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Second Career Lawyers
by Kathleen Neumeyer
ctor John Kerr, who had made a name for himself on the New York stage, found that working in television dramas was financially rewarding but not very soulsalisfying. Physician Richard Stanley Scott was restless with medicine and willing lo experiment with a new intellectual challenge. Forhomicide detective Morris L. Thomas, the police department seemed to be a way station. And for Marine Corps commandant Cruger L. Bright, who had flown dive bombers at Guadalcanal, the time had come to leave the military and build a secondlife.
These and other "retreads" (as they sometimes call themselves) entered the UCLA School of Law in their 30s, 40s and even 50s. They have found the legal profession a fascinating, challenging and rewarding second chance. They have discovered also that the law is uniquely hospitable to mid-life entry.
Some expressed mild regret at not having gone lo law school sooner, so that they wouldn't be 10 or 20 years behind other lawyers their own age. But all said their more mature perspective had been extremely helpful in law school and in forgi�g legal careers, and that their previous life experiences hadbeen assets in their practices.
Richard Stanley Scott '73 has "no regrets at all about having made several other turns before I
landed in what I am sure will be my profession for the rest of my days. The things I did were fun and challenging while I was doing them, and they have all beenterrificbackground."
Scott was a music major when he began his undergraduate career at Portland State College in Washington, but it quickly became obvious to him that his musical talents did not measure up to others.
He switchedto pre-med, wherehe excelled.
"That led, almost inexorably, to medical school at the University of Oregon," he says. In hindsight, he feels that he was always restless with that choice. Although he completed his medical education, he never practiced medicine full-time, working part-time in hospital emergency rooms and makingdocumentaryfilms.
"I was the original producer of 'The Advocates' and that put me in touch with a lot of lawyers whose professional style and personal dealings I admired very much," Scott says. "I thought that law would be fun and interesting, so with the encouragement of a couple of doctor-lawyers I had met,I appliedto law school."
With two children in junior high school, Scott
Kathleen Neumeyer, a free-lancejournalist, is a contributing editor to Los Angeles Magazine, a correspondent for the Economist of London, and a frequent contributor to this magazine.
Inset: RichardSeo/I, M. D., asproducer ofa medicalprogram for television during his law school days.
Richard Stanley Scott '73
says that it was out of the question for him to be a full-time student. He often missed classes while he continued to work at both KCET and in emergency rooms. "I determined that I would not be in a position to try for the legal merit badgesMoot Court or Law Review. I was content just to get through law school as opposed to performing brilliantly."
Scott said he found law school "challenging in a worthwhile sense, vastly more involved with reasoning and balancing than medical education, which is challenging only to thepatience."
Ironically, by the time he was graduated from law school, Scott had developed a more substantial
medical career than he had when he started, having joined the faculty of the fledgling Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California during the winter of his third year.
For several years after his admission to the bar, he continued to divide his time between the medical school and a downtown law firm specializing in medical malpractice. He is now a partner in the Beverly Hills firm of Malley, Yelsky, Chernove & Scott, devoting about a quarter of his practice to matters related to medicine.
"I am disinclined to be typecast," he says,
Inset:John Kerr in the 1956 film "Tea and Sympathy." The film followedhis Broadway success in theplay.
John Kerr '69
although he feels a special obligation to accept pro bona cases dealing with bioethical questions. Scott feels that since his medical education was paid for with public funds, "I owe perhaps a greaterdebtthansomeotherattorneys."
He represented a patient at the Veterans Hospital who was afflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease andwanted his respirator turned off. "The hospital administration had cold feet, and I litigated that and prevailed," he said. He also handled the case of Elizabeth Bouvia, the quadriplegic who wanted Riverside County Hospital to give her medication for her arthritis while she committed suicidebystarvation.
In the Bouvia case, as well as in some others he has handled, Scott says that he has made use of his medical expertise, but feels on balance his medical experience probably does not outweigh the disadvantage of having had less legal experiencethanhispeers.
"I started in my late 30s, so other lawyers had at least a 10year head start on me. I feel I have to hustletomakeupforthatdisadvantage," hesays.
Nevertheless,he's glad that he was not afraid to take the plunge into a new career, and says his example encouraged several of his friends to make mid-lifecareerchangesandtogotolawschool.
John Kerr '69 was a successful actor on stage,
Inset: Cruger Bright flew dive bombers in the Marine Corps and was a commandant before becoming a lawyer.
Cruger L. Bright '71
screen and television when he decided at the age of 35 to go to law school.
"It's not fair to say that I was bored, but it is fair to say that I was unchallenged by the kind of partsthat I wasgetting," Kerrsays.
He had begun his acting career upon graduation from Harvard, and had won a Tony award for best supporting actor at the age of 23 in "Tea and Sympathy" on Broadway.
"I found that I had settled in a groove where I wasn't getting the right kind of parts. The nature of the shows they were making was such that I wasn't getting much personal satisfaction, although I was doing fairly well financially," he says.
"I thought that I would like to do something else. It seemed to me that law would give me a chance to use some of my skills in writing, and would put me more in the real world."
Kerr applied to the UCLA School of Law because "we were living in Westwood, and UCLA was right up thehill. Ihad nothing tolose.
"So that was how I happened to go to the UCLA School of Law. The reason I stayed is that I really enjoyed it and found it fascinating, and I still find it fascinating."
Kerr now practices with two full-time associates and two attorneys of counsel, doing civil litigation including products liability, defense litigation,
Inset.· Morris Thomas was apolicemanin Washington, D. C., experience whichhe later founduseful inhislegal career.
Morris L. Thomas '80
medical and mental health malpractice, and some insurancedefense.
Kerr notes his previous experience "has helped considerablyinthe sense that I'm used tobeing on my feet in front of people, talking. But in acting, you use other people's words; in the law, it is definitely your own insights about what the issuesareandhowtheyshouldbedecided."
Kerr also utilizes some of his dramatic training in character analysis and in figuring out what is goingon, whatisthekey toasituation.
"Everything is capable of being interpreted at least two ways; but in the law, ambiguity is shunned and despised. We are fact lawyers,
dealing with credibility, with whose version is going to be believed. My training and my own affinity for creativity in analyzing character helps me to analyze and present several different stories, to helpshed some lighton which is closer tothetruth."
During law school Kerr continued to work at acting jobs, often having to ask professors to let him take tests early so that he could work to support his family. He continued to do some acting up until about six years ago, but finds now that it wouldbe devastating to his practice to take that much time away. Early in his legal career, either he or the opposing counsel would mention
Lourdes Baird '76
his former career in voir dire, but he says that nowitseldomcomes up.
