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Email from Dean Jay Frykberg, Dean and Provost, University of West Los Angeles School of law

UWLA 2021 California Accredited Law school Annual Compliance Report

All,

I can report that UWLA has successfully submitted our 2021 annual CBE report. This report was dramatically different and much larger than any previous annual report due to changes from staff at the CBE (ie. student/faculty demographics, further disaggregated data based upon campus location and program, etc.) in fact this report was almost three times the size of previous annual reports and consisted of 33 files and 916 pages all of which was completed in only 23 days. This is also our first fully digital report that is accessible on UWLA’s share drive, that ensures that next year’s process will be even more efficient.

Thank you to each of you who contributed, especially to those that submitted print ready documents as requested, and an extra special and deeply appreciated thank you to Patty and Jesse both of whom were indispensable in the completion of this project. Not only did they complete their sections, but they also assisted in completing many more.

Jay

Response from President Robert Brown

Dean Frykberg, I would like to also extend my heartiest appreciation for the work completed by your team. I wish to note that your team submitted the report well  in advance of the requisite deadline. I also want to express my appreciation for the extraordinary efforts of Jesse Aldava and Patty White. Job well done.  Your contributions are recognized and appreciated. As you know this report is not only no small feat to prepare but it means everything in terms of our state bar accreditation and our relationship with the California Bar. Congrats!

I also want to salute Dean Frykberg for being named the Chair of the State Bar rules committee. What a fantastic and well-deserved honor. You mean that someone from UWLA is considered an “insider”? lol Thanks jay for your fabulous and ongoing leadership. You are an example for all of us to aspire to emulate. Will you please join me in saluting Jay and his team for their outstanding efforts and achievements?

Robert Brown

I learned today that Everett Green will be the new Chair of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association.   Congratulations Everett.

Dear UWLA executive management team, faculty and staff. While it is fresh in my mind, I want to circle back and commend our entire institutional team on the recent great achievements. After tremendous efforts and team work by  all, we have achieved amazing institutional victories and goals. I want to ask everyone to reflect on what we recently achieved and then re-direct your energies and efforts to the formidable challenges facing us this year.

1. In February of this year, we hosted a WASC accreditation visit and were extremely successful in evidencing to the team, why we deserve to be re-accredited. Just as a reminder, this visit occurred because we received our initial accreditation two years ago, and WASC requires a backup visit within two years of the initial accreditation. Yes, it has been two years already since we received initial accreditation! Our entire team from the board of managers to our faculty and every staff person contributed to the successful re-accreditation visit. Dean Frykberg and Dean Brown, led our tremendous faculty and  staff in preparing an accreditation self-study that had over 7,000 pages of evidence. Our accreditation report from the visiting team had a number of outstanding commendations and in particular cited our faculty, Deans and the Board of managers and our CFO. We will attend the WASC conference in June to meet with the full WASC committee and we expect to receive full renewal of accreditation  based upon the WASC team report and their overall recommendation.  Great job team! Thanks Faculty and staff. Read more…

Email from Keith Higginbotham:

To all my cdcbaa colleagues that answered the call and attended Judge Klein’s Reception for the six Loyola law students’ Practicum Reception, I wholehearted thank you.  Judge Klein was VERY pleased at cdcbaa’s response to her request for participation.  The food was excellent and there were four judges present to mingle with — including the Chief Judge herself.  A good time was had by all.

This is one of the many reasons why the Court is often turning to cdcbaa for participation and input in its various endeavors.  We are recognized as the BK Bar Association that “gets things done.”

Again, I am very proud of this organization and I thank the many cdcbaa members that attended this event yesterday.

Keith Higginbotham

The picture is Jim King at a cdcbaa program.  Gone four and a half years now.  We still miss him.  Happy Birthday Jim.  You can read his oral history here.  My favorite part is when he was telling about being in a group that got sworn in at the Supreme Court and meeting briefly with Justice Alito afterwards.

“I told [Alito] the story about having read all of his decisions and having had – my friend having seen his comment during the Marrama argument and then finally seeing his dissent.  And I told him, ‘I gotta tell you, from a consumer bankruptcy attorney standpoint, you got it, you really understood it.  You got the issue, you understood it, and I think you got it right.  And I want to thank you.’”

“And he said to me, this little shit from Glendale, California, ‘Oh my gosh, counsel, you made my day.’  Well, I’ll tell you, that ran a chill up and down my spine, brought tears to my eyes.  For a Supreme Court justice to say that to me, pretty good.”