a career in stocks and bonds. A year later, he decided to go back to law school. "After spending four of the happiest years of my life on the UCLA campus, the thought of three more was very appealing," he recalls.
He aspired to work in the district attorney's office, but had an opportunity to open a private practice in East Los Angeles and took it. He specializedinlobbyingwork,representingtheCalifornia Association of Chiropodists and the Pacific Coast
Judge MarianaR. Pfaelzer '57
Quarter Horse Racing Association. He spent a lot of time in Sacramento and appearing before administrative agencies.
He was elected to the Montebello City Council in 1962 by the largest vote in the city's history, and a year later, at the age of 36, was appointed to the East Los Angeles Municipal Court. He has expressed regret that he didn't get to practice law for a few more years. He was elevated to the Superior Court in 1969 and had been a trial judge for 21 years when he became an appellate justice on the Second District Court of Appeal in 1984, an event he described as "almost akin to a midcareer change of careers."
Hemissesthefastpaceandhighvolumeworkload of the trial court, dealing with people of "varying sizes and shapes."
"It takes a couple or three months to get into appellate work," Arguelles says. "It's a completely different world, no question about it, and at times
Istillmissthepersonalinteractionofthetrialcourt, but it was a good professional change and you need change to keep finely tuned."
Last November, Governor George Deukmejian put him on his short list of six candidates to replace retiring SupremeCourtJustice Otto Kaus.Arguelles' reaction to not receiving the appointment, which went to Justice Edward Panelli, was: "It was like the Tournament of Roses. Only one of the selected princessescanbechosen queen, anditwasanhonor just to get to ride in the parade."
Arguelles is an ardent booster of the University of California and has been interested in the growth of the Irvine campus, near his home. His son, Evan, wasassistantto UCLAfootballcoach Terry Donahue all of the last four football seasons when the Bruins went to three Rose Bowls and one Fiesta Bowl. Arguelles would like to cap his career by serving on the University of California Board of Regents. Mariana R. Pfaelzer '57, who was appointed judge
Judge DavidA. Horowitz '66
of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in 1978, decided to go to law school when she was chairman of the social studies department at Van Nuys Junior High School.
"I had a number of friends who were going to law school, and they encouraged me to go too. Of course, they were all men, and I had no idea how harditwasgoingtobetogetajobonceIgraduated," she recalled. "I just wanted to get a job, and it was terrible then." After five months of interviewing, Pfaelzerjoinedthelawfirmof Wyman & Finell,now Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, Kuchel & Silbert, where she was made a junior partner four years later and a senior partner in 1969.
Her field was litigation; when she was appointed to the bench, she found that generally she was dealing in the same areas of the law in which she had always been engaged. But the difference in perspective from the bench, she found, "was substantial."
"I have 350 civil cases which are all mine. In addition,eachfederaljudgetakesoneortwocriminal cases off the wheel each week. It is a substantial managerial job," she says, "although the areas of the law are the same as they were in my private practice."
The job, she says, "is amazingly interesting. It neverlosesitsfascination.Inprivatepractice,Iwas concerned with the interests of my client. Now I am trying to weigh different points of view and do what is right for both sides. It is a very hard jobor perhaps I should say it is very demanding. It is not as difficult as it is demanding."
Pfaelzer says the chief challenges are to keep up with the workload and to keep abreast of changes in the law. "I think what has been most helpful is talking with the other judges. I gain a great deal from talking to the others. We are all very collegial, and in this court all of the judges are helpful about how caseloads should be managed." (Continued)
Alumni on the Bench
The judges interviewed for this article represent only a cross-section of the much greater number of UCLA law alumni on thebench who are listed here. Althoughwe have used many sources in an effort to make this listing complete, it is nearly inevitablethat there may be omissions. Please advisethe Editor, UCLA Law magazine, if there hasbeen such an error; a notation willbe made in the magazine'snext issue.
1952
J. Perry Langford
San DiegoSuperior Court
1953
C. Bernard Kaufman
Burbank Municipal Court
Dorothy Wright Nelson
U.S. 9th Circuit Court ofAppeals
1954
John A. Arguelles
Calif.Courtof Appeal. 2nd District
Lester H. Berkson 9th Judicial District Court, Nevada
Nicholas Kasimatis
San Diego Municipal Court
Bonnie Lee Martin
Lo$ AngelesSuperior Court
Billy Mills
Los AngelesSuperior Court
1955
Richard G. Berry
Los Angeles Municipal Court
Ronald T. Deissler
Riverside Co. Superior Court
Joan Dempsey Klein
Calif. Court of Appeal. 2nd District
Marvin Lewis
Ventura Co.SuperiorCourt
Laurence T. Wren
Coconina Co., Ariz.,Superior Court
1956
Mervin Norman Glow Worker's CompensationAppeals Board
MarvinD. Rowen
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Lawrence C. Waddington
Los AngelesSuperior Court
1957
Elbert E. Hensley
Calif.Unemployment Ins.Appeals
Arthur W. Jones
San DiegoSuperior Court
RobertA. Knox
Orange CountySuperior Court
Byron K. McMillan
Orange Co.Superior Court
Mariana R. Pfaelzer
U.S. District Court, Central District
Charles Robert Roick
Vista, CA, Municipal Court
Irving Shimer
Los AngelesSuperior Court
1958
Norman L. Epstein
Los AngelesSuperiorCourt
Richard J. Hanscom
San Diego Municipal Court
Robert A. Hefner
Commonwealth Court, Mariana Islands
Richard C. Hubbell
Los AngelesSuperior Court
William E. Lehnhardt
Imperial Co. Superior Court
Christian E. Markey, Jr.
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Nancy B. Watson
Los AngelesSuperiorCourt
1959
Raymond Cardenas
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Leslie W. Light
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Roberta Ralph
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Everett Ricks
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Edward Michael Ross
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Russell F. Schooling, Jr.
Southeast (LA County] Municipal Court
Guy Martin Young
Modoc CountySuperiorCourt
1960
Lee Cooper
Ventura Co. Municipal Court
Joseph J. DiGiuseppe
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Michael I. Greer
NorthSan Diego Co.Superior Court
Lawrence Kapiloff
San DiegoSuperior Court
William Keller
U.S. District Court, LosAngeles
Edwin M. Osborne
Ventura Municipal Court
Roger Mitchell Settlemire
Plumas Co.Justice Court
Huey Percy Shepard
Los AngelesSuperior Court
1961
Richard H. Bein
El Cajon Municipal Court
BrianD. Crahan
Los Angeles Municipal Court
Henry Nelson
Los AngelesSuperior Court
James Piatt
Los AngelesSuperiorCourt
Howard M. Van Elgort
Twenty Nine Palms Municipal Court
1962
Hiroshi Fujisaki
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Martha Goldin
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Keith L. Groneman
Los Angeles Municipal Court
Harry Ernest Woolpert
San Luis Obispo Co.Superior Court
1963
Stephen Michael Lachs
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Kurt Lewin
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Alban I. Niles
Los Angeles Municipal Court
Richard N. Parslow
Orange CountySuperior Court
1964
Robert T. Peterson
Mt.San facinto Municipal Court
Michael B. Rutberg
Citrus Municipal Court
1965
Cecily Bond
Sacramento Co.Superior Court
HowardMosierDabney
Riverside Co.Superior Court
Bruce William Dodds
Santa Barbara Co.Superior Court
Vernon Gene McDonald
San Mateo Co.Superior Court
Jack M. Newman
Los AngelesSuperior Court
Charles G. Rubin
Beverly Hills Municipal Court
1966
BarbaraBirchBurke
Glendale Municipal Court
Michael L. Burley
North San Diego Co. MunicipalCourt
JamesR.Franks,II
Orange Co. SuperiorCourt
RobertHiga
Los Angeles Superior Court
DavidA.Horowitz
Los Angeles Superior Court
DavidC.Merriam
San Bernardino Superior Court
JohnR.Morrison
Eureka Municipal Court
FrankWilliamMurano
Mono Co. Justice Court
FrancesRothschild
Los Angeles Superior Court
BarryRussell
U.S. BankruptcyCourt, Central Calif. District
PatriciaGomerSchwartz
Los Angeles Municipal Court
HaroldShabo
Los Angele.s Superior Court
RobertW.Thomas
Los Angeles Superior Court
KeithWisot
Los AngelesSuperior Court
1967
JamesA.Albracht
Los Angeles Superior Court
FrederickS.Brown
Santa BaTbara Co. JusticeCourt
SallyGrantDisco
Los Angeles Superior Court
AlanB.Haber
Los Angeles Superior Court
DavidM.Horwitz
Los Angeles MunicipalCourt
FrederickJones
Ventura Co. Municipal Court
StevenZ.Perren
Ventura Co. Superior Court
HowardJ.Schwab
Los Angeles Superior Court
WilliamSilveira
Tulare Co. Superior Court
MichaelS.Ullman
Sacramento MunicipalCourt
JohnWilcox
Office of Hearings & Appeals, Denver, co
E.MacAmos
San Diego Municipal Court
1968
DavidH.Brickner
West Orange Co. Municipal Court
LeonS.Kaplan
Los Angeles Municipal Court
ChristopherW.Strople
Harbor (Orange Co.) Municipal Court
1969
MichaelAllanCowell
Norwalk Superior Court
RichardArthurCurtis
North Valley Superior Court
ElwoodLui
Calif. Courtof Appeal. 2nd District
1970
BarbaraTeuscherGamer
San Diego Superior Court
ThomasKelly
Santa Cruz Municipal Court
RobertY.Nakagawa
Worker's Compensation Appeals Board
1971
JonMichaelMayeda
Los Angeles Municipal Court
RonaldB.Merriweather
Municipal Courtof Philadelphia
LaurenceD.Rubin
Santa Monica Municipal Court
1972
PeterApodacaBarbosa
Calif. Unemployment Ins. Appeals Board
David0.Carter
Orange Co. Superior Court
JosephK.Davis
San Diego MunicipalCourt
MichaelStevenFields
Monterey Co. Municipal Court
AlanE.Klein
West KernMunicipalCourt
RaymondMireles
Easi Los Angeles Municipal Court
RandSchrader
Los Angeles MunicipalCourt
PaulArthurTurner
Los Angeles Municipal Court
1973
RogerBoren
Los AngelesSuperiorCourt
KathryneAnnStoltz
Los Angeles Municipal Court
1974
DavidGrantVanderWall
Modesto Municipal Court
1975
ValerieLynnBaker
Los Angeles Municipal Court
RobertCliveJones
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Nev.
AlexKozinski
U.S. 9th Circuit Courtof Appeals
VeronicaSimmonsMcBeth
Los Angeles Municipal Court
1976
LomdesG.Baird
East Los Angeles Municipal Court
RobertMackey
Compton Municipal Court
WilliamTarle
Los Angeles Municipal Court "
1978
RobinAnneWright
Washoe County District Court, Nev.
