Law School
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, LL.B., 1942
Law School Graduation Year
1942
College
University of California at Berkeley, A.B., 1939
Memberships
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Chair, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, 1971-1972); State Bar of California (Chair, UCC Committee, Business Law Section, 1979-1980).
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Member, Board of Editors and Associate Editor, California Law Review, 1940-1942. Author: Chapter in Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors, Continuing Education of the Bar, Remedies for Unsecured Creditors, 1957; Tax Effects of Bankruptcy, U.S.C. Eleventh Tax Institute, Major Tax Planning, 1959. Co-Author with G. Bray: Purchasing Financially Distressed Companies Before Bankruptcy--Pitfalls, in Workouts and Turnarounds, Irwin, 1991. Co-author: Receivership, California Civil Procedure Before Trial, Continuing Education of the Bar, 1977. Lecturer, Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California, 1946-1948. Visiting Professor, Creditors Remedies, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Spring 1975 and 1978. Adjunct Professor, Reorganization under the New Bankruptcy Code, University of California at Los Angeles Law School, 1980. Member, 1962—, Vice Chair, 1984-1992 and Chair, 1992-1997, National Bankruptcy Conference: Member, Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1987-1992. President, Financial Lawyers Conference, 1995-1996, Director, 1995—.