After briefly working at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, he became a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he taught for 13 years, and then moved to the University of Southern California Law School.

He was very popular with BarBri students, who have started Facebook groups in appreciation of his unique and humorous lectures.

[2] Whitebread gave the keynote speech at the American Psychology and Law Society (APLS) Annual Conference in Jacksonville, Florida on March 6, 2008.

Whitebread was a prolific legal writer, who published a dozen books and over 30 law review articles, which includes Criminal Procedure, Children in the Legal System, The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School, and co-authored The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm) in the 1970 Virginia Law Review (Vol.

56 OCT. 1970 NUMBER 6) which became the seminal work for The Marihuana Conviction originally published in 1974.