Admitted
1952, Illinois; 1957, U.S. Supreme Court; 1996, California
Law School
Northwestern University, J.D., 1952
Law School Graduation Year
1952
College
Northwestern University, B.S., 1949
Memberships
Chicago, Illinois State and Desert Bar Associations; State Bar of California
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Recipient, NU Law Alumni Award for Worthy Achievement in Profession, April 2002. Author: Our Judicial Election Laws, or How to Have a Lawsuit Without Really Trying, Chicago Bar Record, February 1969; The Trial of a Condemnation Case-Verdict for $4,825,000 Affirmed, The Trial Lawyers Guide, November, 1970. Co-Author: Structural Work Act, The Art of Discovery, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Library of Congress Card Number 75-2756, 1975. Guest Lecturer on Law, College of the Desert, 2003. Lecturer, Discovery and Practical Legal Ethics in California for the National Business Institute. Member: Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Rules, 1963-1973; Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions, 1963-1968. Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Illinois, 1963-1964, 1969-1972. Counsel for Illinois Treasurer for Congressional, State Legislative and Judicial Reapportionment, 1963. Counsel, Special Session, Illinois House of Representatives, 1964. Counsel to Speaker, Illinois House of Representatives, 1965. Special Counsel to Illinois Legislature, 1965-1967. Member: Visiting Committee of University of Chicago Law School, 1976-1979; Citizens Board of the University of Chicago, 1976-1979; Northwestern University Board of Trustees, 1977—; Pitzer College Board of Trustees, 1979-1983; Committee to study Caseflow Management in the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, 1979-1988; Advisory Implementation Committee of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois (to implement Devitt Committee Report, a Committee to Consider Standards for Admission to practice in Federal Courts), 1981-1983. Fellow: American Bar Foundation; American College of Trial Lawyers (Member, American College of Trial Rule 23 Committee, 1975-1982); International College of Trial Lawyers; American Bar Association (Member: Standing Committee of Federal Judiciary, 1973-1979; Standing Committee on Judicial Selection, Tenure and Compensation, 1982-1985); American Law Institute. (Also Pr