(PS - i should say that this is an organizational description only - from a FUNCTIONAL perspective, the fork analogy goes out the window, and a group of flexible staff members comes into play. Effectively speaking, I could work immediately with any of the attorneys (and am) on projects, and they could work with me or Maggie. We don't get really hung up on titles within the team. Maggie and I view our roles and enhancing/supporting/amplifying the work of the team of attorneys. I know they view their roles as supporting the work of the community. So it all works out).
pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe@wikimedia.org
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Philippe Beaudette philippe@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Think of LCA as a fork: at the top, the General Counsel. Down one tine of the fork, the Deputy GC, the Legal Counsel, and the Junior Counsel.
Down the other tine of the fork, the Director, Community Advocacy, and the Community Liaison(s)/Advocates. Sort of straddling the middle is Daisy, our paralegal.
Does that help?
pb ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe@wikimedia.org
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Michael Peel < michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Congrats and welcome to Stephen. :-)
Could the LCA team expand a bit on the structure and division of roles in the team, please? In particular, how does the role of Legal Counsel differ from that of the General Counsel, how are those positions relate to the Direct of Community Advocacy and the Community Liaison, and what's the overall management structure of the team?
Thanks, Mike
On 15 May 2012, at 21:04, Kelly Kay wrote:
I am happy to announce that effective today, Stephen LaPorte is joining the Foundation as legal counsel in the Legal and Community Advocacy
team!
Stephen has been interning with us for a semester, and we're thrilled
that
he's staying onboard. We went through a very competitive interview
process
and he was by far the best candidate for the role. One of the
criteria for
this role was that the candidate be a Wikimedian, and Stephen fits that neatly. *As a volunteer, he enjoys de-orphaning articles and cleaning
up
dead-end pages on the English Wikipedia. He also proofreads on the
English
Wikisource. He started contributing to Wikipedia in 2008 after working
on
[[w:Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve]] for a class project.*
You'll have the chance to meet him at the Berlin Hack-a-thon, or at Wikimania this summer. *A little bit of background on Stephen: he studied English and Latin at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and
law at
the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is
interested
in copyright, privacy, and trademark law. During law school, he worked
on
the Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal.*
Stephen will be helping out with contracts, content/community questions/issues, trademark approvals & licensing, trademark
enforcement,
and other general matters that come up for lawyers. Stephen will
report to
me.
This was an extremely competitive process, and we're very lucky to have him join us.
Kind Regards, Kelly
-- Kelly Kay Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation
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