50 YEARS AS A LAWYER

California attorneys The State Bar of congratulates the 494 lawyers who were sworn in as California attorneys 50 years hit 50-year mark ago and who, today, remain on our roster. They have helped change laws, lead our state and country, shape our companies, enforce our laws, teach our young and provide vital legal advice to individuals facing myriad By Kristina Horton Flaherty, Staff Writer personal crises. In this special section, we pay homage to their legacy and good works.

lot has happened since they — Howard Miller, President, The became California lawyers in 1959. ABack then, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, a first-class postage stamp cost four cents, minimum wage was $1 and secretaries used typewriters. Alaska and knew each other,” Oakland criminal de- our community to the idea that they can increasingly extensive process involving Hawaii became states that year. The Barbie fense lawyer Spencer Strellis, 75, said re- pursue their rights, but I think it also tends countless pre-trial interrogatories, record Doll hit the marketplace. And the first cently as he geared up for his next murder to generate more litigation.” requests and depositions. “Now discovery microchip was invented. trial. “To a large extent, we had to live up to Vogel, now a JAMS neutral, also has is an enormous part of litigation practice The Vietnam War, man’s first walk on our word because if we didn’t, nobody seen the Discovery Act transform litiga- and probably constitutes the most expen- the moon and the launch of the personal would ever talk to us again.” tion from the Perry Mason-style court- sive aspect of trial practice,” he said. “I computer have long since come and gone. Strellis was one of just 12 attorneys in room “showdown” of the 1950s to an 50 years continues on S4 But , Charles Vogel, John the Alameda County Public Defender’s Of- Dutton, Spencer Strellis and Suzie Thorn — fice when he began his career. In those days, along with nearly 500 other veteran attor- the same attorney would often represent co- Advocates, jurists, leaders and teachers neys — are still members of California’s defendants in the same trial — something legal profession five decades later. More unheard of today. Criminal penalties were Cruz Reynoso, the son of farm workers, Employment Opportunity Commission in than 200 of them remain active State Bar less severe. And he still recalls the jump in decided to become a lawyer to “do some Washington, D.C. In the late 1960s, he be- members. And some are still trying cases. the workload after the 1963 U.S. Supreme good.” While he came executive director of California Rural “It’s taken me 50 years to learn what Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright gave would later become Legal Assistance (CRLA), a pioneering legal I’ve learned, more than that if you count indigent criminal defendants the right to the first Latino to services program for the poor, and saw law school,” points out Auburn sole practi- court-appointed counsel. serve on Califor- firsthand, he says, what a difference tioner John Dutton. “And I want to keep on He also remembers when state and U.S. nia’s Supreme lawyers can make. using it. So long as I can still function, I Supreme Court rulings began requiring Court, he never for- In 1976, he became the first Latino ap- have no plans to retire.” police to give Miranda warnings before got the injustices he pointed to the California Courts of Appeal They applied to law school when only taking a statement — but suggests the witnessed as a boy and then, in 1982, to the state Supreme some schools required LSAT scores, and change, in the long run, did little to influ- raised in an Orange Court. He left the bench in 1987 after he began legal careers when $400 a month was ence whether or not suspected criminals County barrio. and two other justices failed to win recon- a good starting salary. They’ve watched the talk. “Most people want to talk,” he says. As a child, he firmation at the polls following a high-pro- bar’s ranks swell from some 21,000 attor- Then there was Berkeley’s Free Speech once successfully petitioned the U.S. Post- file campaign against them. neys to more than 220,000. They’ve seen an Movement and the advent of mass demon- master for rural mail delivery to his He later served as vice chair of the U.S. increase in laws, litigation and lawyer ad- strations in the mid-1960s. In one instance, barrio. And that early victory, he says, Commission on Civil Rights and, in 2000, vertising. And they’ve seen far more Strellis, in private practice by then, and his helped inspire him to fight injustice. So, received the Presidential Medal of Free- women and minority partner represented a after graduating from Pomona College and dom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. attorneys finally join police officer accused spending two years in the U.S. Army, he at- These days, Reynoso, 78, is a professor the mix. To a large extent, we had of shooting a demon- tended UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. He was emeritus at the UC Davis School of Law. strator. In another, he the only Latino in his graduating class. Last fall, he participated in a justice and family law attorney to live up to our word because was one of the attor- Beginning his law career as the only civil rights agency review as part of Presi- Suzie Thorn, 77, if we didn’t, nobody would neys who persuaded Latino attorney in the small town of El Cen- dent-elect ’s transition to the recalls being one of “ a judge to release ever talk to us again.” tro and surrounding region, he soon be- White House. He also currently serves on just three women in a hundreds of demon- came known as a man of his word who