Judge Kathryne Ann Stoltz '73
The actual business of decision-making can be difficult, especially in criminal cases. "The sentencing is very difficult," Pfaelzer says. "I try to tailor a sentence to meet the requirements of each defendant, and the options available to me are not wide. One of the most difficult areas is in drug enforcement; so many people are using drugs, and they commit crimes like bank robbery for funds to get the drugs. It is difficult to fashion a sentence to meet that situation. You'd like to try to get them off drugs, and we do try to put them in programs, but the results are often frustrating. There are large numbers of repeat offenders. It is very disappointing, when you tried hard to see if you couldn't get them some help."
The most serious problem facing the judiciary, Pfaelzer believes, lies in sheer numbers. "On the civil side, there is a tremendous belief in rushing into court and vindicating rights-to sue somebody for something. Every year, the numbers go up; thE
numbers are becoming unbelievable. We will never catch up, in judicial appointments, with the tidal wave of litigation."
On the brighter side, Pfaelzer finds one aspect of the court "whichtruly delights me is the opportunity to see so many fine women lawyers arguing and presenting cases. It is attributable to the law schools which have encouraged women; when the women did well, they were irresistable to the law firms."
Pfaelzer notes that she would "like to do what I can to encourage women in the law, and to encourage them to stay with it once they get into it. Women are under more pressure than men to have families. The law firms are going to have to reconcile the needs of women to have families with their rights to become partners."
David A. Horowitz '66 always wanted to be a
Judge RonaldB. Merriweather '71
lawyer. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, spent his undergraduate years at Berkeley, and came home to Los Angeles to attend the UCLA SchoolofLaw"becauseIthoughtitbesttograduate from law school where I was going to practice."
He joined the public defender's office right after graduation, where he got two hung juries before theeventualconvictionofanaccusedrapistof USC coedsinacasethatsetthestandardthatincidental movement did not qualify as kidnapping in a rape case.
Alongwithtryingfelonycases, Horowitzbecame very active in the County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Hecurrentlyischairing a national project studying how law enforcement handles cases of driving under the influence.
He was appointedtothe Municipal Courtin1980 andelevatedtotheSuperiorCourtin1981. Hefinds the businessof judgingas differentfromlawyering "as night and day."
"The main difference is that you don't have to spend time convincing anyone of anything. I have to decide, but I don't have to get my point across to anyone. It is much less stressful to decide. The process of lawyering is a very difficult one. You have to convince your client to do what is in his best interest, you have to convince the judge that you'reright, youhavetoconvinceopposingcounsel, andyou'reconstantlybeingchallenged.Ajudgehas difficult decisions to make, but he's not in the constant turmoil of trying to win or to convince anyone how right he is."
Horowitz has presided over several highly publicizedtrials,includingthetrialofMarvinPancoast, the man convicted of killing Vicky Morgan, and the Campbell Greenup child molestation case. He is scheduled to hear the trial of Cathy Smith, the woman accused of administeringa fatal drug overdose to comedian John Belushi.
Horowitz says that in learning to be a judge, he
felt he had profitted from "having been in court every single day, and having practiced in front of some very good judges-judges who were able to make decisions independently and to work with people so that everybody in court felt they had had achancetobe heard,andthattheyhadbeentreated well."
Horowitz would like to see law schools place a greater emphasis on educating future lawyers on the roles of counsel in the area of criminal justice, and feels that sitting judges ought to be invited to visit law schools for open-ended question and answersessionsaboutthefunctionsandexpectations of the court.
Kathryne Ann Stoltz '73 has been a municipal court judge for the past year, after 12 years in the U.S. Attorney's office. Her first assignment was traffic court "which is great, because there are a limited variety of cases and you can concentrate on your judging skills, without having to worry about case law," she says. "The first time I heard a drunk driving trial, I was fascinated. I thought the expert testimony was so interesting. After a while, you get tired of hearing the same experts over and over," she laughs.
"I felt strongly that I was doing a public service there, because driving under the influence is a serious problem, but I was starting to get stale," she says, before she was transferred to Van Nuys in March. "When I came on the bench, I had only been in state court one or two times, and federal court is radically different, much more formal than state court."
Stoltzsaysthatsherunsaveryformalcourtroom, insistingthatexhibitsbemarkedcorrectlyandthat attorneys stand to question witnesses. "I am also veryconcernedabouttheconvenienceofjurors,and I won't let attorneys inconvenience the jury just to call witnesses in a certain order," she says. "But in a sense, it is a losing battle. Defendants are sent on the wrong bus to the wrong courthouse, or they show up in their jail clothes, and try as I may to start on time, I find myself saying over and over, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry we were delayed again."'
Stoltz sees the bench as a logical extension of a career in public service, and welcomed the appointment after 10 years in the criminal division and two years in the civil division of the U.S. Attorney's office. A highlight of those years was when she prepared to prosecute Stanley Mark Rifkin, who was accused of stealing $10 million fromSecurityPacificNationalBankbytappinginto the computer system, using the money to buy 12
diamonds in Switzerland and smuggle them into the United States. Rifkin pleaded guilty and the case never went to trial.
Stoltz attributes her appointment to her "law enforcement background" which includes her husband, Doug Kuehl, who is a narcotics agent for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
Another UCLA alumnus with law enforcement background is Ronald B. Merriweather '71, now a judge of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, who was a Secret Service agent assigned to the Los Angeles field office when he applied to the School of Law. He had also served in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
Merriweather won the California Trial Lawyers Moot Court award for trial preparation while at the UCLA School of Law, and he found himself intrigued by the courtroom.
"I enjoyed the preparation and getting in there and battling it out, and my law enforcement background lent itself to criminal law. I had seen the prosecution side so often, locking upcounterfeiters andpushers,thatIwantedtogetanotherperspective, so I changed horses and went over to the defense side."
Merriweather says that having been "on both sidesofthefence"wasgoodpreparationforjudging. "When I sit up there and listen to some of the most ridiculous stories in the world, I think back to my own experience and use everyday common sense to figure out whether to believe or not to believethestory," hesays.
Merriweathersaysheispleasedtobeamunicipal court judge because "in our system,thatis the first exposurethecitizenhastothejudicialsystem,from the scofflaws to the homicides. It is so important to have people who are sensitive and who will listen, and not just rubberstamp the government's case. I think whether or not to hold a defendant to answer is a veryimportant question.
"I listen carefully, I watch the demeanor, and I listen for the ring of truth, whether it is on the defenseortheprosecution'sside.Idon'tjustassume that the prosecution is truthful," he says. "Both sides are going to get a fair shake from me. I think the first exposure should be a positive one, and I consider myself a people person."
Merriweather was elected to a six-year termtwo years ago. He is one of only 21 municipal court judges in Philadelphia, including two women and three blacks. Like the other 20, he rotates on a weekly basis through small claims, civil, criminal andlandlordtenantcourt. "Ilikecriminal,"hesays. "I don't relish evicting people."
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Judge Norman L. Epstein '58
When he is sitting in criminal court, one of the prosecutors appearing before Merriweather �n a regularbasisisRogerKing'70,oneofPhiladelphia's leading homicide prosecutors, and the judge's law clerk is Wallace Walker '70.
"So we have quite a UCLA connection here," Merriweathersays. "And I'mextremelygratefulfor the education I got at UCLA. It prepared us to compete at the highest level, no exception."
Norman L. Epstein '58 went to work for the Californiaattorneygeneral'sofficeaftergraduation, specializing in business and tax law and what would now be called consumer fraud. He became vicechancellorandgeneralcounseltotheCalifornia StateCollegeandUniversitysystemin1962,serving in that post until his appointment to the bench in 1972, a tenure thatencompassed what he calls "the period of all the fun in higher education."
The work of the general counsel's office was varied. "We never did a railroad merger, but we
didjustabouteverythingelse," hesays. "Contracts, constitutional law, real estate, trusts, land management, personnel, health." Epstein is proud that heorganizedthegeneralcounsel'sofficelikealarge law firm, and felt that the law practiced was of the highest caliber.
In 1975, Epstein was appointed to the Municipal Court, whereheservedfortwoyearsbeforehewas elevatedtotheSuperiorCourt.Hewasinstrumental in establishing special procedures for unlawful detainer actions, which accounted for one-third of the workload in municipal court, and he helped to establishthevoluntaryprogramwherebyvolunteers from the Barristers of the County Bar have helped to settle 76 percent of the cases assigned to them. Healsohelpeddevelopaone-pageformforunlawful detainer actions, which is now used all over California.
He has been equally active in administration of the Superior Court, and has worked with B.E.
Judge Christian E. MarkeyJr. '58
Witkin on revisions of his California Crimes and California Criminal Procedure. He served as dean oftheCaliforniaJudicialCollege,andeditsthe Case andCommentarynewsletteroftheCaliforniaJudges Association.
Epstein is particularly interested in the training of judges because, as he says, "almost no one is trained to be a judge, and all of a sudden, like Minerva out of Jove, you're there. One of the most importantfactorsinbeinggoodisfear,soyouwork as hard as you have to, which is very hard, to acquire the techniques. I had not done any jury trials as a lawyer, ever, before I became a judge."
Mostlyitis"amatterofdemeanorandofobserving judges that you respect," Epstein says.
Christian E. Markey Jr. '58 had a wife and two children when he entered the School of Law, after having served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps in Korea. He needed to work during law school, and clerked for "two very fine trial
lawyers, EugeneMcCloskeyandRobertFainer." All three men arenowon the bench-but Markey, who was the law clerk, was the first to become a judge, when he was appointed in 1974 while serving as president-elect of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
He had spent 16 years in private practice, but had "alwayswantedto be a judge. I think I always tended a little bit toward a desire to serve. I had a fondness for trial work, an ability to work with lawyers, oratleastthe desire to, andhadhadsome success at it, and I had the desire to work on both sides of a problem more than the one-sided role of an advocate."
As an attorney, Markey's practice had included civillitigation,somepersonalinjuryandfamilylaw and some criminal defense. In People v. Ketchel, his client, accused of killing a police officer after amarketrobbery,wassentencedtothegaschamber three times and he won three reversals before
finally getting a life sentence.
As a judge, Markey served as supervising judge of the Family Law Department and presided in the Alfred Bloomingdale/VickyMorganpalimonycase. He also served as the all-purpose judge in the Los Angeles Countyasbestoslitigation,whichinvolved approximately 4,000 cases.
"My main interest is in doing something about the civil backlog. For the life of me, I don't' know what we are going to do to solve it. We have done a lot of experimenting with pretrial procedure and jury procedures and we don't seem to be able to impact the backlog. By and large, for the last 20 or30years,notmuchhasreallychanged. Something's going to have to be done, because it shouldn't take four or five years to get to trial."
MarkeyteachesFamilyLaw,CommunityProperty and Trial Advocacy at the Whittier College of Law, and says the challenge keeps him on his toes. He also writes prolifically, having published seven volumes of California Family Law, Practice and
Procedures.
