Bar examination
Pike passed the California State Bar examination his first try and was admitted as a lawyer in June 1967. He was appointed as a commissioner in Los Angeles Superior Court, Family Law Division, from 1973 until the mid-1990s. The "Daily Journal" profiled Pike in a January 5, 1982 article while he sat on the bench. In the mid-1970s, he taught children's rights at University of La Verne College of Law and psychology and the law at Claremont Graduate University.