Kerr had regrets "about five years ago that I hadn't made the decision to go to law school sooner. The practice of law is a very demanding thing, and nothing takes the place of just having done it longer.They say that it takes five years to make a tennis player and 10 years to make a champ. I think it's the same with the law. There are no shortcuts. The only other fields that are as rigorous and disciplined are medicine and flying airplanes."
Cruger L. Bright '71 was in the fourth of five years of study to become a veterinarian when he discovered that the United States government wouldactuallypay himtolearn toflyairplanes. "I had wanted so badly to fly airplanes ever since I could stand up," he says. "I never looked
back. My father and mother, who had scrimped to send me to veterinary school at the University of Kansas, were remarkably gracious about it."
During a 26-year career in the United States Marine Corps, flying dive bombers at Guadalcanal, helicopters after World War II, and a tour of duty in the operations branch under General William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War, Bright's final military assignment was as commandant of the Marine Corps Air Station in Santa Ana.
He never considered going back to veterinary school, since so much had changed in the medical field in the intervening quarter century. He and another military aviator decided to apply to law schools.
At the time Bright returned to the UCLA campus, in the late 1960s, he had two teen-aged sons, the older of whom was attending the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
"They regarded me as an old capitalistic, militaristic pig, and the thought that I had enough brains to get into law school really blew their minds," he laughs
"I was not afflicted with modesty myself. To be confronted with guys wearing six-inch beards, bib overalls and sandals, and have them outscore me in every class-well, it had a very salubrious effect on my attitude toward my kids and their attitude towardme."·
Bright is now among a handful of attorneys in the country specializing in an esoteric branch of law limited to the Longshoremen's and Harbor Worker's Compensation Actand its extensions.
He was working for the California State Compensation Insurance Fund when the law went into effect, and he became the resident specialist inthearea.
"Nobody else knew anything about it, so I had a free field," he says. After five years with the fund, he went into private practice in Fullerton two yearsago as a sole practitioner.
"The act is intended to provide for workers in the maritime occupations, but it has been extended by litigation to apply to just about everyone in the smell of saltwater," Bright says. "The benefits are so great compared to the state workers' compensation benefits that this is a very high stakes poker game. Most workers' compensation work is a volume practice, but that is not necessarily so inthisspecialty."
Bright defends insurance companies and selfinsured maritime companies. "It is a lot like being in the Marine Corps, because the odds are always on the other side. The act favors giving money to the injured workman, so winning frequently just amounts to holding the amount paid out down to areasonablesum."
Although he has not flown an airplane as a pilot since he retired from the Marine Corps, Bright says he's still using most of the rest of his experience, including what he learned rn veterinaryschool.
"So much of what I do has to do with medical conditions, that I have been able to use my background in anatomy and physiology, even though it was that of the horse," he says. "None of anything that I have ever experienced has been wasted."
For Morris L. Thomas '80, whose older brothers w�re both attorneys, going to law school was a f�irly predictable progression, even though during his black activist days he held the legal profession
in the same low esteem as he held the rest of the establishment. A native of Bessemer, Alabama, outside of Birmingham, Thomas was brought up in what he describes as an "ardent civil rights family. My father was the president of a labor union, and for 20 years he was president of the local NationalAssociation for the Advancement of Colored People."
Thomas was one of three high school seniors who integrated Bessemer High School, attending classes each day with an armed guard escort. The next year, he attended Talladega College, a small private school.
"I felt that college wasn't relevant to a selfproclaimed revolutionary like me, so my roommate and I decided to drop out for a semester," he recalls. They headed for Washington, D. C., where, as alark,theysigned up for thepoliceacademy.
He intended to quit the academy in time to go back to school the next fall, "but I was making money and living in my own apartment, and it just stretched out to five and a half years," Thomas says.
He was promoted to the homicide division and was fascinated by being able to use all of his law enforcement tools in murder investigations. He stayed another year.
Thomas was part of a task force on a notorious series of murders called the "The Freeway Phantom" slayings, which he helped partially to solve.
But at 26, Thomas had gone as far with the police force as he could without going back into uniform in a precinct. He decided it was time to go back to school. He enrolled in California State College, Long Beach, majoring in criminal justice; he worked part-time as a parole aid for the California Youth Authority, requesting the most hardenedcasesofjuveniledelinquency.
"Everything went well academically at Long Beach,soI decided togivelawschool a shot."
At UCLA, Thomas continued his lifelong habit of activism, editing the Black Law Journal, and assisting Professor Reginald Alleyne, who was a member of the Citizens' Advisory Commission to the Los Angeles Police Department studying police shootings. Thomas found his police experience valuable in reading police and coroner's reports. Upon graduation, he was recommended by Alleyne to fill avacancyon the commission.
Thomas clerked for U. S. District Court Judge Consuelo Marshall before beginning private practice in the mid-Wilshire area, specializing in federal procedure.
Dorothy Wolpert '76
theirregulations.
"It has also helped me in understanding the client and what his problems are. I was trained to listen and to understand what people are reacting to. In workers' compensation, for example, the worker's pay is drastically cut, and they are angry. I tell my staff, 'They are not angry at you or at me, but at the situation.' Some of them are really desperate."
Nunez became involved in one community legal issue when one of his daughters joined other junior high school students in picketing to protest a school detention system which Nunez says was really "a littlejail."
"They called it an opportunity class, but it was an old music room with no windows, and students on suspension were put in there from 8:30 until 3:30, with no recess and no physical education.
They had no regular curriculum. They had to face the wall.
"The kids were picketing and they were right. We negotiated with the county counsel to reduce the amount of time that students could be put in there to only 20 hours a semester and not more than five hours at once. And they have to give them a regular curriculum.''
Dorothy Wolpert '76 says in hindsight that it seemed like law school was in the back of her mind for a long time. It didn't come to the fore until she was looking for a full-time challenge to replace the volunteer work that kept her busy when thechildrenwere small.
Her major at the University of Pennsylvania had been art history. She made good use of that, directing activities of the docents at the Los Angeles County Art Museum. Her graduate work
in library science had helped her establish the library at Warner Avenue Elementary School.
"It was a rather traditional, middle class wifely role," she says. Her husband teaches the history of India at UCLA, and they traveled a great deal. "Primarily, I was a mother. It was a role I thoroughly enjoyed, one of my better roles.
"However, at the back of my mind I always realized that when the children were more or less out, I would want to put all of that energy into one place. One aspect of the traditional role is the sense that one's energies are being dissipated into little puddles; you never really make a splash," Wolpert says.
