UCLA Law Professor Paul Bergman to Present Lecture/Film “Reel Justice” on November 13th

"Reel Justice", a lecture/film presentation by UCLA Law Professor Paul Bergman is taking place on Monday, November 13 from noon – 1:00 pm in Bannan 142.  This event is sponsored by the Heafey Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy.

Paul Bergman joined Professor David Binder in pioneering UCLA School of Law‘s Clinical Program in the early 1970s. He primarily teaches Trial Advocacy and Evidence. He also directs the Street Law Clinic in which students teach legal concepts to high school students. He has received the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award and an award from the American Trial Lawyers Association for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy.

Professor Bergman likes to play tennis and, as a "recovering jogger," rides a bicycle to work each day. As a law student, he felt it his duty to keep levity in the classroom, a practice he continues as a teacher, earning him the gratitude of his students.

In the field of lawyering skills Professor Bergman has co-authored Deposition Questioning: Strategies and Techniques (with Professors Binder and Moore, 2001); Trial Advocacy: Inferences, Arguments, Techniques (with Professors Albert Moore and David Binder, 1996); Lawyers As Counselors (with Binder and Price, 1991) and Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell (3rd ed., 1997). He has initiated self-help litigation books with Nolo Press, publishing Nolo’s Deposition Handbook (2nd ed., with Professor Moore, 2001); Represent Yourself in Court (4th ed., with a former UCLA Law student, 2003), which is aimed at laypeople who represent themselves in civil cases; and The Criminal Law Handbook (5th ed., with Berman-Barrett, 2003), which aims to explain the criminal justice system to non-lawyers and to help defendants work effectively with their lawyers. In the field of evidence, he has published Evidence Law and Practice (with Taslitz and Friedland, 2000). Finally, with Professor Michael Asimow, he has studied popular culture, movies, and the law with Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies (1996).