the leadership council of California For- law school class of — Spencer Strellis strators who, along even offered “legal aid” from his home. ward, a bipartisan organization seeking to 275. Back then, she with some shoppers In the mid-1960s, Reynoso’s reputation transform state government. says, women lawyers were so rare that and visiting parents, were marched into a led to his appointment as assistant director He has long stressed the importance when she was sworn in as a lawyer, a Berkeley parking lot and arrested. of the state’s Fair Employment Practices of seeking a balanced life, he says, and local news photographer showed up to “It was a circus,” Strellis says. “This was Commission; then staff secretary to Gov. not giving up. “Particularly with tough take her picture. And finding a job in a a new phenomenon and we were trying to Edmund G. (Pat) Brown; and, finally, asso- social or legal issues, persistence is half was no small feat. “Oh gee, figure out what the hell we were doing.” ciate general counsel to the U.S. Equal the battle.” you’re great,” she recalls them saying, Sole practitioner John Dutton, 79, recalls “but we don’t hire women.” representing criminal defendants in San Then, when she joined her father’s San Jose even before Santa Clara County had a Francisco law firm a few years later, some public defender’s office. He got $25 a case, Carla Anderson Hills graduated ment of Housing and Urban Development of his clients thought she was there to file $50 more if he handled the preliminary from at a time when — and she became the third woman in U.S. his letters, and the secretary nearly quit hearing and “maybe a little more” if he many law firms history to hold a cabinet position. rather than take orders from a woman. But went to trial. “It was a way to get experi- did not even hire In the late 1970s, Hills returned to pri- Thorn paid little attention. “I kept a sense ence, to get your name out there,” he says. women lawyers. vate practice in Washington, D.C. But in of humor about it,” she says now. Today, after stints as a municipal court But Hills went on 1988, she stepped back into government And eventually, she built up a family judge and full-time law professor, he han- to co-found a work once again when President George law practice, handling an increasing num- dles civil matters and still enjoys what he prominent law Bush named her as U.S. trade representa- ber of cases that involved international and does. But he’s seen the law expand and be- firm and later tive. As the nation’s chief trade negotiator multi-jurisdictional issues as society be- come more complicated and the court- serve three U.S. and Bush’s principal advisor on interna- came more mobile. She’s seen other house experience become more formal and presidents as a tional trade policy, Hills led the U.S. nego- changes as well: With the public courts less collegial, he says. And he is troubled lawyer, cabinet tiations in the Uruguay Round of “understaffed, overworked and full of pro by the “big explosion” in litigation. “I see a member and U.S. multilateral trade talks and concluded the pers,” she now turns to private judges 80 lot of litigation now that is just not justi- trade representative. North American Agreement percent of the time. Conference calls, tele- fied,” he says. “It hurts the profession in She began her career handling civil (NAFTA). According to one account, her phonic court hearings and e-mail have be- terms of the view of laymen toward attor- cases for the U.S. Attorney in . tough negotiating style, together with her come business as usual. And there are more neys. People get caught up in some of this Then, in 1962, she and six other attorneys feminine demeanor, prompted some to options now — such as mediation and set- litigation and they spend a lot of money on co-founded Munger, Tolles and Hills, now dub her the “Velvet Crowbar.” tlement efforts — for handling divorces attorney fees.” a 192-attorney law firm with offices in In 2000, Hills was awarded the Aztec and other family law matters. “I spent Also, when he first became a lawyer, at- L.A. and San Francisco. During those Eagle, the highest honor given by the Mex- years litigating when that seemed to be the torneys were not allowed to advertise, he early years, she also taught antitrust law ican government to a non-citizen. only choice, and I think the way we’re says. Then, in 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court at the UCLA law school, co-authored the These days, Hills, 75, serves as chair- doing it now is the right way,” she says. ruled that such a prohibition was unconsti- Antitrust Adviser and started a family. man and chief executive officer of Hills & “It’s certainly the right way for the kids.” tutional and the aftermath, Dutton says, In the early 1970s, when U.S. President Company, International Consultants, But does she miss anything about the has “not been a good thing.” was under increasing legal which advises U.S. businesses on invest- old days? “I’m not a back looker,” Thorn Former state appellate court justice scrutiny, she accepted a job as Assistant At- ment, trade and risk assessment issues says. “There are some things that were bet- Charles Vogel, 77, agrees. Lawyer adver- torney General in the civil division of the abroad. She lives in Washington, D.C., ter then, and some things are better now.” tising has “run rampant,” he says. “It U.S. Department of Justice. In 1975, after with her husband, attorney Roderick M. Many recall a more congenial, tight-knit generates litigation for litigation’s sake. I Nixon’s resignation, President Hills. Three of their four children are now legal community in earlier times. “We all suppose it introduces some segments of nominated her as Secretary of the Depart- lawyers as well.

