Samuel D. Thurman; Legal Educator, Author of Ethics Text

Samuel D. Thurman, 81, a leading legal educator and author of a major textbook on legal ethics. The son of a member of the Utah Supreme Court, Thurman studied at the University of Utah and completed his law degree at Stanford University. After practicing law in Salt Lake City, he moved on to teaching at Stanford Law School, ultimately serving as acting dean. He returned to Salt Lake City as dean of the University of Utah College of Law from 1962 until his retirement in 1975. Thurman later taught at the UC Hastings College of Law. On the national legal scene, he was president of the Assn. of American Law Schools, director of the National Legal Services Corp., president of the national Order of the Coif, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the editorial board of Foundation Press, which publishes legal textbooks. His own widely used text, “The Legal Profession,” was published in 1970. On Feb. 4 in Salt Lake City.