News Scrapbook 1988

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Jude Pauhne Eberhard. Working with limited resources, they have vividly captured the ~ulse and tenor of the times. By creatively using a multitude of local sites .- among them Carpenters Hall, Mis- sion Hills, the Uniyersity of ~an , ~gQ,_!he old San Die~o Pohce Headquarters - they pamt. a con- vincing picture of Depression-era Los Angeles. The sets and ~ostumes are similarly true to the period. Artenstein demonstrates an occa- s10nal tendency to simplify comp)ex themes, perhaps in an effort to brmg greater appeal to an undeniably un- commercial film venture. By alter- nating between English and Spanish dialogue (with Engl ~ti l , accurately captures the bina_tion~l flavor of life for Mexican 1mm1- grants residing in the U_nited S~tes. In addition to the fme actmg ~f Chavez (who, amazingly, learned his English dialogue phone~ically), the film features impressive perfor- mances by Maria Rojo as Gonzales' wife and by Peter Henry Schroeder, who plays the role of the corrupt dis- trict attorney with suitable venom. Like "El Norte" and "Heartland" before it "Break of Dawn" is sincere in its co~vict1ons and firm in its pur- pose. . Whether the mass movie-gomg public will welcome this brave little film with a big heart remam~ to be seen. But for enlightened viewers seeking a film with passion, grace and guts. "Break of Dawn" is well worth seeking out.· _/

Sally Ann Z~ l 5') Sally Ann Zoll has be% named Director of Client Support for Education Systems Corporation of San Diego. She has been with ESC for two years as regional manager for client support. Zoll is currently completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of San Diego, is a past member of the Board of Direc- tors for the Coronado Schools Foundation and is a member of the Junior League of San Diego. She and her husband / James, re~ide in c o/onado wjj~__tb.e.ir children, Cory, Che~.:(, ?m\my and Bryan. / ----- "

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"Br..kolD • wn" *** A c,newest release Produced by Jude Pau lino Eberhard Wrltt n and directed by Isaac Artenate,n. Photography by Stephen L1ghthlll Mo le by Mark Adler With Oscar Chavel Mana RoJo. Tony Plana, Pepe Serna and Peler H nry Schroeder Opens tomorrow t the Golld Theatre agam t the widespread rac al dis· cnmination of the day. "Break of Dawn" traces Gonzale illegal entry into this country, hlS sub equent ascension to radio star• dom and abrupt decline, following his imprisonment on trumped-up rape charges by Los Angeles i tnct Attorney Kyle Mitchell. While clear• ly t m a politically volatile period tn which official corruption wa ram• pant, the film wi ely emphasizes t~e human qualities of Gonzales and his Mexican compatriots. Accordingly, you don't have to be !ex1can or a foreigner to sympa- thize w1th his story. Though some viewers might take offense at the film' often strident depiction of American bigots, Gonzales' charac• t i imbued with a dignity and te,. nac1ty that ·hould trike a r~spo~~ve chord with anyone who 1dentif1 · with the quest to achieve a better way of life. Juxtaposing seen . of Gonzal~ captivity in San Quentm Prison with his n to prominence in Los Ange• Jes, "Break of Dawn" is a testament to the can-do spirit of director/writ- er I aac Artenstein and producer

