email address: profjordan@ucla.edu
cell phone - 818-415-2015

DAVID JORDAN, Esq., Attorney at Law, (Curriculum Vitae) (Resume) is the grandson of a celebrated barrister from New England. He served the Glendale Community as an attorney,  professor and author ("Law In Plain English" a Legal Newsletter) since 1979. While in active law practice, he was a respected negotiator and took pride in successfully preventing litigation matters from  getting to court. "Avoiding court often maximizes the client's award without the high costs of trial", says Jordan.

After graduating from Georgetown University in the same class as President Bill Clinton in 1968, Mr. Jordan joined the U.S. Peace Corps in Honduras, Central America where he became fluent in Spanish, and first became interested in becoming a lawyer while organizing credit cooperatives to lend money to campesinos ("farmers") in Santa Rita de Copan. He then attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and earned his Juris Doctor in 1976.

While in law school, Mr. Jordan worked at the Community Legal Assistance Center both as a volunteer, and as a supervising student director. He worked in the L.A. City Attorneys Office, in their civil litigation, tax, and criminal prosecution units. Upon graduating law school,  Mr. Jordan practiced law in a small, respected personal injury law firm in downtown Los Angeles, and a business law firm in Glendale. In 1983, Mr. Jordan opened his own solo law practice, and practiced full time law until 1997.

In January 1997,  Mr. Jordan became a full time law professor and Director of the Legal Assistant & Paralegal Studies Program at Los Angeles Mission College (one of the nine L.A. Community Colleges) located in the Los Angeles northeast valley (Sylmar). The Paralegal Program is now "state of the art", and has approximately 200 "on campus students", and starting Summer 2002, developed a "one of a kind" entirely online paralegal certificate program - probably the only Community College in California to do so (with classes at the incredible price of $26 per unit) which has an excellent online law faculty, and which has grown from 25 online/internet students to now more than 400 enrolled in the online paralegal certificate program.

Professor Jordan comes from a distinguished family of educators, including a grandfather, Charles Bernard Jordan, who was the Dean of Purdue University School of Pharmacy, West Lafayette, Indiana, a father, Charles Richard Jordan, who worked on Madison Avenue in New York City and taught advertising at Fairfield University in Connecticut,  a brother, Phillip Jordan, stage manager for the Boston Ballet (17 years), who taught theater arts at the University of Rhode Island, worked as the technical director of the "O" show of Cirque du Soleil at the Hotel Ballagio in Las Vegas, and who worked as the production manager of the Cross Country - Biathalon venue of the Winter Olympics 2002 in Salt Lake, Utah, and the Summer Olympics 2004 in Greece, assisted with the Wynn Las Vegas $100 million theater - a 2,000-seat room which will be shaped like a globe with the audience sitting in sections that will have water flowing above, below, around, and through them. As opposed to a traditional stage, the performance will occur throughout the room, immersing the audience in the action, which the designers guarantee will be no farther than 40 feet from any seat. The production will be a Cirque style spectacle centering around a Himalayan boy who could fly. He also has a sister, Marynell Jordan Schlegel, PhD Ed, who is a retired principal of the Lulu Walker Elementary School school in Tucson, Arizona from which her two daughter's graduated and who implemented "year round education" in her school district.

Mr. Jordan is a committed single father (who recently became engaged - and no longer to be single - his "bride to be" works as the Regional Travel Advertising Manager for the Los Angeles Times). His two adult sons, both recently graduated from college, one with emphasis on multimedia from Mission College Multimedia Program, and who is is currently working in retail in Burbank, California and the other who studied abroad in Ecuador during the Fall Semester of his Junior year and gradauted in Math with Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Occidental College , who first worked as a webmaster for a small dot.com in Santa Monica, California - "ToyDirectory.Com" - , and was recently married, and now works in developing the webpage for Insurancejournal.com.

Professor Jordan loves films, raquetball, running, sailing and golf. He is certified to practice law before the State Courts of California, U.S. Federal District Courts/Central & Southern Districts, United States Tax Court and the United States Military Court of Appeals. He has in the past been active in the local YMCA, and business networking groups in the greater Los Angeles basin. As a Georgetown alumni, he actively participates every fall in interviewing freshman applicants to Georgetown.

Professor Jordan has written a series of articles on the use of internet technology in the Paralegal Classroom - a number of these articles have been published in the Paralegal Educator - a publication of the American Association for Paralegal Education. The most recent article is "RX for your First Paralegal Job"

Mr. Jordan is the Chair of the Staff Development Committee at Mission College, and the editor of the former weekly college ejournal "El Timbre". and also is editor of best teaching practices, weekly updates, law links, and computer tips, and hypertext articles on "technology" and its uses in the classroom, and "Desktop Training". Prof. Jordan also participates as a facilitator in the LA Community College District of the Instructional Skills Workshops ( ISW)., and the "Inventive Teacher Academy" . Prof. J has publishes regulary his law blog at http://profjordan.blogspot.com/. He acts as the Distance Education Chair and the Interim Chair of the Technology Committee. He assists in training of faculty in the Etudes Program at Mission College (the Learning Managment System).

Prof Jordan also teaches an Elder Law Class for UCLA Extension, and a Bankruptcy Law class at the UCLA Attorney Assistant Training Program, and a Civil Procedure Class at People's College of Law.

Any questions or inquires regarding the Legal Assistant-Paralegal Program should be directed to Professor Jordan at his email address abogado@pacbell.net , or 818/415-2015 (cell phone) or (college phone) 818/364-7720 at L.A. Mission College.


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updated: 1-04-07