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UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications 4-1-1999 Hastings Community (Spring 1999) Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag Recommended Citation Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association, "Hastings Community (Spring 1999)" (1999). Hastings Alumni Publications. 102. http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/102 This is brought to you for free and open access by UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. 1I .\STI'i(;S a LETTER TO ALUMNI LAW AND MOTORCYCLING - CLASS REUNIONS Dean Mar y Kay Kane DIFFERENT CAREERS AND Classes From the '30S Through the '80S Discusses the Civil Litigation DIFFERENT PATHS TRAVELED Gathered at the Westin St. Fran cis in Concentration September r998 II III CAMPUS NOTES ALUMNI RECEPTIONS FACULTY NOTES PICTURE BOOK The james Edga r Hervey Skyroom Opens - Hastings Faculty Report Latino Chapter New Students Reception Alumni Officers' Gathering in the Sky on Their Recent Activities - State Bar Reception, Monterey - PlRI Symposium Focuses on land Use Control Honolulu New Bar Admittees Reception -Visitor From Guam San Francis co Chapter New Bar Immigration Clinid Work Admittees Reception Advances a High-Profile Case CLASS NOTES The 28 th Annual Co llege of Advocacy Most Se nior Professor Retires at McGeorge ClE Program - judy Boyette ('8r) - The Barrow Award Named UC Associate Vice President for Newsman Daniel Schorr FOR THE BENEFIT - A Wedding Album Ce lebrating justice Blackmun~ 90th Birthday OF THE COLLEGE Sproul Honored for Board Service The David B. Gold Reading Room - Visitors From Vietnam The Horace Coil ('57) Chair of Litigation Getting On-Line With the Alumni - Planning Firm-Wide So licitation Strategy Association - Work Progresses on r98 McAllister Renovation As dusk settles over the San Francisco skyline, ASUCH President Aaron Fluss ('00) a nd jackie Gray ('00) enjoy the view from the jam es Edgar Hervey Skyroom on the 24th floor of McAllister Tower. The Hervey Skyroom, which opened on january 25, is a relaxed setting for student and alumni gatherings. (Photo: Bruce Cook) SPRING 1999 n earlier columns, I described Concentration is to provide our students The incredible depth of our litigation I th ree of the JD concentrations both a theoretical and a practical offerings is a reflection of the enormous that the faculty instituted in order understanding of the fundamental faculty strength Ha stings has in this area. to build on the traditional strengths of the concepts of civil litigation, as well as in the It is no overstatement to note that the College in specific areas of student interests fast growing areas of alternative dispute College has assembled a full-time faculty and energies. This column is devoted to the resolution. Students opting into the of litigation experts who are the envy of last of the concentrations we inaugurated: concentration complete 20 units of other law schools. Our ability to do that the Civil Litigation Concentration. required study, while also enro lling in a was aided immeasurably by the The decision to emphasize our training minimum of eight courses. Four of those endowment of the James Edgar Hervey in litigation skills as one of our strengths courses must include Evidence; Trial Chair of Litigation and its award to should come as no surprise to the Advocacy I; one course from a list of Professor Roger Park, formerly of the practicing bar. Hastings has a long history Alternative Dispute Resolution courses; University of Minnesota and a leading as a premier provider of continuing lega l and another course from a listing of expert in the field of evidence law. And, as education for trial attorneys, through our Advanced Advocacy or Clinical courses. you will read later in this issue (see p. 27), summer College of Advocacy programs, The remaining four courses may be in December 1998, Hastings received its and, more recently, with our partnership satisfied from a wide array of electives, second endowed chair in this field: the with Court TV in providing nationally ranging from seminars and courses in Horace 0. Coil ('57) Chair of Litigation, televised panel discussions by prominent Appellate Advocacy; Complex Litigation; which we will fill later this spring. Both trial attorneys about effective techniques International Litigation and endowed chairs are named in honor of for trial. But these CLE programs merely A rbitration; Lega l Reasoning and alumni who had extremely successful cap the excellent and broad-gauged JD Rhetoric; and Science in Law, to name careers in litigation. The endowment of curriculum in this area that is the base of just a few. Students also must complete a these chairs helps ensure that Hastings our Civil Litigation Concentration. substantial research paper on a specific can continue its tradition of being a The objective of the Civil Litigation topic within civil