info.law @ NYU

This Wednesday, November 1st, ILISA is hosting its very first panel discussion on Careers in Technology and the Law, in Vanderbilt 206 at 6PM. It promises to be an enlightening experience for all involved, and of course food will be provided, because we take care our own (and we’re not picky about who that covers). Our most excellent speakers will be:

Carole Aciman
Ms. Aciman is a transactional intellectual property partner in Greenberg Traurig’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Department, and focuses her practice on media, technology, licensing, and outsourcing transactions. She also provides advice to businesses with global web activities on the US and international aspects of doing business online. Her media practice includes entertainment and media transactions for the television, motion picture and wireless industries, as well as transactions involving multimedia/convergence and other technologies. She is a frequent speaker, author and writer on a wide range of outsourcing, computer, electronic commerce and entertainment law topics and has taught E-Law as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Ramsey Homsany
Mr. Homsany leads Google’s New York legal team, representing Google in intellectual property licensing and other commercial transactions, including negotiating new media agreements with global advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. He also advises Google on product development, technology strategy and emerging technology issues. He currently serves on several government and industry working groups in the areas of Internet policy and new media business issues and has lectured on technology transactions practice at national conferences and leading universities. Prior to joining Google, Mr. Homsany was an attorney in the Technology Transactions Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, CA representing public and private companies.

Michael Mills
Mr. Mills, the Director of Professional Services & Systems for Davis Polk & Wardwell, has been called “the Bill Parcells of legal technology” and the “in-house equivalent of Vinton Cerf.” He is responsible for all of Davis Polk’s practice support technology, including knowledge management, practice management, client relationship management, intranet, extranet and internet services, and expert systems, as well as the firm’s libraries. While a partner at Mayer, Brown & Platt, he was founding chairman of that firm’s Technology Planning Committee and administrative partner for the New York office. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is also vice-chairman of Pro Bono Net.

Gregory Pomerantz
Mr. Pomerantz is a 2002 graduate of the Law School, where he was a fellow of the Information Law Institute and studied the legal history of Unix operating systems. He is currently an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, practicing in the area of private equity and IP transactions. He also serves as general counsel to Software in the Public Interest, a New York-based not-for-profit corporation which provides legal and administrative assistance to major free software projects including the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and PostgreSQL.

We hope you can join us for this great event, and if you have any questions about it, contact us at ilisa@ilistudents.org. See you there!