"Things run a kind of cycle, they run out, and the time seemed right. Law suddenly seemed to have been there all along," she says. "It combined two or three things I love and am good atresearch, study, writing, and performance, the teaching part. I didn't know that I was a natural combatant, but my family had always had long knock-down, drag-out political arguments, and I enjoy an intellectual dispute."
She says that being older helped a lot at law school.
"As a student, having lived a certain number of years, and having had a certain amount of life experience, you just can't get quite as anxious as the youngsters do. In some measure, you simply don't have the same kind of intense personal and emotional distractions, like new marriages, new
relationships, no relationships. Those things are behind you-andthathelps."
Wolpert also feels that mid-life entry into the legal profession holds fewer disabilities than it does inmostotherprofessions.
"You have certain human skills as a result of life experience. Judgmental skills are a result of life experiences and the perspective that age gives you," she reflects. "Law doesn't really call on any physical skills. But it's not all one-sided. There is always a disadvantage in the sense of the span of your career. I'm 20 years farther away from the SupremeCourt."
Wolpert joined Kaplan, Livingston on graduation, and in 1981 she helped to found the Beverly Hills firm of Nutter, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert and Matz, which handles nothing but litigation. She personally does business litigation, with an emphasis on copyright and trademark law.
She feels that small firms are more receptive to mid-life entry lawyers, since in the large firms, other attorneys are uncomfortable when associates are not the right age for their stratification. Wolpert recalls that when she was interviewing for jobs during her third year of law school, many large firms sent very young attorneys to do the interviewing.
"One young man studied my resume, then looked up brightly and said, 'So you're one of thosepeoplewho'sbeingrecycled."' D
'It's Challenging-and Fun'
t is an experience invariably describedinsuperlativesbyanyone who fortunately is qualified to speakonthesubject.To beselected as a judicial clerk confers prestige on those chosen for the highlycompetitive positions, andlawyerswhobegantheir careersinclerkshipssaytheexperienceisprofoundly memorable.
The ultimate clerkship, ofcourse, resides inthe U. S. Supreme Court. This year, Dean M. Gloster '83 (now clerking for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Anthony M. Kennedy] was selected to clerk for Justice ByronWhiteandhewillbeginhisnewduties in August.
Nearly two dozen UCLA law students have been chosen for judicial clerkships next year, and quite likely there will be even more when all the judges have made theirdecisions.
The success of UCLA students in securing clerkships is remarkable, especially since the intensity of the selection process has increased within the past year. At all major law schools, it is becoming customaryforstudentsseeking clerkships to apply to 30, 40, sometimes even 100 different judges.Andachangeintheapplicationdeadlinethis yearmade the search more acute than ever.
Dean Gloster notes candidly that being at the top of his graduating class was an advantage in being chosen for the clerkship with JusticeWhite. "WhenI flew back to Washington, I learned that he was interviewingeightotherapplicants," Glosterrecalls. Theinterview focused notonlyonacademicmatters, but some of Gloster's interests such as sports and poetry.
Time and again, judicial clerks say that a breadth of interests, or the evidence of sincere commitment to a particular interest, or some similar basis for rapport with the interviewing judge seems equally important as one's academic record during the interview.
Recommendations,ofcourse,areessential. Gloster recounts that right after his interview with Judge Kennedy, the judge phoned Professor Bill Warren who had written a letter of recommendation. "I had gone lo lunch with his clerk, and when we returned
Judge Kennedymade me an offer."
Next year in Washington .will fulfill a dream which Gloster had when he entered law school. "When I came to UCLA, the one thing I thought would be terrific to do would be clerking for the Supreme Court. It will be fascinating to see how the courtoperatesand to be a part of that."
As a federal appeals court clerk, Gloster says, there is an opportunity for "real input." One important duty is reading advance sheets from various chambers, monitoring cases for the en bane procedurewhichenablesjudges to take cases which they believe another panel of judges may have decided incorrectly. "We monitor the positions for hearing en bane from litigants who feel they have been wronged," says Gloster. "We are always looking toseeif decisions have been consistent with the body of law."
One functionof clerks in the U. S.SupremeCourt is reading petitions for hearing of cases and participating in the process of determining which casesaremostimportantforthecourt. Thatprocess, as well as participating in the informal "clerk network" which is one channel through which the justices communicate their concerns, give Gloster good reason to anticipate the year ahead.
Assistant DeanSusan C. Gillig notes that while most UCLA students have sought clerkships in California, more and more are being rewarded by extending their search. Next year, for instance, Barbara Riegelhaupt '84 will clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Frank Coffin in Portland, Maine, and among those now clerking in the East are Kim Sievwright '83 with U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green in Washington, D. C., and Margaret Stevenson '83 with U. S. District Court Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., in Boston.
Dean Gillignotestoothatthecriteriaforselection vary greatly among judges. "Notallclerkshavevery high grades. Compatibility is important. Judgeslike to like their law clerks. It is a very close working relationship for at least one year."
Theclerkship,says Gillig [whoherselfclerkedfor U. S. Court of Appeals Judge Dorothy Nelson), "is obviously extremely valuable. It gives the student a unique opportunity to understand judicial decision
Dean M. Gloster '83
making.Itgivesan opportunity, also,togettoknow someone in a position of power. You get a lot of exposure to quality lawyering, and to lawyering of different qualities. It is a wonderful experience. It is constantly challenging. It's fun."
Mary Newcombe '84 will clerk next year for U.S. CourtofAppealsJudgeStephanieSeymourin Tulsa, Oklahoma.She applied to some 25 judges. "Frankly, the whole process of applying was painful; it was a stressfulperiod,andcostlytoflyaroundthecountry forinterviews. UCLAwas helpful atalltimes;Susan Gilligdid a great job, and my professors wrote very helpfulrecommendations.Iam quite pleasedthatI'll be working for a woman judge. As a teacher,I think she'll be excellent."
Jeff Ettinger '83, now clerking with U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Arthur Alarcon, expected the experience to be invaluable in sharpening his legal writingskills; that expectationhasbeenfulfilled. "A clerkship also calls for a lot of judgment, more so
perhaps than ina law firm," says Ettinger, who also clerked in two law firms. "You don't want to do the judge's law for him, but on the other hand you don't wanttodoinadequateresearch-soitisdemanding."
Lori Huff '83, clerking with U.S. District Judge William P. Gray, is assigned primarily to a large antitrust case where "I get to see the best quality advocacy." Nora Quinn '83, in the chambers of U.S. DistrictJudgeJudith KeepinSanDiego,has"learned a tremendousamountaboutfederalprocedure-and equally important, what you can write as an attorney that will be persuasive to a judge." Judge Keep,the second youngest person ever appointed to the federal district court and the youngest in this century, is nine years older than clerk Quinn. "Our communication is excellent because of that.She is sincerely concerned about defendants in criminal matters,as arealljudges; shemakesagreateffortto be sure that they know what is going on and that theymakeinformed decisions."
