This Week:

  • Monday: BIPLA Big Law/In-House Counsel Privacy Panel - Latham & Watkins and Google in-house attorneys will discuss privacy issues that their companies face - 12:50 P.M. | Room 110
  • Tuesday: Lunch talk with Johnson & Johnson on "Combating Counterfeit and Illegal Diversion" - 12:55 P.M. | Room 100
  • Wednesday: WITL Bagels & OCI - WITL will host a bagel and coffee cart drop by event where students can talk to 2Ls and 3Ls about their law firm job hunting experience - 8:30 A.M. | Room 136
  • Wednesday: HBLS Health Law Career Panel - HBLS will host a "Careers in Health Law" event where five panelists discuss their jobs and career paths - 12:45 P.M. | Room 134
  • Thursday: Lunch talk with LexisNexis on "How AI/Analytics is Changing the Practice of Law" - 12:55 P.M. | Room 100

Upcoming Events:

  • Monday, April 8: Clinical Program Information Session - Lunch, a presentation, and question & answer session with Clinical Program faculty and current students - 12:45 P.M. | Room 105
  • Tuesday, April 9: Coffee and Belgian Waffles / Meet & Greet with Latham & Watkins - Meet with Latham & Watkins attorneys and recruiters over coffee and belgian waffles - 8:00 A.M. | Warren Room
  • Tuesday, April 9: Law & Tech Writing Workshop (LTWW) Wine & Cheese Reception - Learn more about LTWW from current students, next year's advisors, and course instructors - 5:00 P.M. | Donor Lobby, 2nd Floor

Other Opportunities:

  • Survey on Law Students with STEM Background
  • Call for Student Papers: ACM Inaugural Symposium on Computer Science and Law
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Summer Law Clerk- for law student interested in IP law as it relates to science and research
  • Haynes and Boone: 1L California IP Weekend July 19, 2019 - recruiting 1L's for IP practice, vaious cities
    Haynes and Boone recruiting 1L's for various Summer Associate Programs, various cities
  • U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary: Democratic Staff Internship-  Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 terms for law clerk interns interested in IP 
  • US Department of Commerce, Office of Policy Analysis and Development: Technology/Telecom Advisor (Intern)- researching and analyzing important Internet and communications policy issues
  • Georgetown Law Technology Review Student Writing Competition 2018-2019 - $1000.00 to $4000.00 prizes
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Competitions and Awards- from $2000.00 to $10,000.00.
  • UCDC Law Program Externships in Washington D.C.- students who participate are eligible to receive 13 units
  • Cal Bar Section Membership- free for students

Law & Tech Certificate Applications - Due April 1. It's easy to apply and most students qualify. Apply online and view more information.

 
Click here for full details on all BCLT events and announcements this week.
 


 

 

THIS WEEK

 

 

Big Law/In-House Counsel Privacy Panel

 

 

    

 

 

Monday, April 1, 2019

12:50 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Room 110

 

Join us to hear from Michael Rubin (Latham) and Will DeVries (Google) who will be speaking on campus about privacy issues that they companies face. They will speak about the relationship between BigLaw and In-House Counsels in responding to cutting-edge privacy issues. Please fill out this RSVP Form so we know much food to provide. Sponsored by BIPLA.

 


BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Series: Johnson & Johnson

 

 

"Combating Counterfeit and Illegal Diversion"

 

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

12:55 P.M. - 1:55 P.M. 

Room 100

 

Growing at over 15% per annum and expanding to $1.7 trillion of global economic output per year, illicit trade, including counterfeit and diversion, presents significant risks to patients, consumers and business. This luncheon topic will discuss the emerging business discipline of Global Brand Protection (GBP) and specifically about how a robust GBP program in partnership with the law department can proactively address counterfeit and diversion to safeguard patients, consumers, and brand reputation.

 

Roy Albiani is a Director of Global Brand Protection for Johnson & Johnson. With over 15 years of experience, Roy has been a pioneer in its Global Brand Protection program. He presently leads and guides Johnson & Johnson’s Medical and Consumer Devices segment to develop business strategies which proactively protect patients and brands from counterfeit, diversion and other illicit trade. Albiani is a graduate of Western Illinois with a BA in Marketing and received his M.B.A. from the Cox School of Business at SMU.

 

Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.

 

Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.

 


WITL Presents: Bagels & OCI

 

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | Monday, April 8, 2019

8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M. 

Room 136

 

Stop by for free bagels and coffee and talk to 2Ls and 3Ls about their law firm job hunting experience. 