Mapp v. Ohio. 1961 / Gideon v. Wainwright. 1963 / Times v. Sullivan. 1964 / Miranda v. Arizona. 1966 S1 50 YEARS 50 YEARS 50 YEARS 50 YEARS 50 YEARS

Charles S. Vogel remembers his father “Onion Field” case involving a police encouraging him to go to law school. It officer’s murder in Kern County. And he Roster: members for half a century would be “good wrote a 90-page opinion in the case of no- Warren Jones Abbott, West Covina • Jess Joseph Aguilar, Sunnyvale • training,” his father torious killer Charles Manson and his fol- David Blair Allen, Versailles, KY • Eugene David Alpern, Torrance • thought, for joining lowers, upholding three of the convictions A Charles Stanley Althouse II, Upland • Daniel Taylor Anderson, the family business. and ordering a new trial for one defendant. But Vogel instead Then, with Jerry Brown as governor, Issaquah, WA • Donald Eugene Anderson, Walnut Creek • William Thomas went on to become a Vogel, a Republican, concluded that any Anderson, Lincoln • Leo Rafael Andrade Jr., Greenbrae • John Christian lawyer and, eventu- chance of an appellate court appointment Andreason Jr., Plymouth • Gerald Ansell, Los Angeles • Richard Taylor Apel, ally, a presiding jus- was on hold. So in 1977, he returned to the Pasadena • Martin Sherman Appel, Los Angeles • Arthur Owen Armstrong Jr., tice in the California practice of law — first at Nossaman, Beach • Leo Edward Arnold Jr., Larkspur • Herbert Louis Ashby, Courts of Appeal. Krueger & Marsh and then at Sidley & Thousand Oaks • Eric Arthur Ashton, Glendale • George Allen Atherton, Born and raised in Los Angeles, Vogel Austin. In 1990-91, he also served as State Modesto • James Blakesley Atkin, Charlottesville, VA graduated from Pomona College and Bar president. Ronald Bain, Los Angeles • Gene Bernard Bakar, San Francisco • Jerry Lee UCLA School of Law. After passing the Cal- In 1993, Gov. then ap- B Baker, Sherman Oaks • Rodney Alan Baker, Coulterville • John T. Ball, ifornia bar exam, he went to work for Al- pointed Vogel to the Second Appellate Dis- Portola • Otto Henry Bandemer, Carlsbad • Albert Barouh, Los Angeles • lard, Shelton & O’Connor, a small firm in trict, Division 4 of the California Courts of Gerald Sherman Barton, Studio City • Philip Maher Battaglia Jr., Los Olivos • Pomona. Starting out at $350 a month (plus Appeal, where he eventually served as Gerald M. Bazar, Los Angeles • Hon. Carlos Tiburcio Bea, San Francisco • 50 percent of any business he brought in), presiding justice, as well as the district’s Howard E. Beckler, Beverly Hills • Bruce Alan Beckman, Tarzana • Bertram he handled all kinds of cases, from criminal administrative presiding justice, until 2004. Marcus Berns, San Jose • William L. Berry Jr., Carmichael • Peter Anthony to civil transactional, and eventually be- A legal Web site profile once character- Bertino, Carlsbad • Lurline Sampson Bickel, San Francisco • Donn L. Black, came partner. ized Vogel as the Second District’s version Saint Helena • Iryne Codon Black, Newport Beach • Stanley Algie Black, Boulder, of Chief Justice Ronald George — a smart In 1969, he was appointed to the CO • L. Martin Blaha, San Mateo • Doyle O’Neal Blaney, Los Angeles • Stephen jurist with good leadership abilities. Others Pomona Municipal Court. Finding that he Melville Blumberg, Fresno • Phillip Warren Bohl, Northridge • David B. Boller, had spare time, he volunteered to help out have described him as pragmatic and as Los Angeles • James George Boornazian, Liberty Lake, WA • Alfred Bornstein, in the Superior Court as well. A year later, someone who has a rare capacity to bring Albuquerque, NM • Richard B. Bowden Jr., Palo Alto • Philip Paul Bowe, Novato Gov. appointed him to the people together. • Alexander Bowie, Newport Beach • Dian Hixon Brannen, Fallbrook • Robert S. Los Angeles Superior Court. These days, Vogel, 77, works for JAMS. Brazelton, Downey • John E. Breckenridge, Laguna Beach • Lane Patrick Brennan, During that time, Vogel also took on “I’ve had more than my share of opportu- Sausalito • Robert Joseph Brenner, Sacramento • Robert Marshall Brilliant, assignments in the California Courts of nities,” he says, “and I’ve developed Walnut Creek • Ralph Ewing Brogdon Jr., Menlo Park • John Quincy Brown Jr., Appeal. He wrote a 52-page opinion up- many, many friendships that have lasted Sacramento • Waldo Arvil Brown, West Covina • Willie Lewis Brown Jr., San holding the convictions in the infamous me a lifetime.” Francisco • Russell John Bruno, Oakland • Harold Bryman, Sherman Oaks • George Glenn Buchanan, Whittier • Richard Thomas Burress, Stanford • James Monroe Buxbaum, San Luis Obispo • Richard Perry Byrne, Los Angeles Willie Lewis Brown Jr. was born into mostly Republican votes — and went on a deeply segregated world of poverty — to wield legendary power for 15 years. Donald M. Cahen, Belmont • Robert Vincent Campbell, San Anselmo • working as a After being “termed out” of office after C Victor Mario Campilongo, San Rafael • Donald W. Canady, Vista • shoeshine boy and 31 years (Brown’s tenure as a legislator is Adolph J. Capurro, San Francisco • Robert Edwin Carlson, Pasadena • graduating from a credited with triggering the state’s voter- Lynn Carman, Novato • Thomas Mason Carnes, San Francisco • George A. “colored” high imposed term limits), he was elected Carter, Fresno • Andrew Castellano, South Pasadena • Roland Childs, Los Angeles school in an East mayor of San Francisco. Dubbed “Da • Jean Claude Chognard, Palo Alto • Gerald L. Christensen, Sausalito • Richard town. But in Mayor” and “Slick Willie” by some, the Henry Christensen, Olympia, WA • Joel Alan Cibener, Los Angeles • Lee Harker a rags-to-riches two-term mayor became