"Inmytrialadvocacycourse, myclassisrequired to come in on Saturday and we invite relatives and friends to come in so we can pick a jury. It is marvelous experience and we can experiment with six jurors. With lawyers, I can't get them to experiment."
Markey says he would be interested in seeing if choosing fewer jurors would make a difference in the decisional process, but he can't get lawyers to agree to a shorter panel. "And quite frankly, I would like to see lawyers allow judges to spend time questioningthejurywithquestionssubmitted by the lawyers," he says.
Markeysayshewouldliketoproceedinthestate court system, "but that is not always all that easy. And I think that being a trial judge in the Los Angelessystemisthebestjobintheentirejudiciary. Youhavethebestcases, thebestlawyers,andgreat facilities."O
Melville B. Nimmer: 'AGentle, Generous Humanity'
hefullnessof his life and the richness of his spirit were evident as colleagues, family, friends, and students of Melville B. Nimmer gathered for a memorial service December 4 at UCLA Hillel.
Professor Nimmer, 62, whosefour-volumetreatise on copyright law is regarded as the bible in its field, died November 23 after a brief bout with cancer. A member of the UCLA School of Law faculty since 1962, he was an authority on copyright, entertainment law, and freedom of speech. As a civil liberties lawyer, he won significant victories in freedom of speech cases before both the U.S. and California Supreme Courts.
Beyondthose staggering accomplishments, though, were the human qualities of Mel Nimmer.
Dorothy Wolpert, speaking at the memorial service as both friend and former student, recalled how "Mel's spirit was many-layered and complex. It was like a rare oriental treasure. Perhaps each person who knew and loved Mel would describe that central treasure differently. I believe it was a gentle, sweet, generous humanity. Within the precious shells of brilliance, intellect, humor, tolerance, clarity, tenacity and originality, that humanity flourished. Mel was a great teacher because he reached out to others to share with them all that he possessed."
Laurence Nimmer recalled his father's "intellect and gentle manner," through which he "certainly has fueled us all." The family ties were strong and supporting.
Professor Nimmer "shaped the law through his students, as well as his scholarship," noted Dean
Susan Westerberg Prager. Two student comments, taken from teaching evaluation files, were typical. "I especially appreciate his lovely manner in the classroom and his courtesy to students," wrote one UCLA law student. And a second noted: "He stretched my mind the most, he fine-tuned my analytical abilities."
Charles Vogel, colleague of Nimmer at the firm of Sidley and Austin, described Nimmer's impact on copyright law. In the two decades since the treatise Nimmer on Copyright was first published in 1963, Professor Nimmer's influence in the field became so great that his work was cited in 597 federal court opinions and in nine separate U.S. Supreme Court opinions.
"Mel lives in the libraries, he lives in the briefs. He was one of us, and he always will be," said Vogel. "When people think of lawyers, I hope they think of Mel Nimmer."
Born in Los Angeles in 1923, Nimmer was graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1941 and from the University of California, Berkeley in 1947. At Harvard Law School, where he received his bachelor of laws degree in 1950, Nimmer learned copyright law by reading cases because no formal course was then offered.
Throughout his scholarly career, Nimmer continued to practice law. He was "of counsel" to the Beverly Hills firm of Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz and Selvin and later to the Los Angeles office of Sidley and Austin, a Chicagobased firm.
He lectured on copyright and freedom of speech at academic institutions in countries around the
world, including Israel and Australia-where he taught during the summer of 1985. Another major treatise titled Nimmer on Freedom of Speech was published in 1984, in which Professor Nimmer analyzed the massive body of case law on free speech. In that work, he argued that symbolic speech should be given "full and equal status" under the First Amendment. Professor Nimmer sometimes spoke of his civil liberties cases, which he handled without pay for the American Civil Liberties Union, as the most satisfying part of his career. He won in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1971 the case of Cohen v. California, involving freedom of speech rights of a young man who was arrested for wearing a jacket bearing the words "Fuck the Draft." On a wall in Professor Nimmer's office, a black and white pho to of the long-haired client was superimposed over a framed copy of the opening pages of Nimmer's brief. The case can found today
Members of his family are his wife , Gloria; a daughter, Rebecca Marcus, a social worker in Tucson, Ariz.; two sons, Laurence Nimmer, a video producer in Van Nuys, and David Nimmer, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles; and five grandchildren. A memorial fund to honor Professor Nimmer has been established at the School of Law, and will be used to support work in the two main areas of Professor Nimmer's interest, copyright and the First Amendment.D
Pertaining to Literary, Musical and Artistic Works.
Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Law
Among his other works is a casebook, Cases and
in most constitutional law textbooks. In the California Supreme Court, he won the case of Morrison v. State Board of Education, involving a high school teacher who had his credential revoked for being a homosexual ( at a time before there were legal sanctions against such discrimination).
Joel Handler: A Practical Approach to Law
by William Fulton
ook around the bookshelves in Joel Handler'sofficeatthe UCLA School ofLaw,andyouwon'tseethestandard assortment of casebooks and hornbooks.Instead,you'llseebooks like Kate Quinlan's Days, Yerba Buena, and A Passion for Equality-individual stories about poor people and the government's attemptstohelpthem,writtennotbylegalscholars but by journalists and social scientists.
The bookshelves provide a pretty accurate summary of Handler's approach to the law: different. Throughouthiscareer,hehasdeliberatelyputaside appellate court opinions, precedents, and the other conventional toolsoflegal research. Instead, hehas studied the effectiveness of poverty law more as a social scientist might, by talking to the people it is supposed to help. Many of his books aren't evenkeptinthelawlibrary,butratherinthepublic welfare section of the UniversityResearchLibrary.
That's because Handler has always concerned himself more with the practical consequences of law than with its doctrinal underpinnings.
"With law, people are always preoccupied with doctrinal analysis," he says. ''I've always been mystifiedwhythisisso.I'vealwaysbeenconcerned with, 'Whatdifferenc� does it make?"'
And so Handler has made a career of trying to understand how poverty law and social service programs affect people in the "real world." Twenty years ago, hedistinguished himself by questioning the value of poverty lawyers who tried to aid the poor by establishing their legal rights. Now he's mellowed somewhat, but still casts the value of poverty law in real-world terms rather than legal principles.
"We're not trained to think of law aspolitics, but that's what it is," Handler says. A truly good poverty lawyer, he says, will "learn not only how to win a hearing, but how to avoid a hearing in the first place."
The 53-year-old Handler is a bearded, approachable man with an unpretentious manner and a healthy dose of humor about the world in which he operates. He came to UCLA only last year from 18
the University of Wisconsin, where he taught for morethan 20yearsandworkedwiththe prominent InstituteforResearchonPoverty. Atthelawschool, he teaches two courses: poverty law, which builds on his empirical analysis of the American welfare effort, and health law, which is the topic of a book he's working on now.
Handleracknowledgesthatthepoliticallandscape haschangeddramaticallysincehefirstbegandealing with poverty law in the early '60s. But he says his role remains the same: to facilitate social change through research that will-slowly, he admitschange public opinion.
Handler says that his background contains few clues about why he became so concerned with poverty law and why he chose such an unconventional route for a legal scholar. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, a city now famous for its poverty, but he says that outside observers read more into this accident of birth than there really is. The Newark he grew up in during the '40s was far from poverty-stricken; he was a middle-class kid born to liberal Jewish parents.
In the '50s Handler went to Princeton University andthentoHarvardLawSchool,wherehegraduated in the class of 1957. He clerked for a New Jersey Supreme Court justiceandpracticed lawfor ashort time, but soon he entered the academic world and embarkedonacareerdistinguishedbyhisunusually broad approach to legal problems.
When he first took a teaching job, at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville in 1961, he proposed a researchprojecttostudyhowsuccessfullyprisoners had asserted their legal rights. Instead of looking at the cases, he decided to interview prisoners at Brushy Mountain State Prison, as well as their lawyers. He doesn't recall why he thought of using interviews; it just seemed like the logical thing to do.
"I have often asked myself, 'Why didn't I do it
William Fulton, formerly a reporter and editor with the Los Angeles Daily Journal, is a freelance journalist in Los Angeles.
conventionally?' There was nothing in my background to suggest this kooky, deviant behavior."
Handler never got to do the study of prisoners because he moved on from Vanderbilt to teach law at the University of Illinois. But he was soon presented with another opportunity to work on another survey-type research project.
Handler invited Jerome Carlin, a sociologist and lawyer then teaching at Columbia, to speak on the research he had been doing-studying the ethics of lawyers in New York and Chicago. Carlin encouraged the young Handler to conduct similar research with small-town Midwestern lawyersand thencomparethemwiththeirbig-citycounterparts.
Handler did so, selecting an unidentified town in Illinois and overseeing a survey of 94 lawyers. He conducted 83 of the interviews himself. The results, he says, were a little surprising. Despite their cultural differences, when the small-town lawyers were confronted with the same kind of situation that might confront a big-city attorney, they reacted the same way. "The ethical positions of lawyers were determined not by background or by education, but by structure-by client interaction," he recalls.
By the time The Lawyer andHis Community was published in 1967, Handler had moved on againthistimetotheUniversityofWisconsinLaw School. AndatWisconsinhefoundhimselfingoodcompany. Back in the '30s, Willard Hurst and William Lloyd Garrison had established the Wisconsin law school as a center for the study of law and society. Far from being out of the mainstream, as it might be at many law schools, the social science method HandlerwasinterestedinfitinnicelyatWisconsin.
Wisconsin was also the home of the Institute for Research on Poverty, and when Handler arrived in 1964 the federal government's War on Poverty was just beginning. "There was a great deal of optimism in those days," Handler says. "People thought they were really going to do things."
As a result, Handler became interested in public interest law-an area that was just beginning to grow. He served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation, helping to develop the organization's programs to establish public-interest law firms. Those Ford programs led to the creation of such firms as the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles and Public Advocates in San Francisco.
When Handler received a professorship from Wisconsin that allowed him to name the chair after anyone he chose, he selected George Wiley, the black founder of the National Welfare Rights Organization who died at an early age. [Handler was
later named to a Vilas endowed professorship.) Over the years, Handler also taught as a visiting professor at Stanford, Penn, and Georgetown law schools.
As a scholar, Handler's big breakthrough came in 1966, with the publication of an article called "Controlling Official Behavior in Welfare Administration" in the California Law Review. He used the article to stake out a then-radical positionthat the due process rights of the poor, which other poverty lawyers were placing so much emphasis on, were really not very important.
"Most people who studied poverty law looked atcourts,atcases," Handlersays,"Fromtheearliest days, I was very skeptical."
Unlike other poverty lawyers, Handler did not place a great deal of importance on the hard-won legal rights of the poor. He believed that even if the poor had the rights, too often they did not have the resources to assert them. [That was one of the reasons for his involvement with public interest law.] And, he says, even if the battles were won in court, "law reform could be screwed up in the implementation."
Atthesametime,hedisagreedwiththeinfluential economists of the day, who argued that the poor suffered fromnothingmore complicated thanalack of money-a situation that the poverty programs proposed to remedy.
