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B8 CALIFORNIA LOSANGELESTIMES Obituaries Paul Boland, an associate justice of the state Court of Appeal who was widely respected for having mentored scores of law students and for developing an innovative program that influenced the way law is taught at schools throughout the nation, died of cancer Wednesday at Huntington Hospitalin Pasadena. He was 65. When he was a professor of law at UCLA in the 1970s, Boland and two others, David Binder and Paul Bergman, designed what was believed to be the first clinical education program at a major law school, said appellate Justice Larry Rubin, a longtime friend and colleague of Boland. program spread in the throughout the United States, but the first was at UCLA, and he was at the Rubin said. loved students, and he loved Students in the program actually tried dependency court cases under the supervision of a lawyer, giving them real-world experience at a time when most learning in law school came from reading legal cases.

Arecurring theme in career was a drive to see the legal system be its best. As a Superior Court judge he cracked down on continuances in his courtroom and cut the waiting period for a trial. On the appellate court he encouraged colleagues to improve their writing. And over the years he worked with judicial organizations, including the California Judges Assn.and the Judicial Council of California, which is the policy-making arm of the state court system. During his five-year tenure on the council, it consolidated the trial courts and created policies designed to increase public access to the courts and ensure judicial fairness.

Boland also served on the California Commission on Access to Justicefrom 1997 to 2000. As a mentor, hehelped persuadea nearly 40- year-old mother of three who had just finished her first year of law school in 1974 to aim high. Lourdes G. Baird went on to become U.S. attorney in Los Angeles in 1990 when she was 55, making her the first presidentially appointed U.S.

attorney who was also a grandmother. really encouraged me to go out and do said Baird, who also served as a U.S. District Court judge. came so far in those two years. Paul made me realize I was capable of doing He touched so many Three years ago Boland developed an extern- ship for the 2nd District Court of Appeal that offers students who have finished their first year of law school an opportunity to do legal research for justices and attend seminars and field trips.

Boland spent hours with students. worked with us hand in said Tyler Johnson, now a litigator at the Bryan Cave law firm in Los Angeles. walked in the first day; he gave me a stack of paper 2feet It was certainly more work for Paul than to just do it Before his appointment to the appellate court in 2001, Boland sat on the Los Angeles Superior Court benchand served in each of its four largest divisions: civil, criminal, family and juvenile. Those 17 years of experience left him convinced that even cases that seemed trivial to others were to the litigant matter of utmost Those who sit in judgment of others are obliged to treat the issues in the same attentive manner, Boland told the Daily Journal in 2004. is an enormous responsibility and an extraordinary he said.

prepares you for That sense of responsibility and focus could be felt in his courtroom. brought this enormous humanity of his to the courtroom in a very inspiring said Los Angeles lawyer Stephen R. English. Boland was born in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 1942, into a family steeped in the medical profession.

As far back as his great-grandfather, men had become doctors. But Boland came of age during a time of social upheaval, and his concern about social justice led him to law. a student of that he said in the Daily Journal article, think I appreciated the role that our legal system could play in helping our generation achieve a more just Boland graduated from Loyola High School and attended what is now Loyola Marymount University. In 1966 he earned a law degree from the USC law school and four years later a master of law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. From 1967 to 1968, he worked as a staff attorney and deputy director of litigation at the Western Center for Law and Poverty, which handles class action cases on behalf of the poor.

He spent 11 years as a law professor, associate dean and director of clinical legal education at UCLA, until he was appointed to the bench in 1981 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown. first assignment was to the dependency court, and he maintained an interest in matters related to youth. In 1989 and 1990 he served as presiding judge of the 50 Los Angeles County juvenile courts. On the appellate court Boland stressed writing in clear, plain language as a means of helping trial judges better understand the dispositional orders.

felt very strongly that it fair for us to wax on about the law and then leave trial judges guessing about what we were trying to said Rubin, who worked side by side with Boland in Division 8. could always understand a Paul Boland During tenure, the appellate court issued a ruling in the case of Los Angeles Times Communications vs. Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2003. The court found that the newspaper should receive fees from the county for violations of the Brown Act, the open-meetingslaw. Boland was still working as recently as Aug.

31, when he became ill, was hospitalized and was discovered to have cancer. was a model and mentor for all who knew him, be it in court, the classroom or personal said former student Randy Visser of the Shep- pardMullinlaw firm in Los Angeles. of all the teachers, lawyers and judges I have known, he represented what we all only hope to In a prepared statement, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa praised Boland as someone who young lawyers to use the power of the law and their training to serve their community and to address complex problems. Today we look back on his life and see a man that as he urged his students to do truly did endeavor to make a Boland is survived by his wife, U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow; son Patrick; brothers Peter of Berkeley and Phil of San Rafael; and a sister, Annie of New York.