known for his Cliff, Santa Cruz • Nicholas Bayard Clinch III, Palo Alto • William Irwin story, Brown Brioni suits, flamboyant lifestyle and pow- Cohen, Los Altos • Marie B. Collins, Piedmont • David Paul Compton, Woodland headed West in erful connections. He even portrayed him- Hills • Robert Harvey Connett, Sacramento • Hugh F. Connolly, Hillsborough • 1951 with a card- self in a few movies. Noel G. Conway, Girdwood, AK • J. Hilary Cook, Markleeville • Ralph D. Copley board suitcase and But he also was known for his political Jr., Pagosa Springs, CO • Bruce M. Cowan, San Francisco • Terrill F. Cox, Lompoc • eventually became California’s longest- acumen, fiery oratory, loyalty and ability Robert Certia Craig, Long Beach • Donald Wilson Crocker, Rolling Hills Estates • serving Assembly speaker and then a to get things done. As mayor, he broke Hon. H. Walter Croskey, Los Angeles • Robert D. Curiel, Oxnard • Ricky J. high-profile mayor of San Francisco. budget deadlocks and helped change the Curotto, Redwood City Following an uncle to San Francisco city’s landscape — restoring City Hall, re- Robert Harold Dahl, Los Angeles • Robert L. Dally, Redlands • R. Toms after high school, Brown initially planned building the transit system and paving Dalton Jr., Waynesboro, VA• Jules Anthony Darras Jr., Temecula • to become a math teacher. But he soon be- the way for a second University of Cali- D came involved in campus politics at fornia campus. G. Gervaise Davis III, San Jose • Merle E. Davis, Austin, TX • Clayton San Francisco State University and the These days, Brown, 75, maintains his Wray DaVega, Oakland • Philip Deitch, Van Nuys • William Lambert NAACP, and shifted his focus. He went on active status as an attorney and heads up Detrixhe, Santa Monica • Anthony DeCristoforo Jr., Sacramento • B. Eugene to UC Hastings College of the Law, he the Willie L. Brown Jr. Institute on Politics DeFreitas, Boca Raton, FL • John F. DeMeo, Santa Rosa • Delbert Nelson later said, simply to avoid military service. and Public Service in San Francisco. Dilbeck, Springfield, VA• Fred Hayward Dill, Redlands • Hiram Stokes Dillin, As a lawyer, Brown reportedly found He once told the Academy of Achieve- Granite Bay • Robert Knickerbocker Dorsey, Las Vegas, NV • William H. he liked solving his clients’ problems. But ment that, early on, he just knew there had Dorsey, Rancho Mirage • Kenneth Wayne Downey, Encino • Irving Morley he remained drawn to politics. In 1962, to be a better life than “having no shoes.” Drucker, Los Angeles • James Reginald Dunn, Redlands • William H. Dunn, he ran for the State Assembly and lost. “In most cases, my turns in the road Campbell • John J. Dutton, Auburn Two years later, he won and became one were not planned,” he said. “They were Albert Henry Ebright, Los Angeles • Dallas Sargent Edgar, Hayward • of just four African American assembly me taking advantage of the circumstances E/F Gilbert Eisenberg, San Francisco • Nick Louis Miller Elchinoff, members. And in 1980, after one failed that presented themselves with the most Millbrae • John Greenleaf Eliot Jr., Petaluma • Dwight C. Ely, Vallejo • attempt, he was elected Speaker with optimum prospects.” Ruth J. Engelhardt, Los Angeles • Hon. Norman Lee Epstein, Los Angeles • Ira S. Epstein, Santa Monica • Norwood R. Erich, Grenada • James Edward Erickson, San Juan Capistrano • A. Lee Estep, La Jolla • Hugh Hinton Evans II, Los Angeles • Spencer Strellis has been an Oakland a false police report). And at one point, he Timothy G. Evatt, San Diego • William Charles Faulwetter, Sun City, AZ • John criminal defense lawyer for 49 years. He was assigned to try all of the misdemeanor Corry Fell, III, San Jose • Joseph A. Filippelli, San Francisco • David Rowland has tried more than jury trials that came up in Oakland. Finch, Penn Valley • Joseph Jay Fisch, San Diego • Chandler Flickinger, Fallbrook • 250 jury trials and After four years, Strellis accepted a new Ned Flusty, Woodland Hills • Hon. Richard T. Ford, Nipomo • William Howard represented thou- job as chief trial attorney for the Alameda- Fowler, Sacramento • Robert Lloyd Fox, Los Angeles • George J. Franscell, sands of defen- Contra Costa Transit District, but he Glendale • Errol Robert French, Sherman Oaks • Jack Harlan Friedenthal, dants. And as he missed criminal law. A year later, he went Washington, DC • Stephen Martin Friedman, Los Angeles • John Franklin prepared for yet into practice with prominent Oakland at- Futcher Jr., Littleton, CO another murder torney Stanley P. Golde. During the turbu- trial recently, he lent 1960s, he and Golde represented Sanford M. Gage, Los Angeles • Gordon Robert Gaines, Berkeley • said he still loves participants in Berkeley’s Free Speech G Donald C. Gallagher, Ontario, Canada • Mark Michael Gallon, what he does. Movement, as well as a police officer ac- Manhattan Beach • Hon. Edward John Garcia, Sacramento • Irwin H. “If you don’t cused of shooting a demonstrator. Since Garfinkel, Encino • Howard Alexander Gebler, Palm Desert • Konstantine have enthusiasm for it, you’re in the the early 1970s, after Golde’s appointment Paul George, Long Beach • Morton M. Gerson, Santa Monica • Joseph Martin wrong line of work because you surely to the Alameda Superior Court, Strellis has Giden, Los Angeles • Jackson T. Gifford, Oakland • James M. Gifford, Los Gatos aren’t going to win unless the jury thinks primarily been a sole practitioner. • Norman J. Gilbert, Toluca Lake • Raymond L. Girard, San Luis Obispo • you give a damn,” he said. “You have to In 1973, Strellis helped co-found Edward N. Glad, Pasadena • Robert John Glynn Jr., Pleasanton • V. Barlow appear to care and you do care.” California Attorneys for Criminal Justice Goff, Sacramento • Mitchell M. Gold, Los Angeles • Sheldon Leon Goldflam, Strellis, 75, has never tried a case, he — the nation’s largest such organization of Los Angeles • Peter R. Goldschmidt, Arlington, VA • Alvin H. Goldstein Jr., says, where he didn’t wake up during the criminal defense lawyers and allied profes- San Rafael • Jason Allan Gottlieb, Los Angeles • Donald A. Gralla, Sherman night after closing arguments and wonder sionals. He also helped set up Alameda’s Oaks • George William Merrill Granger, Bakersfield • Melvyn L. Green, Solana if he should have said something more. Criminal Court Appointed Attorneys Pro- Beach • Bernard A. Greenberg, Beverly Hills • Maurice A. Greenwald, Santa The son of a Navy engineer, Strellis gram and, in 2004, served as president of Barbara • Allen Brooks Gresham, San Bernardino • Philip Clayton Griffin, lived all over the world as a child. But after the Alameda County Bar Association. Los Angeles • Glenn W. Groenewold, Alameda • John A. Gromala, Fortuna • graduating from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall One of Strellis’s colleagues recently Paul Andrew Grube Jr., San Bernardino • Eugene T. Gualco, Sacramento • in 1958, he went to work at the Alameda described him as an old-school, com- Robert Carl Gustaveson, Farmington, UT County Public Defender’s Office and has mon-sense lawyer with “cast-iron logic” never left the area. He still recalls his first and “a heart as big as Texas.” Another Donald Barry Hagler, San Marino • James D. Hammond Jr., San court trial (a dental office theft) and his characterizes him as “a true warrior for H/I Francisco • Timothy John Hanifin, Santa Cruz • Paul A. Hanna, first jury trial (a person accused of making the defense bar.” Silverado • Richard J. Hanscom, San Diego • William M. Hardy,

S2 Roe v. Wade. 1973 / U.S. v. Nixon. 1974 / Goldfarb v. State Bar. 1975 / Bates v. State Bar of Arizona. 1977 50 YEARS 50 YEARS 50 YEARS 50 YEARS 50 YEARS

Grants Pass, OR • Paul Willard Hartloff Jr., Santa Barbara • Deane Haskins, La Jolla Edwin Meese III started his career as Meese would ultimately spend most • Stanley Craig Hatch, Santa Barbara • Marvin G. Haun, Danville • Yvon O. an Alameda County prosecutor — captur- of his adult life working with Reagan. Heckscher, Sebastopol • Robert Alan Hefner, Port Orchard, WA • Elizabeth Ann ing attention for After several interim years as a business Helfrich, Salinas • Richard G. Hendrix, Elverta • Thomas E. Henze, Redmond, OR • his handling of executive in the aerospace and trans- Harold C. Herman, Woodmere, NY • Louis Robert Hersh, Tarzana • Harold Joel massive student portation industry, then as a San Diego Hertzberg, Westlake Village • Herbert H. Hiestand Jr., Encino • Albert J. Hillman, that rocked attorney and University of San Diego law Orinda • Carla Anderson Hills, Washington, DC • George Hinoki, San Jose • Daniel Berkeley in the professor and legal center director, he W. Holden, San Bernardino • Marvin L. Holen, Los Angeles • Jack Dunaway Holt, 1960s. He later be- worked on Reagan’s 1980 presidential Redlands • Arthur Yukio Honda, Monterey Park • Willard D. Horwich, Beverly Hills came the nation’s campaign. He then headed up Reagan’s • Peter Taylor Hoss, Salinas • Richard Clegg Hubbell, Los Angeles • William Lloyd 75th Attorney Gen- transition to the White House and served Hughes, Lafayette • James Andrew Humphreys Jr., Irvine • Charles Joseph Hunt eral and a close as his counselor and chief policy advisor. Jr., Irvine • Robert Edward Hunter, San Francisco • Keiichiro Imai, Los Angeles • advisor to President He has been described as the Administra- Minoru Inadomi, Costa Mesa • Samuel Albert Ingebritsen, Menlo Park Ronald Reagan. tion’s ideological point man. As a boy in Oakland, Meese published In 1985, he became the U.S. Attorney Marvin A. Jacobs, Sausalito • William Daniel Jennett, Los Angeles • a news sheet with his brothers and General and led international efforts J/K Wilbur W. Jennings, Hurricane, UT • Warren LeRoi Johns, bought war bonds. He joined the debate against terrorism, drug trafficking and or- Smithville, TN • Russell Lloyd Johnson, Coronado • Thomas T. team and a military club in high school ganized crime. Questioned at a press con- Johnson Jr., Pacific Palisades • George L. Johnston, Acton, MA • Aaron Morgan and went to on a scholar- ference once about Meese’s actions as Jones, Truckee • Joseph Morse Jones, Los Angeles • Lawrence Aaron Jones, Davis • ship. Returning to California to study law attorney general, Reagan reportedly Richard D. Jones, Newport Beach • Sherman Juster, Philo • Stuart Maier Kaplan, at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, he inter- replied: “If Ed Meese is not a good man, San Francisco • Peter M. Kardel, San Luis Obispo • Barrie Mitchell Karen, Woodland rupted his studies for two years to be a there are no good men.” Hills • Arthur Karma, Ventura • Melvin Irving Kaufman, Roseville • Earl William U.S. Army artillery officer (later retiring In 2006, Meese was appointed to the Kavanau, Beverly Hills • Ben T. Kayashima, Pomona • Joseph Ignatius Kelly, as a in the U.S. Army Reserve). Iraq Study Group, a presidential commis- San Francisco • Richard W. Kelner, Huntington Beach • Donald Harley Keltner, After law school, he worked as an sion that assessed America’s involvement Aspen, CO • Donn Kemble, Irvine • Donald Bruce King, Santa Rosa • George King, Alameda County deputy district attorney in Iraq and made recommendations. Today, Oakland • Richard Lloyd Kite, Beverly Hills • Andrew Brunsdale Kjos, Palo Alto • and eventually caught Gov. Reagan’s atten- at 78, he holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in James Edward Kleaver, Yreka • Robert Allan Klein, Los Angeles • Robert