• womanWlns state title Escondido's Mildred Stanley shot a 2-0ver-par 76 yesterday to win the California Senior Women's Amateur Golf Championship at the Del Monte Course in Monterey. Stanley finished the three-round event at 232, eight strokes ahead of Phylis LaSorella of Pebble Beach, Jane Anderson of San Luis Obispo was third at 244. The event drew 100 of the state's top senior golfers. Junior golf - Enrique Dominguez shot a 3-over-par 75 but still leads the boys' 15-17 division after two rounds of the Tribune Junior Cham- pionships at the Balboa Park Munici- pal Course. Dominguez is at 141, five strokes ahead of Kevin Riley. Darren Chim is third at 147. In the girls' 15-17 field, 1987 low gross winner Elizabeth Bowman shot a par-72 and leads at 148. Christy Erb is second at 151. Play continues today, starting at 7:30 a.m. In the conclusion of the 11-12 divi- sions, Patrick Perez shot a 1-over- par 33 for a two-day 64 to win the boys' title at the Balboa Park nine- hole course, and Emily Tierney shot a second-round 49 to finish at 91 and win the girls' title. Football c odulee - Free pock- et football schedules are available from The San Diego Union. The book• lets contain week-to-week NFL game listings, plus schedules for San Diego State and the l/niversitt_~f San Diego, USC and UCLA, San 01ego County community colleges and local high schools. Schedules may be picked up at the front counter of the main lobby of the Union-Tribune building, and all Union-Tribune community offices. They also may be obtained by mail- ing a stamped, self-addressed enve- lope to: Football Schedules, Commu- nity Relations Department, Union- Tribune Publishing Co., P.O. Box 191, San Diego, 92112.

WORKPLACE BY MICHAEL KINSMAN /' ,-295~ I< "tOU'VE EVER thought that you understood your employee benefits and then sat down to study them, you probably have ~alke~ away with a different conclusion. Th truth is that most of us don't have much of an idea about what orts of options our benefits hold for us nor do we know how to find out. P. Garth Gartrell knows this only too well. As an attorney, Gartre~I spends a considerable portion of his time studying laws that affect em- ployee benefits. By his count, there have been at least a dozen pieces of significant legislation over t~e past decade that affect our benefits and how we use hem. Companies, he say~, are well- meaning, but often the1r,human re- sources departments. do~ t fu_lly_u~- derstand the fine dist111ct1ons 111 111d1- vidual cases. ''Generally, I think employers want to help employees, but the~e are so many personal and economic factors that romc into p ay that often the best thing a company can do is tell an employee to consult a tax adviser" Gartrell said. To that end, the U~ersityt of San ol go's School of Law as e. u_p an rnptuvP€1.iebefits and tax chmc to elp c r,loyees sort through their r blems Gartrell, an adjunct pro- fessor at the law school, said that students ar, given the opportunity to take on c~sr problems and help em- ployees toward a resolution. . "What we'd like to do eventually 1s help expand the pool of lawyers that are equip~d to deal with these prob- lems" Gartrell said. "Now, there are a lot'of serious legal questions being handled hy consultants, advisers a_nd para-profr.ssionals who have good in- tentions, but may not be as well in- formed as they could be. "There's a shortage of well-trained individuals to deal with these prob- lems." The complexities of how to best utilize company-provided life insur- ance retirement and health insur- ance' plans can be overwhelming f_or most of us. At times, Gartrell said, some workers don't feel comfortable discussing those matters with their employers. For instance, an employee might be interested in finding out what kind of health benefits he would receive if • he quits or how much he is entitled to receive from pension benefits if he retires at a certain point. But while conversations with company officials may be confidential, most workers would prefer an alternate source of information. Gartrell said he believes employ- ers will welcome the opportunity to share with an outside source the bur- den of explaining complex laws to employees as well. The USO clinic will handle cases on an as-needed basis. Priority will be given to employees an.d retirees of limited financial resources. Some cases will be fanned out to private attorneys. "Our intent is not to compete with lawyers or take away their busi- ness " Gartrell said. "We want to mak~ sure that people know their rights and what they are_ entitled to." An illuminating case 1s that of one individual whom USO students have attempted to help in _his lo~g-running disability case agamst his former employer. For one reason or another, the in- dividual chose to pursue his legal case against his former employer without the aid of an attorney. As the case dragged on, costs mounte~; when the individual finally lost his suit recently, he was whacked with a $350,000 bill by the court for the legal fees of his former employer. After evaluating the case and the verdict, Gartrell said his students had discovered several avenues the individual could have brought to the · court's attention that might have spared him Ii court-imposed costs. Garten kno percent of the cases that come fore the cfilnc will be easily and swiftly resolved. It is the cases, such as the one de- scribed above, that he is most con- cerned about. . ,, "We don't want to practice law, Gartrell said. "But if we had gotten that particular case off the bat, we could have helped him and he proba- bly wouldn't be facing that $350,000 ,.,...., today." /

