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The '50s Remembered
CLA School of Law celebrated its 40th Anniversary at a ceremony on October 26, at the same time dedicating the new clinical education wing. Some striking comparisons between the past and present were obvious in an exhibit of historical photos. A formal portrait of the original faculty in 1949 showed five professors that first year.
During the day, alumni of the 1950s shared memories about their years as law students. Their recollections created a poignant tapestryof the first law community at UCLA. A fact not known, perhaps, to most alumni is that the school began in three temporary bungalows before the original building was completed in1951. Someotherfacets oftheschool'searly days - Dean L. Dale Coffman and Professor Roscoe Pound - have become legendary.
The excitementofthosefirstyearswaspreserved at the 4oth Anniversary during a series of videotaped interviews with alumni from the 1950s. These are excerpts from the interviews:
Jerome H. Goldberg '53: They brought in three army barracks buildings and set them up behind Royce Hall, and that's where the Law School existed for the first two years. The first year in the barracks, we had oneclassroom building; one building was the library and the third was the faculty offices. You couldonlyholdoneclassatatime, becausetherewas only the one classroom, and our curriculum was somewhat limited by the size of the facility, and by the number of professors -a very small facultyfive or six professors at that time.
John McCarthy '52: Our classes were held in a singletemporarybuilding, andoneofthebuildingsright next to us was the theater arts workshop. We had to have windows open because there was no air conditioning. Think about listening to Dean Pound lecturing and telling an occasional story in law French, when the whole thing is being drowned out by buzz saws from the workshop in the theater arts department at the same time. The distractions of dust blowing into those windows and the heat, it was
quite a challenge.
Jean Bauer Fisler: I think the experience was unique. We didn't have any upperclassmen - we didn't have anyone below or above us. Dean Coffman was very strict in what he expected of us; wehadto be full-time students, and there wasn't any option to work on the side. He planned the class schedule so we had class at 8, class at 11, and class at 3, which took the whole day. We had to read five cases in five courses. That was our routine. We were given hardbound books that we had to take our notes in and brief our cases in, and we were instructed not to read any supplementary material, but to figure out what the law was from reading the cases. It was strictly Socratic method. We learned the law from the points that were brought out in the cases and our class discussion each day.
Richard Hanna '52: Dean Coffman was a fellow I became very closely associated with, because when they made me president of the senior class I had to negotiate for our class with the Dean. I remember that the big move he made was when he started Saturday classes. Manyof the people in our classweremarried, and Saturday was the time when they did the laundryandcaughtup withother things.They werereally not enthralled with this plan, so my task was to go and disabuse the Dean of the idea that we needed Saturday classes. All of my very carefully chosen Irish charm was for naught. We ended up having Saturday classes.
Jean Bauer Fisler: Dean Coffman would say, "We expect you to work 25 hours a day and eight days a week." I think there were a couple of occasions when some of the married men announced that they were going to have a child. And Dean Coffman would say with a big scowl, "There were five minutes when someone wasn't studying."
John McCarthy: The average age in our class was 25 or maybe even more, because three-fourths of the class were veterans of World War II. We had spent three or four years in the armed forces, and we were ina hurry togetcaughtuponour lives by going to law school.
Joseph Tilem '52: We used to carry our books in a green bag, which we would sling over our shoulders, and we kept our notes in a bound notebook that had a line down the center. I still have my notebooks.
John McCarthy: I still have mine too.
JosephTilem: Years later, a case comesto mind and I go back and find the case and the comments in the notebook-so it did serve a very useful purpose.
Jerome Goldberg '53: I remember the excitement of moving into the new building. Although it was only a fraction of the size of the law building now, it was a
very exciting time. And the wonderful professors we had-we just absolutely hadthe best that there were.
RonaldJacobson '54: The primary part of our experience in law school WgS the new building. It was a brand new building, and we really all felt very privileged to be able to go through law school in the new building.
ProfessorEmeritusHaroldVerrall: The new building was completed and <ledicated in 1951. I remember one experience in that new building. I was just about ready to complete a lecture on Community Property Law, when a light above the lectern exploded. Down came a shower of broken glass. I was so engrossed in the lecture I didn't stop. When I was finished, I just brushed off the glass on my head and shoulders. And then the class exploded in a rising ovation. You know, I don't even think the lecture was that good.
Herb Ehrmann '55: The professors stand out in my mind- it was awonderfulfaculty. I think the professor who stands out probably more than anyone else was Jim Chadbourn. He taught Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, and Evidence. He was a wonderful man, a wonderful teacher, and he had a great sense of humor.
Joseph Tilem '52: Dean Coffman was rather straight-laced. We were awed and intimidated when he walked down the hall. The feeling (among students) was that Dean Coffman had been appointed to counter any charges that the new law school was going to be a liberal school in the general tradition of UCLA at that time. He wore a three-piece pin-striped suit. He was a very reserved, proper gentlemen.
Ron Jacobson '54: The thing I remember from my first year was the tremendous quality of the faculty Nobody could ever forget Jim Chadbourn in evidence and procedure. Harold M. Marsh was a brilliant professor. Rollin Perkins was a wonderful criminal law professor.
Jean Bauer Fisler '52: It was a great honor to have Dean Roscoe Pound on that first faculty. He was brought out of retirement from Harvard Law School and was 80 years old when he came to this faculty We were much in awe of Dean Pound. It was a great privilege to be in his class.
Maurice Bralley '52: He had some difficulty with his vision. Someone walking by his office thought that Dean Pound was talking to himself, but actually he was memorizing his lectures so that he could give them without notes.
Arthur Frankel '53: I remember my first encounter with Dean Pound. We were sitting in one of the temporary huts, waiting for Dean Pound to join us for the first class he was going to teach as a member of the
UCLA'sfirstlawfacultyexamines plansfortheoriginal building. Seated, from left: Dean Coffman and Professor Roscoe Pound. Standing, fromleft: Profes-
faculty. Hecamein, andI wassittinginthefrontrow. He was wearing a big green eye-shade. He had the largest Phi Beta Kappa key I have ever seen hooked around a gold watch and chain on his vest. He sat down behind the desk, took out the gold watch, flipped open the cover so he could tell what time it was. Thenhetookoutagoldpenknife, openeditand stabbed it into the desk, and rested his book on it. This man was a living legend, and there I was in his class. Frequently, you wouldsee him in the morning hitching a ride on Wilshire Boulevard. He didn't drive anymore.
Jerome Goldberg '53: Anyone who spent any time withRoscoePoundremembershim. HewastheDean EmeritusofHarvardLawSchool. Hehadsomevisual problems,whichcausedsomeofthestudentstoplay tricks on him. But he was a wonderful man. And it was just a pleasure to have taken classes from him.
Joseph Tilem '52: DeanPoundwouldtellstoriesof the days when he was a young child, and his family was among the first settlers out on the plains of Nebraska or Kansas. Eventually, he became a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court at a rather young age.
Jean Bauer Fisler: The first day of our class in
sors Harrold G. Verrall, Rollin M. Perkins, Brainerd Currie and Associate Professor Thomas S. Dabagh.
The original law building during construction.
Trusts, Roscoe Pound walked into class, opened the book and said "Well, I haven't taught Trusts since 1912."
John McCarthy: And in his Procedure class he would cite certain cases verbatim and he said, "You'll find that in 12 Nebraska - and I wrote it."
DeanPoundsmokedcigars, Ibelievetheywerecalled blackstaincigars. Theydidn'tseemtobotherhim.He lived to a good ripe age.