Anne Washburn '83, clerk to U. S. Court of Appeals JudgeWarren J.Ferguson,says:"! lovewhat I'm doing. It isreallychallenging.I have a chanceto do things that most people don't do 20 years out of law school." Brian Eberle '83, clerking with U.S. District Judge Cynthia Hall, says it's "great backgroundforlitigation." LosAngeleswashisfirst choice of locations "because of the variety of interestingcases here."
Nancy Vanderlip '83, with California Court of Appeal Justice Howard Wiener, sees "the whole myriad of possible areas of practice" from her vantagepoint.Earliersheexternedinfederaldistrict court,whichgave"tremendousknowledgeonhowto work with federal civil procedure." Her current appellateworkis"verymental,andveryrefreshing."
Margaret Stevenson '83 searched for positions where she thought there would be philosophical affinity; she found exactly the right spot in Boston with U.S.DistrictCourtJudgeCharles E.Wyzanski, Jr., who was appointed to the federal bench by PresidentFranklinD. Rooseveltandwhoisnotedfor his active protection of human and civil rights. Stevenson finds clerking an excellent source of "insight into the judicial process, learning about substantive law, and learning about becoming a better lawyer."
Cathryn Campbell '83, a clerk with U.S. Court of Appeals JudgeAlfred T.Goodwin,findsit"aoncein alifetimeopportunitytoseethejudicialsystemfrom inside."KimSievwright'83,withU.S.DistrictCourt JudgeJoyce HensGreen,confirmsthatopinion.Says Sievwrightoftheconstantexposuretothejudiciary: "It is bothuseful and wonderful." D
Norman Abrams: A Passion for the Law
by Rebecca Morrow
ver changing, always visible, the field of criminal law is a constant part of the public's consciousness. It strikes simultaneously at people's fears and rights, making it one of the most important and vital areas in the law.
Norman Abrams, 50, has been a professor at the UCLA School of Law since 1959, observing and critiquing the ebbs and flows of this symbolic and fundamental portion of the law.
Abrams' entry into law, let alone criminal law, was not premeditated.
"I went to law school not really sure that I wanted to become a lawyer. I decided to try it. I found that I loved it from the very first day of law school;" Abrams says.
His response to the law school experience also helps to account for his choice of a teaching career. "If one is interested in the law as a set of ideas, teaching is the appropriate place to be. If one has a passion for the law, and I think I do, one can stay more closely in touch with it through teaching and writing. Practice involves other things besides the study of legal concepts and legal institutions. It involves business and clients."
At UCLA, Abrams over the years has taught a myriad of courses including criminal law and constitutional criminal procedure, evidence, administrative law and legislation. His fascination with the materials of the law continues and has propelled him through his 25 years at UCLA, but so, too, have the quality of the law school community andthe values of the law school.
"Many law schools avoid conflict by being uniform and one-dimensional," he explains. "Others incapacitate themselves by faculty schisms. Somehow at UCLA, we have managed to be very diverse and yet maintain collegiality and a community of scholars. An enormous range of viewpoints, reflecting different political, ideological and educational policy perspectives, are found on the faculty. Yet we retain mutual respect and a very realsense of community. I've always marveled
at it and I have never understood how over more than two decades and very marked changes in the makeup of the faculty we've managed to maintain it. But it makes this faculty a very special group and a joy to bea part of."
Abrams' long experience at UCLA makes him a qualified observer of the school. He came to the West Coast and to UCLA in 1959, after having served (at the age of 21) as editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review, and after holding two fascinating jobs at Columbia and Harvard. At the time, there were only 16 professors at UCLA. Today, that number has tripled; yet, as Abrams says, the essential character of the school has continued. The only difference is that the quality of the institution, which was very good when he arrived, has continued to become even better.
"This is the youngest great law school in the country," Abrams observes. "The school is only 35 years old, a mere infant as law schools go. The quality of the faculty and student body is respected throughout the country. We ourselves are beginning to appreciate how really good we are. And," he adds, "our alumni are an important part of the picture. They are becoming leaders in the legal community. We value them and, I believe, they increasingly appreciate the law school. They are an important source of strength for us."
One illustration of the leadership role that the faculty plays in legal education is the number of major casebooks authored or coauthored by members of the faculty in fields such as property, commercial law, contracts, trusts and estates, corporations, taxation, professional responsibility, labor law, and secured transactions. "There are very few law schools in the country that can match this record," he notes.
Abrams, in addition to writing articles on
Rebecca Morrow, former editor ofLos Angeles Lawyer, is a frequentcontributortoUCLA Law.
"Federalcriminal authority has grown considerably in thepast decade. How theenforcement postore will bechanged remains to be seen."
criminal process topics, has played a part in this surge of casebooks emanating from UCLA. In 1983, he co-wrote the seventh edition of EvidenceCases and Materials with Judge Jack B. Weinstein and Professors John H. Mansfield and Margaret A. Berger. This is the same book that the late Professor James Chadbourn, formerly of UCLA, had coauthored in an earlier edition. Abrams also co-edited in 1984 the companion California and federal evidence rules supplement to the Evidence casebookwiththe same authors.
Abrams is also completing a casebook for a new criminal law course which he has been teachingin a field previously not taught in the law school curriculum. In the introduction to the book, which is titled Federal Criminal Law Enforcement Cases and Materials, Abrams writes, "This book is intended to fill a gap in the present-day law school curriculum. An outsider would probably be surprised to learn that a course on Federal Criminal Law Enforcement has not previously been offered in the law schools. Although many courses in criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, evidence and federal courts are being taught, no existing courses provide an opportunity for detailed study of the federal criminal law enforcementsystem.
"The operations of the federal government in the realm of criminal law," Abrams continues, "are at center stage today. As a result of an evolution in constitutional doctrine, enactment of many new criminal statutes, development of stronger central federal administrative authority and adoption of a more activist enforcement posture, federal criminal authority has grown considerably in the past decade. Enforcement under new statutes like RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) has begun to pose larger questions about complex criminal statutes and has raised exciting new issues of application and interpretation. For a time, the declaration of a new federal 'war' on white-collar crime focused attention on the
significance of. and justification for, such federal activity. More recently, a new administration has indicated that it wants to emphasize enforcement against violent crimes. What this means, how the federal criminal enforcement posture will be changed thereby, and, more specifically, how the 'war' against white-collar crime will be affected remains to beseen."
