• Former Chairman of American Bar Custody Committee 2003
• Former Chairman of CA State Bar Custody & Visitation Comm.
  (2 Terms)
• Former Chairman of CA Trial Lawyers - Family Law Section
  Mem. Comm.
• Former Chairman of American Bar Association - Family Law,
  Law Practice Economics Committee
• Former Chairman of American Bar Interstate Custody Task
  Force Committee, UCCJEA (Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act)
• Former Chairman of American Bar Association - Family Law,
  Practical Use of Computers Committee
• Former Chairman of California Custody Commission
• Former Chairman of Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce -
  Legal Committee
• Former Chairman of Santa Monica Bar Association -
  Family Law Committee (3 Terms)
• Judge Pro Tem in Los Angeles County Superior Family Law
  Courts (20 Years)
• Family Law Mediator in Santa Monica, Torrance & LA Central
  District Superior Courts (24 Years)
• Former Executive Member of the American Bar Association - Continuing Education Committee
• Former Executive Member of the American Bar Association - Economics of Practice Committee
• Former Secretary of California State Bar - Custody & Visitation Committee (2 Terms)
• Produced and Moderated a Course on Negotiations - 1988
  Joint Meeting of California State Bar, Child Custody, Support
  and Division of Property Committees

• First CA attorney to try a Grandparents' rights suit (January 1970) (Petrikin)
• First CA attorney appointed by children to represent them as individuals (June 1984) (Ryan)
• First CA attorney to file suit against an abducting parent under Penal Code 278.5, for $2.5 Million (1985)
• Largest child abduction award litigated in the United States, $12.4 Million (July 1993) (Wang)
• Assisted in rewriting and expanding CA Civil Code 4606, "Children's right to an attorney"(1985), expanding children's rights to an attorney (Ryan)
• Custody Litigator of the year (1994) (UFA)

A.) Advanced Family Law Course Taught:

• Child Custody Litigation
• Division of Assets
• Pre-nuptial Agreements
• High Asset Celebrity Divorce
• Domestic Violence
• Custody Litigation 5-courses
• Divorce Litigation by the Masters (6-Weeks)
• Professional Divorce (6-Weeks)
• The Business of Family Law (12-Weeks)
• The Business of Law (11-Weeks)

B.) The Business of Family Law:

• Law Education Institute
• National Family Law Courses - Faculty

C.) Lecturer of Law Schools

• University of Michigan
• USC
• UCLA
• Notre Dame University
• American Bar National Conference
• Orange County Bar
• San Diego Bar
• Hawaii Bar
• California State Bar Conference (Monterey, San Diego, Los Angeles)
• Ithaca, New York State Bar
• American Bar
• Palm Springs Bar

California

• California Bar, admitted 1969
• Los Angeles County Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association
• Beverly Hills Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Santa Monica Bar Association, Family Law -
  ( Chairman, 3 Terms)
• Irish American Bar Association
• American Bar Association, Family Law Section ( 28 Years )

Florida

• Florida Bar, admitted 1968
• Florida Bar, Family Law Section Washington, DC

Washington D.C.

• Washington, DC Bar, admitted 1977
• Washington Bar, Family Law Section

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