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Henry L. Hecht
Title: Lecturer in Residence
Office: 340D Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-642-1787
Fax: 510-643-2672
Email Address: hhecht@law.berkeley.edu
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FSU Contact: Wanda Castillo
Henry Hecht served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973 to 1976 and was special counsel to the San Francisco firm of Heller Ehrman LLP from 1977 to 1983. He joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 1983 and has been an adjunct law professor at the Golden Gate University School of Law and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
He is also an independent consultant on skills training for lawyers and co-founder of The Hecht Training Group, a group of attorneys who have each taught lawyering skills for more than 20 years. Using the "learning by doing" method, his Training Group has presented workshops on deposition, negotiation, motion practice, and trial skills to more than 65 law firms, corporate law offices, government agencies, and bar associations across the country. (See www.HechtTrainingGroup.com.)
Hecht has lectured and written extensively for the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), the Practising Law Institute (PLI), and the National Practice Institute (NPI). He is a member of the Advisory Board of ALI-ABA In-House CLE; and from 1993 to 1996, he was a member of the State Bar of California Standing Committee on Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE). He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and on the board of directors of the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC).
Hecht's publications include a book, Effective Depositions, 2nd ed. (ABA, forthcoming 2009); two case files, Scoops v. Business-Aide, Inc: A Liability and Damages Case File, 5th ed. (2009) and Donna Taylor v. Shape-Up Stores, Inc.: A Damages Case File, 2nd ed. (co-author V. O’Brien) (2008); and three multi-media CD-ROMs, Mastering Motions: Mechanics and Techniques (co-author T. Hallahan) (PLI 1999), Taking Effective Depositions: Mechanics and Techniques (PLI 1997), and Defending Depositions: Mechanics and Techniques (PLI 1997).
Education:
B.A., Williams College (1968)J.D., Harvard University (1973)