Asked to list five areas of major developments in the criminal law, Abrams noted that RICO and other recently enacted complex criminal statutes constitute an important new kind of criminal law development.
The federal courts have not yet fully come to grips with the issues presented by these criminal statutes, the professor noted. With RICO, for instance, the courts are dealing with many different kinds of problems. "For the most part, they have rejected constitutional arguments that would limit the impact of RICO, but some constitutional claims may yet win out. They are wrestling with a new body of material with which they arenotcompletely comfortable."
Legal problemsrelating to RICO, Abrams added, are compounded by the fact that the Supreme Court has provided little help or guidance in sorting through the numerous and conflicting issues involved in this developing area of federal criminal law. "The Supreme Court, for instance, has rendered only two RICO decisions, even though the law has been on the books for 14 years and has been used extensively by federal prosecutorsforthe pastsevenyears.
"The Supreme Court generally does not play a very large leadership role in substantive federal criminal law. The court can take very few such cases. The consequence is that you can have a large amount of confused development going on in the courts of appeals without there being any effective synthesizing effort."
Abrams names as the second major area of
"You can have a large amount of confused development going on in thecourts of appeals without there being any effectivesynthesizing effort."
d lopment in the criminal law the new mode of h eve king regarding the insanity defense and the t in h' · 'd P . I I vancy of psyc iatnc ev1 ence. nor to 950, ��ere was very little receptivity to psychiatric ev�dence, Abrams says. But begi�ning with the Derndecisionin 1954, more atten�wn was paid to the legal significance of the emotwnal makeup of the defendant. The result, Abrams notes, was a broadening of the insanity defense and increased use oftheconcept of diminished capacity. Today, however, that process of development is being reversed.
Several factors have contributed to this. Cases like those involving John Hinkley and Dan White didlittleto foster public acceptance of the notion thatmentaldisturbanceshouldreduceorexculpate a defendant's crime. In addition, people today have a greater sense of insecurity about crime. This insecurity permeates even the large middle class. They now question whether the legal system is doing an effective job of controlling crime.
"Crimehasalso become moreofapoliticalissue at the national level," said Abrams, noting that thistrendbeganduringthe Johnson administration withsuchbillsastheOmnibus Crime Controland Safe Streets Act of 1968 which Abrams himself helpeddraft.
"The result is that the country appears to be moving in the direction of becoming more conservative and much less concerned about the rightsoftheindividual. Thistrendhasfalloutina lot of different ways, one of which is a cutting back on the insanity defense and diminished capacity," he noted. "The irony, of course, is that changesinthelaw relatingtodiminishedcapacity and the insanity defense have little to do with crime that people are most concerned about, namelyburglariesandmuggings."
The third development Abrams cites is the increased concern about the crime victim. "We've hada wholeseriesof victim-related developments. One is, strangely enough, RICO. RICO makes it pos�ibleforaninjured party-that is, thevictimtohieacivilactionfortrebledamagesagainstthe perpetratorofaRICOviolation."
But concern for the victim, he noted, has taken �therforms; forexample,settingupadministrative oards to compensate victims, and enactments such as Proposition 8, the so-called Victim's Bill 0� �ights, whichalso deals with restitution to the vict_im and provides for involving the victim in variousstagesofthecriminalprocess. Abrams said that concern for the victim may
"The irony, of course, is that changes in the law relating to diminished capacity and the insanitydefense have little to do with crimethatpeople are mostconcerned about."
well move the United States "to the point where we shall do what some foreign jurisdictions do and permit the victim formally to appeal prosecutorialdecisionsnottoprosecute."
The fourth major area of development, as Abrams sees it, involves the death penalty and how it will be handled in this country in the future. "The death penalty has an impact on a verysmallpercentageofcriminalcases. Yetitisa central issueforus, and wehavegottenourselves intoaterriblebindoverit.We'venowgoneavery long period, 16 years in California, without imposing the death penalty.'Nationwide,we have a huge backlog on death row. The polls seem to say that the public is willing to have the death penalty imposed. But it seems to me that we are very conflicted about it. As a nation, we are agonizing about the issue; I don't see any easy solution."
The fifth major development is the application of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to police practices-involving issues of search and seizure and confessions. "I feel a link between the death penalty and police practices issues. I think that how these issues are treated in the legal system tellsusalotaboutthekindofsocietywelivein."
It's very hard to make people who are terribly worried about crime appreciate that legal rules whichimposerestrictionsuponthe police help to maintain thefreedomofthesocietyinwhichthey live, he noted. "It's very hard in the individual case to persuade a person that larger values are beingserved. Nevertheless,thedifferencebetween a free society and a police state is very fragile indeed. The costs to freedom of enlarging police powersandmakingpenaltiesmoredraconianmay turnoutnottobeworththegaininmoreefficient lawenforcement,ifany."
Abrams' ability to speak knowledgeably about the criminal justice field was not a role that he
saw for himself in law school. In fact, it was only after law school, when he served as an associate in law at Columbia Law School from 1955 to 1957, that his interest in the criminal field developed. "At Columbia," Abrams explained, "I took some courses from Herbert Wexler, the principal author of the Model Penal Code, and I also worked as research assistant on a supplement to his criminal law casebook which was, at the time, the leading book in the field. That's when my interest in criminallawreallybegan."
While Abrams' post at Columbia helped to point him in the direction of criminal law, it also led to a fascinating post at the Harvard Law School that touchedanotherofhispassions-Israel.
Abrams, who always had a strong interest in Israel and a pretty good understanding of Hebrew, found himself in 1957 taking the position of secretary of the Harvard-Brandeis Cooperative ResearchforIsrael'sLegal Development.
"Israel at that time was less than lo years old. it was a new country that had been under British rule during the period of the Mandate. Since its independence, its Ministry of Justice had been draftingbroad codes toreplace existing mandatory legislation in every field of the law. They needed help and Harvard offered it. For the Harvard faculty, this was a marvelous opportunity to see how comparative law could be used in an ongoing, active, real world kind of project. I came on with the title of secretary, but I was really the director. I was just too young. The next year they gave me thetitle.
"While I was there we worked on a corporations code, criminal procedure code, and family code. Prior to the time I had come, they had worked on anevidencecode and aninheritancecode."
While Abrams came to UCLA following his stint at Harvard, he has not taught here during all of the intervening years. "One of the pluses of teaching is the opportunity to go to other places for short periods," he explained. "Whether it's to go on a sabbatical, to teach at another university or to work at some governmental post, the opportunities it affords a professor are of great value."