Lynn tion for his role in the crackdown on the Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Knauss, Burton, TX • Harold W. Knight III, Newport Beach • Leroy Wayne mass Free Speech Movement protests at and also serves as chairman of Heritage’s Knutson, El Cajon • Hans H. Koehl, Danielson, CT • Mitchell Koteff, Chula UC Berkeley. In 1967, Meese joined Rea- Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and Vista • Ephraim Philip Kranitz, Los Angeles • John Robert Kronenberg, Aliso gan’s staff, serving as legal affairs secretary, as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Viejo • Leonard A. Kully, San Francisco executive assistant and chief of staff. Hoover Institution at . I. Glenn Lance, Rancho Mirage • Ronald Eugene Landers, Oxnard • Carl J. L Lane Jr., Encino • Philip Francis Lanzafame, La Crescenta • Kenneth W. Larson, Richmond • John Franklin Leach, Graeagle • Zad Leavy, Monterey • John J. Dutton was still in grade Korean MPs. And in 1953, he headed Armand S. Lehmann, Paris, France • William Edward Lehnhardt, Holtville • school when he decided to become a back to the U.S. and, with fond memories Alton Irwin Leib, Los Angeles • Bernard Lemlech, Westlake Village • Allan L. lawyer, but he does of his military layover in the Bay Area, Levine, Encino • Frederick LeRoy Leydorf, Rancho Mirage • Anne Von Der Lieth not know where enrolled at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. Gardner, Atherton • William Hugh Lightfoot, Nashville, TN • George C. Limbach, the idea came from. Graduating fifth in his class, Dutton East Palo Alto • Talbot Shaw Lindstrom, Jarfalla, Sweden • E. Robb Livingston, No one in his fam- began his legal career at McCutchen, Corona Del Mar • Robert Howard London, El Monte • Keith Hudson Long, Indian ily — and very few Doyle, Brown & Enersen in San Francisco, Wells • Robert Paul Long, Visalia • Hermann Edward Lorenz Jr., Sacramento • others in his South but soon decided that “big firm practice” Arlen G. Loselle, Old Chatham, NY • Daniel Michael Luevano, Calabasas • Texas hometown wasn’t a good fit. In 1960, he went to Eugene Francis Lynch, Ross • John J. Patrick Lynch, Inglewood of 350 — even work for the California Judicial Council went to college. when the entire staff was roughly 15, only Edward Leland Mackey, Riverside • Hon. Malcolm H. Mackey, Los Angeles His family ran the five or six of them lawyers. M • Frederick Mahan, San Francisco • George Atherton Malloy, Stockton • only country grocery store and service But just a year later, still anxious to Douglas James Maloney, San Rafael • John William Maloney, Santa station in Vanderbilt, Texas, and did not practice law and try cases on his own, Monica • Richard Gilbert Mansfield, Palo Alto • Alfred L. Margolis, Union, ME • have indoor plumbing, electricity or hot he launched a private practice in San Phyllis Margulis, Carlsbad • Christian E. Markey, Jr., Los Angeles • Theodore M. water at home until Dutton was 11. Jose. Three years later, at age 33, he was Marois, Jr., Sacramento • Thomas James Marren, Stockton • Robert L. Martin, “I just had this idea in my mind that I appointed to the Santa Clara Municipal Fresno • William Anthony Masterson, Mendocino • Gene S. Maxwell, Aguanga • wanted to become an attorney,” recalls Court, where he served until 1971. After Arthur Mazirow, Los Angeles • Kenneth Roger McCann, Whittier • Thomas John Dutton, an Auburn sole practitioner who that, he worked as an associate law pro- McDermott Jr., Indian Wells • William Patrick McGinn, Rancho Palos Verdes • recently served on the State Bar’s board. fessor and director of the Center for Walter James McInnis, Tracy • Daryl J. McKinstry, Camino • John S. Mead, Starting his college studies at a commu- Legal Advocacy at McGeorge Law Piedmont • Edwin Meese III, McLean, VA • Richard Brenton Melbye, Atherton • nity college just 35 miles away, he eventu- School and then, briefly, as a deputy dis- Peter Mering, Folsom • Peter Moss Mezey, San Francisco • Milton Bernard Miller, ally wound up at the University of Texas in trict attorney in Yuba County. Calabasas • Ralph Gano Miller Jr., San Diego • Richard James Mills, San Diego • Austin. He planned to attend law school What Dutton likes best, he says, is John Christian Minney, Martinez • Sheldon Morton Mittleman, Tarzana • Milan there as well, but the shifted being a general-practice sole practi- Moacanin, Los Angeles • Gary Mohi, Holualoa, HI • McPherson Berrien E. Moore, the course of events. Short of funds for col- tioner. “The challenge, the new things Playa Del Rey • Robert H. Moore, Sky Forest • John P. Moran, Truckee • David lege, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and fi- that you continue learning and the vari- Jay Morgan, San Mateo • Jun Mori, Los Angeles • John Stevenson Morken, San nally left Texas — first to Georgia as an ety of experiences you have both in Francisco • Thomas C. Morris, Saint Maries, ID • Albert Charles Mour, Rancho infantry officer, and then to San Francisco cases and with people,” says Dutton, Mirage • Richard Treen Mudge, Laguna Woods • Stephen Ryan Mulligan, San to wait for a troop ship to Korea. 