"I sympathized with their view that poor people didn't have enough money," he recalls. "But that wasn't the whole answer."
In "Controlling Official Behavior," Handler proposed to look at the problem from a completely different perspective-one that focused not just on protecting the rights of the individual (a negative goal, in a senseJ but on achieving the overall policy goals of poverty legislation (a positive goal]. At the time, lawless behavior on the part of welfare officials-midnightraidsandsoforth-wasamatter ofgreatconcern,andCharlesReich's"NewProperty" notionthatwelfare recipients were deserving ofthe rights of privacy was not yet widely accepted.
"We need a change in focus," Handler wrote. "Lawyers tend to focus on restraining officials, preventing them from doing wrong by attacking through the adversary system... We should be concerned about strengthening the administrative system, creating conditions under which officials will be more likely to fulfill legislative goals. This will prevent official lawlessness, as lawyers conceive of the problem, but it will also prevent lawlessness in the broader legislative sense."
He added: "This is not to argue that rights,
lawyers,courts,anddueprocessshouldnotbeused. It is only to point out that we are dealing with administrativesystems.Wemustconsiderthewhole operation of the systems and the relationship of the reforms to the rest of the syst�ms."
In a sense, Handler admits with a smile, he has been writing this same article over and over again for the past 20 years. This is not literally true, of course; but since the publication of "Controlling Official Behavior" Handler has mined this same area-the relationship between the vulnerable individual (poor,old,handicapped)andthegovernment that means to help him or her. And Handler has not merely criticized the shortcomings of an adversarial, legalistic approach to this relationship; hehasalsosoughttoidentifyother,morecooperative ways for government and individuals to relate to each other.
"What the modern state calls for is community, not conflict," he wrote in an article published in 1985. "People, intheir dealing with government, are in a socialbond. They are not isolated individuals... They are concerned not with the conditions of independence, but with the conditions of interdependence."
In two books published in 1978-Lawyers and the Pursuit ofLegal Rights and Social Movements and the Legal System-Handler dealt with various aspects of public interest law, while his most recently published book, Last Resorts, dealt with the conflict between the standardization of welfare programs and the unique circumstances of each individual welfare case.
Perhaps most typical of his search for more cooperative ways for government and individual todealwith each other,however, is his forthcoming book, The Conditions of Discretion, which will be publishedbythe Russell Sage Foundationthis year.
The Conditions ofDiscretion describes a special education program set up by the school system in Madison,Wisconsin-thecitywherethe University of Wisconsin is located-in response to the federal Educationfor All HandicappedChildrenAct,which was passed in 1975. The law was designed to "mainstream" as many handicapped students as possible in response to claims of discrimination. Like many other pieces of federal legislation, the law deals with the problem partly by giving handicapped students and their parents due process rights.
To Handler, the law carried all the same old problemsandinequities; itestablishedanadversarial system that favored the parent with resources. But in Madison, Handler foundaprogramthatfitwithin
the confines of the federal law, yet managed to provide a more cooperative environment.
"In most school districts, parents of handicapped children are considered part of the problem-adversaries, if you will," Handler wrote. "In Madison, they are considered partners in a continuing relationship."
Because the parents were thought of as partners, Handlersays,theschooldistrictwasabletoapproach the program in a number of innovative ways. Decisionsonindividualhandicappedchildrencould be viewed as flexible and subject to renegotiation. And"conflict"couldbeviewednotasanobstruction, but as a necessary step for communication. In fact, the school district even encouraged parents to obtain the services of lay advocates. Handler acknowledges that even in Madison, parents were sometimes too passive, but he adds: "To me (the program) presents a vision and a new way of thinking about client-agency relationships."
NowHandlerhasturnedhissearchforcooperative relationships to the care of elderly poor people. Concerned that traditional nursing homes create "extraordinary costs, inappropriate utilizations, inappropriate care, and ineffective regulation," he is looking throughoutthecountryfor better,community-based examples of health care for the elderly poor-somewhat the health equivalent of the Madison program.
"The idea is to reconceive the lives of the (elderly poor)," he says, "in terms of communities where people live and play, and when necessary receive health and other kinds of non-acute care."
And so Handler'ssearch fora distinctly non-legal approach to the legal rights of the poor goes on. But,20yearsafterhisinitialattackontheimportance of due process rights, Handler admits his thinking has evolved.
"Legal rights and court cases are important, but not for the reasons the lawyers thought 20 years ago,"hesays.Typically, Handler-evertherealistbelieves the importance of the legal rights lies not in the fact that they exist, but in how they are used for sociai mobilization.
"You've got to use law and lawsuits as politics," he says. The legal rights are important to poverty activists not only because poor people assert them, but because doing so helps "the people in the field" legitimize their cause.
"The great social movement leaders understood this," he says, alluding to people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Nader. "They couldn't rely on the law. But they certainly knew how to use it strategically."D
The Faculty
Benjamin Aaron attended the 11th International Congress of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security in Caracas, Venezuela, where he was formally installed for i-1 three-year term as president of the society. He is the first person from the United States to hold that office.
He delivered papers at a conference on the labor board at mid-century in Washington, D.C., and at a 50th anniversary symposium on the NLRB at Stanford Law School. He presented a paper on wrongful dismissals al a UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations conference on workers' rights, and he delivered an address on "The Future of Interest Arbitration in the Private and Public Sectors" at a conference on resolving employment disputes jointly sponsored by the Institute and the American Arbitration Association.
Aaron was appointed by the governing body of the International Labor Office to a three-year term as amember of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations.
Richard Abel delivered the Chorley Lecture at the London School of Economics in June. His talk, 'The Decline of Professionalism?" was published in49 ModernLawReview(1986). During the last year he also published: "Law Without Politics: Legal Aid Under Advanced Capitalism," 32 UCLA LawReview474(1985); "Lawyers and the Power to Change," 7(1) Lawand Policy Review [Special Issue 1985) "Comparative Sociology of Legal Professions: An Exploratory Essay," 1985 American Bar Association ResearchJournal l; "The Transformation of the American Legal Profession," 20(1) Law& Society Review (1986); "Risk as an Arena of Struggle," 83 Michigan LawReview772 (1985); "Pounds of Cure,Ounces of Prevention," 73 California LawReview1003 (1985); "Blaming Victims," 1985 American Bar Association ResearchJournal401; "What is the Assistance of Counsel Effective For?" 14 NYU ReviewofLawand Social
Change(1985-86}; "Should Tort Law Protect Property AgainstAccidental Loss?" 23 San Diego LawReview (1985}; "Les avocats, !'aide judiciare, et la reproduction du droit," 23 (2) Annales de Vaucresson157 (1985}; and "Sociology of Law in DutchSpeaking Countries," in J. Van Houtte (ed.), Sociology ofLawand Legal Anthropology in Dutch Speaking Countries 5 (1985).
He is completing two books on the sociology of lawyers, one on the United States and the other on the United Kingdom, and editing three volumes of essays on the comparative sociology of the legal profession, which will be published by the University of California Press.
William Alford was awarded the first annual O'Melveny & Myers Centennial Grant. His proposal to study the developmentofintellectualproperty law in East Asia was chosen from more than 100 applications. Warren Christopher, chairman of O'Melveny & Myers, said in announcing the grant that "the selection committee has made a superb choice." Professor Alford will use the grant to take a sabbatical during which to conduct research for his project.
Professor Alford also was asked by an international advisory panel, established by the World Bank and the Chinese government, to spend a month in China later this year lecturing at and reviewing all aspects of the Southwest Institute of Political Science and Law. Southwest is the principallaw school in Sichuan province, which has a population of over 100 million.
The Texas LawReviewwill publish Professor Alford's article "The Inscrutable Occidental: Implications of Roberto Unger's Uses and Abuses of the Chinese Past" in its February issue. The WashingtonLawReview will publish a paper that Professor Alford gave at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Comparative Law, entitled "On the Limits of 'Grand Theory' in ComparativeLaw." ProfessorAlford is nowcompletingan articleentitled
"When is ChinaParaguay?An Examination of the Application of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws of the United States to China and Other 'Nonmarket' Economy Nations."
Alford was on the faculty of a symposium organized by the University of California and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation for state legislative leaders from throughout the nation, at which he spoke on the trans-Pacifictextiletrade and protectionism. Professor Alford chaired a panel on alternative dispute resolution in China and Japan for a symposium sponsored by the School of Law and the Center for Public Resources. He chaired and spoke at the comparative law panel on Chinese contract law at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in January.
Professor Alford was invited to accompany a U.S. Department of Commerce delegation to China for talks on current legal developments. This summer he will teach at the Center for American Law Study in Beijing. In 1987, Professor Alford will become executive director of the Center, which was established by the Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China toprovide an introduction to American law for Chinese scholars and officials who will be studying law in the United States.
Professor Alford also has been named to the board of advisors of the Asian Pacific Legal Center of Southern California, the publications advisory board of the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C., and the executive committee of the Section on Comparative Law of the AALS.
Reginald Alleyne spent most of his 1985 fall semester sabbatical leave in England researching British unfair dismissal law and its administration by industrial tribunals. In August 1986, at an Oxford University comparative industrial relations conference, Professor Alleyne will deliver a paper on "British Industrial Tribunals and American Labor Arbitration: Treating Allegations of Unfair Dismissal."
Professor Alleyne was a moderator-reporter at a Washington, D.C., conference on the fiftieth anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act, sponsored by the SouthernMethodist University Law School.
He is currently co-editing a case-
book on Labor Arbitration to be published by West PublishingCompany.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, visiting at UCLA from the Universityof Khartoum, will publish "The Elusive IslamicConstitution: The Sudanese Experience" in Orient; "Detention Without Trial in the Sudan: The Use and Abuse of Legal Powers" in the Spring 1986 issue of Columbia Human Rights LawReview; "Religious Freedom in Egypt: Under the Shadowof the Dhimma System" in Religious Liberty, L. Swidler, editor; "Christian-Muslims Relations: Peaceful Co-existence at Risk" in The Vatican, Islam and the Middle East, Kail Ellis, editor; and "The IslamicLaw of Apostacy and its ModernApplicability, A Case from the Sudan" in Religion.
Professor An-Na'im presented two lectures, "The Vatican, Islam and the Middle East" at Villanova University and "Religious Liberty" at Temple University. He participated in the law school seminar and university lee-
tures on the International Human Rights Day at the University of Idaho and as a member of the panel on cultural pluralism, social inequality and human rights, organised by the InternationalThird World Legal Studies Associationat theAmerican Association of Law Schools meeting in New Orleans in January 1986.
An-Na'im was also elected a member of the board of directors of the International Third World Legal Studies Association for a term of two years.
Michael Asimow is at work on an administrative law casebook emphasizing state and federal administrative law. He has written several articles and chapters on the tax consequence of marital dissolutionand has lectured on thatsubjectto barassociations,attorneysand judges. He deliveredseverallectureson comparativeadministrativelaw at the National University of Singapore Law School. He was elected to the national governingboard of Common
Cause.
