As Samuel Williston and Arthur Linton Corbin had done with their treatises on contracts, Witkin's approach was to reduce case law to black letter rules.
[1] Following graduation, Witkin took a job with a law firm in San Francisco for two years, while continuing to develop and sell his outlines.
In 1968, Witkin gave a speech roasting each member of the California Supreme Court, and displayed his trademark colorful good humor.
[10] On March 27, 1983, Loyola Law School awarded Witkin the St. Thomas More Medallion, with speeches by former justices Otto Kaus and Donald R.
[11] In San Diego, the Law Library Justice Foundation holds an annual awards ceremony in honor of Bernard E.
[12] The Bernard E. Witkin Award honors members of the legal community for civic leadership and excellence in teaching, practice, enactment, or adjudication of the law.