June (Trickey) Nelson '56: Some of the professors werechauvinistic, aswewouldsaynow; but inthose dayswewere lawyers-to-be and it didn'tbotherusat all. One professor would come in and say "Good morning, gentlemen." We laughed about that. When we passed the bar, of the 198 attorneys who were sworn in at that timetherewereonlysixwomen.We
got our pictures in the paper because it was such a novelty at the time.
Jean Bauer Fisler '52: In the first class there were five women-and five women finished. Since there werenotasmanywomeninlaw schoolinthosedays, we felt very privileged. The top-ranking scholars in our class were women. Ithink the fivewomen in our class felt very well accepted by both our classmates andbyourprofessors. Ibelievetheothersdidnotfeel discrimination against us at that particular time; we were part of the group.
Herb Ehrmann '55: In our third year, we had a running hearts card game going in the Law Review office.Theplayerskeptshiftingaspeoplehadtogoto class. The Dean every once in a while would bring visitors into the Law Review office, so we posted a
Laying the cornerstone at the siteof the new School of Law building were, from left, Dean L. Dale Coffman, Regent Edward A. Dickson, Professor Roscoe Pound, Judge F. Ray Bennett (president of the
lookout. We put advance sheets in the drawers, and when the lookout said "The Dean's coming!" we shoved the cards in the drawers and we pulled out the advance sheets. It was alot of fun.
Ralph Shapiro '58: I still get goose-bumps when I walk through the hallways andlookinto thoseclassrooms. Law school changed my life. It was a fun and
UCLAAlumni Association), A.M. Mull, Jr. (president of the State Bar of California), and former UCLA Provost Ernest Carroll Moore. February 15, 1950.
tense time. In those days, you were not supposed to work-youweresupposedtobeafull-timestudent.
I amexcitedtosay thatIwent tothisschool,andto knowthatithasafantasticreputation.The4Dthanniversary of the school is a wonderful time for us. I think we are all looking forward to the 45th anniversary, maybe the 50th.
Public Service: ATradition
y the second decade, a tradition of law in the public service had blossomed at the young law school. Before the '60s ended, that tradition was in full bloom. If there is one common characteristic of UCLA law alumni, it is a high level of commitment to civic responsiblity.
At the 4othAnniversary commemoration, two panels with UCLA law alumni shared some notable recent experiences in the arena of public service - the first in the Los Angeles County redistricting case, the second in the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Departme_nt.
Police Use of Excessive Force
In the wake of the Rodney King incident, a ten-member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department investigated issues arising from the use of excessive force by police. Six of the ten commissioners were lawyers, three of them UCLA law graduates from the 1950s and '60s.
All three, now in private practice, have distinguished records of public service. John A. Arguelles '54, retired justice of the California Supreme Court, was vice chair of the commissionappointed to investigate police practices. Other members from the ranks of UCLA law alumni were Willie Barnes '59,
former California Commissioner of Corporations, and Andrea Sheridan Ordin '65, former Chief Assistant Attorney General.
The comments recorded in October seem all the more prescient now, after the tragic events of April and May.
These are excerpts from their own descriptions of the commission's work:
John A. Arguelles '54: The King incident has prompted what has become a historic evaluation of police procedures in an embarrassed city, whose police officers have always been reputed to be among the most efficient and innovative in the United States. An investigative, ten-person, independent commission was created (and) the commission became known as the Christopher Commission for its chair, Warren Christopher. The commission's task, strongly supported by the public and the media, was to examine any aspect of law enforcement and structure here in Los Angeles that might cause or contribute to the problem of excessive force - and I underscore the word excessive.
This charge led us to consider almost every aspect of the LAPD. Our commission heard the testimony of over 50 expert witnesses in 26 executivesessionsthat we held in downtown Los Angeles. About 150 representatives of community organizations and private citizens appeared in five public hearings held by the
Members of the Christopher Commission who appeared as a panel at the school's 40th anniversary
full commission in different sections of the city. More than 500 current and retired Los Angeles police officers were interviewed in person or by poll or they testified before the commission. Our work was informed by nine major computer-aided studies of documents and statistics that yielded their own truths. For example, in this age of technology, we conducted computerized studies of the department's use-offorce reports from 1987 to 1991 and of all complaints filed by members of the public between 1986 and 1990. In all, more than a million pages of documents were reviewed. The independent commission, in a 228-page report with later supplements, released its findings, conclusions and recommendations on July 9 - just 100 hard days and nights after its creation. Our report seems to have been uniformly received and critically acclaimed for its thoroughness and ob-
jectivity. An initial printing of 10,000 copies has been exhausted. Requests for it have come from elected officials and other law enforcement agencies around the nation and from some foreign countries. This has not been a good year for lawenforcement, not only in Southern California. Our document has proven helpful to other cities coping with similar concerns.
Willie R. Barnes '59: During the course of the several hearings, members of the minority community reminded us that the same kind of complaints of excessive force have been occurring for a number of years. They reminded us again of the Watts riots in 1965. The then-Governor appointed a commission, the McCone Commission, to investigate and analyze the causes of that riot. Interestingly, when you review the McCone Commission report, there's almost an
celebration were, from left, John A. Arguelles '54, Willie Barnes '59 and Andrea Sheridan Ordin '65.
eerie feeling, it's almost as if you're in 1991. Among the complaints described in the McCone Commission report was excessive force in the minority community, and disrespectful, abusive language directed to minorities. The McCone Commission recommendedthe establishment of an Inspector General to be installed withinthePoliceCommission to oversee those complaints, and to ensure that those complaints were in fact investigated. There was a recommendation that the number of black officers and Hispanic officers be increased. In 1965, thepercentage of black officers was about 4 percent. In 1991, that percentage (was) about 13.4 percent. That increase occurred following the consent decree in 1981 which compelledthe police department toincrease hires in minority groups.
I believe the similarity to the McCone Commission Report supports the claim that these kinds of incidents have been occurring for a long time.
Andrea Sheridan Ordin '65: I think the main difference between (the Christopher Commission) report and the McCone report is the data. It's the amoimt of information that was underneath the recommendations.The conclusory findings are not that different. Here we have information drawn from all of those data bases that were discussed. The analysis of all of the civil law suits (stemming from excessive force incidents), by many lawyers in document rooms where they pored over files and summarized them, gave usa sense of whatwasreally happeningin the community in a way that just testimony alone would not have. Similarly, listening to and seeing (the police) transmissions had an impact on us. Even for me, living most of my life in law enforcement, it was a surprise and a shock to hear (such) language back and forth.Andnothing wasdoneaboutit. Hopefully, the Report won't be filed away as the McCone Commission report was.
I think the City Council has addressed (implementation of the report) with enormous energy. Things are moving along. Most of our major recommendations are being acted on in subcommittees that are working on it. The Police Commission is working very hard to reformulate itself.
A word about the (Christopher Commission) staff: There was an attempt to reach out into the legal community and to get lawyers of color, to get women lawyers, and to reach out into various communities. Andyou sometimeswonderwhen you are doing that, Does it make a difference? The backgrounds of the staff and the backgrounds of the commission (members) did make a difference.There are hundreds of examples where this diversity made a difference in the final report.
The L.A. County Redistricting Case
The historic Los Angeles County redistricting case, which paved the way for election of the first Latino supervisor in this century, was a personal victory for Richard P.Fajardo '81. Fajardo, who recently formed a public interest law firm, was the principal lawyer for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in the redistricting suit. MALDEF's action ledto a court finding that the all-Anglo Board of Supervisors discriminated against Latinos in drawing district boundaries in 1981. As thecase unfolded, Fajardo says, it shattered the myth "that California tends to be less racist than Texas or the deep South. Everything that happened there happened here."