Katherine T. Bartlett, visiting this year from Duke University School of Law, presented a paper "Joint Custody, Feminism and the Dependency Dilemma" at the Feminism and Legal Theory Conference sponsored by the Institute for legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
She gave the keynote address entitled "The Legal Response to Families in Trouble: P.L. 96-272 and North Carolina Law," at a conference sponsored by the North Carolina Supreme Court permanent families task force on permanencyplanning for children in the court system.
Bartlett also wrote a set of materials entitled "Child Advocacy: Readings and Problems" under sponsorship of the National Dispute Resolution Center.
She is writing a book which develops a legal theory of parenthood.
Helen Bendix, a visiting professor,
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is currently working ona book on federal venue law for Matthew Bender Publishing Company, scheduled for publication in December 1986. Her two volumes on TheLegal FrameworkofForeignInvestmentin the United States (in Japaneseand English) will bepublishedthis April by HeimInternational, Tokyo.
Bendix moderated a symposium of California's black federal judges on New Roadblocks to Civil Rights sponsored by the lawschool.
Paul Bergman is currently at work on the lawyer's edition of Fact JnvesUgation, with David Binder. The lawyer's edition will addchapterson paralegals, deposition techniques, and use of computers in investigation.
Bergman lectured at the 9th AALS Clinical Teachers' Conference in Boulder, Colorado. He will be teaching Evidence this summer at Golden Gate Law School in San Francisco. He notes that he will deliver a lecture on "15 Ideas for Coaching Children's Soccer That Don't Work" if any organization holds a conference where that might be relevant.
Grace Blumberg is revising her final draft of California Marital Property, a casebook that Little, Brown will publishin late 1986. Professor Blumberg's article "MaritalProperty Treatment of Pensions, Disability Pay, Workers' Compensation and Other Wage Substitutes: An Insurance,or Replacement, Analysis" will appear in issue 5 of the 1986 UCLA Law Re1;-jew.
Richard Delgado taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania during fall 1984 and spent 1985on sabbatical. He plans to move to the University ofCalifornia,Davis, law school effective for the 1986-87 school year.
Delgado was principal co-author ofanarticleonthe "rottensocialbackground" defense (does extreme poverty exculpate?) in the Journal o[Inequality and the Lawand another on alternative disputeresolutionin Wisconsin Law Review. He also published articles on judicialreasoning in cases of disputed far.ts and norms in Dayton Law Review and on the imperial scholar problem (reply article in Journal of Inequality and the Law).
He spoke at a program at the College of Marin on costs of medical experimentation and at a conference of minority law professors at Uni-
versity of San Francisco Law School. In addition, Professor Delgado wrote several columns of freelance humor and social satire for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Jesse Dukeminier published "Perpetuities: The Measuring Lives" in the ColumbiaLaw Review, December 1985, which develops a logical structure for analyzing perpetuities problems and ascertaining the measuring lives for wait-and-see. He will publish "Wait-and-See: The Causal RelationshipPrinciple" in the April 1986 issue of Law QuarterlyReview.
Dukeminiergavea talk on will drafting for lesbians and gays at the Gay and Lesbiansectionof the Association of American Law Schools meeting in New Orleansin January 1986.
Hepublished "ASprigofRose Geranium for W.L. Matthews," a tribute to the late dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law,in volume 73 of the Kentucky LawJournal.
Julian Euleaddressedthe Individual Rights Section of the Los Angeles County BarAssociationon AIDS: A Threat to Constitutional Integrity. He has given the same presentation to the Black Women Physicians Association of Los Angeles, the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, and TempleMishkan Tefilo. He appeared on a cable television health show to discuss the Los Angeles AIDS ordinance. He has been asked to write achapterfor a forthcoming AIDS sourcebook to be published by Yale University Press.
Professor Eule has completed work on an article on timelimitson legislative power that willbe published later this year in the American Bar FoundationResearchJournal.
Charles M. Firestoneis chairman of the ABA Section ofScienceand Technology Committee on Electronic Campaigning. In January, 1986,he resigned as president ofLos Angeles Board of TelecommunicationsCommissioners after serving 14 months since the board'sconception.
Professor Firestone spoke at the NationalAssociationof Telecommunications OfficersandAdvisors,Southern Californiachapter on "Implications of Preferred Communications v. City of Los Angeles;" at the annual convention of National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors on "First Amendment Cha!-
lenges;" and at the Practicing Law Institute seminar on communir.ations law, addressing current issues in broadcasting and cable. He testified before the City of Los Angeles Finance Committee on cable television fees.
Robert Goldstein is continuing work in the area of protecting the rights of human subjects of academic and medical research and is completing an essay on abortion entitled "Abortion and Mother-Love," attempting to develop an interpretation of Roe v. Wadeusing psychoanalytic theory. He is also participating in the UCLA study group on homelessness and social policy.
Joel Handler's book The Conditions of'Discretion: Autonomy, Community, Bureaucracyis scheduled for publication in May by the Russell Sage Foundation. Using special education as an example, the book explores cooperative decisionmaking in the modern welfare slate. He recently published "Continuing Relationships and the Administrative Process: Social Welfare" in the 1985 Wisconsin Law Reviewand delivered a paper at the AALS section on law and the social sciences.
Handler will be on a roundtable dealing with bureaucracy and the modern welfare state at the annual Law and Society meetings in Chicago in June 1986. He will give a paper, "Rights and Community" at a conference in Bremen,West Germany on American and German traditions of sociological jurisprudence and crilir.al legal thought in July 1986.
Professor Handler is currently working on a study of regulation and long-term care of the elderly.
Olivia Ibarra, a member of the parttime faculty,will be a speaker at the annual Immigration Law Seminar to be offered by the Orange County Bar Immigration Law Section in April 1986.
Kenneth L. Karst published an article in the January 1986 North Carolina Law Reviewentitled "Paths to Belonging: The Constitution and Cultural Identity." The Encyclopediaof the American Constitution, of which Professor Karst is the associate editor, will be published in the fall of 1986.
Kenneth N. Klee, a member of the
part-time faculty, published "The Effect of Bankruptcy on Franchising" in Franchising by Glickman, 1986.
He spoke on the 1984 bankruptcy amendments andaspects of Chapter 11 Law in American Law Institute and American Bar Associationcontinuing legal education programs. He moderated or participated inprogramsconcerning the Bankruptcy Tax Act of 1980 and other bankruptcy-tax issues at the American Law Institute-American Bar Association summer program held at PepperdineLaw School and at the 59th Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in October.
During 1985 he served as vice president of the FinancingLawyers Conference and as a member of the executive committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference. He also was appointed chairman ofthe subcommittee on new and pending legislation of the business bankruptcy subcommittee of the Section on Corporations, Business and BankingLaw of the American Bar Association.
William Klein has sent to the publisher of Business Organization and Financea draft of a second edition, co-authored with Professor John C. Coffee of Columbia Law School. He presented a talk on timingissuesin federal income taxation at the AALS workshop on teaching federal income taxation in Washington, D.C. in September 1985 and iscurrently working on timing problems and on revision of his tax casebook.
Leon Letwin is completing a set of teaching materials in evidence.
Christine Littleton delivered a paper entitled"ReconstructingSexualEquality" at the 1985 CriticalLegal Studies Feminist Conference in Boston last June. She also delivered an address on "Sex-Based Issues: Comparable Worth, Sexual Harassment and Pregnancy Disability" at the 1986 Equal Employment Opportunity conference in Los Angeles. During her fall semestersabbatical,she worked on an article on sex equality theory.
Daniel Lowenstein has had two articles published recentlyin the UCLA LawReview.
The first, entitled "Political Bribery and the Intermediate Theory of Politics," was published in the April 1985 issue. Although this article was
written primarily as a theoretical study, it acquired immediate practical significance when Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler was indicted in Los Angeles for allegedly attempting to bribe a fellow candidate in the race for U.S. Senate to withdraw from the race. Professor Lowenstein's article was widely quoted in the popular press because it included what is apparently the only scholarly analysis ever written on the issue of bribery of candidates. Professor Lowenstein later helped defend Congresswoman Fiedler in court.
The second article, co-authored with Jonathan Steinberg, is entitled "The Quest for Legislative Districting in the Public Interest: Elusive or Illusory?" The article deals with an important issue pending before the United States Supreme Court, namely whether a districting plan that satisfies the equalpopulationrequirement can bedeclaredunconstitutional on the ground that it is a partisan gerrymander. The article was part of a symposium on gerrymandering, organized by Professor Lowenstein, that was held in October at the School of Law and published in the October 1985 issue of the UCLA Law Review.
ProfessorLowensteinserves on the board of Californians for Nonsmokers' Rights and the Shakespeare Society of America.
Rod Margo, a member of the parttime faculty, addressed the International Bar Association's section on business law at its seventh conference in Singapore on "Space LawFact or Fancy." In February 1986 he delivereda paper on recent developments in aviation law at the 20th annual air law symposium of the Journal of Air Law & Commerce at Southern Methodist University.
Margo is scheduled to give an address to the Aviation Insurance Association in May 1986 at its annual conference in San Francisco on the problems created for insurers by punitive damage awards. In September 1986, he will be speaking on recent developments in aviation law at the Third Annual Aviation Law and Claims Conference in London.
Henry McGee wasappointed by the Los Angeles Boardof Supervisors to represent the County Commission on Obscenity and Pornography on a multi-agency task force to consider innovative strategies to curb unlaw-
ful pornography. Professor McGee testified before the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety to urge changes in state evidentiary law which would facilitate the reception of testimony by children in sexual molestation prosecutions.
In January, Professor McGee was in Mexico City for a meeting with the Attorney General of Mexico, Dr. Sergio Garcia-Ramirez, who asked him to organize an extern program for UCLA School of Law students in the principal law enforcement office in Mexico. Amember of the advisory committee of the UCLA Latin American Center, Professor McGee arranged an extern program last year with the Organization of American States in its Washington, D.C., headquarters which will commence in the fall semester of this year. Professor McGee, who will head a delegation of American lawyers to the Soviet Union in July, was recently invited by the Faculty of Law of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to serve as Visiting Professor in 1987.
During the first national celebration in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor McGee was interviewed on radio programs produced and distributed by the University of California Office of University Relations in Berkeley as part of its "University Explorer" series for broadcast by domestic stations as well as by the Voice of America. This spring, an essay by Professor McGee will be published in an issue of the Harvard Law School BlackletterJournaldedicated to Dr. King's memory.
William McGovern's book, with Larry Lawrence, Cases and Problems on Contracts and Sales, is being published in Aprilby Matthew Bender. He is continuing to work on a hornbook on wills, trusts and future interests.
David Mellinkoff participated in a session on opinion writing given by the California Center for Judicial Education and Research for new appellate research attorneys. He also took part in an all day workshop for California trial judges in the California Judges Association judicial writing workshop.