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Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co .) Los Angeles T imes (Cir. D. 1,076 ,466) (Cir . S. 1,346,343) AUG 25 1988

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l;nliappyLawyers They're Highly Trained an Highly Paid, So Why Do Many Feel So Low About Their Jobs? - By PAUL CIOTTI. 7'imes Staff Writer F or l~n helan. it wa a bitter than they were worth." chsappomtmenL All through law Jack Weinberg, 55, a Los Angeles chool, she thought about how great lawyer who gave up his practice after 22 It would be when she became a lawyer. years to publish a tourist guide to 'l'h!'n, four years ago, she got her degree on-location movie sets, maintains that and found that as a young associate, all unhappiress among lawyers "is perva- she dul was work-six and seven days a sive, endemic and out of control." week, to 11 every night, up at the crack of Which 1s not to say that unhappiness 1s dawn easy to document. For one thing, lawyers "I didn't even have time to see my in surveys tend to give contradictory parents," he says, "much less anybody information, On the one hand, many of el c." them report they have a great deal of After two years, she found a new job satisfaction (which isn't surprising when and met a guy. "I said, 'Oh, this is new I one considers that starting salaries of might actually go out on a date for a associates in big, elite firms has doubled change ' " over the last eight years); at the same That was until she told her friend what time, however, a study reported in the she did for a hvmg. "He said, 'Oh great. February, 1984. American Bar Assn. You make tons of money, drive a BMW journal showed that O % of lawyers and [cheat) everybody.' " Whelan was devastated and not just b caus she drove a Hyundai "What

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for giving associates major projects late on Fridays or calling them up Sunday morning to come to work. Associates "realize that if they don't comply with every sort of whim, that they won't make part- ner," Africa says. As law firms are increasingly run like businesses, individual associ- ates are increasingly viewed as profit centers-the more, the bet- ter. In big New York and Los Angeles fi.-ms, Africa says, it is common for the ratio of associates to partners to be 3-1 or even higher, in contrast to the 1-1 rat10 of most other areas. Because of this. associates have less contact with partners, less training, less super- vision and, most importantly, "ss Please see LAWYERS, P e 9

'I think one would have to have a deranged sensibility to genuinely enjoy ... the day-to-day practice of law ... [which] largely consists ofarguing with other people about money.' -Lawyar Stacey Betterman There's a reason for such contradictory attitudes, says David Chambers, a Uni- versity of Michigan law school professor who has surveyed the profession for years, When lawyers get paid $60,000 a year to start, they are "embarrassed" to say they are "miserable, especially when you can look out the window and see pcopl sleeping on gratings." There also are other less subtle indica- tors that lawyers are unhappy. The alcoholism rate among lawyers is an estimated 15%-20%, almost twice as high as the general population. In their first three years of practice, half of all lawyers change jobs, with some firms would enter another profession if they had it all to do over again.

kind of world 1s ft," she asks, "that you can't tell people what you do because they come down on you?" Welrorne to the legal profeSSJon, 1988. Working More, Enjoying It Less Mor than ever before, many lawyers say they arc workmg harder, getting richer and cn1oymg 1t less. To mo t working people, their com- platnts may not evoke much sympathy. But many lawyers wonder if perhaps their choice of career wasn't a maior mistake. The paperwork seems endless and meaningle. s. They labor to help big institution , not needy individuals. Often. they say, their clients arc ingrates. The I gal ystem can be frustrating and unre pon ive. The public views the legal profe 10n with distaste. There is a wtd spread perception that criminals es- cape pumshment. Lawsuits drag on in- terminably. And, as many people ee it, it's all the lawyers' fault. "I attended a conference last summer at U. C with some high-level human rclutlons p ople from some of the biggest compam s in the country," says Mike Driver, a professor of Management and Organi1,ation at USC's business chool. "And the one thing they were in agree- ment on was that ... lawyers were the kind of p,•ople who cau ed more trouble

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PATRlCIA MITCHELL/ Loo Ang,lea Tim.. If given the chance, 41 % of all lawyers would pick a different profession.

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