Loyola Lawyer Law School Publications Summer 6-1-1980 Loyola Lawyer Loyola Law School - Los Angeles Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer Repository Citation Loyola Law School - Los Angeles, "Loyola Lawyer" (1980). Loyola Lawyer. 49. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_lawyer/49 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola Lawyer by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Summer 1980 ALUMNI QUESTIONNAIRE ENCLOSED CONTENTS 1 From the Dean 2 The Bench: Loyola Grads Carry Out the letter of the law 8 Business: Alums Turn Their Attention to the World of Enterprise 11 Practitioners: Alums Meet the Challenge of Today's Legal Profession 14 Public Service: Alums Dedicated to the Human Cause 15 Generations: Grads Perpetuate the Loyola Tradition 19 The Greater Loyola Law School Development Program 20 Salary: Report Card of life? SPECIAL INSERT SECTION • ALUMNI QUESTIONNAIRE 21 Faculty Forum 23 Judge Manuel Real Addresses Graduates 24 On Campus 27 AlumNews 35 Legal Briefs Loyola Lawyer Board of Visitors Board of Governors Summer Mr. John E. Anderson '50 Mr. Thea. A. Bruinsma, ex officio Chairman Dean, Loyola Law School Editorial Staff: Mr. Joseph A Ball Mr. Kenneth J. Collins '81, ex officio Mr. Walter F. Beran Student President, Day Division Dr. Kenneth J. Daponte, Vice President, University Mr. Thea. A. Bruinsma, ex officio Mr. Lawrence W Crispo '61 Relations Dean, Loyola Law School Vice President Mark 0. Weiner, Assistant Director of Development, Han. Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. Mr. David G. Finkle '67 Alumni Relations and Annual Giving Rev. Charles S. Casassa, S.J., ex officio President Sheryl Ward, Designer Chancellor, Loyola Marymount University Mr. Kevin P Fiore '69 Mr. Daniel C. Cathcart Ms. Marilyn J. Fried '78 Mr. Leonard Cohen '51 Mrs. Isabel D. Higgins, ex officio Mr. William H. Doheny, Jr. '75 Treasurer and Recording Secretary Loyola Lawyer is the magazine of Loyola Law Mrs. M. Louise Eason Han. Charles E. Jones '65 School, Los Angeles, published by the Development Mr. Milton Feinerman '56 Ms. Patricia A. Lobello '67 Office for alumni and friends of the Law School. Mr. David G. Finkle '67 Mr. Robert E. ~arquis '79 President, Alumni Association Ms. Rita J. Miller '79 Loyola law School firmly adheres to a policy Board of Governors Mr. David M. Morrissey, ex officio against discrimination on the basis of race, color, Mr. Thomas V. Girardi '64 Director of Development religion, sex, national origin, marital status, or Mr. Stafford A. Grady Mr. Anthony Murray '64 physical handicap, medical condition, or age (as Mr. John T. Gurash '39 Mr. Robert M. Myers '75 prohibited by applicable law). Mr. William T. Huston Mr. Laurence G. Preble '68 Mr. James H. Kinde!, Jr. '40 Han. Manuel L. Real '51 All correspondence with regard to the Loyola Mr. Hugh L. Macneil '48 Mr. Charles R. Redmond '75, ex officio Lawyer should be addressed to: Rev. Donald P Merrifield, S.J., ex officio Chairman, The Advocates Editor: Loyola Lawyer President, Loyola Marymount University Mrs. Cynthia Madura Ryan '70 Loyola Law School Mr. Jack M. Ostrow '48 Corresponding Secretary 1440 West Ninth Street Han. Mariana A. Pfaelzer Mr. Steven H. Shlffrin '75 Los Angeles, CA 90015 Mr. Richard J. Riordan Ms. Belinda D. Stith '81, ex officio Mr. Raymond A. Rodeno Student President, Evening Division Mr. Herman F. Selvln Mr. Vincent W Thorpe '59 Mrs. Margaret Ann Shaw Mrs. Sheila Prell Sonenshine '70 Mr. Martin Stone '51 Mr. Maynard J. Toll, Life Visitor Mr. John V. Tunney Mr. J. Robert Vaughan '39 7 FROM THE DEAN This issue is devoted to our alumni. In thinking of the years ahead, I am reinspection team quickly sensed this We have selected a variety of you who aware of the cynicism that permeates quality when it visited us in March. We broadly represent the 5,000 graduates of America today. All of our institutions recognize this adds significantly to the Loyola Law School and, in some cases, including our private law schools seem fulfillment of our responsibility to society, have highlighted those who have to suffer from excessive self-criticism. and permits us to look ahead with unusual or particularly interesting We must guard against being dominated confidence that we will in fact accomplish careers. Space, of course, did not permit by attention to our weaknesses, which, the goals we have set for the 1980's. featuring many prominent alumni, who of course, we must face squarely. have been noted on other occasions, or However, I know at Loyola our future is others whose careers are equally bright and still before us if we