Professor Mellinkoff is currently working on his Dictionary ofAmerican Legal Usage.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow published
her portion of the Buffalo Law School :viitchell Leeture in "Feminist Discourse, Moral Values and the LawA Conversation" in 34 Buffalo Law Review 49 (1985). She also published "For and Against Settlement: The Uses and Abuses of the Mandatory SettlementConference" in 33 UCLA LawReview (1985) and a shorter version of this article appeared in Trial magazine as "Judges and Settlement" [October 1985). Her other publications this year have included "Too Little Theory, Too Little Practice? Steven's LawSchool" 1985 American Bar Foundation ResearchJournaland "The Paralegalizalion of Legal Services for the Poor" in Clearinghouse Review [1985).
Professor Menkel-Meadow serves on the editorial boards of the American Bar FoundationResearchJournal and the Journal ofLegal Education. She served on the planning committee for and gave a presentation at the AALS mini-workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Orleans and helped plan and moderate the
fourth annual Corporate Dispute Resolution Institute [held this year at UCLA) which isjointlysponsored by UCLA, Northwestern Law School, the University of Texas Law School and the Center for Public Resources. She was recently appointed to the Academic Council ofthe Center for Public Resources which will advise the corporate bar about dispute resolution education and research.
Menkel-Meadow lectured this winter at the negotiationfaculty seminar and dispute colloquim at the Harvard Law School and spent a week as a visitng scholar at the Harvard negotiation project. She also gave papers and talks at Osgoode Hall Law School, the American Bar Foundation-NorthwesternSchool of Law and the University of Wisconsin Law School on the comparative sociology of women lawyers. She co-taught a course on mediation and negotiation for lawyers this fall in Mill Valley, California, under the sponsorship of the Center for the Developmentof Mediation in Law.
Sheco-authored, with Professor Murray Schwartz, a teachers' manual for ProfessorSchwartz'casebook Lawyers and the Legal Professionand she and ProfessorSchwartz are at work on the third edition of that book.
Stephen R. Munzer presented a paper on "Property Rights in the Body: Waiver, Pregnancy, and Abortion" to the North American Society for Social Philosophy in Colorado Springs and gave a lecture at the University ofColorado, Boulder. He presented a paper on "Property Rights in External Things" at the American Philosophical Association's eastern division meeting in Washington, D.C. He also presented a paper on "Corporations and the Interests of All" at the APA Pacific division meeting in Los Angeles. In addition, he participated in two Liberty Fund conferences on Distributive Justice and International Relations in Minnesota and on Takings of Property and the Constitution in San Diego.
Frances Olsen published "The Myth of State Intervention in the Family" in 18 University of MichiganJournal of Law Reform 835 (1985). Her article "The Sex of Law: A Feminist Perspective on Critical Legal Theories" is scheduled to appear in the summer issue of Telos. The Harvard Law Reviewis republishing her article "The Family and the Market: A Study of Ideology and Legal Reform" in a book of essays to come out this spring.
Last summer, Professor Olsen spoke on a panel on "Foucault's Legal Legacy" at the annual meeting of the Law and SocietyAssociationin San Diego and co-directed lwo discussions of pornography, sex discrimination and free speech at the National Women's Studies Association meeting in Seattle, Washington. She spent the rest of the summer in Madison, Wisconsin as an honorary fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies and a senior fellow of the Wisconsin Legal History Program.
Professor Olsen delivered "The Sex of Law" at the University of Chicago Law School. She spoke on legal responses to prostitution at the regional Women and Law conference in San Diego and will speak again on prostitution to the National Conference on Woman in Chicago, where on another panel she will address the history and future of adoption law. She will discuss her work on legal history at the Western Conference of Women Historians in Los Angeles, at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association in Chicago, and at the National Women's Studies Association meeting at the University of Illinois.
Olsen will present a paper this April on American feminism and critical legal theory to the Feminist Perspectives on Law conference at London University; a revised version will be published in the InternationalJournal of the Sociology of Law. She is also slated to speak at a history conference at Oxford, England, in June and at an international legal theory conference to be held in July in Bremen, West Germany.
She continues to serve on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools section on women in law teaching and has been named chair-elect of the section on jurisprudence. She is also on the inaugural board of editors ofa new journal of critical legal studies.
Professor Olsen is currently work-
ing on an article "From False Paternalism to False Equality: Judicial Assaults on Feminist Community, Illinois 1869-1895," for the Michigan Law Review.
Patrick Patterson spoke at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Conference on Affirmative Action in New York City and at a conference on "Civil Rights on the Rebound" sponsored by the San Francisco Lawyers' Committee for Urban Affairs in San Francisco. He presented a lead paper at a conference on Employee Selection Principles sponsored by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York City.
Professor Patterson testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities, regarding proposals to revise the federal government's Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures.
In the case City of Riverside v. Rivera, currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Patterson is counsel, with former UCLA law professor Gerald P. Lopez, for the plaintiffs-respondents. The case concerns the permissibility of court awards of counsel fees to prevailing plaintiffs in civil rights cases where the fees awarded to the plaintiffs' attorneys are large in proportion to the damages recovered by the plaintiffs.
He is currently working on an article on employee selection practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Gary Schwartz's article "Directions in Contemporary ProductsLiability Scholarship" appears in the current issue of the Journal of Legal Studies.
An article of his on tort law and economic loss has recently been published in a torts symposium in the University of San Diego Law Review and also in a volume of essays by Ducksworth in England.
Murray L. Schwartz has published a second edition of his casebook Lawyers and the Legal Profession, together with a Teacher's Manual. He is a member of the judicial panel of the Council on Public Resources and of the proposal evaluation panel for the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China. Professor Schwartz is also a member of the UCLA Council on
Academic Personnel.
Phillip R. Trimble completed a book on arms control negotiations, participated in a symposium on Islamic law at the law school, and delivered papers on the teaching of international law at the American Society of International Law.
William D. Warren was appointed co-reporter for the new project of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute to amend Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code and to draft a new article for the UCC on wholesale wire transfers. He attended the first meeting of the project in Washington. He spoke on "Good Faith and Fair Dealing" in New Orleans as part of a program entitled "Emerging Theories of LenderLiability,"sponsoredby the ABA Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law.
John Wiley published "A Capture Theory of Antitrust Federalism" in the February 1986 issue of the Harvard Law Review. Hethoughtit good fun that the issue arrived in his mailbox and the Supreme Court decided a case that this article briefly analyzed on thesameday: hisbirthday. Wileypresently is working on a paper that assesses the antitrust implications of a branch ofgame theory called the theory of the core.
Eric M. Zolt delivered a paper on "Alternative Structures for Raising Capital for Research and Development" at a conference on venture capital sponsored by the IllinoisInstitute for Continuing LegalEducation. He spoke on the "Tax Aspects of Real Estate Investments" ata conference on advanced tax planning for real estate transactions sponsored by the Northwest Center for Professional Education.
Professor Zolt iscurrentlyworking on an article examining proposals for integratingtheindividualandcorporate federal income taxsystems.
Top left: Dean Prager joins Founders in dedicating the new section of Founders Wall inside law building's main entrance.
Bottom left: Among guests at The Dean's Annual Dinner, Marvin Jubas '54, Roger C. Pettit '54, Sherwin Memel'54 and Hugo D. De Castro '60. Center: Dean Maxwell's tributes included one delivered by Chancellor Young.
Right:Dinnerguestsseatedin the James E. West Center.
AnEveningWithDeanMaxwell
na celebrationwhich mixednostalgia and humor, and which reunited many old friends, Dean Richard C. Maxwellwashonoredbythe School ofLawatTheDean'sAnnualDinner on February 1. Alumni and friends gathered to celebrate Dick Maxwell's unique contributions to the school during his decade of leadership through the 1960s. As Chancellor Charles E. Young summarized it, "Dean Maxwell deserves all the accolades we can heap upon him."
The dinner was preceded by dedication of a new sectionoftheFoundersWallinsidethemainentrance
of the law building, where the names of Founders are inscribed in marble. Dean Susan Westerberg Prager and Marvin Jubas '54 noted atthe ceremony thatthewallnowincludesthenamesof189Founders, representing a total commitment of $1,900,000 in unrestrictedsupportfortheschool."Itisenormously important to faculty and students," said Professor William Warren at the dedication, "to know that you who are standing here now care enough about the school to support it."
At The Dean's Annual Dinner, held in the James E. West Center, Hugo D. De Castro '60 reported on gifts from alumni, law firms and friends as part
of the current UCLA Campaign, in which the law school'sgoalis $7.5million.Dean Pragernotedthat Chancellor Younghasprovidedamajormomentum for UCLA by initiating this capital fundraising effort.
Theevening'scenterpiece,clearly,wasDeanMaxwell.CharlesE. Rickershauser,Jr.'57recalledstudent days when Maxwell was dean. His legendary excellence in the classroom was complemented by uncommonrapportwithstudentsandfacultyalike.
The dinner's printed program, taking account of theremarkablefacultyrecruitedduringtheMaxwell years, listed those who joined the school during his leadership: Professors Harold Marsh, Addison Mueller, Murray Schwartz, Norman Abrams, WilliamCohen,RobertL.Jordan,BenjaminAaron,John A. Bauman, William D. Warren, Herbert Morris, MelvilleB. Nimmer,JesseDukeminier,DonaldHagman, Kenneth W. Graham, Harold W. Horowitz, Kenneth L. Karst, Leon Letwin, Wesley J. Liebeler,
DavidMellinkoff,MonroePrice,MichaelR.Asimow, Arthur I. Rosett, Gary T. Schwartz, Reginald H. Alleyne and Henry W. McGee.
Chancellor Young, in his tribute, emphasized the significanceof Maxwell'sleadership intheschool's early history.
"If the UCLA School of Law has a father, it must be Dick Maxwell," said Young. "He was asked to assume the deanship in 1959 at a very difficult period in the school's history, and immediately provided the leadership and vision to bring the school to the forefront of legal education in the United States. Dick applied youthful energy to buildingbothfacultyandcurriculum.DickMaxwell notonlyledthelawschooltotheforefrontnationally, he gave himself without reservation to leadership in legal education. As an outstanding dean, legal education pioneer, and recipient of the UCLA DistinguishedTeachingAward,DeanRichardMaxwell deservesalltheaccoladeswecanheapuponhim."D
News
Moot Court Tournament and attained the quarter-final stage of the National Competition in New York City.
Bill McGeary Named Director of Career Planning Of£ice
Bill McGeary has been appointed Director of Career Planning for the Law School. He brings to the position 15 years of personal and career counseling experience, as well as a philosophy of career planning which represents a new trend in law school placement programs nationwide.
"Originally," McGeary observes, "law placement was primarily a clerical function. Later, professionals were included to act as liaisons between schools and employers. The recent directionemphasizesthe counselingaspect of careerplanning and schools areinterestedin individuals with counseling credentials. The service is no longer just a 'job brokerage' but a comprehensive, career development, counseling program."
