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Upcoming events and digital media // October 20, 2010

[TUESDAY 10/26] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Legal Issues for Startups" with John Chory and Susan Mazur, Partners at WilmerHale Venture Group (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/chorymazur)

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[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on LEGAL ISSUES FOR STARTUPS
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10/26/10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: "Legal Issues for Startups"
Guests: John Chory and Susan Mazur, Partners at WilmerHale Venture Group

John Chory and Susan Mazur will discuss issues affecting startup companies. In their  experience, Founders of companies often have early  sins of omission or commission which decrease the probability of ultimate success.  They will discuss some of the more common mistakes, many of which are not at all obvious.

About John

John Chory is the chair of the WilmerHale Venture Group and a member of the Corporate Practice Group. He joined the firm in 1988. His practice focuses on the representation of early-stage and venture-backed technology and life sciences companies.

Mr. Chory advises both private and public companies in the areas of initial- through late‑stage venture capital financings, public offerings of securities, mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing and securities law. His current clients include A123 Systems, LogMeIn, Akorri, Camiant, Connective Orthopaedics, Demandware, Empirix, On-Q-Ity, Optiant, Polychromix, Semprus BioSciences, Vlingo, Zintro and Zipcar. Other clients have included Akamai, AppIQ, Archivas, EqualLogic, GoldPocket, Imagitas, ImLogic, Oxford Global Resources, Relicore and SilverStream Software. Mr. Chory also advises many entrepreneurs in early-stage company formation and strategy.

Prior to attending Harvard Law School, Mr. Chory, a West Point graduate, was a US Army intelligence officer. While at Harvard, he taught negotiation as a teaching assistant to Roger Fisher of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Mr. Chory served in the US Army Reserves until 1998.

About Susan

Susan Mazur is a partner in the WilmerHale Venture Group and the Corporate Practice Group. She joined the firm in 1999.

Ms. Mazur represents technology and life sciences companies and advises companies and entrepreneurs in the areas of formation and governance issues, equity and compensation, early and late-stage venture capital financings, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Her clients include A123 Systems, Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Empirix, LogMeIn and Vlingo Corporation. Other clients have included Adnexus Therapeutics, Archivas, EqualLogic, Glycofi, and Virtual Iron Software.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/chorymazur


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10/18-24: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/welcome-to-open-access-week)

10/20: Humanities in the Digital Age // MIT Communications Forum (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/humanities_digital_age.html)

10/20: The Internet: Its Past and Possible Futures // Simmons College (http://isocne.eventbrite.com/)

10/21: Free Screening of "Life 2.0" with Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain // Harvard Law School (http://bit.ly/9AH036)

10/21: Good Faith Collaboration at Wikipedia // opensource.com webcast featuring Berkman Fellow Joseph Reagle (https://inquiries.redhat.com/go/redhat/osdc-webinar-october)

10/22: Open Access Week Event: Implementing the Durham Statement: Best Practices for Open Access Law Journals // Duke Law School + Webcast (http://www.law.duke.edu/libtech/openaccess/conference2010) and Closing Session at Harvard Law School featuring Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey and Berkman Fellow Peter Suber

10/22: Emerging Threats to Online Trust: The Role of Public Policy and Browser Certificates // Princeton CITP and New America Foundation (http://citp.princeton.edu/events/emerging-threats-to-online-trust/)

10/26: SM& Presents Crisis in the Age of Social Media // Solomon McCown (http://www.solomonmccown.com/solomonmccown_crisissocialmedia.pdf)

10/27: "From Free Software and Wikipedia to a Field of Cooperative Human Systems Design" featuring Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Yochai Benkler // University of Wisconsin (http://www.ocr.wisc.edu/calendar/?ID=32414)

10/27: "What Does it Mean to Be Connected in the 21st Century?" A talk with artist, filmmaker, and founder of the Webby Awards, Tiffany Shlain // IBM Research Center for Social Software, Cambridge (http://c4sstiffanyshlain.eventbrite.com/)

10/28: "Freedom and Power in the Networked Information Environment" featuring Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Yochai Benkler // University of Wisconsin (http://www.ocr.wisc.edu/calendar/?ID=32418)

10/28-31: Free/Libre Culture Forum // Barcelona, Spain (http://2010.fcforum.net/)

10/29: "Why Books" Conference featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Directors John Palfrey and Stuart Shieber // Radcliffe (http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/whybooks_conference.aspx)

10/29: Privacy and Innovation Symposium // Yale Law School (http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/Privacy%20Symposium.htm)

11/3-5: Mozilla Drumbeat Festival // Barcelona, Spain (http://www.drumbeat.org/festival)

11/5: "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires" book talk with Tim Wu // Harvard Book Store (http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2656)

11/30: One Day Conference - Big Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus // Princeton CITP (http://citp.princeton.edu/events/big-data/)


DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive.

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