79, who is now a great-grandfather, Diego • R. Chandler Myers, Pasadena In Korea, he assisted an American “— it’s a headache sometimes, but it’s colonel who advised the head of all South something I enjoy.” Harold Carothers Nachtrieb, San Anselmo • Stirley Newell, N/O/P Phoenix, AZ • Bruce Sterling Nimmo, Post Falls, ID • Edward Patrick O’Brien, San Francisco • Richard Lawrence Ocheltree, Burlingame • Owen Culmer Olpin, Teasdale, UT • Darwin D. Olsen, La Jolla • Suzie S. Thorn still remembers what it represented well-known author Danielle David Henry Olson, Los Angeles • Gerald Edward Olson, San Diego • Thomas was like to be a woman — one of just three Steel in a divorce case, and Lia Belli — the Franklin Olson, Berkeley • John Carpenter Otto, Palm Springs • William Hartley in her class — at fifth wife of celebrity attorney Melvin Belli U.C. Hastings Col- — in another high-profile split. (Belli, him- Owen, Redwood City • Connolly K. Oyler, Santa Monica • Charles H. Page, Carmel • lege of the Law in self, had nine attorneys). And in the late Joseph Robert Panetta, Monterey • Theodore Pappas, Encino • William O. Parker the 1950s. “The first 1970s, she argued a jurisdiction case all the Covina • Roger Allan Parkinson, Bakersfield • Bernard Patrusky, Beverly Hills • year, nobody talked way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Joseph G. Peatman, Napa • Robert C. Petersen, Fort Bragg • Donald Victor to me,” she recalls. These days, she specializes in high Petroni, Los Angeles • Hon. Charles Leon Peven, San Fernando • Philip Richard “And then I was asset property division and multi-jurisdic- Placier, Orinda • Robert Walter Plath, Mill Valley • Shearn Howard Platt, San first in my class tional/international issues in divorce at Diego • Harris I. Plotkin, Beverly Hills • Samuel C, Polk, Los Angeles • William and, the second Schapiro-Thorn, Inc. and Thorn-Seymour- Poms, Santa Monica • Joann Patricia Porter, Glendale • Francis Joseph Potasz, year, everybody Mehmet. Half of her work now involves Foster City • Prewoznik, Santa Monica • Harold Kent Prukop, wanted to talk to me.” international matters, including Hague Placentia • Rex Arthur Pryer, Fortuna • Ross Mathers Pyle, San Diego There were professors who tried to Convention child abduction cases. John Joseph Quinn Jr., Los Angeles • James Howard embarrass the women, she recalls. But Thorn has no plans to retire and still Q/R/S Radcliffe, Anaheim • William Frank Raff, Bell Canyon • Thorn, who worked her way through law travels abroad regularly. But she now de- school as a part-time librarian, was nei- votes more time to charitable causes. She is Howard Grant Rath Jr., Los Angeles • Joseph Eli Rawlinson, ther embarrassed nor bothered, and went a trustee of the International Commission Burbank • Loyd W. Reed, Glendale • Edmund Louis Regalia, Walnut Creek • on to graduate in 1958. Women lawyers on Couple and Family Relations Trust in Joseph Reichmann, Los Angeles • Charles Robert Renda, Sacramento • Edward were such a novelty then, she recalls, that the United Kingdom and serves on the Shield Renwick, James A. Reynard, • Cruz Reynoso, Davis • Los Angeles • Indio a local newspaper photographer showed board of Kids’ Turn, a San Francisco or- Lyle L. Richmond Jr., Pago Pago, AS • Charles Edwin Rickershauser Jr., Santa up at her swearing-in. ganization that helps children through the Barbara • Charles Carr Ringwalt Jr., Corona Del Mar • Frederick C. Robbins Jr., Early on, Thorn worked as a law li- divorce process. She also is immediate past San Rafael • Paul Robbins, Oakland • Robert Louis Roberson Jr., Pasadena • brarian at the University of Washington president of the American Academy of Bernard James Robinson, San Rafael • Hon. Morton Rochman, Toluca Lake • Claude law school. Then, in 1964, she returned to Matrimonial Lawyers Foundation. Donald Rohwer, Sacramento • Alvin Daniel Rosenbloom, Encino • Irving Rosenfeld, San Francisco to work in her father’s law “There’s a direct relation between Ventura • Donald Martin Rosenstock, Escondido • Sheldon Rosenthal, San Francisco office — initially handling any case that what we do here in the office and what • Richard Simon Ross, Pacific Palisades • Ronald Ross, Palos Verdes • Sheldon Ely “came in the door” and eventually focus- the foundation is doing,” she says, “be- Ross, Corona Del Mar • Oscar Rothenberg, Santa Monica • Anthony James ing on family law matters. cause our clients have children, for the Ruffolo Jr., Carlsbad • James B. Russell Jr., Long Beach • Richard Chase Salladin, Over the decades, she went on to build most part, who are going through divorce Ivins, UT • Leon Michael Salter, Los Angeles • Gerald Herman Saltsman, Los Angeles up her own family law practice. She and need to be helped.”

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Elmer D. Samson, Houston, TX • Irwin Edward Sandler, Palm Desert • Marc Warren 50 years from S1 Reynoso and other CRLA founders worked Sandstrom, Carlsbad • Lois Jean Scampini, San Mateo • Robert Laurence Schaffer, have mixed feelings about that.” to create a pioneering program that oper- Fallbrook • Alfred William Schlesinger, Los Angeles • Urban Joseph Schreiner, Irvine As a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ated like a “big firm” in how it represented • George L. Schroeder, Pebble Beach • J. Brin Schulman, Los Angeles • Richard in the early 1970s, Vogel regularly handled California’s rural poor. Malcolm Schulze, Walnut Creek • L. E. Schweiner, Arcadia • Otis Theodore 30 or 40 cases a day involving discovery “We made a lot of law and protected a Schweiter, Mill Valley • James E. Scott, Pittsburg • Tully H. Seymour, Newport Beach • and motion practice in L.A.’s now non-ex- lot of people,” recalls Reynoso, who also Ralph J. Shapiro, Beverly Hills • Aaron E. Shelden, Encino • Peter Shenas, San Diego • istent law and motions court. He helped helped defend CRLA against its critics. Thomas Joseph Shephard, Stockton • Harry William Sherbourne, Shady Cove, OR • write the first manual on law and motion, Then-Gov. Reagan tried unsuccessfully to Milton Sidley, Los Angeles • Edmond B. Siegel, Santa Monica • Howard Arthur which was later expanded into a Rutter cut off CRLA’s federal funding with a veto. Siegel, El Dorado Hills • Lewis Henry Silverberg, El Cajon • Richard I. Singer, San book. And while he