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Committee on Approvals of the American College of Surgeons Joint Commission on Cancer. Baron is chairman of the Oncology Advisory Committee at Sharp Memorial Hospital. * • * Jeff Espiritu has been promoted to director of sales at Coast Distributing Co., the local Anheuser-Busch distributor . Espiritu joined Coast in 1981. March 7 is a red letter day for truck fans. Hawthorn Engine Systems, 8050 Othello Ave., hosts a day-long truck competition. The trucks, some of which resemble "moving condominiums," will compete in a variety of events. Judging will be based on perfor- mance and beauty. Dyno Day is sponsored by American Trucker magazine. * • *

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Kenneth Korn has Inter-Continental join Omni San Diego Hotel as sales manager. Korn held the same post at the 1-C. Currently under con- struction, Omni is set to open late · this year. Dr. Stepher,,J. Millman is the new clinical director of Vista Hill Hospital Child and Adolescent Services. Millman, a psychiatrist, has been in private practice in San Diego since 1976. * * * East/West Coast Travel & Tours has named Tom Dean as .corporate sales representative. Dean will handle marketing of the agency's corporate travel services. Dean left his own advertising and public relations firm to take his new post. Local oncology surgeon Dr. Ro- bert M. Barone has been ap- pointed to a three-year term on the left the Hotel to * * * * * *

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how to order paper clips," explains sole practitioner Malvina Abbott. "It's how to be a competent lawyer through the management of the Adds Don Solomon: "It's really a terrible burden to practice law if you don't have a well running of- Abbott and Solomon know. Both have been involved in should law practice.'' fice."

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Presently the section has 30 to ·40 members, including not only at- torneys but law office ad- ministrators, legal secretaries and · Last week at its monthly meet- ing at the University Club, about : 15 persons showed up, including ' Solomon and two members of the ,steering committee, Bob Purvin They talked about staffing a law office and how to build an en- vironment for motivating the staff. "Staffing for a specialty (copy- right, patents, unlawful detainers) might be different than a general practice," said Solomon. What about office manuals? No one questioned their value, but as one person remarked, "The larger the firm the more detail you As for filing, "It's one of the most frustrating things that we do," said Purvin. Added another: "It should be as simple as you can make it and ' paralegals. and Miles Grant. need."

Also in San Diego that week will be the s~ring cou~cil meeting of the ABA s Economics of Law Sec- tion at :he H?~l del Corona_do. Ab~tt ~s chamng the meeting which will draw between 125 and 150 lawyers from across the coun- Of all lawyers practicing today, Solomon estimates that about 40 percent are sole practitioners with as many as 80 percent in firms. of many different skills," said Abbott, a graduate of Western State Uni- versity College of Law. "They all merge and the place they really merge is in the management of your office. Yet (attorneys) don't think of it as an important part of Solomon, whose 28 years of prac- tice include a stint as legal counsel the United Southeastern Tribes, recalls that it hasn't always been easy generating enthusiasm for law office management. In fact, 15 years ago it started out as a committee but went dor- for try. less than five attorneys. "Practicing law requires so I their practice."

"We're hoping to get at least ! 200," Abbott, who practices crimi- . nal defense, probate and conser- On March 25 the county Bar will sponsor the showing of an ABA presentation on "How to Take a Video Deposition." Showtimes are 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 vatorships, said yesterday.

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p.m. in the Pioneer Room of the downtown Iawlibrary. Thanks to the efforts of Rebecca Prater, local attorneys will be on hand to explain portions of the videotape, something that's "especially important because of the new Discovery Act," said Ab- bott. The next day at the Hotel San Diego a program is scheduled from 4:45 p.m. until 9 p.m. (dinner in- cluded) focusing on: "How to Get and Keep Good Clients" (Jay Foonberg of Beverly Hills), "Use of Computers by Small Firms" (T. Rick Rodgers of Buies Creek, N.C.), and "Working the Law Of.

law office management work for the San Diego, California and American bar associations for sev- eral years. Abbott, who has been in private practice since 1975, 1s presently an adviser to the State Bar's Law Practice Management Section which she headed in 1981. Solomon chairs the local Bar's Law Office Economic- and Management Sec- tion. Abbott is a\so putting together a seminar for San Diego attorneys next month on "How the Small Law Firm Can Compete Effective- ly." Sponsors include the San Diego Trial Lawyers, and the law

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V USD-te n·s team shocks St~d,6-3 The University of San Diego men's tennis team yesterday registered what ninth-year coach Ed Collins called the biggest tennis victory in the school's history when the visiting Toreros beat defending NCAA cham- pion Stanford, 6-3. For the Toreros (8-1), David Stew- art, Scott Patridge, Chris Smith and James Edwards won in singles, and Local Briefs Dan Mattera-Smith and Stewart-Pa- tridge in doubles. "I'm hoping that this win will help us beat better teams as the season goes on," Collins said. "We do have the potential." Stanford, ranked No. 5 nationally in the preseason polls, lost four start- ers off last year's team and is 3-5 this season. Patrick McEnroe, the Cardi- nal's top returnee, missed yester- day's match because of a foot injury. COKE TO STEAMERS - For- ward A e Coker approved the sale of his contract by the Sockers to the St. Louis Steamers of the Major Indoor Soccer League. The contract, pur- chased for an undisclosed amount of cash, will run through the 1987-88 season, team officials said. USA VOLLEYBALL - Cuba de- feated the San Diego-based women's team, 15-11, 15-11, 15-8, at Santiago, Cuba. Angela Rock had 18 kills for the U.S. team, Kim Oden 15. Cuba ads the series, 2-0.

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__AA-10 San Die1 1 .*JHsk-!.,\------\ Con~u2~: ,· , .• ·This summer there will be. eight camps on college campuses in New York; Colorado. and ,California with about 1,000 students, each paying $1,375 for the delight of bj!ing roused at 7 a.m. and put through an intense day of classroom and physical challenges. Lights out at 11 p.m. · Once she was a suburban housewife with a 10-year marriage and two children, but DePorter, who left col- lege to get married, also the itch to establish her own · identity. . She began by collecting licenses: securities, insurance and real estate. ,,- · The real estate license came about after a free neigh- borhood class and, although she said she had no particu- lar intention of getting into real estate, DePorter answer- ed an ad for a new real estate office. "It felt right," she· said, "so I went to work the next day." , 1 She also started a real estate deal that first day that resulted in a $30,000 commission.· "It was an outrageous office," DePorter said. "I learned a lot. Every week we would try a new idea. We had a deal. There was no such thing as a stupid idea. We would try everything for a week and then evaluate it." In four years, DePorter estimates she made between $1 million and $2 million brokering real estate deals and participating in the.firm's own renovations of Victorian homes. As part of her experience in an innovative real estate company, DePorteF also became interested in acceler- ated learning, especially the techniques formulated by Bulgarian Georgi Lozanov, whom she met in 1979. · So she t~med up with one of the founders of the real estate company to start The Burklyn School of Business in Vermont, a once-a-year, 30-day business school for entrepreneurs. . . It was two years into the Burklyn I TIIErTRIBUNE

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