At the law school's 40th anniversary celebration, RichardFajardo gave some insights on the redistricting case. These are excerpts from his remarks:
Richard P. Fajardo '81: The facts in this case were fairly straightforward.We were able to show that the lines that had fragmented the Latino population continued to do so. This contiguous area of Hispanic population, numbering almost a million persons, was fragmented into five differentdistricts.The lines were themselves a product of a history of discrimination, of trying to prevent the Latino community from having its say in the political fabric of the community.
We were moving on two parallel tracks. One was showing the history of discrimination, and the other was trying to show intent.Intent is a very difficult thing to prove
Letme explain abit of the general implications and findings in this case. It was found that the Latino population was certainly entitled to legal relief. It was also found that there was an intentional aspect - that these five supervisors knewexactlywhat they were doing when they were drawing the lines.
They knew the political implications of where they put the lines - they knew that they were putting that line right inbetween the Latino community. They knew that if they put too many Hispanics in (one district) that those Hispanics would be in a position to offer serious challenges to the incumbents. And in recognizing that, they specifically took action to keep themselves in power by fragmenting the Latino community. The interesting thing in all of this is that the Court of Appeals chose the intentional discrimination scenario as the basis for its decisions, and never ruled on any of the demographic analyses All they ruled on really was the
Richard Fajardo '81 explained his role in the Los Angeles County redistricting case; also on the panel
was Professor Leo Estrada (seated) of the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
(issue of) intentional discrimination ...
A point I want to leave you with is that this case has probably had some of the most significant impact in the redistricting process that is occurring right now in Sacramento. Because what it says is that incumbents cannot use the fragmentation of minority
communities simply to keep themselves in power. You can keep and protect your incumbency, but you cannot do it at the expense of minority communities. And the fact that the discussion is framed in those kinds of issues is a big step for various minority communities in the state.
The Future Law School
he growth of the UCLA School of Law in its first 40 years seems phenomenal, but it is also likely that the school's quick pace during its first four decades will be only a prologue for much more rapid change. That's no overstatement, in view of the challenges just ahead.
The challenge most mentioned, of course, is the urban crisis. With the entire UCLA campus, the law school has a vital role to play in the rebuilding of Los Angeles. The University has a specialmission of public service in helping to reweave the social and economic fabric of the city, and in reforming the criminal justice system.
Diversity has gained new meaning in riot-torn cities. Diversity as a cohesive force for unity, rather than as a divisive force for fragmentation, has proven itself at UCLA's law school. "This law school, because it has been built on such a diverse foundation, has the potential to apply diverse perspectives to the solution of public problems," observes Dean Susan Westerberg Prager. California, with an ethnic population that is the most diverse in the world, she says, "may be a place where the importance of diversity is seen more clearly than in some other regions of the country."
Law has immense potential as a healing force. The discipline of law embodies the potential to tie people together, rather than to fragment diverse groups, for it is legal principles like equality, fundamental fairness, and the value of the individual which provide the foundation of a civil society.
The urban problems are urgent. And there are other long-term indications for needed change. The state's economic crisis holds severe and profound implications for all public institutions in California.
Nationally, for a decade or more, there have been mounting indications that legal education is at a crossroads. There is the sense that traditional legal
education is neither broad nor deep enough to serve the needs of students, the legal profession, and society as a whole.
The law faculty at UCLA has long sensed a need to define new directions. Like other law faculties, they have seen that many disciplines - economics, history, philosophy, and sociology, among others - can inform the techniques and content of the law.
Teaching methods have changed, and will change more. UCLA was among the first law schools, more than two decades ago, to pioneer clinical legal education; the dividing line between "traditional" and clinical teaching is likely to fade, as clinical methods are introduced into more and more "core" courses.
Ask any member of the UCLA law faculty about the future law school, and an instant response indicates the changes which lie ahead. Here are some ideas from a faculty cross-section concerning directions for change:
Multi-disciplinary Studies: "There is greater attention to multi-disciplinary studies (gender, ethnic, and area studies) within universities generally," says Professor Carole GoldbergAmbrose. "More law faculty are actively engaged in this work. The result is broader cultural understanding, which could add greatly to the effectiveness of a practitioner working in another culture."
Another dimension of cross-disciplinary effort is UCLA's new focus on strengthening its undergraduate program by drawing on the faculty of professional schools; this might involve, as an example, creation of a new undergraduate concentration in law and society, with law faculty teaching core courses.
Law as a Healing Art: "I'd like to think that the whole gestalt of law training could change to include more of the healing arts and less of the fighting arts," says Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow. "We have learned that the adversary system is often dysfunc-
Three members ofthe Classof '92 at this year's Commencement ceremony share a moment of pride.
tional; increasingly, legal educators realize that the adversary system cannot be the only model we teach. We need to train people who are going to servein new expanded forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution. I see more advanced courses in these areas, educating corporate lawyers and litigators in these dispute resolution processes. I believe the legal culture outside of law schools may be moving faster in this area, and law schools will need to catch up. I think we'll see more teaching of Alternative Dispute Resolution in the first-year curriculum, since students must change their thinking about ways to solve legal problems."
Growing International Focus: Law practice more and more will deal with events abroad. "Just as domestic society is becoming internationalized, so too will law," observes Professor Phillip Trimble. "Legal education will incorporate foreign problems and foreign and international law in dealing with those
problems. For example, the securities markets are increasingly global markets; securities regulation increasingly involves transactions in more than one country How different national jurisdictions or regional organizations deal with these problems, and how that is mediated through international law, will become part of the regular securities or international law courses. In torts and criminal law, and certainly civil procedure, there are distinctive problems of enforcement that employ international law as a mediating device. My own preference is for international components to be introduced into all the mainstream courses, rather than taught as a separate specialty."
"As we shift from divisive security issues between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union to questions of cooperation on trade and environmenlal issues, international law is going to become more important," says Professor John Setear. The newly-emerging de-
From left: Rodolfo Navarro, Floyd Pitts, Jaime Lao.
mocracies have turned to the U.S., not only for dollars, but for know-how. Lawyers know a lot about how businesses and economies run, and about how to protect political rights." In his course on global environmental problems, Setear sees an expansion not only in subject matter but in methods of instruction - such as an exercise in which his students negotiated an international treaty provision on global warming.
Clinical Methods: "The great success in law schools during the past half-century has been the birth of clinical education," observes Professor Bill Warren, "and clinical education will become even more important. I anticipate that the border between clinical education and case-method education will continue to become more blurred." A lawyering course for first-year students, using clinical methods and retaining key components of legal research and writing, is now being developed by Professor David Binder; it will be introduced to the curriculum in 1993, and will give students a better foundation for subsequent clinical courses. "Student interest in clinical courses is growing by leaps and bounds," Binder reports. He adds that the distinction between "practical" and "theoretical" education is an artificial one. "When one reasons about matters of policy, one relies on unstated premises about how the world functions. That same method of analysis applies when one reasons about proof of facts, or is involved in counseling clients about the likely consequences of one course of action or another."
Emphasis on Legal Writing: Students analyze problems best when they perform a written analysis, and Bill Warren sees legal writing as an area of greater future emphasis nationally "I anticipate that law faculties will have a higher proportion of teachers involved in legal writing throughout the entire curriculum. I don't think we can any longer satisfy the need students have to learn legal analysis by simply talking about analyzing cases in class, and offering students a single legal writing course in the first year. In time, I believe legal writing exercises will be used in most of the courses in the curriculum."
