[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: New Legal Counsel

[Kelly Kay]

>
> 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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