Education

Law School/Year: UCLA, 1975

College/Year: Kent State University, 1972

Bar Admissions

California; Federal District Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. Supreme Court

Practice Areas

I have for 25 years been a full-time law professor teaching courses including Contracts, Remedies, Election Law, Antitrust, Community Property, Civil Procedure Practice, Professional Responsibility and others. The selections reflect practice areas before beginning my teaching career and during a seven-year period from 1976 to 1983 when I was an adjunct faculty member: Appellate, Business Litigation, Civil Litigation, Corporate Business, Real Estate

Major Cases

I was lead plaintiffs’ counsel through two successful appeals in MacManus v. A. E. Realty Partners, a class action by homeowners against a real estate developer and its wholly owned subsidiary escrow company for violation of antitrust laws and California Civil Code §2995 (prohibiting real estate developers from requiring use of escrow companies in which the developers have financial interests). See 146 Cal.App.3d, 275 (1983) and 195 Cal.App.3d 1106 (1987).

Professional Background

Upon becoming a member of the California Bar, I stayed on briefly in the legal department of Whittaker Corp. (Los Angeles), where I had been a law clerk for over two years. I moved to San Diego in 1976, joined the litigation department of Fredman, Silverberg, & Lewis and began teaching Remedies that fall as an adjunct faculty member at Western State University College of Law (now Thomas Jefferson School of Law). In 1980 I opened a solo civil litigation practice that I maintained until joining the law school’s resident faculty in fall 1983. I just finished my 64th consecutive semester of law teaching.

Professional Affiliations

Member of American Bar Association; Member of the teaching faculty for the ABA Counsel on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Summer Institute

Personal Affiliations

Board member and legal adviser to several not-for-profit public benefit corporations; past PTA president; past president and incorporator of Rancho Peñasquitos Basketball (youth recreational sports program with about 1,000 participants annually); volunteer for Promote and Protect the Vote (P2TV); member of Amnesty International, Southern Poverty Law Center

Personal Background

Born and raised in northeastern Ohio. Married 30 years to wife, Randye. Proud father of two adult children: Micah (teacher in Santa Barbara) and Katie (junior at University of Washington). Involved in community (especially youth) legal education. Developed youth mock trial exercises that I present in local elementary and middle schools to introduce children to the law and legal process. Law presentations for high school, college and community groups. Former presenter of legal component for criminal diversion program for drug offenses.