Litigator, federal district judge, director of the Federal Judicial Center, and professor, 1952-1997
By: William W Schwarzer ; with an introduction by James R. Browning. Interviews conducted by Carole Hicke in 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hicke, Carole.; Browning, James R.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: Harvard Law School.; McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen.; Federal Judicial Center.; Judges -- California -- Interviews.; World War, 1939-1945.; Judges -- United States -- Interviews.; Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Northern California U.S. District Court oral history series.
Description: Childhood in Berlin, early 1930s, and family move to Los Angeles, 1938; World War II intelligence work; University of Southern California, and Harvard Law School; trial lawyer with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, 1952-1976: antitrust litigation, colleagues, Morris Doyle, cases involving Stewart Hopps, McCloud River Railroad Co., Shell Oil, Harvey Motors, Greyhound Corp., Lucky Lager Brewing Co., others; Federal District Judge, 1976 to present: appointment, court administration and case management, jury management, complex litigation and insurance antitrust, drug cases; Director, Federal Judicial Center, 1990-1995: Washington, D.C., facilities and personnel, previous history and Center relations with Administrative Office; comments on judicial training, expert witnesses, and on splitting the Ninth Circuit Court.