Abrams has taught as a visiting professor at Berkeley, Stanford, Loyola, USC, and at the law schools of two Israeli universities: the Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University. While in Israel, Abrams taught courses in Israeli criminal law, a process he found both fascinating and educational.
Since Israel's criminal law is derived from the
English law, it is not an altogether unfamiliar system. "But it's interesting teaching the law of another country that has some similarity to American criminal law, yet is different in a number of respects. One learns," Abrams added "a lot from that kind of intensive comparativ� experience. It stimulates one to think in terms of newideasandnewapproaches."
From 1966 to 1967, Abrams served as special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, working in the criminal division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.The time was an exciting one. "The Justice Department was beginning to make voluntary disclosures of illegal electronic surveillance that the FBI had engaged in. It was a new kind of experience for them." Abrams helped draft the initial policy devised to govern the makingofthesedisclosures.
He was also deeply involved in the drafting of what was initially called the Safe Streets Act,but was eventually called the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. Acting as a Justice Department liaison to the White House, Abrams attended meetings with White House officials over a period of some months to block out the details of the legislation. The version eventually adopted by Congress varied significantly from that introduced by the Johnson Administration, but did contain essential features of the administration's bill including provisions for the establishment of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAAJ, a federal law enforcement grant program, and provisions making criminal most forms of electronicsurveillance.
Abrams is an active participant in both University and community affairs. This year he chairs the UCLA Council on Academic Personnel, the Academic Senate body which reviews all significant faculty appointments and promotions onthe UCLAcampus.
In addition, Abrams has held a number of interesting consultant positions. He worked as a consultant to The Rand Corporation from 1968 to 1974, at a time when Rand was focusing more on various kinds of public policy issues. He assisted thereintheirstudiesoncriminalprosecution.
He was a consultant to the McCone Commission in 1965 and the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice in 1967-68. He has also served as a consultant to the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Lawfrom 1967to 1970.
A man of strong loyalties, Abrams is an intense family man. He is married and has four children, ranginginagefromsixmonthsto 26years. D
Program Explains Law Admissions
Morethan 100 UCLA law alumni and theirfamiliesattended a program at the law school on October 16 explainingthelaw school admissions processandthe educational preparation whichis advisable for studentsinterestedin the law. Theprogrammetwith such favorable response that it will be repeatednextyear, saidDeanof Admissions Michael 0. Rappaport.
Membersofthe faculty and administrationfrequentlyreceive questions fromalumni whose high schoolorcollege age children are interestedin lawschool.Whileit is inappropriate for UCLA as a state law schoolto provide any admissions preference tochildrenof alumni, the October16 program was designed as aservicetoalumni, to give them helpfulinformation on law school admissionsingeneral.
Following the success of the UCLA programfor alumni in October, other lawschools have expressed interest in providing similar forums on admissions, Rappaportsaid.
Thetopicscovered on October 16 by Dean SusanWesterberg Pragerand Assistant Dean Rappaportwere how studentscanprepare for lawschoolas undergraduates, how to go about applyingforadmission to law schools � d . . ' wa misswnsprocesses operate in generalandhow UCLA's process operatesinparticular and how to raximizetheindivid�al's prospects oradmissionto a law school Rappaport emphasized that ru1ents shouldbegin preparing early f�r aw ?ch�olby building a solid 1 undat10n m the skill areas which ttwschoolrequires. He said further atstudents should carefully asc t · h er am t eir own strengths and weaknessesbefore applying to law sc ools.
Marcia Muchmore Is Development Director
MarciaA. Muchmore hasbeen appointeddirectorofdevelopmentfor the School of Law. She brings tothe position a backgroundofhighly successful workin the UCLASchool of Engineering and theCollege of Fine Arts.
Dean SusanWesterbergPragersaid in announcing Muchmore's appointment: "We'refortunatethat she has joined thelaw school community. Marcyhas experience and expertise that willespeciallybenefit the school's developmentprogram."
In herposition asdevelopment directorat the Schoolof Engineering, Muchmore plannedand developeda
program leadingtomajor giftsforthe school.An integralpartof that program wastheformationof volunteercommittees.She was also responsiblefor theschool'sportion of the overall UCLAcampaign.
Earlier, she coordinated The Royce Two-Seventy, amajorsupport group for theCollege of FineArts. Before becoming associatedwith UCLA in 1980,shehad beendevelopment director of theLosAngeles Ballet.
Muchmore isagraduate of Stanford University, whereshe earneda degree inpsychology; duringher junior year she wasa studentatSarahLawrence College.She wasaninternwiththe Coro Foundation, and has completed otherprogramswiththe GrantsmanshipCenterandArtsreach.
Entertainment Law Symposium Gives Financial Review
An in-depthpresentationon entertainment economics was given by 16 speakersattheeighthannual UCLA Entertainment Symposium on December9-10in Dickson Auditorium.
More than 400lawyers, business and banking executives, andmembers of theentertainmentcommunity attended the event,presentedby the School of Law and the UCLA Entertainment SymposiumAdvisory Committee.
Producer Elliott Kastner, who now hasmade 50 filmssince 1965when he produced Harperas hisfirst film, was anentertainingandenlightening specialguest speaker atthe symposium luncheon.
He advised filmmakers: "If you can keep to meat andpotatoes, don't do downers, andyou cancontrolcosts, you are in." Further, hesaid, "if you spend alotoftimechasing civilian money you can windup with a roll." He himselfhasfound investors by writing"letterscold" tonamesculled from Forbes and Fortune.
Discussionrangedfrom Wall Street connections to theatrical and tv distribution to completion bonds, tax shelters, andtalentdeal making. The symposium wascoordinatedby
Marcia A. Muchmore
David R. Ginsburg of Sidley & Austin and Michael S. Sherman of Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger.
The600-page syllabus which summarizes the symposium and gives background information in depth is available bymail for $55 andorders shouldbe sent to BeaCameron, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles CA90024.
Calendar of Events
Thursday, March 29, 1984Washington, D. C., Alumni Reception at the home of Libby & Richard Brown '72.
Saturday, May 5, 1984-Class of '64 Reunion, Riviera Country Club.
May, 1984 (tentative)-Downtown Los Angeles Alumni Reception.
Friday, June 15, 1984 (tentative)Class of '54 Reunion, James E. West Center.
Saturday, September 8, 1984-Fourth Annual All Alumni Day, School of Law
Reunions for the classes of '59, '74, and '79 are now in the planning stage.
For information, please call Bea Cameron at the Law Alumni Office, (213) 206-1121.