Continuing Education: The new professional requirement for Continuing Legal Education indicates a growing role to be played by law schools. Professor Michael Asimow, who organized a major conference for practitioners in the area of administrative adjudication last November at UCLA, sees a future growth in such programs. "The law school," he says, "is an important resource in the legal community, and its faculty should provide programs especially in areas that aren't being well-served at the present; the school is able to offer high-quality academic pro-
grams rather than the nuts-and-bolts approach."
New Library Technology: With the increase of remote access to law libraries through on-line computers in users' offices and homes, some visionaries see a future "library without walls" -a library consisting of data bases. While on-line computer services provide quick access to information, they are also very expensive; for this, and other reasons, hard copy will remain the staple of libraries. The new technologies will continue to provide valuable options for information access, says Law Librarian Myra Saunders. The increase of multi-disciplinary courses will expand demands for information. This trend and other new demands for services, combined with growing costs of all materials, will produce more cooperation among libraries, with each library concentrating its resources in given areas.
The Impending Challenges: Legal education faces two paramount challenges which must be resolved in the immediatefuture, says Professor Julian Eule. One centers on diversity. The second raises the awkward question of education's relevance to the real world.
"With judicial and legislative bodies increasingly hostile to affirmative action programs, legal education must struggle with how we maintain our commitment to diversity. The challenge is making certain that we provide educational programs which demonstrate that our commitment to diversity does not end with the admissions process. At another level, it involves altering the content of what we teach to address the problems and concerns of diverse communities. We have been able to provide this content in special courses, but if the law school is to serve the broader community, it is incumbent upon us to expand the facets of problems which students study in all of our other courses," says Eule.
The issue of relevance is a similar challenge. "There has always been the question of the relationship of what we teach in law school to the 'real world.' We have entered into a strange twilight zone, in which there has been a forking. On the one hand, clinical education narrows the gap between what one learns in law school and what one does after leaving law school. But on the other hand, the nature of legal scholarship often is of less and less interest to more and more people - and to the legal profession and the question of law reform. Much of legal scholarship fits into an academic model, addressed to other academics. While that scholarship is exciting and broadens our perspectives, we run a risk of missing a major role for law scholars to spearhead legal reform. We ought to be not only commenting on what the law is, but helping to shape it."
Broad Lessons Based On Tragic Chapter In U.S. History
Commencement Takes Introspective Tone In
Wake ofRioting
Coming as it did little more than a fortnight after the Los Angeles riots, the 41st annual commencement of the School of Law took a tone which was both introspective and resolute. Analyzing causes of the violence, speakers at the commencement also voiced optimism over the possibilities of finding solutions.
"This is a difficult time," said Dean Susan Westerberg Prager as she welcomed families and friends of the graduates at the May 17 commencement ceremony. Lawyers, she said, feel both "special responsibilities and acute frustrations."
The law school's mission within the legal profession "is more urgent than ever," she continued. Addressing the graduates, Dean Prager said: "Our multi-racial society needs each of you more than ever before."
Associate Justice Ronald M. George of the California Supreme Court, principal speaker, reminded his audience that "the conditions which bred this violence have not changed." Then, in words quoted from Alfred Lord Tennyson, Justice George said it is still "not too late to seek a newer world."
Millions of people in Los Angeles, George told the graduates, "need your ability, your talent, and your creativity. The problems immediately outside this UCLA campus have grown so acute that they challenge our ability to comprehend them, and to devise workable solutions."
Among the problems he cited: In 1991, an increase of 150 percent over the preceding year in hate crimes committed in Los Angeles. In a State Bar survey, an indication by one-half of the women responding that they experienced sexual harassment in their
present or previous employment or elsewhere in the legal profession. In California, 80 inmates sentenced to death but without any legal counsel at present. In the nation, an average of more than three violent crimes per minute.
"Never before has there been such a severe need for your talents to be applied toward pro bono worktalents which you can make available without foregoing your responsibilities toward the commercial litigation firms that many of you will be joining," George told the graduating class. "Accept the challenges that lie ahead in your community, and you will enrich not only the lives of those around you but also your own personal and professional existence."
On a similar theme, Professor Jesse Dukeminier (speaking as one of two UCLA law faculty chosen as Professors of the Year), urged the graduates to "say yes to life." The second faculty member so honored, Professor Julian Eule, called on the graduates to "take personal responsibility" as Los Angeles faces "vital issues to be decided in the next few months."
For their part, the 281 students receiving the Juris Doctor degree seemed equal to the challenge. In their three years of law school, said student speakers, they saw the Iron Curtain crumble and witnessed other sweeping changes in the world. "Certainly our country and our community can change," said student speaker Gerald Pauling Jr. Positive change in Los Angeles, he said, calls for "individual compassion and a willingness to communicate."
Brenda Sutton, also speaking on behalf of the class, drew from her law school experience a positive outlook. Growth occurs, she said, when people with real differences "face one another with honesty." She added, "UCLA has provided a forum in which we have learned from another, and from our differences."
A major civil rights conference at UCLA in March explored a tragic chapter in U.S. history- when Japanese Americans were stripped of their personal liberty during World War II- and linked the movement for redress of that injustice to broader lessons on fundamental rights for all people.
The one-day conference, with an attendance of more than 500, was part of a year-long series of educational and cultural events at UCLA marking the 50th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that forcibly relocated 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps.
The conference was sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the UCLA School of Law, the Southern California Civil Rights Coalition, the Japanese American Bar Association and other community organizations. Professor Mari Matsuda of the law school was co-chair Congressman Robert Matsui of Sacr:11�ehto, keynote speaker, emphasized the need for more Asian Americans to become involved in the political process. "What we need is the leadership to dream about how we can change this country," he said. "Our goal must be to go beyond acceptance. We must become the Asian Americans of change."
One of the day's workshops focused on the judiciary's willingness to accept national security as justification for violating civil rights. Panelists discussed the Korematsu decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the internment program in deference to the government's "compelling interest" in national security. A present-day parallel was drawn to FBI surveillance of Arab Americans during the Persian Gulf War, despite any evidence of disloyalty.
In a panel on the conflicting interests between free speech and hate speech, the positions of First Amendment experts were not easily delineated. Professor Matsuda said, "It is not a simple two-sided issue. There is so
Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow, recipient of the Rutter Award, is applauded by William Rutter and Dean Prager.
much tension, because people on both sides of the question care so much. I believe we need limited restrictions on hate speech - but any time we talk about limiting speech, it makes me very nervous." Professor Julian Eule observed: "It is those on the left side of the political spectrum who now advocate limits on speech; the rightists wave the banner of the First Amendment. In the long run," the troubling question inherent in limits upon speech, said Eule, is whether "such restrictions will be used against minority groups." Ramona Ripston of the ACLU said, "I feel the First and Fourteenth Amendments work together and give us a set of values to which we should adhere."
The conference closed with a panel on successful strategies for civil rights. Panelists agreed there needs to be a dialogue within the civil rights movement focused on the subordination of economic classeslooking beyond the traditional focus on
racial subordination. Joseph Hicks of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said that politicians such as David Duke exploit the economic desperation of poor people. "People who voted for Duke would tell you that they are not racists," Hicks said, "but Duke is addressing their alienation from our economic system by scapegoating immigrants and by Japanbashing."
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Is
1992 Recipient
Of Rutter Award
Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow received the 1992 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching during a
ceremony at the law school in late April. For the presentation, a lecture hall was filled with her students and colleagues. William Rutter, who established the award in 1979, presented it in person.
Menkel-Meadow focuses her teaching and research on alternative dispute resolution, negotiation and mediation, the delivery of legal services, law and social science, issues of gender discrimination and women in the legal profession.
