Professor Emeritus Putz served as dean of the law school from 1971 to 1975. His courses included Civil Procedure, Remedies, Complex Civil Litigation, and Administrative Law. He has served as a mediator, evaluator, and arbitrator for the U.S. District Court in San Francisco since 1988. He also served as an accreditation inspector for the American Bar Association for many years. He has been a member of the State Bar of California Committee on Continuing Legal Education, vice chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Committee on Attorney Fee Disputes, and a member of the BASF Committee on Legal Ethics. He is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, and California.