David Jordan, Esq.
Attorney at Law
Director Paralegal Studies Program
Business and Law Department
Los Angeles Mission College
13356 Eldridge Ave.
Sylmar, Ca. 91342
phone (work) 818-364-7720
cell phone 818-415-2015
email: jordandc@laccd or abogado@pacbell.net
Education
Loyola
Law School,
Los Angeles, California
Juris Doctor, 1975
passed
California Bar (1st try), sworn in as
California
attorney June 1976
Georgetown
University,
Washington, D.C.
BA Economics, 1968
Bar Membership
Supreme
Court of California, June 1976
United
States District Court, Central District, April 1979
United
States Tax Court, August 1979
U.S.
Court of Military Appeals, March 1980
United
States District Court, Northern District, October 1984
Teaching Experience
L.A.
Mission College,
Sylmar, CA.
1997-present
Director
of Paralegal Studies Program
Plan,
direct, and manage the Paralegal Program with over 200 students.
In August 1997, created and integrated
a fully interactive web page into the Paralegal Program.
In February 1999, organized
law clinic in conjunction with the San Fernando Neighborhood Valley
Legal Services to train paralegals with "hands on" experience
in electronically preparing legal forms on the internet under
the supervision of a legal services attorney (family law and paternity
actions). In June 2003, started a completely online paralegal
program certificate (http://profj.us)
- unique in that it is probably the only completely online paralegal
certificate program in the California Community College system.
Pasadena
City College,
Pasadena, CA (part time) 1990-1995
Law
Instructor, Paralegal Studies Program
Instructed
courses in Criminal/Civil Evidence, Legal
Research/Writing,
Trusts, Wills & Probate Administration
Other Educational Experience
Monroe
Law & Government Magnet program Fall
1998
Implemented
Paralegal Law 17 course in Legal Writing
skills into the court room projects of this program utilizing
new legal research tools on the internet, and introducing our
webpage into their law and government program
Chair
- Staff Development Committee
- October 1998 - present
Was
selected at Chair of Staff
Development at Mission College. It is my job to teach instructors
how to integrate their webpages into the classroom. Organized
and coordinated with Web Project/CSUN – John Hartzog for
delivery of Web Teaching Tools Workshop, January 4-8 at Mission
College.
PACE
Program - 1998-1999
Acted
as affirmative action officer, and assisted Gina LaMonica in hiring
Pace instructors for PACE Program
instructors, also created PACE webpage. I am currently working
with new PACE director, David Pardess to articulate a PACE Law
Tract.
Teaching
Academy – 2001
As Chair of Staff Development and in conjunction with the Faculty
Senate and Academic Affairs developed a Teaching Academy for our
new full time instructors (see website at http://www.lamission.org/academy/)
Workers Rights Clinic – July 13th 2002 –
present
Helped to develop a Saturday Workers Rights Clinic in conjunction
with the Neighborhood Legal Services. This provides “hands
on” experience for paralegals and Mission College Students
to help workers who have claims for unpaid wages. (website = http://lamission.org/wokers/opening.htm)
Chair of Distributive and Distance Learning (DDL) - 2005
Chair of the the DDL Committee
whcih serves the function of communicating and advising the college
in its decision-making regarding D/DL issues (Distance Education)
lped to develop a Saturday Workers Rights Clinic in conjunction
with the Neighborhood Legal Services. This provides “hands
on” experience for paralegals and Mission College Students
to help workers who have claims for unpaid wages. (website = http://lamission.org/wokers/opening.htm)
CETC Ambassador to Mission College - 2005
California Education
Technology Collaboration (CETC) is composed of a variety of
cutting-edge systemwide technology projects, services and resources.
Available to ANYONE at all of our 109 CCC Campuses! Formed in
December 2003 as a response to tight fiscal times. Sponsored by
the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. Brought
together all of the CCC systemwide technology projects into a
single group. Allows individual projects to remain autonomous
while giving the new group a single-project focus. As an ambassador,
I promote the services of CETC.
