Anthony X. McDermott
Professor of Law
A.B., University of California, Los Angeles, 1961
LL.B., University of California, Los Angeles, 1965
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Tony McDermott's first position in legal education was as the assistant dean of the UCLA School of Law, where one of his primary responsibilities was to Tony McDermott's first position in legal education was as the assistant dean of the UCLA School of Law, where one of his primary responsibilities was to establish the UCLA Legal Education Opportunity Program-the first of its kind in the nation.
After teaching Corporations and Business Planning at the University of Denver College of Law, Professor McDermott went on to teach at Loyola, Oregon, and Santa Clara Law Schools, as well as returning to UCLA for five more years as an assistant dean before coming to Pepperdine. He has taught extensively in the areas of taxation and corporations, but it was his volunteering to teach Civil Procedure that led to his being selected as a Luckman Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 1995. He continues to teach that class, as well as Federal Income Taxation, California Civil Procedure and community Property.
Professor McDermott has served on the board of trustees of the Law School Admissions Council, and as a consultant to the Council on Legal Education Opportunity and the Committee to Study the Bar Examination Process for the State Bar of California. He has also been a federal public defender, a California probate referee, and the business manager of a thoroughbred breeding and training farm.
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