Dean Susan Westerberg Prager described Menkel-Meadow as a "triple threat" in teaching, scholarship and university service. "She is known nationally as an innovative and highly skilled teacher," said Prager at the award ceremony. "She does everything incredibly well, and enormous amounts of it."
Menkel-Meadow, in accepting the teaching award, said: "Those of us who care about teaching put our souls on the line each time we go into a
classroom. I think this whole institution teaches extremely well, and I am touched to be honored within this distinguished law teaching faculty."
In her classes, Menkel-Meadow said, she tries to do four things: facilitate active and experiential learning by students; look for models of how the world might be made a better place; emphasize the healing side of law; and help students to learn things of use to them in their future law practice.
A student, whose critique of MenkelMeadow's teaching method was read at the ceremony, described the method this way: "Questions questions. Questions answers. Answers some questions.''
CampusAwards Reveal A Strong Showing By Law Community
The law school's presence was greatly in evidence during the 47th annual Alumni Awards for Excellence on June 7 in Royce Hall, the ceremony which gives recognition to distinguished achievements by members of the entire UCLA community
Professor Paul Bergman was one of five faculty on the campus as a whole to receive the Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award.
Eugene Volokh '90 was a recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Elwood Lui '69 and Andrea Ordin '65 received Professional Achievement Awards, and a Special Recognition Award was presented to Hal Horowitz, professor emeritus of law and special assistant to the chancellor.
The teaching award to Paul Bergman cited his adeptness at bridging the gap between theory and practice. "Using role-playing, group discussions, individualized instruction, team competition, and mock trials, he helps students learn what it is really like to practice law in the courtroom. His methods are so effective that former students report that his teaching not only shaped their careers but continues to exert a positive influence."
Eugene Volokh, recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, entered law school at age 20 and
ranked first in his class of 314 during his entire three years of law school. He also served as a managing editor of the UCLA Law Review and as a teaching assistant in the legal research and writing program. Volokh and his family emigrated from the former Soviet Union when he was 7 years old. At 12, he co-founded a computer software company; at 15, he graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science.
'l\,\ro of the five Professional Achievement Awards at this year's program went to law alumni.
Elwood Lui '69 was cited for a "meteoric judicial career" which led from Municipal Court to the California Court of Appeal. He retired from the appellate bench in 1987 to become partner in an international law firm.
Andrea Ordin '65 was recognized for achievements in public office and public service, including her work as California's Chief Assistant Attorney General and her service on the Christopher Commission.
The Special Recognition Award to Professor Emeritus Horowitz noted that in his 17 years as UCLA's vice chancellor for faculty relations, he became the architect of policies governing the faculty of all nine UC campuses.
41st Roscoe Pound Tournament Climaxes Moot Court Year
The 41st annual Roscoe Pound Tournament in April climaxed a successful Moot Court Honors Program in which more than a hundred law students participated.
The top four oral advocates who argued in the Roscoe Pound Tournament were Linda Callison, Mike Reisz, Jeff Galvin and Stephan Pastis. All four will serve on UCLA's national Moot Court team next year, along with their brief writers Seang Kim and Brian Wright. Reisz won the Cadwalader Award for best advocate, and Callison was named best brief writer.
Three UCLA law alumni served as judges for the Roscoe Pound Tournament. They were Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of the 2nd District
Court of Appeals, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Norman Epstein of the 2nd District Court of Appeals.
Runners-up in the Roscoe Pound Tournament were Brian Wright, Kevin Carter, Joseph Salazar, Jeffrey Barker, Cesar Detroes, Samuel Maya, Dana Rudnick, and Robert Galvin. Rudnick and Galvin will be members of UCLA's state Moot Court team along with brief writer Stan Yuckevich, named Most Improved Advocate at this year's competition.
The issue argued this year concerned right to privacy. As in previous tournaments, finalists were required to write a brief and then present oral arguments. "I had the opportunity to observe the oral advocacy skills of each finalist," said Michael Donovan, thirdyear law student and chief justice of the UCLA Moot Court. "The UCLA School of Law can take great pride in the students on the state and national teams."
New Members, Officers Elected to Alumni Board ofDirectors
The Law Alumni Association has elected five new directors whose terms continue through 1994, in addition to new officers for the current year.
The new directors are Robert B. Burke '66, Andrew J. Guilford '75, Grace N. Mitsuhata '75, Marguerite S. Rosenfeld '76, and Judge Laurence D. Rubin '71.
Officers this year are Michael Waldorf '67, president; Timothy Lappen '75, vice president; Debra P. Granfield '76, secretary; and Judge Robert A. Knox '57, treasurer. Judge Roger W. Boren '73 is immediate past president.
Other directors serving on the board of the Law Alumni Association through December, 1992 are Robert N. Block '78, Steven C. Glickman '82, and Judge Emily A. Stevens '75; and serving through December, 1993 are Judge Richard D. Aldrich '63, Sheldon G. Bardach '61, Professor George H. Brown '88, and Richard P. Fajardo '81.
Judge Higginbotham Is Regents Lecturer
Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. of the U.S. 3d Circuit Court of Appeals visited the school as a Regents Lecturer during the spring. He taught a series of classes, gave a major public lecture on Justice Clarence Thomas, and spoke at the annual Dean's Dinner.
At the dinner, Judge Higginbotham spoke informally and eloquently about the national response which followed his publication of "An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas" in the Pennsylvania Law Review. In that article, Higginbotham reminded Thomas that he owes a considerable debt to those who preceded him and implored him to reject the current "retreat from protecting the rights of the poor, women, the disadvantaged, minorities and the powerless."
The law review has sold more than 12,500 reprints of the Higginbotham article, and he has received a thousand letters from concerned citizens. "I have been absolutely amazed at the response," the judge said.
"This indicates that Americans care deeply about our Supreme Court. Americans don't want the court to turn the clock back on very important issues involving freedom."
Geraldine Hemmerling Is Alumnus ofYear
Geraldine S. Hemmerling, a member of the Class of '52 who has gained national recognition for her work in taxation, estate planning and probate law, was honored as Alumnus of the Year at the annual Dean's Dinner in March.
Michael Waldorf, president of the Law Alumni Association, presented the award to Hemmerling. One UCLA law alumnus is selected annually for this honor, based on distinguished professional achievement, service to UCLA or to the community.
Graduating in UCLA's first class of
Judge Higginbotham, during hisvisitasa Regents Lecturer, met with studentsandfaculty, gave a seriesofclasses, and spokeat the annual Dean'sDinner-totheobviousappreciationofmembersofhis audience.
law students, Hemmerling started her career part-time while raising two children. In time, she became a
nationally-recogrnzed expert and author in the areas of tax, estate planning and trust matters.
Geraldine Hemmerling '52 was honored as Alumnus ofthe Year at the annual Dean's Dinner in March.
In 1989, Hemmerling was elected president of the American College of Probate Counsel. She served earlier as co-chair of the American Bar Association's National Conference on Lawyers and Corporate Fiduciaries, as a member of the executive council of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, and as chair of the ABA Committee on Taxation of Trust Income. Hemmerling also chaired the California State Bar Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar
In 1990, the UCLA Alumni Association recognized her achievements when it presented Hemmerling its annual award for excellence in professional achievement.
"My classmates remember me as a person who never said a word throughout law school," Hemmerling joked as she accepted the law alumni award. "I am so pleased and delighted. My years at the law school enriched my life in many ways, and this award is particularly meaningful because of
my association with the school for 40 years."
Dean Susan Prager recalled how willingly Hemmerling has helped other law students for decades. "She has been a model for many students."