For McGeary, such a program is necessarily threefold. "First, we focus on theindividual-formulatinggoals, investigatingemploymentoptions, and developing personal marketing strategies based on educational background, experience, interests and values. Alumni services include information, networking, and career redirection strategies.
"Next, we wish to create a serviceoriented atmosphere which conveys the message 'we can help you.' Our open-doorcounselingpolicy is designedto increase accessibility and encouragestudents and alumni to takeadvantage of this service."
The third facet of McGeary's program deals with expansion of information and opportunities. "In addition to our work with the students and alumni,we offer consultation to legal employers on marketing and recruitment techniques. We are working to increaseopportunities in public
interest, government, and nontraditional areas of law as well as private practice.''
McGeary comes to UCLA after three years as Director of the Career Planning andPlacement Office at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles where he was able to implement and develop many of his counseling techniques. In 1985, he was guest speaker at the National Association for Law Placement National Convention in San Francisco and at the NALP Regional Conferencein Palm Springs in February.
He earned a B.A. in Political Science from George Washington University in 1970 and a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from Florida Atlantic University in 1976.
One of McGeary's objectives is an augmentation of alumni assistance in career planning for UCLA students, and in this program hewelcomes all participation. He plansan active involvement of alumni in activities including speaking engagements and panel discussions.
Moot Court Team Sets Distinguished Record During Year
UCLA's National Moot Court Team took first place in the Western Regional Competition of the National
In the Western Regional Competition, which took place on November 16, 1985, team members Sandra Seville-Jones, Bob Teeter and Jim Burns were victorious in five rounds without a defeat. Augmenting the team's illustrious standing, Bob Teeter captured the "Best Oral Advocate" Award as well.
On January 27, 1986, the students travelled to New York City to participate in the final phase of the national competition. Their hard work and dedication garnered the team a high national ranking, between fifth and eighth in the country.
These performances were preceded by a successful track record for the UCLA team. Seville-Jones and Teeter werelastyear's Roscoe Pound Tournament winners and Burns was UCLA's "Best Brief Writer" in the intramural program. Rob Noriega, chief justice of the Moot Court Honors Program, notes that "the students have worked tirelessly over the past year to reach this level of accomplishment.''
Communications Law Program Headed
By Daniel Brenner
Daniel Brenner, current senior advisor to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has accepted the position of director of the UCLA Communications LawProgram beginningJuly 1.
Charles Firestone, who has directed the program since 1977, will continue as an adjunct professor and will teach part-time at the law school.
Brenner joined the FCC in 1979 and in 1984 he served as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation tothe High Frequency World Administrative Radio Conference in Geneva. He has taught at Stanford University, George Washington University, American University School of Law, and the Cardozo School of Law.
DeanSusan Westerberg Prager was received by Xie Xide, the president ofFudan Universityin Shanghai, in October when Dean Prager and eight other deans from U.S. law schools visited major Chinese law faculties under auspices ofthe Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China. Also pictured isJeanne Tai, whoserved as tour guide and interpreter.
Classnotes
The 1950s
William Cohen '56, who served on the UCLA law faculty from 1959 to 1970, has been named to the C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith professorship of law at Stanford. Cohen has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1970.
Kenneth E. Kulzick '56 has been listed in the 44th edition of Who's Who In America. Kulzick, whose practice is in media and copyright, settled cases for Stephen Speilberg and Warren Beatty last year.
J. Howard Sturman '56, a senior partner in the Encino firm of Goldfarb, Sturman & Averbach, has
merged his firm withthe practice of Martin L. Sturman. The new firm will be known as Goldfarb, Sturman, Averbach & Sturman.
Arthur W. Jones '57 has been appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the bench of the San Diego Superior Court.
Charles E. Rickershauser, Jr. '57 has left his position aschair and chief executive of the Pacific Stock Exchange to join the newLos Angeles office of the New York law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.
Edward P. George, Jr. '59 has been installed as president of the Long Beach Bar Association.
The 1960s
Edwin Osborne '60 will serve as assistant presiding judge of the Ventura County Municipal Court in 1986.
Sol P. Ajalat '62 hasbeen elected presidenl of the Lawyers' Club of Los Angeles.
Keith L. Groneman '62 has been named by Governor Deukmejian as a Municiapl Court Judge in the Los Angeles Judicial District.
Richard D. Aldrich '63 has been elected president of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates for 1986 and has been appointed to the BAJ! Committee (Book of Approved Jury Instructions) by Judge John L. Cole, chairman.
David Sol Sperber '64 has been named "man of the year" by Chabad of the San Fernando Valley.
Robert F. Katz '66 has assumed the office of president of the Association of California State Attorneys and AdministrativeLaw Judges.
Alan B. Haber '67 was appointed a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor Deukmejian.
Frederick Jones '67 has been elected presiding judge of the Ventura County Municipal Court.
Frank Kashuk '67 and his wife and law partner, Lynda Shayne, have dissolved their legal practice in favor of co-parenting their newly arrived son, Morgan Shane Kashuk, in Cambria, California.
Leatrice Lynne Latts '67, with John W. Herstead, has formed the partnership of Latts & Herstead.
Barry A. Fisher '68 has been appointed chairman of the religious freedom subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Individual Rights Section for 1986. He is general counsel, United States Romani Counsel, the political arm of the American Gypsy Communtiy, and delivered a paper on the emergence of Gypsy civil rights in New York at the annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the Gypsy Lore Society.
Frederick Lee Hall III '68 has published "VA Home Loans in Hawaii" in the Hawaii Bar Journal. An earlier article in that journalwas on "Civil Commitment in Hawaii." He is also a contibutor to the Report on Plain Language LawConveyancing. He is president of the Hawaii chapter of the FederalBar Association and a member of the U.S. District Court of Hawaii rules committee.
Kenneth Dexler '69 has been selected as legislation committee chair of the Marin County Bar Association. He alsois in thesecondyear of a threeyear term on the board of directors of the Marin County Bar.
The 1970s
Roger King '70, a senior trial assistant with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, has been selected to participate in the Smithsonian Institute's Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C. in June and July 1986. King will be among a selectgroup of lawyersdemonstratingtheir trial advocacy skills on stage during a 10day period. The purpose of the activity is to makeAmericansaware of the rich variety oftraditionswhich form the roots of American culture.
Joel S. Moskowitz '70, formerly deputy director for the toxic substances control programs of the California Department of Health Services and California Deputy Attorney General, has become of counsel to the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles. He willspecializein environmental law.
Thomas E. Stindt '70, formerly a member and department chairman of Rifkind & Sterling, has become of counselto the firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in its West Los Angeles office. Hisemphasiswill continue in estate planning, family business matters, probate disputes, trusts and estates.
Wallace L. Walker '70 is in private practice in Philadelphia, specializing in criminal defense work.
Laurence D. Rubin '71 has been elected presiding judge of the Santa Monica Municipal Court for 1986.
N. Paul Devereaux '72 has been
elected vice president/taxes for the Los Angeles based Carnation Company. Previously, he was director of taxes and was promoted in conjunction with the purchase of Carnation by Nestle of Switzerland.
Noel F. Heal '72 has opened law offices in West Los Angeles. He will continue to specialize in patent, trademark and copyright law.
Nancy Kelso '72 was recently elected to the Soledad-Agua Dulce School District board of trustees. She lives in the Antelope Valley community of Acton and maintains a general practice there under the firm name of Kelso & Young, in partnership with Calvin M. Young III '70.
Gordon J. Louttit '72 has been named a vice president of Whittaker Corporation.
Raymond Mireles '72 has been appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the East LosAngelesMunicipal Court.
Alan R. Parker '72 is president of the American Indian National Bank in Washington, D.C., and formerly served as chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. He is also a founding partner in Tribal Ventures Inc.
Robert Popeney '72 has been elected treasurer of The South Bay Bar Association.
Thomas Larry Watts '72 recently joined the Los Angeles office of Wildman, Harrold, Allen, Dixon, Barash & Hill as a partner. The firm also has offices in Chicago, Atlanta, Memphis, Houston and London, England.
Joe W. Hilberman '73 notes that the law firm of Fonda & Garrard, whose principals include Peter M. Fonda and Joe W. Hilberman, both of the class of 1973, has relocated on Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles. The firm continues to specialize in civil litigation.
Harvey M. Horikawa '73 has been appointed to the stale Fair Employment and HousingCommission by Governor Deukmejian. His appointment was confirmed by the state Senate and his four year term will continue through November 1988.
Richard J. Kaplan '73 has become a partner of Hughes Hubbard & Reed in Los Angeles. Formerly a partner
of Rifkind & Sterling, he continues to specialize in taxation law.
Stewart Kwoh '74 has been elected executive vice president of the Southern California Chinese Lawyers' Association.
Timothy J. Muris '74 has become executive associate director of the Office of Managment & Budget (0MB) in Washington, D.C.
Mack D. Pridgen III '74 has been admitted to partnership in the firm of Arthur Anderson & Company in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Valerie Lynn Baker '75 has been appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court by Governor Deukmejian.
Victoria Block '75 recentlyranfor District Judge in Boyd County, Kentucky. She received 42% of the vote, a notable acheivement for "a woman and an outsider" she comments. Block and her husband/campaign manager, Cam Nickell, are both solo practitioners. They hope to relocate to California in the near future.
Mark J. Huebsch '75 has become a partner in the law firm of Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth in Newport Beach. He is the father of Nathaniel, 5, and Rachel, 2.
Andrew C. Kauffman '75 has been appointed as commissioner of the South Bay Municipal Court in Torrance, California.
Alex Kozinski '75 was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He will be resident in Los Angeles.
Marjorie S. Steinberg '75, a real estate lawyer with the firm of Tuttle & Taylor, was installed as president of the Women Lawyers' Association of Los Angeles.
Lourdes Gillespie Baird '76 has been appointed a judge of the East Los Angeles Municipal Court by Governor Deukmejian.
Dennis M. Elber '76 has recently joined the firm of Silver, McWilliams, Stolpman, Mandel & Katzman as an associate.
Frances Kandel '76 has been elected secretary of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. "
Gerald Gould Knapton '76 has become chairman of First National Group in Pasadena. The company arranges financing for income-producing real estate projects in Southern California.
Kenneth Morgan Phillips '76 has announced that his firm, Phillips & Associates, has been joined by his brother, John W. Phillips, who was formerly with the Los AngelesCity Attoney.
Michael Rich and Debra Granfield '76 have a second son, William, born October 13, 1985. Michael has been elected to the Council on Foreign Relations and has been named deputy vice president of The Rand Corporation's national security research division.
Gloria Roa-Josepher '76 was recently elected a member of the board of directors of the South Florida chapter of the Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers. She continues to specialize in corporate and pro-
fessional visas.
Gustavo A. Barcena '77 has been electedpresident-electof the Mexican-American BarAssociationof Los Angeles.
Andrea H. Bricker '77 has become a partner of Hughes Hubbard & Reed in Los Angeles. Formerly a partner of Rifkind & Sterling, she continues to specialize in securities law.