 

Sponsored by UCB Graduate Assembly and Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. This event is ADA accessible. 

 


HBLS Health Law Career Panel

 

 

"Careers in Health Law"

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

12:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. 

Room 134

 

We will have five amazing panelists joining us: 

  • Kevin Milne, Chief Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel, HHS
  • Sarah J. DiBoise, Chief Hospital Counsel at Stanford University (Berkeley Law '82) 
  • Dan Gerber, Principal Counsel at University of California Office of the President (Berkeley Law '02) 
  • Stephanie Gross, Associate at Hooper Lundy (Berkeley Law '15)
  • Allen Briskin, Senior Counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop (Berkeley Law '82)
The event will center on the panelists' current jobs and their career paths: what their daily responsibilities are, how they got to where they are today, what opportunities proved most valuable to them along the way, and why they chose to practice health law in general. Come with questions! 
 
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP. However, please feel free to join us if your schedule changes regardless of whether you RSVP'd. 
 

 

BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Series: LexisNexis

 

 

"How AI/Analytics is Changing the Practice of Law"

 

Thursday, April 4, 2019

12:55 P.M. - 1:55 P.M.

Room 100

 

Nik Reed, co-founder of Ravel, will discuss his experience starting a venture-backed legal tech company as a 3L Ravel is a pioneer in legal analytics, and is continuing to build best in class analytics by turning unstructured legal data into insights Nik will be joined by Berkeley 1L Carmen Sobzcak, one of the core team members at Ravel prior to going to law school.

 

Nik Reed is the co-founder and COO of Ravel Law, a legal research and analytics platform acquired by LexisNexis in 2017. While at Stanford, he co-founded Ravel, as a joint research project between the law school, the design school, and the computer science department, with the goal of using modern AI based tools to help attorneys better perform legal research.

 

Prior to Ravel, Nik worked in management consulting where he focused on international mergers and acquisitions in the technology industry. Nik has a JD from Stanford Law School, an MS in Management from Hautes Etudes Commerciales Paris and a BA in Political Economy from Stanford.

 

Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.

 

Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.

 

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 


BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Series: Clinical Program Information Session

 

 

Monday, April 8, 2019

12:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Room 105

 

 

The Clinical Program Faculty and Students -- Death Penalty Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center, Environmental Law Clinic, International Human Rights Law Clinic, New Business Law Clinic, Policy Advocacy Clinic, and the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic -- invite all Berkeley Law students to their information session on Monday, April 8 from 12:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. in 105 Boalt. 

 

We will start with lunch at 12:45 P.M. followed by a short presentation on the clinical program and the application process for Fall 2019. Afterwards, each Clinic will have faculty and current students present to answer your questions about opportunities available. 

 

Applications will soon be available at the clinical program website: www.law.berkeley.edu/clinicapplication.htm.  The deadline to apply is Noon on Monday, April 15, 2019.
 


BCLT Coffee Cart and Belian Waffles, Meet & Greet - Latham & Watkins

 

 

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

8:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.

Warren Room

 

Join us bright and early to meet with attorneys and recruiters from Latham & Watkins over coffee and Belgian waffles!

 

This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only. 

 


BCLT/BTLJ Law & Technology Writing Workshop (LTWW) Informational Session

 

 

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.

Donor Lobby, 2nd Floor

 

Interested in publishing a Note on IP, privacy, or technology law? Heard about “LTWW,” but don’t know what it is? Come join us!

Learn more about LTWW from current LTWW students, next year’s advisors, and course instructors.
 
The Law and Technology Writing Workshop is open to current 1Ls, 2L transfer students and LL.M. students. Prerequisites: Introduction to Intellectual Property (taken as a 1L or concurrently) and BTLJ membership. Case Notes for the Annual Review satisfy the writing requirement for both Berkeley Law and the Law & Technology Certificate.

 

Light refreshments will be provided.

 

 

 

LAW AND TECH OPPORTUNITIES

 

 

Survey on Law Students with STEM Background

Suffolk University Law School has launched a professional survey to collect data regarding the incentives and challenges that STEM majors face when determining whether to attend law school. The survey should take 7 minutes to complete.

 

The survey is confidential. Respondent identities and information will not be shared with anyone.

 

Follow this link to the survey.

