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Law Bril\rs - 1 /Con~ ~ed from Page 4 of public lawyer apathy (in Bar and community involvement) and aro concerned whether it's a legitimate image." He views the committee as one way to " unshackle that image." * * * At last Friday's meeting of the Public Lawyers Committee mem- bers voted on the Public Lawyer of the Year Award to be presented at the Law Day luncheon May 1. This year's nominees were: Maria T. Arroyo-T--.bin, assistant U.S. attorney; Jay M. Bloom, deputy attorney general; Judy Clarke, executive director of Fed- eral Defenders; Christina Dyer, general counsel, San Diego Unified School District; Thomas Harron, city attorney of Chula Vista; Webster Burke 'Buzz' Kinnaird, senior attorney, Fourth District Court of Appeal; and Col. Rufus C. Young Jr., staff judge advocate, MCRD. Past winners were former assis- tant deputy attorney Dick Huff- man (now Superior Court judge) in 1985, and former deputy district attorney Melinda Lasater and Ci- ty Attorney John Witt, co-winners last year. * * * The first meeting of the San Diego chapter of HALT, a group of Americans for legal reform, meets March 30 at 7 p.m. at Horace Mann Junior High. * * *

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of the executive office for immigra- tion review; Jorge Vargas llf-YSD Law Sch~Soblick, INS district counsel; and Roxanna Bacon, law professor at Arirona State. Cost is $50; $15 for students. • * * Willard Z. Carr Jr., a Los Angeles attorney, has been elected chairman of Pacific Legal Founda- tion. Carr is a senior partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, specializing in labor relations law. • * * The California Young Law- yers Association is sponsoring a job fair on Sept. 19 as an employ- ment service for young lawyers. It's in conjunction with the state Bar's annual meeting in Los Angeles. San Diego firms already pre- registered include Jennings, Engstrand & Henrikson; Gray, Cary, Ames and Frye; Lindley, Lazar & Scales; and the San Diego city attorney. Others include Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips of Los Angeles; Jordan, Keeler & Seligman of San Francisco; Hyatt Legal Services; and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Job applicants must pre-register for the meeting plus pay a $20 job fair fee. Registration is from June 1 through Aug. 14. Forms will be in the June issue of · California Lawyer. For more information call Bon• nie Dumanis at 236-4571 or the

ing the Watergate scandal, will peak at USD on April 1 and 2. Then~ 8 and 9 Sara Weddington, attorney in the U.S. Supreme Court right to abortion case of Roe v. Wade, will speak Both talks are from 8 to 11 p.m. Call 260-4600 ext. for more infor- mation. On April 9 at 1:30 p.m. law pro- fessor Stephen Sugarman of UC Berkeley Law School will also be at ~D to discuss tort law reform. It's sponsoreaoy the San Diego Law Review and is free. For m;;,e in- formation call 260-4531. * * * Cal Western will host a seminar on March 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. to educate attorneys about chemical abuse in their clients. It's in the Reading Room on the third floor and is free. Call Monica Vogelman at 233-1077 for more information. • * * Jennings, Engstrand & Henrikson is sponsoring an employer(employee relations up- date on March 31 from 3 to 5· p.m. at the Radisson Hotel in Mission Valley. No cost. Call Teresa War- ren at 291-0840 for more informa- tion and reservations. * * * The Immigration Study Section of the county Bar is presenting a seminar April 4 at the Hotel San Diego on the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. It goes from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Panelists include the Hon. Robert Barrett

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nnd w1•pkend ,nchor at Chanm•l 10, l 1lked bout the limitation of tel vi ion new n cov ring th courts. I wa the other journali t o~ •ring di us ion about the print id of cov rage. It w s II good turnout, u good d1scuHsion and a good example of how active this committee ha been ince h1·ing established in late 1984 . In ,January 1t co -sponsored, with the ~\•demi Court Committee, a pan I di. cussion on the new nar- cotics laws, nnd r cently hnd Police Ch, f Bill Kolender peak. Each Thanksgiving members help feed the homeless at the St. Vincent de aul Cente1 . One of th purpo ·e of the com• mittee is to b • a "link between the 3ar and public lawyers," said William Grauer, a partner at 'rn), C mes & Frye who prnct,co comm rem! and business itigutwn Gr u r, 11 former a ista t U tto1 ne)' h re, helped get the c mmitt off th ground and was it fir t chair in 1985, the year former d puty district attorney Melinda Lasater (now a Municipal Court judge) was presi- dent of the county Bar. "Melinda was II primary moving force for the idea," md Grauer, a gr- duo of Cornell Law School wh p nt four years with a Wall

