William J. Landers Memorial Scholarship
Loyola Law School was proud to establish the William J. Landers Memorial Scholarship & Lecture Fund as a tribute to William J. Landers, class of 1976. The Landers Scholarship is awarded annually to the Editor-In-Chief of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.
The completion of the Albert H. Girardi Advocacy Center this fall will allow for the expansion of the Ethical Advocacy Program to include an annual series of lectures and symposia. The Law School plans to initiate a special annual lecture on Prosecutorial Ethics as part of the series to be presented in the new Advocacy Center. This program will be named William J. Landers Memorial Lecture and will feature a vibrant speaker or panel covering a range of federal and state prosecutorial issues directed to members of the Los Angeles legal community, Alumni and law students.
Mr. Landers served as Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola Of Los Angeles Law Review and competed as a member of the Jessup International Moot Court team. After graduating magna cum laude, he joined the Los Angeles firm of Parker, Milliken, Clark, O’Hara and Samuelian as a litigator. In 1978, he left private practice and began his career in public service as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office and five years later, moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Department of Justice as Special Counsel to the Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He later served as Deputy Associate Attorney General, Associate White House Counsel to President Ronald Reagan, and Chief of the Public Corruption Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he supervised the prosecution of former major Marion S. Barry, Jr. Mr. Landers died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 40.
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