diverse and distinctive. Hopefully, we'll concentrate on the task yet to be done be able to bring their stories to you in and how to do it. After this first year, I later issues. know we are going in the right direction, Enclosed with the magazine is an our goals are clear, and we are making extensive questionnaire which I hope progress toward them. Thea. A. Bruinsma each of you will take a few moments to I am continually impressed with some Dean complete. We are anxious to continually basic qualities of our Law School. Here improve our academic program and to we see responsible freedom at work. enhance the recognition of Loyola. As I find the School community to be the most valuable source for an unusual example of Democracy. re-evaluation of programs and goals, we Freedom in thought and in responsibility want to capitalize on your reflections and prevail. We strive to make equal ideas. Therefore as alumni, your opportunity for a legal education opinions and experience at this Law available to those who might otherwise School are meaningful to our be deprived by reasons of economic accomplishing .this objective. We urge status, educational background or other your cooperation. disadvantage. Yet, at the same time, we As this magazine goes to print, I am clearly avoid mediocrity by providing finishing my first year as your Dean. equal opportunity for excellence to those Having come from the business world, who pursue it. I've found the year quite challenging. Through all of our extensive programs, I"ve been most impressed with the we keep before us the meaning of our quality of our program which results profession-what our work at the from a very unique student body, a School is all about. Finally, there is, in diverse, dedicated and extremely the Law School, a quiet, intangible competent faculty, both full-time and quality that sets the whole tone of our adjunct, and a loyal, hard-working staff. student body, our classrooms, our entire And, of course, our alumni body brings program. I suspect it stems from the us a prestige in the community that long and deep Judea-Christian heritage takes second place to none. of LoYola. The American Bar Association ;;;;;;( 1 The Bench: Loyola Grads Carry Out the Letter of the Law by Joanne Sugar Judge Bill Enright: He Gets Personally Involved "Without the ability to listen-to wait appropriate case, I will give the and hear all of the facts- a judge can probationer a key and tell him that it be devastating to the litigants and to is a visible symbol, that it is his key to himself," states Judge William B. prison. Then I warn him that if he Enright '50. returns here I'll know I gave him that Since his appointment to the U.S. key, and we won't have anything to talk District Court, Southern District of about," he states. "I think it means a lot California by President Richard M. Nixon to these people and helps them get in 1972, Bill has given a great deal of through an exemplary probation thought to what a judge's responsibilities period."Only two of the keys have come are and has at times extended them back in his eight years on the bench. beyond the common boundaries. Born and educated in New York City, One area in which he takes a special Bill is a graduate of Dartmouth College interest is sentencing, and is considered where he earned his AB degree in by many to be innovative in this philosophy in 1947. Hon. William B. Enright '50 procedure. He feels it is important for a "After the war, Loyola was one of the judge to retain jurisdiction over a only law schools that gave a competitive lawyers while they are making their sentence for as long as he wishes and entrance exam. Within three weeks of presentations. "I prefer to let a litigant reduce it whenever he feels the prisoner finishing Dartmouth, I started at Loyola. make the orderly presentation that he is ready to be released. It offered a great advantage to me," he planned. If I have any questions after "I've even acted as my own parole says. "Lifelong associations were started he's finished, I'll ask him then." board at times," Bills says. He believes there. I enjoyed Fr. Donovan very much. At the same time, Bill says he prefers that there is often a conflict between the They had impressive instructors and lawyers who can present their cases in Federal Parole Commission's natural offered an impressive education.'' a conversational manner. "The lawyer "institutional bias" to keep prisoners in Admitted to practice in 1951, he who makes a speech to a jury is at a and the prison staff's bias to release served as Deputy District Attorney in the disadvantage," he contends.