litigation. leader in education for trial lawyers. I II\ ~T I\(; ~ LETTER TO AL El e~'e n full-time faculty members authored several law school texts on legal rhetoric and styles of argumentation; comprise the core of our litigation faculty, Remedies and on California Civil William Sc hwar~er, who was appointed a aided by the invaluable contributions of Procedure, as well as serving as the reporter Distinguished Professor of Law at Hastings many members of the Bay Area trial bar for a federal civil rules project in Nevada; in I996, after serving as the Executive who serve as adjunct faculty, teaching the RIchard Marcus. who recently was Director of the Federal Judicial enter many sections of our skills training courses promoted to a Distinguished Professorship, and as a Senior U.S. District Judge for the in trial advocacy, negotiation, and the like. teaches Civil Procedure and Complex Northern District of California, teaches This partnership of academic and real Litigation and has co-authored law school courses in Complex Litigation and in world experience provides our students the texts in both of those fields, as well as Judicial Administration; and Keit h best possible training. Space will not allow several volumes of the leading national Wingate, who teaches in the civil me to review all the credentials and talent federal practice treatise, and he also has procedure and federal courts areas, is the that our litigation faculty possess, but a served as a reporter with various federal co-author of course books on Federal brief description of just the full-time rules advisory committees; Melissa Nelken, Courts and California Civil Procedure, as faculty provides some idea of the depth of who, in addition to teaching Civil well as of a student Nutshell about talent that we have gathered at the Procedure, is a specialist in teaching California Civil Procedure. Since federal College. negotiation and trial advocacy and lectures civil procedure also is my own specialty, Hastings Civil Litigation faculty are: to lawyers around the country in those you can see why I take great pride in \1ark Aaronson. who is the Director of our subject areas; Roger Park, whom I being able to associate with such Civil Justice Clinic, practiced for some 13 mentioned earlier, and whose expertise in remarkably talented and productive years in San Francisco before joining our Evidence Law is demonstrated in the colleagues. faculty in 1992; Datid Falgman. who leading casebook in the nation on the As I said at the outset, Hastings has a teaches both Evidence and Science in Law, subject, as well as in an Evidence hornbook, litigation faculty without equal. With their is a co-author of the leading national in a practitioners manual, and in enthusiasm and enormous abilities fueling treatise on scientific evidence; Etan Lee. numerous law review articles; Eileen our program, we can rest assured that our whose specialties are Federal Courts and Scallen, who teaches Evidence, Civil Civil Litigation Concentration will Federal JLtrisdiction, publishes widely in Procedure, and A rgumentation and remain a special hallmark of the kind of those areas; Dat lei Let me. who teaches Persuasion Theory, is widely published and legal education about which Hastings Civil Procedure and Remedies, has co- a frequent speaker on panels discussing alumni justifiably can be proud . .) II ,\ ~ T I 'i (: ~ (: J\MI)lTS N()TES THE JAM E S E 0 GAR HERVEY SKYROOM There's magic on the 24th floor. anuary 1999 saw EDGAR Hrf,,\ . , the opening of IAM~ II the James Edgar " ISKYROOMt Hervey kyroom atop the Tower at 100 McAllister Street. i It A LITTLE HISTORY named in honor of James Edgar Hervey of the Clas The roo McAllister building was of 1950, a prominent San Diego trial lawyer and built by the Methodist Church in longtime member of the the "modern Gothic" style and American Board of Trial Advocates. The Skyroom opened in 1929 as the luxury features panoramic views of the San Francisco William Taylor Hotel, the tallest skyline. The Hervey hotel west of Chicago. But the Skyroom serves as a student lounge and Depression brought hard times, and alumni reception area in 1936 the building was sold and and quickly has become a sought-after gathering reopened as the Empire Hotel fea place for the Hastings turing the Skyroom, which predated community. Its renovation, the Top of the Mark as the city's first completed in January 1999, features carpeting, a panoramic cocktail lounge. During wet bar (serving light the World War II years, the building refreshments), comfy easy chairs and seating, was taken over by the government and breathtaking views in all directions - the Bay, Financial District skyscrapers, the for federal workers before the revitalized Civic Center, and Twin Peaks. During evening hours, recessed lighting of various colors in the walls and ceiling is reminiscent of the Art Deco period and adds a present federal office building on soft glow to the space.