UC Davis School of Law - Faculty & Administration - Wydick

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Richard C. Wydick

Contact Information

rcwydick@ucdavis.edu
530-752-2899
Rm. Wickson

Education

B.A. Economics and Political Science, Williams College 1969
LL.B., Stanford University 1962

Professor of Law Emeritus

Special Interests

Antitrust

Selected Publications

Plain English for Lawyers, 5th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2005)
Plain English for Lawyers, 4th ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 1998)
Problems in Legal Ethics, 8th ed. (West Publishing Co., 2007) (with M. Schwartz, R. Perschbacher, & Debra Lyn Bassett)
California Legal Ethics, 6th ed. (West Publishing Co., 2007) (with R. Perschbacher & Debra Lynn Bassett)

More Publications...

California Evidentiary Foundations, 3d ed. (Lexis/Nexis 2000) (With Annual Supplements 2000-2007) (with E. Imwinkelried & J. Hogan)
Barbri-Outline-Of-Professional-Responsibility, (Thomson-West) (Annual Editions 1976-2006)
Clear and Effective Legal Writing, (Little, Brown & Co., 1986) (with V. Charrow & M. Erhardt) (Contributor)
Plain English for Lawyers, (Carolina Academic Press, 1979); Revised and expanded version of article in 67 Cal. L. Rev. 401 (1978)
True Confessions of a Diddle-Diddle Dumbhead, (11 Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 57) (2007)
The Attorney-Client Privilege: Does It Really Have Life Everlasting?, 7 Kentucky Law Journal 1165 (1998-99)
The Ethics of Witness Coaching, Bull. of the Inst. of Advanced Legal Stud. 8 (Univ. of London, May 1996); Condensed version of article published in 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 1 (1995)
Should Lawyers Punctuate?, 1 Scribes J. Legal Writing 7 (1990)
Character Evidence -- a Guided Tour of the Grotesque Structure, 21 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 123 (1987); Reprinted in 2 Crim. Prac. L. Rev. 171 (1989)
Trial Counsel as Witness -- the Code and the Model Rules, 15 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 651 (1982)
Plain English for Lawyers, 67 Cal. L. Rev. 401 (1978)
Litigation Ethics: Do's and Dont's of Talking to Represented Adversaries, 4 Litigation 43, 56 (1977)
Trade Secrets: Federal Preemption in Light of Goldstein and Kewanee (Part II), 56 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 4 (1974)
Trade Secrets: Federal Preemption in Light of Goldstein and Kewanee (Part I), 55 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 736 (1973)
Venue in Actions for Patent Infringement, 25 Stan. L. Rev. 551 (1973); Reprinted in 57 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 73 (No. 2) (1975)
Compensable Values in Federal "Taking" of Damsites, 14 Stan. L. Rev. 800 (1962)
Mandatory Injunction Jurisdiction, 14 Stan. L. Rev. 167 (1961)
Federal Preemption in Television Antitrust, 13 Stan. L. Rev. 629 (1961)
Lawyers' Writing, How to Write Plain English: A Book for Lawyers and Consumers, 8 Mich. L. Rev. 711 (1980)

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