 His experience as a lead counsel for California Supreme Court and appellate cases in initiative matters led the 15th Dean of Loyola Law School to ask Howard to serve as the Adjunct Professor of Law from 1994 to 1998, where he created and taught California's first class devoted to Initiative Law.During his time at CLIPI, Howard served as an adviser on auto insurance, health care reform and personal privacy issues for former 1998 gubernatorial candidate Al Checchi.Howard worked as the senior counsel for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights from 1999 to 2000, where he helped engineer the nation's first major class-action managed care reform lawsuits