La Raza Alumni Form As a Support Group For Students, School
A recently organized UCLA La Raza Law Alumni Association held a scholarship fund-raising banquet May 15 in Culver City as the first major event of the new group, which is dedicated to assisting La Raza students and improving the quality of their educational experiences.
Keynote speakers at the banquet
were U.S. Attorney Lourdes Baird '76 and James Blancarte '78, a partner at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmara and president of the Los Angeles City Fire Commission.
The La Raza Alumni Association was formed in order to bring the members of the Hispanic law community together and to help further the goals of the UCLA School of Law by providing support and encouragement to current students.
Most of the founding members were active in the La Raza Law Students Association while at UCLA. They are seeking to build an association that will bring together all Chicano and Latino graduates as an important part of the UCLA law community.
In February, the association elected its first board of directors. Serving as president is Michael J. Perez '90. George Gonzalez '76 is vice president, Edmundo Moran '78 is secretary, Gabriel Colorado '85 is treasurer, and Raquelle de la Rocha '87 is Alumni Association representative.
Other members of the board include Rosemarie Benitez '90, Francie Cordova '90, Leonard Cruz '85, Sonia Del Valle '85, Gary Garcia '91, Florentino Garza '56, Angela Harrison '75, Steven Holguin '83, Rebecca Jurado '83, Hector Salitrero '76, Robert Uriarte '83, Professor Robert Garcia and Professor Cruz Reynoso.
One logistical difficulty in the organizing stage of the new association has been contacting all Latino alumni, since no complete list exists. Those who are interested in future programs of the La Raza Law Alumni Association are encouraged to contact Mike Perez at (619) 699-0239 or the Law Alumni Office at (310) 206-1121.
Public Interest
Awards
Honor Four In Law Community
Four members of the School of Law community were presented awards recognizing their achievements in the area of public interest law during the third annual Public Interest Awards Ceremony at the school in March.
The awards - given to an alumnus, two students and a professor - are named after four UCLA law alumni with distinguished records of public service.
Toby Rothschild '69, who directs the Legal Services Foundation of Long Beach, received the Antonia G. Hernandez Award. Rothschild has been a full-time public interest lawyer for more than two decades, beginning h\s career in East Los Angeles before joining the Long Beach agency as a staff attorney
Public interest law, said Rothschild in accepting the award, "is a good living in the sense that it is a good way to live. I don't criticize others for going after the big money; I just feel sorry they don't have the pleasure that I do."
Antonia Hernandez, president of MALDEF, told those at the ceremony that her own most important decision in life always seemed clear "Life for me has been very simple," she said. "I came to law school for one reason - to prepare myself to do public interest work. Public interest fulfills our responsibilities, and it gives life to the law."
The 1992 Public Interest Awards were presented to students Lisa Payne and Brenda Sutton, alumnus Toby Rothschild '69 and Professor Cruz Reynoso.
Professor Cruz Reynoso received the Fredric P. Sutherland Award. A former justice of the California Supreme Court, Reynoso is noted for his role in public interest law both before and after his tenure on the bench. At UCLA, law students regard him as a role model in the area of community service.
Sutherland, for whom the award is named, was executive director of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund until his untimely death in an accident last year Recalling his spectacular career and his years in law school, Professor Bill Warren said simply: "He had it alI."
Brenda Sutton, who graduated in May, received the Nancy J. Mintie award. Sutton was editor-in-chief of the National Black Law Journal, she worked with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and was active in the Public Interest Law Foundation Sutton said she was inspired by Mintie's example of work in the inner city.
Lisa Payne, a second-year law student, was recipient of the Joseph Hairston Duff Award. Payne has brought law students and community activists together to revitalize the
National Lawyers Guild chapter at UCLA and she has also worked in the East Palo Alto Community Law Project.
Duff, who said "public interest law is where my heart is," recalled his law school years as a time which kindled "a fire that I took out with me."
At the ceremony, recognition also was given to Richard Fybel '71 of Morrison and Foerster, whose UCLA alumni provide financial support for the student awards.
Volunteer Judges Needed Next Year For Moot Court
The Moot Court Honors Program has experienced gro1·:in° interest among law students - along with some growing pains.
The significant increase in participants has found the program in dire need of volunteer judges throughout the 1992-93 school year, said Shanetta Brown, who co-chairs
the student organization responsible for Moot Court. Volunteers are needed both in the fall and spring.
The 1991 program involved nearly 200 students in both semesters - and Moot Court officers expect no less in the coming year. The problem is that the organization's data base of judges and practitioners who have indicated an interest in volunteering as Moot Court judges is no longer large enough to handle the increased interest by students participating in the program.
Brown estimates that the program needs up to 50 percent more volunteer judges for the coming school year than the number who served in 1991-92. She urges those interested to call the Moot Court office at (310) 825-1471, or write to the UCLA Moot Court Honors Program, UCLA School of Law, 405 Hilgard, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1471.
PILF Funding Makes Fellowship, Summer Projects a Reality
The Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) at UCLA has awarded summer grants to 14 first- and second-year students and one postgraduate fellowship to a member of this year's graduating class.
The fellowship was awarded to Nana Gyamfi, who will continue the work she began as a law student with the Black Law Institute, an organization dedicated to helping South Central Los Angeles residents fight discriminatory land development and homeowner fraud schemes.
The 14 summer grant recipients were chosen from a pool of 35 applicants, and these students are working in 12 different public interest organizations.
The students and their placements are T. J. Wentz and Jennifer Curtis, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles; Joan Hoseman, National Health Law Program; Christina Llop, People's Legal
Services (near Navajo and Hopi reservations), Maria Salas and Robert Perez, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund; Norma Osorio, Central American Refugee Center; J. Thang Ngo, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Michael Balaoing, Asian American Pacific Legal Center; Sue Ryan, National Lawyers Guild program on the homeless; Pamala Lew, Korean Immigrants Workers Advocates: Stephanie O'Neal, San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services; Al Muratsuchi, ACLU of Southern California voting rights project; Susan Ortmeyer, California Women's Law Center.
PILF offers postgraduate fellowships because of the shortage of entry level positions in public interest law. Past recipients have received full-time public interest law jobs when their fellowships ended .
The PILF grants are funded through direct contributions from students, faculty and alumni of the law school. Many students pledge one day's income from their own summer jobs to support the summer public interest work of their classmates.
Classnotes
The 1950s
ArthurN. Greenberg '52 is the newly elected president of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, after serving as the organization's secretary and treasurer since 1987.
Kenneth E. Kulzick '56 has merged his practice with Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione, and continues his emphasis in the areas of copyright, entertainment, intellectual property, First Amendment, media counseling and litigation.
WilliamHenri Snyder '58 has formed a law partnership with Marilyn S. Pecsok '83, located in Pacific Palisades. He specializes in probate, estate planning and trust law, while she practices chiefly in family law.
The 1960s
Albert B. Glickman '60 has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. He has served as a director of the bank since August 1990.
Herbert Wolas '60 argued Union Bank v. Herbert WoJas, Trustee in Bankruptcy for ZZZZ-Best before the U. S. Supreme Court on November 5, 1991. The case dealt with the issue of the ordinary course of business exception to recovery of preferential transfers in bankruptcy
LeonH. Coleman '61, who retired in 1990, is now a contributing author for Matthew Bender & Co. and a civil rights advocate in Oregon. He is also founder and co-chair of Log Cabin Oregon.
Earl W. Warren '65 has become of counsel to Lewitt, Hackman, Hoefflin, Shapiro & Marshall.
Jan C. Gabrielson '69 has established his own firm for the practice of family law He is currently president of the Century City Bar Association.