 

Call for Student Papers: ACM Inaugural Symposium on Computer Science & Law

The ACM Inaugural Symposium on Computer Science and Law is hosting a student paper competition. The Symposium will be held October 28-29, 2019 in New York City. Suitable paper topics include but are not limited to: Security, privacy, encryption, and surveillance; cyber espionage, cyber war, and cyber diplomacy; cyber crime, cyber law enforcement, and digital forensics; freedom of expression online (or the lack thereof); online market structure, platform monopolies, and antitrust law; online government services; digital intellectual property; legal informatics; automation of legal reasoning and legal services; fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (FATE) in machine learning and data mining; and methodological compatibility and incompatibility between the discipline of computer science and the discipline of law.

Between 10 and 20 papers will be selected for poster presentation at the October symposium.  The symposium organizers will provide a travel stipend for at least one student per successful submission to present their work and attend the entire symposium.
 
Students may submit papers written for university courses covering topics in computing and law. 

The submission deadline is June 10, 2019 (11:59 P.M. GMT) and the notification deadline is August 30, 2019.

Submissions should be 10,000 words (or 10-page ACM double-column format). Note that references do count toward the page limit, and submissions should not be anonymized. Submissions may have multiple authors. For multiple-author submissions, one author must be designated to present the poster. Submit online at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cslaw2019.
 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Summer Law Clerk

For more than 60 years, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has applied science and technology to make the world a safer place.

 

We have an opening for a law student who has completed his or her second year of law school to serve as a Law Clerk in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Office of General Counsel (OGC) during summer 2019.

 

The OGC is comprised of nine experienced attorneys, as well as other legal professionals, who represent the Laboratory across a wide spectrum of practice areas. You can anticipate assignments in any of the substantive areas relevant to operation of the Laboratory: e.g., litigation; business transactions; environmental, health and safety; government contracts; patent prosecution and intellectual property; export law; employment law, and more.  You may also indicate areas of special interest, which may influence your assignments.

 

You will be part of a cohort of 500+ graduate and undergraduate students who come from all over the world to experience LLNL’s world-class scientific facilities and participate in research with the Laboratory’s accomplished scientists and engineers.  The summer program provides all interns the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of scientific and national-security-related lectures, seminars and other activities.

 

This position is full time and paid, for up to 12 weeks during the summer of 2019.

 

For more information and to apply, see the posting for the position here.

 
 

Haynes and Boone 2019 1L Summer Associate Opportunities

Diversity Scholars Program

The Haynes and Boone 1L Diversity Scholars Program offers a six to eight-week clerkship with meaningful work and mentorship experiences. Scholars also receive a $7,500 scholarship during the school year. For 2019, we are recruiting scholars for our Dallas, Houston, New York, Palo Alto, and RIchardson offices. 

 

1L Program

The 1L Program offers a six to ten-week clerkship (varies by city) with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the daily life of a Haynes and Boone attorney. The 2019 program will begin May 13 in the following cities: Dallas, Houston, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, and Richardson. 

 

Dallas Fast Track Program

The Dallas Fast Track Program is a one-week clerkship that is an ideal compliment to other summer plans and provides the opportunity to familiarize candidates with the Dallas legal market and life at a large law firm. The 2019 program will run from July 20-26. 

 

2019 Fast Track: July 20 - July 26

  • A one-week clerkship that is an ideal complement to other summer plans
  • Intended to familiarize candidates with the Texas legal market and life at a large law firm
  • An in-depth look at the people and practice of law at Haynes and Boone, LLP

 

Now in its 12th year, Fast Track is a unique and innovative opportunity for exceptional 1L law students interested in the Dallas legal market. For more information on their Fast Track Program in Dallas, see their flyer here. 

 

For more information on the programs offered, see their flyer here. For more information about Haynes and Boone, we suggest:

 

Additional 1L opportunities may be available in other offices on a case-by-case basis. Please submit ll inquiries to Amanda Kelly, Manager of Entry-Level Recruiting at amanda.kelly@haynesboone.com or at 214-651-5176.

 

U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Democratic Staff Internship Program

The IP subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee has openings in the Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 terms for law clerk interns interested in IP. This would be a great way to gain more exposure to hot-topic IP issues and learn what it’s like working on the Hill. 

 

The Committee on the Judiciary’s Democratic staff internship program offers undergraduate and law students, as well as recent graduates, an opportunity to experience the operation of a congressional committee firsthand and learn about the important role that House committees play in the legislative process.  The Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over a wide range of legislative and oversight issues which include constitutional amendments, litigation reform, patent and trademark law, federal criminal law, federal civil rights law, homeland security, immigration and naturalization, and antitrust. More information can be found on their website. 

 

Deadline for applications for the fall session: June 1st

 

Berkeley Law students who apply should also send an email to (jamie.simpson@mail.house.gov), the subcommittee's chief IP counsel.

