Adjunct Faculty Matthew Prince Profiled in The Trinity Reporter

Matthew Prince, a member of our adjunct faculty at the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law! Aptly described as "When a Renaissance man meets the Internet," Matthew is profiled in the Fall issue of The Trinity Reporter, the alumni magazine for Trinity College.

To view the full profile, visit http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/pubrel/reporter/20101/prince.htm

Advisory Board member and alumnus John Bace quoted in recent e-discovery article

EDD Providers Adapt to a Down Economy

By Jason Krause
Special to Law.com
October 12, 2009

There's an unusual dichotomy in the e-discovery industry right now. Industry observers see scores of e-discovery companies that have folded or disappeared as part of an industry shakeout, but at the same time there is agreement that there is still a growing opportunity to be had despite a slow economy.
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In addition to controlling technology decisions to their benefit, lawyers are learning the art of project management. "There are two things they don't teach in law school; project management and collaboration," says John Bace, research vice president of Gartner. "I talk to clients who stick with vendors who are technically inept so long as they're great project managers. The only way to control costs is to manage all phases of discovery."

Professor Mark Wojcik Nominated as Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research

Congratulations to Professor Wojcik, who was recently nominated by the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research for the 2010 Section office of Chair-elect.

"Mark E. Wojcik (The John Marshall Law School--Chicago) is the nominee for Chair-elect. He is currently serving as Section Secretary. Mark has been in legal academia since 1992 and has wide experience across AALS Sections, legal writing organizations, and ABA sections. His collaboration with people from many sectors of legal education well-positions him to assist incoming Chair Martha Pagliari in managing the business of the Section..."

The full article is available here: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/2009/10/aals-section-nominees.html

Adjunct Faculty Patrick Zeller Featured in the Chicago Law Bulletin

Congrats to Patrick Zeller, a member of our adjunct faculty here at the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law! Patrick is featured in the Oct. 2 issue of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

To view the full story, “How a lawyer became ‘the computer guy’,” visit http://www.jmls.edu/news/9010%20LB%20reprint%20Zeller.pdf

CITPL Alumna in the News!

One of our MS Alumna, Gwynne Monahan, is featured in the "Sidebar: Connecting for Job Help" segment of the ABA Journal August 2009 article, "Where the Work Is: Lawyers recommend these practice areas in recessionary times."

Gwynne Monahan is not a lawyer, but she knows what it’s like to lose a job. So the Twitter thread she spotted in May about lawyer layoffs caught her attention. “Wondering why laid-off attorneys don’t band together and start a new law firm,” a lawyer tweeted....

To view the full article, visit http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/where_the_work_is/

Congrats, Gwynne!

Computers and the Law (IT 803) field trips!

Computers and the Law (IT-803) aims to familiarize students with technology in order to help them appreciate how it has shaped the law and how the law has shaped it.

This year students in the class disassembled hard drives and examined microprocessors in order to familiarize themselves with the inner workings of computers before discussing topics like whether copyright should be treated differently in a digital world.


To see the application of computers and the law outside of the classroom, students ventured on a number of off-site field trips. For instance, XO Communication lead a private tour of one of their downtown data centers, which handles network traffic for the Chicago Board of Trade, and officials talked about how they manage security and prevent fraud.

The founders of Threadless, one of the hottest startups in the Chicago area, invited students to visit their headquarters and discuss how computers help them facilitate vibrant creative communities with participants around the world but how they also create business risks in terms of managing intellectual property.

JCIL Notes

Congratulations to our recent JCIL award winners!


This year, the Journal editorial board voted to award the prestigious Trubow Writing Award (named after Professor Emeritus George B. Trubow, founder of the Journal) to Sarah Knight for her case note addressing United States v. Andrus, and to Katherine Rengel for her article, “The Americans with Disabilities Act and Internet Accessibility for the Blind.”

Also honored were Sarah Knight and Robin Ficke who received the McGovern Award, recognizing special service to the Journal.

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The John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law remains one of the top ranked specialized law journals in the world. Read in more than 35 countries, this flagship publication of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy law, published four issues this year containing articles on subjects ranging from online music licensing and collective rights organizations, open-source programming, to Internet accessibility for the blind, accessing Holocaust records, identity theft, and privacy of nutrition labels. In addition, the Journal’s symposium issue, “Information Convergence: At the Boundaries of Access,” included 10 articles addressing how information law and policies affect all other areas of law, practice and life.

The Journal was cited by the Supreme Court of the United States in its landmark decision, Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc.

The article, The Future of Licensing Music Online: The Role of Collective Rights Organizations and the Effects of Territoriality, published earlier this year, was chosen as one of the best bar journal and law review articles published within the last year in the fields of entertainment, publishing and the arts. As such, it has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of the ENTERTAINMENT, PUBLISHING AND THE ARTS HANDBOOK, published annually by Thomson Reuters (West).