back story: Favorite prof/class of all college was my business law class taught by Ben Furth. Talked about a lot of civil law suit stuff, breaking down suits and then building up new ones from different facts sets. He was the most eager to help out of any professor I've ever had. Not that my other professors WOULDN'T help if I asked, but he was always pushing the class to meet with him and discuss things we may not grasp.
He is currently rep'ing a client that is in a dispute with a client of the office I work in.
I just answered the phone and it was Ben. He recognized me, ask how I was, asked when/where I was planning to attend law school and asked if I needed any letters of recommendation. When I mentioned I hadn't got to that yet, he said "well keep me in mind."
Freakin' best prof I've ever had, and probably the most capable. Bio from intertubes:
Mr. Furth graduated cum lande from the University of Michigan Law School in 1999. There, he received the prestigious American Jurisprudence in Securities Regulation. During his law school summers, Mr. Furth clerked for a federal judge, the Honorable Howard D. McKibben in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, and worked for the largest defense firm in the nation, Jones Day, in Los Angeles. After graduating from Michigan, Mr. Furth worked for Furth, Fahrner & Mason, a twenty-attorney plaintiffs' class action firm in downtown San Francisco.
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On a more personal level, Mr. Furth was a two time Academic All-American golfer, and the first All-American golfer in the history of the University of California, Berkeley and was inducted in the University of California, Berkeley Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