The 1970s
Nicholas Budd '70 has joined the Paris law firm of Honig Buffat Metettal and the English law firm of Clyde & Co., specializing in international trade and trade finance law. He will maintain offices in Paris and London His second book, Credit Enhancement in International Trade Transactions, was recently published by Lloyds Press, London.
David Ochoa '70 has been appointed Vice President for Development and Public Affairs at Chicago State University. Ochoa served for four years as Vice President of University Relations at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage.
James L. Keane '71 has moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he performs freelance litigation services for firms in Los Angeles and in the Seattle area.
PaulMarcus '71 has joined the faculty of the College of William and Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia, as the R. Hugh & Nolie A. Haynes Professor of Law.
DickBlacker '72 served as chairman of the board of American Medical Support Flight Team, an organization of private pilots providing free transportation to medical patients in California and adjacent states. He and Rita will be celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary in June.
Jeffrey W. Broker '72 has been elected president of the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum. He is a partner in the bankruptcy and reorganization law
firm of Lobel, Winthrop & Broker in Irvine.
AndrewE. Katz '72 has joined the Los Angeles firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp as a partner in its corporate department. He represents financial institutions in regulatory, lending and securities matters.
Joshua Dressler '73, Professor of Law at Wayne State University, was Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School in Fall 1991.
Peggy J. Nelson '73, a district court judge in New Mexico since 1988, received the Outstanding Contribution Award from the State Bar of New Mexico for her work on the Task Force on Women in the Profession.
Kenneth Ross '73 has been elected to the board of trustees of the National Center for Preventive Law at the University of Denver Law School. He is also an Adjunct Professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he teaches product liability prevention.
Daniel W. Douglass '74 is president and chief operating officer of Cook Inlet Energy Supply. The firm markets natural gas and other energy products to utilities and industrial customers across the United States.
Antonia Hernandez '74, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), received the prestigious "El Aguila Azteca" (the Aztec eagle) award from Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Hernandez received the award for her leadership role on immigration rights for Mexican nationals emigrating to the U.S.
Robert Kirschenbaum '74 is vice president of administration and general counsel for Kray Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Christopher John Sheldon '74 was appointed to the Superior Court of Riverside County in January and is assigned to the criminal calendar in Indio. He was previously a judge of the Desert Municipal Court in Indio.
Paul L. Gale '75, a member of the Newport Beach law firm of Stradling, I I
Yocca, Carlson & Rauth, has been elected to the board of directors of the Orange County Bar Association.
JoEllen L. MitchellMcGuigan '75 has been appointed Professor of Law at Valparaiso University School of Law.
Seth H. Tievsky '75 has become director of employee benefits products and development at Ernst & Young. He will be located in the national tax department in Washington, D.C.
David R. Ginsburg '76, president of Citadel Entertainment, has made a major gift to UCLA for a Yiddish library collection, named the Hearl and Bernice Ginsburg Memorial Collection of Yiddish Books in honor of his late parents.
Robert M. Sanger '76 has his own firm in Santa Barbara, emphasizing litigation and criminal defense. He is also president of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the ACLU.
Howard E. King '77 and Richard R. Purtich '77 have formed a partnership, King, Purtich & Morrice. The principal areas of practice will include litigation, financial institutions and business, and real estate.
Roger A. Luebs '77 has been appointed by Governor Wilson to serve on the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board He continues to practice real estate law with Thomas, Luebs & Mort in Riverside.
W. Gregory Day '78 joined the Sacramento law firm of Grossfeld, Dougherty & Grossfeld as a senior associate. His practice will continue to emphasize civil and business litigation, real estate matters and natural resources law. He has also become an adjunct professor at American River College, teaching administrative law.
MichaelDozier '78 has become a partner in the Sacramento office of
Marron, Reid & Sheehy, where he specializes in power plant licensing and other aspects of energy law, primarily representing non-utility power producers.
Nancy Newhouse '78 has been named of counsel to the Los Angeles firm of McClintock, Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish.
Kneave Riggall '78 has joined the faculty of the USC School of Accounting as a part-time lecturer. He is teaching advanced individual tax planning as part of the school's Master of Business Taxation program.
MichaelBarclay '79 is special counsel in the Palo Alto office of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, where he specializes in patent and high technology law.
Oleta J. Harden '79 has been elected senior vice president and general counsel of New Jersey Natural Gas Company.
Bernice Hernandez '79 is a deputy public defender with the LosAngeles County Public Defender's Office.Sheis presently in charge of the East Los Angeles branch.
Arthur F. Radke '79 has formed a partnership, Hefter & Radke, in Chicago, Illinois.
Bernida Reagan '79is director of the Berkeley Community Law Center, a clinicalprogram affiliated with Boalt Hall. She and husbandJames Head announced the birth of Christopher James Head on November 14, 1991.
The 1980s
Feris M. Greenberger '80and Timothy T. Coates '83 have become partnersin thelaw firmof Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland.
James M. Ash '81 has become chairman of the corporate finance section of Shook, Hardy & Baconin Kansas City. He and his wife Pam live in Liberty, Missouri, with their two daughters, Cassie, 9, and Lisa, 5.
Jennifer Purtle Cody '81and her husband Peter of Palos Verdes Estates announced thebirth of their second child, Joseph Doyle Cody on March 25, 1991.
Allen R. Sakai '81has become a shareholder at Revelle, Ries & Hawkins in BellevueWashington. Hispractice emphasizesreal estate, businessand corporate law.
Leslie (Les) Fried '82 has been the rabbi anddirector at the UC Davis Hillel House since September 1991. He andhiswife Rikiannounced the birth of their daughter Elisheva onMarch 2.
Ellen Gorman Wacker '82 and her husband Gerry Wacker became parents of twins, Valerie and Daniel, on October 3, 1991.Sheis taking a hiatus as a full-time parent, after eight years of real estate transactions practice, most recently with Thrifty Corporation.
Tom Agoston '83isworkingin Tokyoas a program manager for IBM's value-
Nominations Are Open ForAlumnus ofYear
Nominations for theAlumnus of the Year Awardfor 1993arenow being receivedby the LawAlumni Office, with anAugust 15 deadlinefor submission.All law schoolalumniand faculty are encouraged tosubmit nominations for theaward.
TheAlumnusof the YearAward is presentedtoagraduateoftheSchoolof Law forpersonal achievement in an area oflaw, public service or community service, or forservice to theUniversityand SchoolofLaw.The awardselection alsorecognizesthe contributionsofan alumnus toward enhancingthereputation ofthe school.
Nominations arereviewedby a committee of theboard of directors of the LawAlumniAssociationand the finalcandidates arevoted onby the fullboard.
Letters ofnominationshould include thenominee's name with class year, careerhighlights, community service, otherhonors and awards received. Inadditiontothe letter of nomination, itissuggestedthat two supporting lettersshould be submitted. The nominating letters shouldbe sent to UCLA Law Alumni Association, UCLASchoolof Law, 405 HilgardAvenue, LosAngeles, CA 90024.
added networkbusinessin the Pacific Rim.
Randall P. Beighle '83 became a partnerin theSeattleofficeof Lane PowellSpears Lubersky, an international law firm. He and Cheryl arecelebrating the birth oftheir daughter, Brianna.
Linda Kuhn Ensbury '83has become a partneratAllen, Matkins, Leck, Gamble & Mallory.Sheisin the downtown LosAngeles office.
Don E. N. Gibson '83is now general counsel forMajor LeagueBaseball Properties.Amonghisareas of responsibility is enforcement of trademarks, service marks and other proprietary rights forMajor League Baseball and its 28 clubs.
Chris Grisham '83 has become an inactive member of theState Bar of California and enrolled in the Information Science master's degree program at theUniversity of Pittsburgh.
