[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: New Legal Counsel

[Philippe Beaudette]

(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
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Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

415-839-6885, x 6643

philippe at wikimedia.org



On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippe at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> 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 at wikimedia.org
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Michael Peel <
> michael.peel at 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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