1. Community/Public Service:

• Gave a talk (10/27/04) "Let's Talk About Lying," at Woodbury University (Burbank, CA),

• Gave a talk (3/24/04) "How to handle your attorney without losing your sleep, your mind and your bank account," at Woodbury University (Burbank, CA),

• Founded and Chairs ProCon.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation (founded on August 1, 2004),

• A member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit ACLU Foundation of Southern California since 1979,

• Member of the Washington, D.C.-based Federal Task Force on Judicial Selection (which issued its report "Judicial Selection" in the Fall of 1999),

• A member of the Board of Directors of the UCLA Management Education Associates from 1986 to 1992,

• Gave two seminars on entrepreneurship at The Gorbachev Foundation (Moscow, Russia)  - The International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies in October 1992 -- one seminar to bankers, financial analysts and economists, the second to Moscow city functionaries,

• A Director of the non-profit UCLA Graduate School of Management Board of Visitors during 1986, and

• A member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit Hollywood Community Hospital from 1982 to 1984 (when it was sold to a non-profit group).

2. Published Work:

• Published between May 1997 and August 1998 four informational booklets looking at related parts of our nation's drug policy entitled:

  • "State-by-State Marijuana Laws (as of Dec. 31, 1996)";

  • "Addictiveness of Marijuana vs. Five Commonly Used Drugs";

  • "Some of the Drugs America Takes"; and

  • "Marijuana's Contribution to Preventable Deaths in the U.S. in 1990".

• In 1991, Markoff wrote "Making Firms Do It Your Way ," a common sense contract between a client and his lawyer, and published in the national magazine, The American Lawyer in December 1991.

• January 1990, Mr. Markoff compiled and published a summary of 563 ACLU cases in the U.S. Supreme court, titled "The Batting Average (and supporting data) of the ACLU in the U.S. Supreme Court" from January 19, 1920 through December 31, 1989. He then updated the Summary to 735 cases through Dec. 31, 1999.

• Through the Association of Media Accuracy, (later renamed “The Pro/Con Foundation”) a nonprofit organization he co-founded in 1985 with Maury Weiner (Deputy Mayor under Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley), Mr. Markoff co-published the following reports in a Pro/Con format:

  • "Should Chief Justice Rose Bird Be Re-confirmed in the Upcoming November 4, 1986 California Election?," in September of 1986, and

  • "How Practical is Nuclear Power for Our Future?" in May 1988.