I’ve been a member of the board of directors of the Sacramento Coral Society for six years. The Sacramento Coral Society is a group consisting of 180 singers run by two tremendous people, both Ph.Ds in music and former professors at Sacramento State. It’s a jewel in the crown of Sacramento. This group has sung in Carnegie Hall in New York City, San Francisco, Washington DC, the great concert halls of Europe, and on the Great Wall of China. It is quite a cultural advantage for Sacramento to have such a fine group. The group gives four concerts a year, and they’re well worth attending.

I was also the president of the American Corporate Council Association for a while when I was a corporate lawyer before I became an estate planning lawyer. In addition, a perhaps unorthodox answer to that question of community service is that my wife and I raised eight children in the city of Davis. We had a great time doing it, and I was their chief cheerleader at their baseball games, soccer games, field hockey games, musical recitals, presentations, recitations, school plays, etc. It was exhausting, fun, and well worth every second of the investment to raise eight wonderful children.

I was asked to participate in a program at UC Davis Law School, a joint venture between the law school and UC Extension called “Orientation to USA Law.” It was the brainchild of Professor Beth Greenwood, and I taught in that program for 15 years. I spent a great deal of my career outside the United States with foreign lawyers, so I was recruited to teach in that program. The program aimed to provide orientation to American law for lawyers from outside the United States who wanted to get an advanced degree in law. It consisted of lecturing in the summertimes, making it an easy thing to do. It wasn’t a full-time teaching position, but it was a treasure in my life. Teaching young lawyers from outside the country and engaging in debate and conversation about our different legal systems was a unique and enriching experience.