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
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Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Michael Peel <michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk
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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