Colleagues-
From: DIRT - Real Estate Lawyers Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Randolph (UMKC Dirt)
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DIRT] FW: Testimonial to Pat Randolph
Fellow Dirters Many of you may not be aware of the fact that Pat Randolph, the founder and moderator of Dirt is terminally ill from cancer and will only be with us for a few more weeks.
It is not easy to adequately describe Pat's enormous contributions to legal education, real estate law and the legal community. Dirt arose as an offshoot of the ABA?s Quarterly Development Report, which Pat assembled and provided to us for years, and it was the best way I knew of keeping up with developments outside my turf. Later, when Pat got Dirt underway, it was the Daily Developments fully briefed and thoughtfully analyzed cases that he provided for us almost every day of the year - that quickly became our bread and butter source of information. I cannot estimate how much discipline and how many hours that Pat had to donate to keep Dirt vibrant for so many years.
Pat also sat on the Executive Committee of the Real Property Probate & Trust Section of the ABA, founded a Legal Education Section there, and pried loose a Real Estate Transactions Section out of the AALS Property Section. He was at the same time going around the country giving his Top Ten talks to numerous bar groups, as well as being an entertaining speaker at frequent panels for the ABA, ACMA, ACREL, and PLI. On top of all that Pat wrote Friedman on Leases and played a pioneering role in starting a real estate legal system in China, constantly going back and forth there and accommodating their students in his house in Kansas City) and writing books and journals on it.
What I particularly valued most of Pat's many activities was his effort to bridge the gap between law school academics and the practicing real estate bar. Before Pat, property professors wanted nothing to do with real estate practice, and lawyers typically couldn't even remember the name of who taught the course to them in law school. Pat got the two groups interacting with each other, for which I am truly grateful.
Since Pat sadly may not be with us much longer, I wanted him to hear my sentiments while he is still able to appreciate them. I urge the rest of you who knew and are similarly grateful to Pat to go on Dirt and tell him your feelings. I believe that will please him.
Roger Bernhardt, Professor of Law
Golden Gate University
536 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94105-2968
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