Chancellor Charles E. Young addresses alumni and friends ofthe school during dedication ceremonies for the Founders Wall on October 27. Theschool's largestclassroom was filled by Founders, many of whom had sat in the same seats over the years as students.
Founders Ceremony Builds Momentum For Major Support
The Founders Wall atthe School of Law wasdedicatedbyalumni and friends who filledthe school's largest lecture hall on October 27, and speakersincluding UCLA Chancellor Charles E. Young noted that the wall's dedication signalsthe beginning of a new level in major support for the law school.
The namesof 151 charter members of The Foundersare inscribed onthe marble wall at theentranceto the main corridor. Names of others joining this support group will be added each year.
With each member of The Founders committed tocontribute $10,000 tothe school over aperiod of10 years, the Founders Wall dedication in October marked giftsandpledges of more than $1.5 million.
To an audience swelling the school's mainlecturehall,former Dean William D. Warrensaid: "As a faculty member, I cantellyouthat this has done wonders for us. What you've done is going tobe remembered."
Dean Susan Westerberg Prager '71
described the eveningas a particularly happyoccasion for alumni, noting thatso many who were gathered for the Founders Wall dedication had beenin the sameroom over the years as students. "It is wonderful to seeso many Founders and their families here tonight."
Marvin Jubas '54, who chaired the inception of The Founders, said: "As alumni and friends, we are justifiably proud that we haveassumed a major role in continued excellence of the school. We hopeto inspire future generations of law alumni to link their names with ours. For us, the priority for giving to the school already has been raised, and we have assumed greater responsibility. This is a dedication, a place of beginning. There is much more for us todo."
Chancellor Youngvoiced the entire university's gratitude for alumni support. "I thank you for all your help in making this greatlaw school oneof the premier schoolsin the United States," he said.
The chancellor noted that while UCLA leads otherpublic universities in private support, it faces an urgent need to marshall greater support from the public sector. He asked the assembled law alumni to join in this critical task of taking the university's case to legislators and other public officials.
Building Addition Planning Funds In
State Budget
A majorstep toward the goal of building an urgently needed addition tothelaw building was taken in Januarywhen Governor Deukmejian's 1984-85 proposedbudget included $300,000 in funds for architectural planning of the project.
The law school plans to create additionalbuildingspace in three ways. A libraryaddition in the front eastcornerof thebuildingwould add reading and bookstorageareas. A link connecting the north and south wings ofthe building abovethe main corridor wouldprovide research and officespace. An expansion at the rear ofthe buildingwould addspace mainlyfor theclinical program, with teaching roomsdesigned especially forvideotaping and intensive critique oflawyering skills.
Thespace shortageis illustrated by thefact that currently the school cannotmeet one half the demandfor clinical courses.
Thefunds proposed in the governor's budget will provide architectural drawings for all but the libraryaddition,and Dean Susan Westerberg Prager said "we intend to makethecase for thelibrary addition again next year."
Alumnusof Year Nominations Open
Alumni are invited to submit nominations for the Alumnus of the Year award,whichwill be presented inthefall.
Lourdes Baird '76, president of the Law Alumni Association, has urged wide participation in the nominations beforethedeadlineof May 18.
Nominations should be sent to Bea Cameron, Law AlumniAssociation UCLA School ofLaw, Los Angeles CA 90024.
Lourdes Baird Is Presidentof Law Alumni Directors
Lourdes Baird'76 was elected president of theboard ofdirectorsof the UCLALawAlumni Association at the board's December meeting.
She succeeds KenClayman'66.
Five new directors elected tothreeyear terms on the board are Donald P. Baker '73, Dennis C. Brown '70, Florentino Garza '56, Wayne W. Smith '72, and John G. Wigmore '58.
Continuingmembers of the board are Marilyn Freytag '59, William Gould '63, Sidney Kuperberg '52, Laurie Levenson '80, Judge ElwoodLui '69,Carol L. Mayall '81, Veronica Simmons McBeth '75, Robert Ruben '64, and Leland Stark '72.
Other officers elected by theboard are Judge Lui, vice president; Robert Ruben, treasurer; Laurie Levenson, secretary; and Carol Mayall, representative to the UCLA Alumni Association.
Moot Court Team Takes Top Honors In Regional Meet
The school's national Moot Court team earnedtop honors in the Western Region Moot Court competition in San Diego.
The team, comprised of SallyAbel of San Francisco, Lawrence Kalantari of Minneapolis,and Miriam Krinsky of Los Angeles, will proceed tothe national Moot Court finals in New YorkCityin February. Also qualifying for thenational finals was the team from the Universityof San Diego School ofLaw.
Miriam Krinskywon thebest advocateawardin thefinalroundof the regional competition, and the team placed thirdin brief awards.
Two days of oral arguments in the November regional contest included a field of 14teams from law schools of Californiaand Hawaii.
Classnotes
The 1950s
Robert F. Waldron'54has become a fellowof theAmericanCollege of Trial Lawyers. Hecontinueshis law practice of25yearsin OrangeCounty.
Richard C. Wulliger'56 has been electedchairmanof the Los Angeles County AssessmentAppealsBoard.
Adley M. Shulman'58is the president of the BeverlyHillsBarAssociation.
The 1960s
Albert I. Moon, Jr. '61hasbeen appointedbyChief Justice Warren Burger to beamemberof the new Ad HocCommitteeof the Judicial Conference ofthe United Stateson American InnsofCourt. The committee willadminister and encourage thedevelopmentof AmericanInnsofCourtthroughoutthe country.
Robert B. Burke '66has opened his ownofficeinLosAngelesfor the practiceoflanduseand zoninglaw.
Monte C. Fligsten'66 hasjoined the law firmof MindlinandTigermanin Los Angeles.
U. S. CongressmanJerry M. Patterson '66 has receivedthe SigmaChi fraternity's highesthonorfor outstandingachievements in his professional field. The1983 Significant Sig Awardwas presented to him at adinnerheld in his honor in Washington, D.C.
Peter M. Appleton!67 has been selected by theBeverly Hills Bar Associationtobeits representativeto the Los AngelesCounty Bar
Association's Boardof Trustees for 1983-84.
Stefan M. Mason '67 became partners in law with hiswife Belle thisyear withthe formation of Mason & Mason. The firm in Century City specializes in labor relations, representing management.
Sheldon Michaels '67 has been appointed generalattorney for the western region ofAT&T in San Francisco.
Thomas E. Warriner '67 is a senior assistant attorney general and was recently appointedby Governor Deukmejian to the Commission on ChildSupport Development and Enforcement.