 

U.S. Department of Commerce: Technology/Telecom Advisor (Intern)

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA), Office of Policy Analysis and Development (OPAD), seeks summer interns to participate in researching and analyzing important Internet and communications policy issues. NTIA is by statute the principal advisor to President on telecommunications and communications policy.

 

As NTIA's domestic policy office, we play an important role in addressing public policy challenges that affect Americans' daily lives in the digital age. Our multidisciplinary team, which includes policy analysts, attorneys, economists, and engineers, focuses on some of the most important challenges in Internet policy, including protecting privacy online, facilitating widespread broadband adoption, and achieving balanced protections for intellectual property.

 

Interns at OPAD make substantive contributions to federal Internet and communications research and policy, with projects varying based on interests and academic background. Past interns have been exposed to a broad array of issues, and have assisted in analyzing the complex network neutrality debate, producing recommendations related to copyright policy, and performing quantitative analysis of data on computer and Internet use.

 

Interns will gain increased understanding of the characteristics that make the Internet unique and will be exposed to the myriad of laws, policies, protocols, and principles that have allowed the Internet to thrive as a force for global trade and the free flow of information. Interns will assist OPAD experts in the development of research, papers, and briefings on today’s cutting edge Internet policy issues to assist government leaders in navigating the intersections between technology and policy in today’s marketplace.

 

To learn more about NTIA's internship program and apply for a position, please visit the intern application page. If there are any questions, you can contact Edward Carlson at ecarlson@ntia.doc.gov.

 

 

Georgetown Law Technology Review Student Writing Competition 2018-2019

Law students are invited to submit papers addressing a legal or public policy question relating to artificial intelligence, machine learning, the use of data analytics and/or algorithmic decision-making. Example topics include: questions of data ownership, questions relating to transparency or testability, questions relating to intellectual property, privacy, consumer protection, competition, issues of bias and discrimination, or product liability; or subject-matter- specific legal issues arising from various applications of a technology. Preference will be given to papers that are relevant to current legal and public policy debates or present an original perspective. Papers must be submitted by May 31, 2019.

PRIZE

Up to three winners will be selected, with a First Prize of $4,000, a Second Prize of $2,500, and a Third Prize of $1,000.

 

Winning papers may be selected for publication in The Georgetown Law Technology Review.

 

Additional information about rules and deadlines may be found here.

 

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Competitions and Awards

Visit the AIPLA website Student and public resources page for submission procedures, deadlines and more information on the following law student competitions and awards in 2019:

 

Robert C. Watson Writing Competitions ($2,000.00 award)

 

Jan Jancin Award ($5,000.00 1st/$2,500.00 2nd place awards)​

If you are interested in being considered, send a short statement of your accomplishments in the field of IP (courses taken, papers written, internships or other work) and a grades transcript to BCLT Executive Director Jim Dempsey. The faculty directors will select a Boalt student to nominate for the award.

See entry above for information regarding other AIPLA awards and competitions.

 

 

UCDC Law Program Externships in Washington, D.C.

 

The UCDC Law Program is a full-time externship program in Washington, DC providing experiential learning through a full-time field placement with a government agency, nonprofit or advocacy organization, including those engaged in law and technology issues.  Law students who participate are eligible to receive 13 units: 10 units for the field placement and 3 units for the companion course, “Law and Lawyering in the Nation’s Capital.” Full details on UCDC can be found here. 

Specific Externships:

Federal Communications Commission - Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division (legal) 

The Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division (CCR) provides legal, engineering, and other technical advice and expertise to the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and the Federal Communications Commission regarding public safety and homeland security issues, particularly with respect to ensuring that communications networks are reliable, resilient, and secure.  CCR develops and recommends Commission and PSHSB policies on network and other infrastructure reliability, including 911 reliability, and other public safety issues as assigned.  CCR also administers the Commission’s information collection requirements with respect to communications reliability (such as network outage reports, disaster information reporting, and 911 reliability certifications) and performs analyses and studies on public safety, homeland security, national security, disaster management and related issues. The application and additional details can be found here. 

For all externships, start applying now. Apply to the Fall 2019 or Spring 2020 UCDC Law Program here. 

 

Free Membership in Caifornia Bar Sections

 

Did you know that even before you pass the bar, even as a 1L, you can join the IP Section of the California State Bar for free. This allows you to stay abreast of programs, legal developments in the field, and networking events: http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/sections/sections-join-form.pdf

 

 

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