Obituaries,
Law Practice
Mar. 4, 2020
Remembering Francis McGovern
With his passing, the legal world has lost a practical scholar of enormous range and experience.
Vaughn R. Walker
Arbitrator and Mediator
FedArb
Phone: (650) 328-9500
Stanford Law School
Vaughn served as a district judge for the Northern District of California from 1990-2011. He can be reached at fedarb.com
When he passed away recently, Francis McGovern and I were about half-way through co-teaching a course at UC Hastings College of the Law. This was only one of the many ways we intersected over the years. A good friend who was an associate at the law firm where I began practice met Francis in the early 70s and became friends. Francis was then teaching at Cumberland Law School in Birmingham, Ala. It was his first teaching job after Yale, UVA Law School and three years as...
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