John Y. Liu '83has become a partner in the LosAngelesofficeof Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, specializingin environmentallitigation.
Marilyn D. Martin-Culver '83is an associate ofMorrison & Foerster's OrangeCounty office.Sheand husband Richard D. Culver announcedthe birth of their second child, Nicholas Darwin Culver, onAugust15, 1991.
Marilyn S. Pecsok '83 has joined with William Henri Snyder '58to form a partnership with officesin Pacific Palisades. Shepractices chiefly in the area offamily law, while he specializes in probate, estate planning and trust law.
David S. Reisman '83 has become associategeneralcounselin the U.S. for Rabobank Nederland in New York City.
H. Deane Wong '83 announced formation of the Law Offices of H. Deane Wong, with emphasis on estate planning, wills and trusts.
Steven Goldman '84 has become general counselforMcCan Cellular Communications, California/Nevada region. Goldmanis now located in Sacramento.
Emil W. Herich '84 has been elected to thepartnershipof Baker & Hostetler, Mccutchen Blackin the LosAngeles office. He practicesin the area of general Iitigation,includingrealestate, construction, products liability and environmental litigation.
C. Eric Munson '84 has recently become apartnerinthefirmof Boswell & Munsonin Beverly Hills. The firm emphasizesfamily, tax andbusiness law, particularly internationalchild custody matters and the tax effects of marital dissolution.
Betsy R. Rosenthal '84 and her husband David Rosenthalannounced the birth oftheirsecondchild, Sara Michelle, onAugust 17, 1991.
Sheri Bluebond '85 has become a shareholder in the new Los Angeles office of Murphy, Weir & Butler. She continues to specialize in debtor/ creditor relations and corporate reorganization.
Joseph P. Breen '85 has joined the San Francisco office of the international firm, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, specializing in commercial litigation and professional liability defense He is living in Marin County with his wife Sue and daughter Catherine Rose.
Lawrance A. Edwards '85 has become a partner of the firm Lane Powell Spears Lubersky in the Seattle office. Formerly a public defender, a prosecutor for the Seattle City Attorney, and a pro-tern judge in district court, Edwards will practice in the areas of commercial litigation, construction and public agency.
Andrea Fish Bradley '85 was married
to Patrick Bradley, an aviation trial lawyer, on June 22, 1991 in San Francisco. They are now living in Washington, D.C., where she practices corporate finance law with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge.
Helen Mickiewicz '85 has served for the past year as legal advisor to Commissioner Daniel W. Fessler of the California Public Utilities Commission. Fessler, recently elected president of the CPUC, was a visiting professor at UCLA in 1982-83.
Teresa Ozoa '85 has become a legal editor at Matthew Bender & Co. She and husband Larry P. Ebiner '85 live in Oakland with their children Angela and Peter.
Beth Ackerman Schroeder '85 and Rick Schroeder '86 announced the birth of their first child, Sarah Morgan Schroeder, on June 25, 1991. She continues as an attorney with the Century City law firm of Silver & Freedman, specializingin management
labor law. He recently joined the firm of Becker, Schoenfield & Wennergren in Oxnard, where he specializes in complex business litigation.
Arnold H. Wuhrman '85 has left the practice of law and is training to be a reform rabbi at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion. He is spending the 1991-92 academic year at the campus in Jerusalem, and will continue his studies after Summer 1992 at the school's Los Angeles campus.
Christine Cervenak '86 moved to Jerusalem in September 1990 to work as the legal advisor for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), West Bank. Earlier, she was an attorneyadviser at the U.S. Department of State.
PatrickHarder '86 is now corporate counsel in the Tokyo headquarters of the International Division of HazamaGumi, Ltd., a Japanese contractor and developer.
Scott D. Myer '86 openedhis own practicein Century Cityin 1990. He practicesprimarilyin real estate and businesslitigation.
Jeffrey A. Young '86 was recently named senior counsel in the Office of the GeneralCounselat MCI Communications Corporation. He specializesincommercial transactions and realestate. InJuly 1991, he married Ebondo Mpingain Montreal.
Susan (Jacobson) McCauley '87 and her husband, Michael, announced the birth of their firstchild, Gavin Mc Cauley, onJanuary 26, 1992. She has been practicingunion-side laborlaw at Gilbert & Sackmanin Los Angeles since November 1987.
Bob Roden '87 andhis wife, Sherry Novick, announced the birthoftheir firstchild, Natalie Rose, on May 6, 1991. InSeptember1991, he became associatedirectorofbusinessaffairsfor Lucas Arts Entertainment Companyin Marin County.
MichaelE. Calligan '88is senior staff editor for Qwik-Code Publications of California and practiceslawin Grants, New Mexico.
Scott P. Leuga '88 hasjoinedthe inhouselegal departmentat Ingres Corporationin Alameda, California.
Jacqueline Shim Bryant '89 has opened lawofficesin Niles, Illinois. She continues to practiceinthe areas of civil litigation, commercial transactions, real estate, employment relations and estateplanning.
Janean Acevedo Daniels '89 has become associated with the Santa Barbara law firm of Hollister & Brace, where she practicescivil litigation. She and her husbandJim are expecting theirfirstchild later thisyear.
Caroline RadparvarKelly '89 and Kevin Kelly '89 are married and living in Los Angeles after ayearin Washington, D.C. She specializesin intellectual property and
entertainment litigation at Leopold, Petrich & Smith.Heis anassociate in the entertainment transactional department of Irell and Manella.
David Portnoy '89writesthat he has "returnedhappilyto theworldof education" and isteaching U.S.history and religion to high school students. He also coaches soccer and is college counselor atGilmanSchool in Baltimore.
The 1990s
Marilynn Mika Spencer '90is an associateat Prochazka, Mc Grath & Cortesin San Diego.
Kirsten V. Campbell '91 completed the U.S. Army JudgeAdvocate officer basic course and is stationed in Wildflecken, Germany She was also admitted to the
Army Courtof Military Review and the U.S.Courtof Military Appeals.
Douglas Fleming '91 has become associatedwiththe firm of Riddell, Williams, Bullitt & Walkinshaw.
Lisa R. Green '91 and Sharon I. Juhn '91 havebecome associates at Baker & Hostetler, McCutchen Black.
In Memoriam
Jesse Arias '58
Walter Wells Atkinson '53
Ronald Lee Gould '69
George Gerald Nagle '68
Howard L. Prescott '69
Joyce V. Yoshioka '72
Calendar ofEvents
Friday, August 7, 1992-AmericanBar Association MeetinginSan Francisco, UCLALaw receptionat thesuite of Chaleff, English &Catalano, The Mark HopkinsInter-ContinentalHotel; 5:30 -7 p.m.
Saturday, September 12, 1992-Class of '67 Reunion, The Faculty Center, UCLA; 7p.m.
Saturday, September26, 1992- Class of '72Reunion, The James E. West Center, UCLA; 6:30p.m.
Saturday, October 10, 1992-UCLA Law StudentandAlumniDay at the UCLAvs.Stanford FootbalI Game, The Rose Bowl. Informationonticket purchasewillbemailedinAugust, or call theLawAlumniand Development Office, (310) 825-2890.
Saturday, October24, 1992-Class of '62Reunion, The Regency Club, Los Angeles; 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 7, 1992-Class of '82Reunion, Empress Pavilion Restaurant, LosAngeles; 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 14, 1992, Class of '77 Reunion, DC3 Restaurant, Santa Monica; 6p.m.
Forfurtherinformationonallevents, contact theLawAlumniand DevelopmentOffice at (310) 825-2890.