A brother, Patrick, died in 2005. Aservice will be held at 10 a.m. Saturdayat Holy Family Church, 1501 Fremont South Pasadena. Donations may be made to the Paul Boland Memorial Fund in care of the California Community Foundation, 445 S. Figueroa Suite 3400, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

jocelyn.stewart@latimes.com henry.weinstein@latimes.com was a model and mentor for all who knew him, be it in court, the classroom or personal Of all the teachers, lawyers and judges I have known, he represented what we all only hope to Randy Visser, former student, now at the Sheppard Mullin law firm in Los Angeles Paul Boland, 65; appellate justice guided many students, influenced teaching of law By Jocelyn Y. Stewart and Henry Weinstein Times Staff Writers Los Angeles Times PAUL BOLAND A recurring theme in the career was a drive to see the legal system be its best. Marcia Mae Jones, who launched her career in Hollywood as a child actress and appeared in films of the 1930s such as and Adventures of Tom has died. She was 83. Jones died of complications of pneumonia Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, said her son, Tim Chic.

Born Aug. 1, 1924, in Los Angeles, Jones grew up in the movies. Her mother, Freda Jones, became an extra and actress. Her two brothers, Macon and Marvin, got into the business as stuntmen and actors when they were teenagers. None, however, were as successful as the wholesome, auburn-haired Marcia Mae, who made her screen debut as an infant in the 1926 silent melodrama and appeared in nearly 50 movies over the next two decades.

Throughout the she worked with child stars such as Jackie Cooper Jane Withers Bonita Granville and Garden of and Tommy Kelly and Jackie Moran Adventures of Tom With Shirley Temple, Jones played the disabled girl Klara in and Lavinia in Little a scene in Little where Shirley Temple dumps a load of ashes over her Tim Chic said. hated that because Shirley wanted to do it again and Jones reportedly was originally cast to play Becky Thatcher in Adventures of Tom the 1938 film starring Kelly as Tom and Moran as Huckleberry Finn. But after a growth spurt, the studio deemed her too tall to play love interest and recast her as cousin, Mary. After moving to television in the 1950s, Jones appeared in episodes of shows such as With Buster Married Cisco Three and After playing a small role in the 1973 film Way We she made a few more television appearances in the She retired in the early after playing a small, recurring role on Jones was married twice: to Robert Chic, a sporting goods company sales representative, with whom she had two sons, Bob and Tim; and to TV writer Bill Davenport. In addition to her sons, she is survived by her brother Marvin and two grandchildren.

Amemorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Sept. 16 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Country House. Instead of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund. dennis.mclellan@latimes.com MARCIA MAE JONES She made her screen debut as an infant in a 1926 silent film and appeared in nearly 50 movies.

She later worked in television. Marcia Mae Jones, 83; TV, film actress By Dennis McLellan Times Staff Writer Effi Barry, 63; ex-wife of Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington Effi Barry, 63, a regal first lady of Washington, D.C., who endured her very public sex and drug scandal during his tenure as mayor, died early Thursday of leukemia. Barry, who most recently worked for the city health department, was married to former mayor Marion Barry for 14 years. They separated in 1990, not long after he was shown on videotape smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room with an ex-model and begging her to have sex with him. The Barrys divorced three years later.

Anative of Toledo, Ohio, she received a degree in home economics in 1967 from Hampton University in Virginia and became a teacher in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N.Y. She also received a degree in public health from City College of New York and moved to Washington in 1975, after her first marriage to jazz pianist Stanley Cowell ended. She married Marion Barry three years later. In the 1990s she returned to Hampton and taught health and sex education. She moved to Washington and supported her former husband in his successful campaign for a council seat in 2004.

In recent years, she used her battle with leukemia to campaign for more African Americans to join the registry for bone marrow transplants. Seth Tobias, 44; manager of hedge fund, financial commentator Seth Tobias, 44, a hedge-fund manager who ran Circle Partners LP and appeared as a financial- news commentator, was found dead Tuesday in the swimming pool at his home near Palm Beach, police said. was apparently a heart said Spence Tobias, brother and a money manager at Circle which invests in stocks and manages $200 million. Seth Tobias appeared frequently on television channels including Bloomberg and CNBC to comment on the stock markets and other issues. Born in Philadelphia on April 8, 1963, he graduated with a degree in finance from Boston University.

His first job on Wall Street, in 1987, was as a futures trader at Moseley Securities. He briefly worked with hedge-fund manager Jim Cramer and was an assistant trader at New York and Foreign Securities before joining JRO Associates, where he spent five years as a portfolio manager and equity trader. He founded Circle in 1996 with $4 million. Elizabeth Inglis, 94, an actress who appeared in the 1940 William Wyler film noir using the stage name Elizabeth Earl, died in her sleep Aug. 25 at her home in Santa Barbara.

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