Steven N. Katznelson '68 has retired from the active practice of law. A certified specialist in worker's compensation, heis now an independent consultant to physicians who specialize in legal medicine and he remains of counselto Lemaire, Faunce, & Katznelson. He is president of Consulting Associates/Legal Medicine Services, Ltd.
Thomas Larmore '68 has been appointedby the Santa Monica City Council to athree-yearterm on its City Planning Commission.
Susan G. Schaefer '68 is the partner in charge of the entertainment law departmentof Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley, She was previously head ofthe television packaging areaof the business affairs department of William Morris Agency, Inc.
Keenan Behrle '69 has been reelected to the Board of Directors of the UCLA Alumni Association. He serves as vice president forgovernmentalrelations.
The 1970s
Gary M. Borofsky '70 is now a partner in the firm of Slavitt & Borofsky and is a certified tax specialist in Century City.
Ronald B. Merriweather '71 is now sitting for a six-year term asjudgeof the Municipal Court in his home town of Philadelphia. He recently defeated a silting judge by a two-to-one margin.
Michael Goldberg '72 has formed a new bilingual law firm with partner Manuel Graiwer, emphasizing service to the Latino community. With offices in Los Angeles and North Hollywood, the firm specializesin tort law and worker's compensation.
William V. Stafford '72 has formedthe new partnership of Duncan & Stafford. The firm specializes in civil litigation, personal injury andinsurance lawin its Newport Beach offices.
Robert Berke '73 has been elected vice president of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. He is a partner in the law firm of Overland, Berke, Wesley, Cits, Randolph & Levanas.
Steven W. Levy '73 has become a partner in the LosAngeles firm of Sandler and Rosen. He will continueto specialize in corporate and real estate matters.
GinaDespres'74is counselto Senator BillBradley (D.-N.J.J specializing in tax restructuringand the completion ofthesimplifiedprogressive tax titled the Bradley-Gephardt Fair Tax.
Randall D. Fowler'74, formerly a partner in Antin, Stern, Litz, & Grebow,hasformed anew partnership. Thenew firm, Fowler, Vanic, Weagant & Loo willemphasize business litigation, tax, estate planning, corporate and securitieslaw. Thefirm'sofficesare in Los Angeles.
Gary Horgan '74and Alan Rosen'74 haveformeda new partnership. Ziskin, Horgan & Rosen practices bankinglawwith offices in Century City.
Ronald R. Kollitz '74 has been appointed presiding Workers' Compensation Judge of theLos Angelesofficeofthe Workers' �ompensation AppealsBoard, which 1sthelargestofficein the state.
Timothy J. Muris '74 is now director of the Federal TradeCommission's Bureau of Competitionin Washington, D. C. The bureauenforces competition aspects of antitrust law. Muris
formerly directedthe commission's Bureau of ConsumerProtection.
Donald E. Warner, Jr. '74, formerly with the firmof Tuttle & Taylor, has opened a new office in Los Angeles withJonathan W. Biddle.
Richard Philip Yang'74 recently became a partner in the firm of Quan, Cohen, Kurahashi, Hsieh & Scholtz. He continues tospecializein banking, real estate, and civillitigation.
Michael J. Harrington '75 has joined the law firmof Hahn & Hahn in Pasadena. He formerly served as senior counsel with Crocker National Bank.
Gail D. Kass'75has become associated with the firmof Lewitt, Hackman, Hoefflin, Shapiro & Herzog in Encino.
Paul R. Katz '75has been namedan assistant vice president-corporate counsel of AmericanMedical International, ahealth care services company.
Robert D. McGuiness '75 has opened his office in Oakland where he continues tospecialize in family law and real estate. He recentlymarried Yolanda N. Northridge, anattorney also practicing in the Bay Area.
Charles Read '75, a partner at O'Melveny & Myers, is now a member of the firm's New York officewherehe specializes in litigation.
Richard G. Wilkin '75 was recently appointed director of UCLA Student
Alumni Gatherings
Alumni in the New York Cityarea met withDeanSusan Westerberg Prager at a reception given on December 2 at the O'Melveny & Myers offices on Park Avenue.
Alumni in theSan Francisco Bay areaas well as alumni who are professors at U.S. law schools, and who were attending theannual meeting of the Association of AmericanLawSchools, gathered on January 6 at a reception held at the Four Seasons Clift Hotel in San Francisco.
Legal Services.
LourdesG. Baird'76 and Kathrine M. Quadros haveformedthe law offices of Baird & Quadrosin Los Angeles. Lourdes G. Bairdwas formerly Assistant UnitedStates Attorney in the CentralDistrictof California.
Elizabeth Ebey Benes '76 has left private practice tobecomein-house general counselfor the San Diego Padres, Teleseat (computerized ticketing), Operation Cork Productions (currently producing the film Mass AppealwhichstarsJack Lemmon), and the Joan 8. Kroc Foundation
James P. Donahue'76 has become a partner in theSeattle, Washington, firm of Sax and Maciver, specializing in antitrust andcommerciallitigation. He is the authorof "Ex Parle Applications for Temporary Restraining OrdersandSeizuresWithout Notice in Privacy Cases," appearing in Vol. 2 of the ComputerLawReporter.
Catherine B. Hanan '76 has addeda partner to her firm, Kenneth D.Passon. The firmwillcontinue to operate a full servicepracticein Century City, specializing in realestate,corporate banking, andcommercialmatters, including litigation.
Beth Levine '76 iscurrentlyan Assistant U.S. Attorneyin the Civil Division of the U.S.Attorney'soffice in San Diego.
Judith SalkowShapiro'76 and Gary M. Stern '76 havebecomemembers of the firm ofPacht,Ross, Warne, Bernhard & Sears. (Please note that this is a correctionof an error in the last issue.)
Kenneth M. Wanner '76 has been appointed principal in the firm of Spray,Gould & Bowersin Los Angeles. His practiceemphasized civil litigationand insurance defense.
Deborah E. Winer'76 has become a partner in the law offices of Stanley 8. Mann in Encino.The firm specializes in civillitigationand insurance defense.
BruceGilbert '77has been elevated to seniordeputycityattorneyin the InglewoodCityAttorney's office.
Helen Jacobs '77has been elected president of bothFirstArtists Produc-
lionCompanyandtheHanover Group.
Robert Jay Moore '77 hasbecomea partnerin theLosAngelesfirmof Gendel, Raskoff,Shapiro & Quittner.
Professors Ken Graham, Patrick Patterson, Reg Alleyne and Henry McGee brought musical virtuosity to the law school production of Graham's "Soporific," performed February 4 in Dickson Auditorium. Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Los Angeles, Calif. Permit No. 12378
