Scouts of America, Y, President, Centaurs Social-Athletic Club (President), English Book Room Honor Society, New Utrecht H.S.; Captain, Debate Team, Dorsey H.S.; United States Army (Combat Leader) ; Sigma Chi Alpha (Accounting); Treasurer, Alpha Kappa Psi (National Business); Phi Alpha Delta (Law); Los Angeles County Bar Association - over 44 years: Former State Bar Delegate, three years; Attorneys Errors and Omissions Committee; Professional Responsibility & Ethics Committee; (Formerly: Committee on Professionalism; Litigation Section - Trial Practice Inn of Court, Group Insurance Committee, State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee, Business Law Section and Evaluation of Professional Standards Committee; State Bar Committee; Executive Committee Workers' Compensation Section); Arbitrator or Mediator Attorney Fee Disputes (44 years). Beverly Hills Bar Association (44 years); (Formerly: Family Law, Federal Courts Committees). San Fernando Valley Bar (44 years) - Former Chair: Professional Responsibility & Ethics, Litigation, Workers' Compensation & Speaker's Committees; Former Delegate State Bar, Chair, Attorney-Client Disputes Committee. Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (Professional Liability Section); Attorney Discipline Defense Counsel; Lawyer's Professional Liability Bar Association (Co-founder, Executive Board); Ventura County Bar Association (formerly Ethics Committee, Trial Lawyers); Orange County Bar Association; California Bar Association; Consumer Attorneys of California (formerly California Trial Lawyers Association) (recognized as an experienced trial and appellate attorney and experienced in professional negligence); Stalwart, Association of Trial Lawyers of America (formerly Medicine and Law & Torts and Insurance Practice Committees); American Bar Association (& Affiliates): former Chair Certification Committee, Professional Negligence-Legal ABPLA Board of Governors, {Former Chair 9th Circuit); Legal Malpractice Consortium (ABA Standing Com); Member and Presenter "Ethics 2000"; Center For Professional Responsibility (ABA); Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; Board Certified Specialist, Professional Negligence-Legal, ABPLA/American Bar Association, CA.; American Inns of Court (National Member); Fellow: Roscoe Pound Institute & American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys, former Member Professional Liability Underwriting Society; Malibu Bay Club (Board Member); Briar Cliff Improvement Association (former Board Member); Fryman Estates (former Board Member); Hillside Federation (former Board Member); Board Member Selective Service System, USA. Chair, Local Board, U.S. Selective Service (Chair); Development Oversight Committee, Homeowners Association; Forensic Expert Witness Association (Board Member).