[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: New Legal Counsel

[Samuel Klein]

Great news.  It's good to have counsel who writes his own bots*. :-)

Welcome, Stephen!
SJ

* http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:BenchBot

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Kelly Kay <kkay at wikimedia.org> 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
>
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