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Christina yer, general counsel for the San Diego Unified School District, is president of Lawyers Club. • Webster Burke 'Buzz' Kin- naird, a senior attorney for the Fourth District Court of Appeal, is involved with the Bar's Appellate Court Committee. • Maria T. Arroyo-Tabin, an assistant U.S. attorney, is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society. "There's a growing number of public lawyers who really do take part in these programs," said Grauer, who also recognizes that "there still are too many public lawyers who don't display enough interest." ls there an image of public lawyer apathy when it comes to Bar and community involvement? If so just how accurate is it today? Or is it a holdover from years past? "I think lawyers need to improve the image they have and be sen- sitive to their positions in the community as a whole," said Gardner. "Within the legal com- munity things like this committee make a difference." Added Kinnaird, a graduate of USO Law School who started with 'ttie Fourth D1strict Court of Appeal in 1976: "We don't like this image (Continued on Pa~ 14A)

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• BASKETBALL -~ebaska (20- 11) meets Soutbe 'ppi (21-11) tonight ;11 the ~l~a s of the Na- tional Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden in New York. In the other semifinal, Arkan- sas-Little Rock (26-6) fac~s LaSalle (19-12). The winners play Thursday night for the championship . . . Drake assistant and former Nebraska coach Moe Iba was named as Texas Chris- tian University's 12th head basket- ball coach, succeeding Jim Killings- worth, who resigned earlier in the month ... Rick Majerus, an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks, was interviewed yesterday by a search committee at the University of Nevada-Reno for the vacant job of head basketball coach. Others inter- viewed so far were Bill Berry of San Jose State and Hank Egan of the USD. Berry has notified Nevada- ~eno he 1s dropping out of the run~ nmg. .L

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Egan no longer Nevada-Reno candidate 9:?5' USD's coach says it's 'business as usual,' despite considerable attention By T.J. imers, Starr Writer

Egan· Not interested in Nevida-Reno job Continued from C-1 with an additional pay boost, "but it's not a matter of policy," and nothing has happened yet. One of Egan's biggest supporters, Cahill understands the dilemma Egan may be facing. Cahill and USO can promise Egan job security for as long as the coach wishes, but Cahill knows Egan must entertain all offers to improve his lot because this may be his last chance to do so for some time. "If Hank is looking to settle down, he knows he has job security here," Cahill said. "This school expects a coach to be competent, treat his players with dignity and rep- resent the university well. If any coach does that, he doesn't have to worry about winning and losing." Egan, very much the competitor, is 59-26 in three seasons at USO. But now there is some concern about the Toreros' prospects. They lose five of their top six play- ers, and recent USO and NCAA entrance-requirement amendments may make it more difficult to fill the void. ''Tbe higher the standards, the smaller the pool (of talent)," Egan said. "The thing you would like is to have the availability to the same pool of talent as everyone else in your conference. Our standards, though, are the toughest in the (WCAC). You can still recruit, but you have to dig a little harder and hope you get a little more lucky than you already have been."

"If a guy was working for Macy's and Gimbel's called and offered more money, no one would read about it in the paper," Egan said after re- turning from a recruiting trip to Los Angeles. "But it happens in my profession. As far as I'm concerned, it's just the normal process of career development. I don't think it should be construed as if I'm dissatisfied; I'm very happy here. It's just that time of year." Egan, like all other USO athletic officials, is on a one-year contract and will receive a 6 percent cost-of.Jiving raise. Cahill said the school's ad- ministration "may also choose" to reward Egan See EGAN on Page C-2

the Toreros to a 24-6 record, the West Coast Ath- letic Conference regular-season title and an NCAA Tournament berth. USD lost in the first round to Auburn, 62-61. Egan, 49, has not solicited the attention, but his name bas been linked to openings at several schools, including Nevada-Reno of the Big Sky Conference and Colorado State of the Western Athletic Conference. It also was linked to the San Diego State job, accepted this week by Wyo- ming's Jim Brandenburg. Egan's name may well surface again this weekend when he gathers with the country's college-basketball community at the Final Four in New Orleans.

US.D's Ha,ni Egan, after an interview and time to think, yesterday withdrew from consideration for the vacant Nev.tda-Reno basketball coaching position. "I just wasn't interested in that job," Egan said. "I was very happy to hear that," said the Rev. Patrick Cahill, USD's athletic director. "That is one I ob tacle, but somebody may still come along and offer Hank a very attractive package to leave. My gut feeling is Hank will be back with us, but it may be hope as much as a gut feeling." Egan's phone bas been ringing since he guided

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