points out that discov- Reynoso, who later became the first Diego • Harvey Allan Sitzer, Beverly Hills • Ransome Michael Smith, Fresno • Robert ery clearly helps lawyers and clients eval- Latino to serve on California’s Supreme Barr Smith, Norman, OK • Virginia Beatrice Smith, Walnut Creek • William Henri uate their cases, he says, “it’s a terrible Court, has weathered other controversies Snyder, Pacific Palisades • Robert J. Soares, Ojai • Lessing Charles Solov, Los Angeles • burden because there’s a compulsion to and political battles as well. In 1986, use discovery extensively and maybe be- Joshua L. Soske Jr., Anacortes, WA • Samuel Leon Sosna Jr., Los Angeles • Jerry Reynoso, Chief Justice and fellow yond what is justified.” Glover South, Mill Valley • Roland R. Speers II, Newport Beach • Marvin Blake Starr, Associate Justice failed to Attorney billing, too, has changed. win voter reconfirmation to the Supreme Walnut Creek • Richard W. Stegman, Beverly Hills • Nathaniel Jason Stein, Santa When Vogel first began practicing law in Court after an intense campaign against Monica • Jan Stuart Stevens, Sacramento • Charles Boise Stewart Jr., Beverly Hills • Pomona, the local bar association provided them — a campaign that Reynoso has al- William Clayton Stewart Jr., La Mesa • Norman Everett Stolba, Palos Verdes Estates • a flat-fee schedule for client billing. But ways viewed as a “strictly political” attack Ivan Strand, Harvey Strassman, Spencer Weiner Strellis, Boise, ID • Studio City • then, he recalls, the Federal Trade Commis- on an independent judiciary. He believes, Oakland • Lowell H. Sucherman, San Francisco • Arthur Victor Sullivan Jr., Carlsbad • sion ruled that such schedules amount to he says, that there would be a greater Robert Clayton Summers, Pasadena • Samuel Sussman, Escondido • Alfred Lee price-fixing. (Years later, a 1975 U.S. counter response if such a campaign were Swanger, Oxnard • Robert M. Sweet, Beaumont Supreme Court ruling also prohibited bar to take place today. Eugene David Tavris, Yorba Linda • George Earl Taylor, associations from publishing such guide- And Reynoso has seen other changes as T/U/V Hayden Lake, ID • Robert S. Teaze, San Diego • Howard L. lines.) Hourly billing then became more well — more emphasis on pro work, Thaler, Los Angeles • Suzie S. Thorn, San Francisco • John common. “It was very, very difficult for minority access to the profession and Victor Tilly, Lafayette • Samuel David Timmons, Santa Rosa • James O’Malley some of us to get used to,” says Vogel, who funded legal services. But he sees setbacks, Tingle, San Francisco • Arthur Toll, Beverly Hills • Peter Chak Tornay, Santa Ana also recalls litigation in which clients too — reduced judicial discretion and the • Lester Eugene Trachman, Los Angeles • Xenophon Tragoutsis, Belmont • Lewis would make a down-payment and then state’s largely minority prison population. Knight Uhler, Granite Bay • Clark VanderVelde, Cambridge, MA • William W. meet with attorneys at the end to hammer And he suggests the “next big step” might VanAlstyne, Durham, NC • David Mynderse VanHoesen, Orinda • Michael J. out a fair price. “That world is gone.” be a Supreme Court ruling that entitles the Virga, Sacramento • John Virtue, Newport Beach • Charles S. Vogel, Los Angeles Former state Supreme Court Justice poor to legal counsel in “important” civil Cruz Reynoso recalls 1959 as a time when cases as well as criminal matters. (The na- Herbert W. Walker, Napa • Richard Joseph Wall, there were no more than 20 Latino lawyers tion’s first pilot project recognizing such a W/X/Y/Z San Francisco • James Wendell Wallace, La Canada- in the entire state. As a small-town lawyer right in key civil cases was just signed into Flintridge • E. Robert Wallach, San Francisco • in El Centro, he says, he was the first law in California.) “We still have to take a James H. Walsworth, Laguna Woods • Jordan Morris Wank, Sherman Oaks • Jack Latino attorney in the area. great many more steps,” he says, “before we C. Warner, Phoenix, AZ • Sanford Alan Warner, Palm Desert • Charles Verne What he also recalls is that legal serv- really have true social justice.” Weedman, Malibu • Stiles C. Wegener, Palos Verdes Estates • Paul Michaels ices for the poor barely existed. Local bar- Describing himself as an “operational Weil, San Diego • Robert Ernst Weiss, Covina • Paul R. Weltchek, Wainscott, NY sponsored legal aid offices typically optimist,” Reynoso has no plans to stop • Glenn West Jr., Glenhaven • Gary Dunham Wheatcroft, Pasadena • Donald consisted of a part-time lawyer who gave working. Neither do Thorn or Vogel. And Chester Wickham, San Jacinto • Floyd Wilkins Jr., La Jolla • David Edward advice and only accepted simple cases. Strellis would like to continue trying cases Willett, San Francisco • Fred Gillette Williams, Citrus Heights • Thomas John And the Legal Services Corporation was for as long as he can. Williams, San Francisco • David Hughes Wilson, Sonoma • Jean Forsyth Wright, yet to be formed. But then, in 1966, Califor- “I have a picture of lawyers in their San Francisco • Paul Wyler, Agoura • Richard J. Wylie, San Jose • Hon. David Paul nia Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) — one dotage who were coming into court when Yaffe, Los Angeles • Robert Jonathan Yohannan, San Francisco • Irving York, of the nation’s first funded legal services I was a young public defender,” he says. Gaithersburg, MD • Marco J. Zonni, Glendale • Karl ZoBell, La Jolla • James Roth programs — was established under Presi- “I would like to stop somewhere a little Zukor, Santa Monica dent Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty.” short of that.”

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