FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Professor Basil G. Dezes
Dean, School of Law
Classes Taught: Contracts, Evidence, Civil Litigation Procedure, Trial Advocacy, Corporations, Securities Regulation
Dean Dezes engaged in the private practice of law, primarily in the field of Commercial Litigation, for 17 years, until he began teaching law on a fulltime basis. |
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Professor Jay Frykberg
Full-Time Faculty
Classes Taught: Contracts and Real Property. |
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Professor Nicholas Waite
Full-Time Faculty
Classes Taught: Torts, Civil Procedure, Business organizations, Products Liability, and Ethical Lawyering. |
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Professor Steve S. Zand
Full-Time Faculty
Classes Taught: Lawyering Skills Practicum, Torts, Community Property and Family Law.
He is a certified Family Law Specialist, The State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. |
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ADJUNCT FACULTY
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Professor Marilyn Alper
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Professional Responsibility, Legal Writing / Analysis, Lawyering Skills, Gender Law, Law & Social Change, Agency and Directed Study.
Professor Alper has served as a prosecutor at the State Bar of California, along with being in civil litigation practice. She is currently a Senior Judicial Research Attorney at the California Court of Appeal, Second District and has served as a professor here at UWLA since 1982. |
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Eduardo Angeles
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Lawyering Skills Practicum |
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Anne E. Arvin
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Litigation Procedure, Trial Advocacy, Trusts & Estates, and Advanced Legal Writing |
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Professor Robert Barrett
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Civil Procedure, Business Organizations, Professional Responsibility, Clinical Placement and Legal Aid Clinic
Professor Barrett has practiced litigation and business law in Los Angeles at Latham & Watkins, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and in his own firm.
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Billie Jean Brown
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure |
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Lloyd Chapman
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Evidence |
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Jeffrey D. Diamond
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Introduction to Legal Studies |
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Clifford Dicker
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Family Law, Litigation Procedure, Legal Theory & Practice and Community Property |
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Sam D. Ekizian
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Introduction to Legal Studies
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Professor Lyn Feldman
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Introduction to Legal Studies, Torts, Criminal Law, Legal Research & Writing and Advanced Legal Writing |
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David F. Glassman
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Appellate Advocacy, Moot Court and Criminal Procedure
Professor Glassman has served as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General's office since 1984.
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Kathy Q. Hao
Adjunct Faculty Member & Director of International Studies
Classes Taught: Legal Aid Clinic
Kathy Hao is a General Civil Practitioner who has worked in private practice, focusing in Domestic and International Business and General Civil Transactions and Litigation, Immigration and administrative Law. She is fluent in written and spoken Chinese and is registered English/Chinese Mandarin Interpreter, California Judicial Council since 2002. |
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Professor M. Jonathan Hayes
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: UCC, Bankruptcy, Income Tax, Business organizations and contracts, Civil Procedure, Advanced Bankruptcy Issues and Remedies
Mr. Hayes has been a member of the panel of mediators of the Bankruptcy Mediation Program for the Central District of California since the program's inception. |
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Commissioner Steven K. Lubell
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Criminal procedure, Criminal Practice and Remedies
Professor Lubell has presided over 100 criminal and civil jury trials and 1000 civil bench trials as a temporary Judge by stipulation.
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John W. Patton, JR.
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Trial Advocacy and Lawyering Skills Practicum
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Gary Rosenberg
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Debtor – Creditor Relations |
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Professor Bruce E. Schwartz
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Evidence
Professor Schwartz focuses his law practice in corporate and business law, civil litigation, real estate law and probate law. He is AV rated and listed in the Martindale Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
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Professor Edward C. Stark
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Torts
He was a member of the California Committee of Bar Examiners where he served as Chair of the Examinations Subcommittee for two of the four years and was Vice Chair of the Committee during his last year serving. |
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Peter Swarth
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Appellate Advocacy, Trial Advocacy, Moot Court, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law |
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Professor Marcus Tiggs
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Bankruptcy |
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Professor Cal Torrance
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Constitutional Law
The core of Professor Torrance’s career was as a Deputy Attorney General for the state of California’s Licensing section. |
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Professor Paul Virgo
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Professional Responsibility
Professor Virgo has worked at the State Bar of California for 25 years in discipline enforcement. |
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Professor Frank K. Wheaton
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Entertainment Law
You may have seen or heard Frank K. Wheaton on “60 Minutes II,” “The Today Show,” “Good Morning, America,” CNN, or another network program as the former and exclusive representative of Mrs. Essie Mae Washington Williams, the African American daughter of the late Senator James Strom Thurmond. |
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Professor Paul Ablon
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Alternate Dispute Resolution, Moot Court Advisor, and Apellate Advocacy
Professor Ablon has practiced for 25 years in Business Litigation. |
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Honorable Ira E. Bank
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Immigration & Nationality Law. |
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Kenneth Chiu
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Introduction to Legal Studies |
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Richard P. Fajardo
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Civil Rights |
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Professor David N. Fogel
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Wills, Trusts & Estates, Federal Estate & Gift Taxation
David N. Fogel is an Estate Tax Attorney with the Los Angeles office of the Internal Revenue Service. |
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Paul A. Jacobs
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Local Government Law, Professional Responsibility and Agency |
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Samuel C. Landis
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Federal Income Tax |
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Professor Sue Rokaw
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Legal Research & Writing and Lawyering Skills Practicum
Since practicing law for the last 22 years or so, she has worked in a variety of settings in the area of civil litigation - in private practice - as a partner in a large, multiple-office law firm, then in a small-sized firm and also as a sole practitioner. Most recently she has worked “in-house” in a Corporate Law Department where I supervise a team of lawyers and manage class action litigation. |
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Professor Kurt M. Saunders Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Business Torts and Contracts
He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and several other federal district and appellate courts. |
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Professor John T. Schooler
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Wills, Trusts & Estates and Probate Administration
Professor Schooler has been an IRS Appeals Officer since 1993 after working for over 13 years as an IRS Estate and Gift Tax Attorney. |
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Helen Sok
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Lawyering Skills Practicum Assistant |
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Professor Eugene Tseng
Adjunct Faculty Member
Class Taught: Environmental Law
Professor Tseng is an environmental engineer and a licensed California attorney specializing in Environmental Law. |
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Honorable Richard D. Walton
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Administrative Law and Immigration Law |
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Susan Zuckerman
Adjunct Faculty Member
Classes Taught: Products Liability, Dependency Adoptions Internship and Lawyering Skills Practicum |