PAD and Lambda Legal are teaming up to raffle off a brand new silver iPod Nano. Benefits are going to the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation. Tickets are $1 per ticket or $4 for 5 tickets. Raffle tickets will be sold in the Jury Box from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. every day next week. This is an SBA sponsored event.

Volunteer as part of the 10th Annual Bruce Friedman Community Service Day. Sign-up with PIC in the Jury Box from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. The event will take place Saturday, October 27th from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Breakfast will be provided for all volunteers by Bagelworks on Main Street in Concord.

 

Monday, Oct. 22

Happy Birthday to Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing, Robert Rauschenberg and Catherine Deneuve.

 

Tuesday, Oct. 23

Professor Richard A. Hesse will speak on "Civil Liberties and National Security" at 7:00 p.m. at the Tracy Library in New London.

Professor Mary W.S. Wong will be in New York City, attending the Morrison & Foerster "20 Years in New York" anniversary celebration. From 1998-2001, Professor Wong was Special Counsel to the firm, resident primarily in New York, with stints also in the Brussels and Singapore offices.

 

Wednesday, Oct. 24

Professor Karl F. Jorda and Honorary Degree '91 recipient Judge Pauline Newman will be inducted into the Intellectual Property Hall of Fame at a Gala Dinner at the Field Museum in Chicago. 

Professor Richard A. Hesse will speak on "Civil Liberties and National Security" at 7:00 p.m. at the Weeks Public Library in Greenlands.

 

Thursday, Oct. 25

Annual Employee Recognition Barbecue, 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Courtyard. 

Careers in Immigration Law panel featuring Lorne M. Fienberg, Associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo in Boston. 1:00-2:00 p.m. in Room 200. 

Professor Buzz Scherr will speak at Spelman College in Atlanta on "Race & Genetic Identity: The Lure of Money & The Illusion of Fear" In the evening, he will host a cocktails & conversation reception for Atlanta-area alumni.

Professor Sophie Sparrow will attend the 32nd Annual Conference of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education in Pittsburgh, PA, today through Sunday.

 

Friday, Oct. 26

William J. Morris III, Esq. of Bromberg and Sunstein, Boston, speaks on "A day in the life of a trademark/entertainment lawyer--what it is really like to practice in these fields" in Room 200 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., with a separate question and answer session from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m.

 

Saturday, Oct. 27

10th Annual Bruce Friedman Community Service Day, organized by the Public Interest Coalition (PIC).

Professors Bill Hennessey and Mary W.S. Wong will be in Beijing, China, through Tuesday for the 4th Annual IP.Net International Conference on Intellectual Property, co-organized by Tsinghua University School of Law and Harvard Law School. Professor Hennessey is on the organizing committee. Professor Wong will speak on copyright "safe harbors" for Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

 

 

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