CarolynHopkinsCarlburg'77announces the formation of a lawpartnership under the firm name of Carlburg, Cook & Middleton in Pasadena.
Emma Castro '77has been elected to a seat on the board oftrusteesof the Mexican-American Bar Association.
Dhiya El-Saden '77 has become a partner ofthe firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles.
Richard A. Lawrence '77 and Christopher M. Harding '77have formed the firm of Lawrence & Harding, specializing in real estate and general
business law. The firm is based in Santa Monica.
Edward B. Reitkopp '77 has joined National Broadcasting Company in Burbank as a labor attorney.
Marcy J. K. Tiffany '77 was appointed acting general counsel of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C.
Jerry M. Cannon '78 has become of counselto the firm of Sullivan, McWilliams, Lewin, Markham and Disner in San Diego. His practice is ·concentrated on bankruptcy reorganization and business law.
Hilary Huebsch Cohen '78 has become a partner in the firm of Hirschtick, Chenen, Lemon & Curtis in Los Angeles.
David Faustman '78 has been made a partner at Latham & Watkins and heads the employment law practice of Latham's San Diego office.
Michael Fernhoff '78 has become a
partner of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in the firm's Los Angles office.
Lorna C. Greenhill '78 has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Long Beach Bar Associationfor 1986. As chair of the Long Beach Bar Association's Family Law section, she conducted the Saturday Family Law Seminar.
Daniel C. Hedigan '78 has been promoted lo associate general counsel for The Irvine Company, an Orange County, California, land development and real estate firm. He joined The Irvine Company in 1984 as division counsel to its industrial development division.
Dean J. Kitchens '78 has become a partner of the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcherin Los Angeles.
Ann L. Kough '78 and John D. O'Loughlin '72 of O'Loughlin & Kough and MichelleKatzhave formedthe firm of O'Loughlin, Kough & Katz in Los Angeles.
Michael T. Lambert '78 and Charles E. Washburn Jr. '79 have become partners in McKenna, Conner & Cuneo in Los Angeles.
Steven P. Lawrence '78 has become a partner of Knecht, Haley, Lawrence & Smith in San Francisco. He specializes in construction litigation.
Mark P. Leach '78 has been elected first vice president of the Lawyers' Club of Los Angeles.
Donna A. Little '78 has been appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy advisory committee.
Christopher J. Martin '78 has become a partner of the firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in San Jose.
Thomas D. Martin '78 has been appointed to head the newly created Office of the Great Lakes by Michigan Governor James J. Blanchard. He notesthat the new office has crafted regional and international environmental agreements.
Helen Whiteford Melman '78 formerly a partner with Rifkind & Sterling, Beverly Hills, has joined the Los Angeles office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, where she continues to specialize in corporate securities law.
Cynthia T. Podren '78 has been elected president of the Women Lawyers of AlamedaCounty.
Michael Robbins '78has written an article, "State Wrongful Termination Law: Are Unionized Employees Covered?" which will appear in the summer 1986 issue of the Employee Relations LawJournal. Robbins continues to practice labor law in the Los Angeles office of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz and to teach industrial relationsat the LoyolaMarymount University Center for Industrial Relations.
David I. Schulman '78, a Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney, has been named by the City Attorney to head a specially created AIDS anti-discriminationunit. He also co-chairs the Durable Power ofAttorney for HealthCareSubcommitteeoftheBioethicsCommitteeof the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Elaine Stangland '78 has become a partner in the firm ofSidley & Austin in the Los Angeles office.
Armando Duron '79has been elected president of the Mexican-American Bar Association of Los Angeles County.
John P. Eleazarian '79 has become a member ofKimble, MacMichael & Upton in Fresno, specializing in bankruptcy and insolvencylaw.
Penelope Glass '79 has become a partner at Silverberg, Rosen, Leon & Behr in Century City, where she specializes in entertainment and copyrightlaw.
Oleta J. Harden '79, formerly an attorneyfortheAllstateInsurance Company and the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, has recently been promoted to vice president and secretary at New Jersy Resources Corporation. She joined the companyin 1984 ascorporatesecretary.
Patricia Karahan '79 has moved to Big Sur, where shecontinuesto run herpublishingcompany, The Horse and Bird Press, specializing in books of poetry, philosophy and psychology. She writes: "no fast lanes, mostly dirt roads!"
Kathryn S. Krause '79 has opened a law practice in Vail, Colorado, under the firm name of O'Connor & Krause.
She notes she "would be happy to have any of herfriendslook her up the next timethey'rein Vail."
Kathryn J. Nelson '79 has become a partner in the firm of Eisenhower, Carlson, Newlands, Reha, Henriot and Quinn located in Tacoma, Washington. She has just completed a one year term as president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association's Young Lawyers' Division.
Michael J. O'Connor '79 has become a partner of Wyman, Bauzter, Rothman, Kuchel & Silbert in Century City.
Mark J. Phillips '79 is associated with the firm of Goldfarb, Sturman, Averbach & Sturman in Encino.
Robert Waxman '79, practicing in the areas of commercial litigation and unfair competition, has become a partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Ervin, Cohen & Jessup.
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Frederick P. Corbit '80 has become a partner in the law firm of Lasher & Johnson in Seattle, Washington.
David Estrada 'so has been elected to a seat on the board of trustees of the Mexican-American Bar Association of Los Angeles County.
Debra Hodgson '80 recentlyreturned to her home state, Colorado, where she joined the law firm of Cooper & Kelley. She specializes in media law and professional liability litigation.
Dennis Landin '80 has just completed his third year with thefederal Public Defender's Office in Los Angeles. He notes that Yolanda Barrera Gomez '79 is the senior trial deputy in that office.
Craig G. Riemer '80 has become associated with Dye, Thomas, Luebs & Ingalls in Riverside. He continues to specialize in business litigation.
Jacob N. Segura '80 is one of the founding partners of a new partnership, Wilson & Reitman, in Beverly Hills. The firmhas a civil litigation and business law practice.
Richard Brody '81has become associated with the law firm of McQuaid,
Michael Broderick '83 is currently serving as special assistant and legal counsel to Mayor Tom Bradley.
Michelle D. English '83 has joined the Philadelphia-based law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen as a member of the corporate department, concentrating in public finance.
Everett Clay Hoffman '83 is practicing consumer law at the Legal Aid in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dana E. Miles '83 has become associated with Riordan, Caps, Carbone & McKinzie in Westlake Village. His practice will continue to emphasize computer related transactions and 11·ill im olve securities and venture capital financings.
Deborah Monticue '83 has become associated with the firm of Popeney, Lebetsamer & Grange, while currently studying for her LL.M. in taxation.
Michael A. Sawamura '83 has opened his own law practice in Sacramento and has become of counsel to the law firm of Brookman and Hoffman.
Mark Gregory Schroeder '83 has completed a two year judicial clerkship with Chief Justice Donald D. Alsop, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. He is now associated with the St. Paul law firm of Briggs and Morgan.
Mark Schwartz '83 has become associated with the firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood in New York. He was married in February to Sari Serber and has a cat named Abigail.
Joan A. Wolff '83 has become associated with the firm of Alschuler, Grossman & Pines in Los Angeles.
Jodi Zechowy '83 has become the assistant general counsel of Emett & Chandler Companies in Century City.
Alan S. Berman '84 has become associated with the firm of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields, Chrystie and Younger.
Richard Cray '84 has moved to Universal Pictures, Music Business Affairs. He formerly served as Associate Counsel of Screen Gems-EMI Music.
Lawrence "Larry" Goldberg '84 has become associated with the firm of 36
Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Kreutzman & Hart in San Rafael, California. The firm specializes in entertainment law.
James E. Rogan '84 has left the firm of Lillick, McHose & Charles and is now a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County.
Stephen D. Cooke '85 has become associated with the Orange County office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.
Ned Scherer '85 has become associated with the firm of Baker & Botts in Houston, Texas. He notes that he has yet to buy a pair of cowboy boots and that he &,till speaks more like a "valley boy" than a Texan.
Anne B. Torkington '85 has become associated with the Los Angeles firm of Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian.
Arnold H. Wuhrman '85 has been appointed to serve on the legal ethics committee of the Indiana State Bar Association. Wuhrman is currently associated with the firm of Bamberger & Feibleman in Indianapolis.
IN MEMORIAM
Ivan E. Lawrence '56, July 7, 1985.
Dee L. Sheffer '81, November 25, 1985.
Kathryn Louise Tobin '80, February 22, 1986. PRIVACY NOTICE
Calendar of Events
Saturday, May 31, 1986-Class of '66 Reunion, Law School Patio, 6:30 p.m.
June 12-San Diego Alumni Luncheon, Westgate Hotel.
Wednesday, June 18, 1986Westside Alumni Reception, The Chronicle Restaurant, 2640 Main St., Santa Monica, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Guest speaker, Professor Steven Shiffrin.
September 12-16, 1986-State Bar Association Convention in Monterey. Monday, September 15, luncheon hosted by the UCLA Alumni Association, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Big Sur Room, Noon to 1:30 p.m. Guest speaker, Professor Phillip Trimble.
Saturday, September 20, 1986Class of '71 Reunion, UCLA Malibu Conference Center, 6 p.m.
Saturday, September 27, 1986Class of '61 Reunion, UCLA Malibu Conference Center, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 5, 1986-Sixth Annual School of Law All Alumni Day and Barbecue, law school patio.
Saturday, October 18, 1986-Class of '81 Reunion, Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, upper picnic area.
Thursday, October 30, 1986-San Francisco Alumni Luncheon, Sheraton Palace Hotel, State Suite, Noon.
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You can make the difference!
We are all proud that UCLA ranks among the top law schools in the nation academically. However, are you aware thatlast year only 14% of UCLA School of Law alumni contributed to theLaw Annual Fund!
This is much lower thanthealumni support givenat other law schools.with whom we consider ourselves to be comparable:
It is only half of Boalt Hall's 28%.
It is far below Virginia's 360/o and Michigan's 43%. These are all public institutions like UCLA.
We can make a significantcontributiontothecontinued excellenceof our school if ouralumni participation is increasedto theselevels.
Although individual gifts to theLaw Annual Fund are impressive, we cannotcontinue to rely on large gifts froma small percentageof alumni. Wemustincrease the number ofdonors.
;be assistance of each ' �f y�� to increaseourparticipation rate. Such anincreasewould senda messageto the faculty and administration that weappreciateall they are doing to keep our law schoolattheforefrontand that we want to doour part to help maintain the schoors quality and reputation.
I urge you lo usetheattached envelopeto makea gift he• fore the end of the 1985-86 Law Annual Fund campaign. You still haveJime before the close of this year's campaign on June 30 to make a significantJmprovement inour participation rate.
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Your gift can make a difference. A contribution inany amount (whetherit fits into oneof the standardcategories or not) will helpyour school. Pleasejoin me in supporting the UCLA School of Law bysending in yourcontribution today.
Everett F. Meiners '64 Chairman, Law Annual Fund
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