Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Volume 77, Special Issue, 21-25
Many lawyers are forever indebted to Rick Marcus as a consummate professor of civil procedure, who merges the theoretical with the practical. Professor Marcus enables the students he teaches to not only think like lawyers, but to act like litigators. I did not have the good fortune to be one of Professor Marcus’ law school students, but I did learn more than I could ever have imagined about the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) by working with him on the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. It was a master class in advanced—and practical—civil procedure.