Author of Articles on online teaching, and online training
for instructors – 2000 to present
Articles are at:
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/cv.htm
* The Use of Threaded Discussions on the "Online Classroom"
* How to Construct your Paralegal Webpage
* How to Integrate Technology into your Paralegal Studies Classroom
* Webpage Templates
* Webpage Utilities
* Student Retention
* Ethics and Integrity on the College Campus
* Lamission.org - a reference page for faculty and students
* "Food for Thought" Forums
* Evolution of a webpage - Tech Expo Demonstration 5/03/02
* "The Fab Five" - The webproject from CSUN to Onxard
in less than one generation
* "Smart Classrooms"
Participant in “Webproject” – first at CSUN
and now at Oxnard CC http://lamission.org/fabfive/
Curriculum Vitae of David Jordan is located at
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/cv.htm
About Prof. Jordan is located at
http://www.vcsun.org/~djordan/djbio.htm
Current Paralegal Certificate Program is located at
http://profj.us
Lawyer Experience
King
& Jordan, Glendale, CA
1992-1997
Founder
and Managing Partner
Emphasis
- Bankruptcy, Personal Injury & Business Law
Law
Offices of David Jordan
1983-1992
Sole Practitioner, General Law Practice
Emphasis
- Business Law, Consumer Protection, Landlord-Tenant,
Spanish
Speaking clients, aggressive Civil Litigation (1983-1988) -
60+
lawsuits/recovered in excess of $5 million dollars for clients
Murphy
& Johnson,
Glendale, CA. 1979-1982
General Business Law Firm
Creditor's
collections and advocate in State, Federal, and U.S. Bankruptcy
Courts
Medearis
& Grimm,
Los Angeles, CA 1977-1979
Personal
Injury Law Firm
Managed
Personal Injury law cases, probate, and family law cases
Los
Angeles City Attorneys Office,
Los Angeles, CA. 1974-1976
Legal Assistant - Legal Research and Writing in civil litigation tax, civil and criminal prosecution
Community
Legal Assistance Center,
Los Angeles, CA. 1973
Student Supervisor Loyola Law School Clinical Program
emphasis
- landlord-tenant, entitlement programs, dispute resolution,
services
to local Hispanic community
Additional
U.S.
Peace Corps
1969-1972
Peace Corps Volunteer
Helped
organize, manage, and supervise Credit Unions for
Honduran
Credit Cooperative Association
learned
to speak/read/write Spanish fluently
U.S.
Department of Commerce,
Washington, D.C. 1968-1969
Economist
Calculated
and analyzed U.S. Department of Commerce
monthly
statistics related to "U.S. Economic Output/Capacity Utilization
Index"
Languages
Spanish
(fluent)
German,
French & Latin (strong reading knowledge)
Professional Organizations
Current/active:
AAFPE
(affiliate member of American Association for Paralegal Educators)
Former/non-active:
Association
of Trial Lawyers of America
Glendale
Bar Association
Glendale
Chamber of Commerce
Glendale
YMCA
Glendale
Business Networking Group
Glendale
Toastmasters Club
Hoover
High School Parents-Teacher Association
L.A.
Bankruptcy Law Forum
Publications
"Law
in Plain English",
a legal newsletter
1979-1997
Glendale,
CA.
"Peace
Corps Volunteers in Honduras"
February 1970
Volunteer
Magazine,
Honduras, Central America
"International
Business Volunteers"
1967
Georgetown International Association of Business
Exchange
Students, Washington D.C.
"Fairfield
College Preparatory School Year Book"
1964
Editor-in-Chief,
High School Yearbook
Computer Skills
Wordperfect
5.1 & 6.1
Law Disks/California Codes/Cases
Word
6.0
Legal Transactions/Forms - Civil
Excel
3.0
Bankruptcy
Filing Program
Legal
Research on line
Windows 3.1/Windows 95
Web
Page Construction
FTP/updating webpages
Internet
Integration into
Hypernews 1 & 2
Classroom
teaching
Quizmaker & Java "chat"