Top Pepperdine University Law Professors Join NextClient.com Advisory Board.Business Editors and Legal Writers GLENDALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2000 Janet E. Kerr and Gregory L. Ogden, two of California's most respected law professors, have joined the Strategic Advisory Board of NextClient.com, a newly launched Web site content provider. NextClient.com specializes in providing attorneys with ways to utilize the Internet to further their practices and increase their client bases. Both Kerr and Ogden are professors at the Pepperdine University School of Law The Pepperdine University School of Law is a law school in Malibu, California. Pepperdine Law offers Juris Doctor degrees as well as LL.M. degrees in taxation law, international law, business and corporate law. and are proactive in advancing the use of high-technology in the legal industry. As advisory board members to NextClient.com, they will focus on ethical concerns and strategic business development. Kerr, a Pepperdine law professor since 1983, also serves as executive director of the university's new Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Law, which is the first curriculum of its kind. In addition, she is a lecturer and special consultant to the People's Republic of China. Prior to her professorial duties, she was a staff attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and has been a consultant and expert witness in many high-profile securities and corporate cases and offerings. She has advised numerous start-up companies and is taking an active role in molding NextClient.com's Web-based services. Ogden, a Pepperdine law professor for 22 years, has served since 1985 as director of the Ira Sherman Center for Ethical Awareness at Pepperdine University. A noted speaker on the subject of legal ethics, he has prepared several consultant reports on governmental ethics standards for the Administrative Conference of the United States Created in 1968, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) was a federal independent agency and advisory committee chartered for the purpose of ensuring the fair and efficient administration of various federal agencies. . His publication credits began as a senior research editor for the "U.C. Davis Law Review" and include co-authoring the third through fifth editions of "West's California Code of Civil Procedure Code Forms." Prior to his Pepperdine responsibilities, Ogden was a Chamberlain Fellow in Legislation at Columbia University, and has also been a visiting professor of law at Notre Dame, Valparaiso University, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX and USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . He was awarded the 1999 Fellowship in Administrative Law administrative law, law governing the powers and processes of administrative agencies. The term is sometimes used also of law (i.e., rules, regulations) developed by agencies in the course of their operation. by the National Association of Administrative Law Judges administrative law judge n. a professional hearing officer who works for the government to preside over hearings and appeals involving governmental agencies. They are generally experienced in the particular subject matter of the agency involved or of several agencies. . For additional information regarding NextClient.com or its Strategic Advisory Board, visit www.NextClient.com, or call 818/550-8989. |
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