Events

Event Archive

• 2022-2023

  Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | 1:00 -2:00 PM | 220 Dockser Hall
  Expand Your Horizons: An Introduction to Careers in New Legal Markets

  The Office of New Markets and the Center for Co-op and Career Development invite you to an interactive discussion about career paths in new legal markets with guest speakers:

  Veronica Alix ’21
  Compensation and Governance Consultant, ISS Corporate Solutions, Boston MA
  Focus: ESG/corporate governance

  Dana Antenucci ’14
  Principal, FS Vector
  Focus: fintech and compliance

  Christie Dougherty ’20
  Senior Manager, Privacy & Ethics, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Mass. 
  Focus: privacy, ethics and compliance

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  May 16- 17, 2023
  Inaugural Virtual Privacy Law Job Fair
  Northeastern University School of Law and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) are pleased to host the first-of-its-kind privacy law job fair designed to showcase and match law students with a driving passion for data privacy law with law firms looking for talent for the following roles.

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• 2021-2022

  October 6, 2022 |  5:00 - 6:00 PM (Virtual)
  Microsoft Agile Diversity Mentoring Program

  The Office of New Markets, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Law School Consortium (MLSC), is pleased to invite you to the 2022 Microsoft Agile Diversity Mentoring Program panel event. The program will consist of a one-hour panel presentation. Small group mentoring sessions will be scheduled separately. Microsoft panelists will share their career journeys and offer guidance on effective networking. This program is designed to help students build relationships with corporate attorneys serving in different roles and functional areas and foster a diverse pipeline of law student talent for careers in technology law.

  Featured Microsoft panelists:

  • Pablo Tapia, Patent Law, Product Counseling and International Law
  • Mariama Swedish , Government Contracting
  • Diane D’Arcangelo , Antitrust, Product, Cloud and AI experience + Leadership in Technology Law
  • Hasan Ali , Quantum Computing, which has a nexus with Sustainability
  • Ty Kayam , Digital Health, Product Counseling, Cloud & AI
  • Caitlin Pratt, Biz Apps and Industry Commercial Marketing, Marketing & Consumer Business Group

  October 13, 2021 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET  | ZOOM
  The Power of Your JD In An Interdisciplinary and Innovative World Lunch & Learn Series
  Featuring
  Sanford Lewis
  Founder and Director, Shareholders Rights Group and Northeast Sustainable Cannabis Project
  Focus> Integrating Social Activism, Filmmaking, Cannabis and ESG

  

  Sanford Lewis is a social activist and lawyer who focuses on ESG and shareholder activism on environment and human rights, including issues of climate change and stakeholder impacts such as racial and gender equity. He is the founder and director of The Northeast Sustainable Cannabis Project, which advocates on behalf of outdoor license cannabis cultivators in the Northeast. His work as a documentary filmmaker includes the short films: “Twenty Years Without Justice: The Bhopal Chemical Disaster,” “Burning Issues in Medical Waste,” “The Truth About Cats, Dogs and Lawn Chemicals” and “Contaminated Without Consent.” Lewis has a BS in environmental studies and urban communications from Cook College, Rutgers University, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School

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  March 1, 2, and 3, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM (EST)(via Zoom)
  NALP JD Advantage Career Week
  

  The National Association for Law Placement’s JD Advantage Workgroup will be host its first annual JD Advantage Career Week in March 2022.  Three dynamic panels will highlight JD Advantage career opportunities for students and graduates in Business and Financial Services; Technology, Innovation, IP and Privacy; and Government and Regulatory Affairs. The program is ideal for students, graduates, career advisers and law faculty looking to learn more about careers for JDs in these fields. Registration links for each session can be found here:

  March 1, 5-6:30pm EST: Business & Financial Services

  March 2, 5-6:30pm EST: Technology, Innovation, IP & Privacy

  March 3, 5-6:30pm EST: Government & Regulatory Affairs

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  Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 1:00-2:PM (ET) | Hybrid Event 
  The Power of Your JD In An Interdisciplinary and Innovative World Lunch & Learn Series
  Featuring
  Amara Azubuike
  Director of Behavioral Health Policy and Advocacy, Boston Children’s Hospital

  Amara Azubuike is the director of behavioral health policy and advocacy at Boston Children’s Hospital where she is responsible for advancing the hospital’s behavioral health policy agenda at the local, state and national level to expand access to quality behavioral health care for all children. She works in close consultation with the Department of Psychiatry and also provides strategic direction and leadership to further the policy goals of the Children’s Mental Health Campaign. Before joining the government relations team, Azubuike worked in the Office of General Counsel at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she implemented and staffed the hospital’s first Medical-Legal Partnership program. Azubuike also served as an assistant attorney general at the Massachusetts Office of Attorney General Maura Healey and as a judicial law clerk for the Delaware Family Court. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the George Washington University Law School.

  Presented by Northeastern Law’s Office of New Markets and Center for Health, Policy and Law.
  >> Download the flyer

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  Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 1:00-2:PM (ET) | Hybrid Event
  Privacy , Data Management and Cybersecurity…Career Paths and Vantage Points
  Featuring:
  Alissamariah Gutierrez ’21
  Associate, Digital Assets, Data Management and Cybersecurity Practice Group, Baker Hostetler, Atlanta

  Alissa Gutierrez is an associate in the Atlanta office of BakerHostetler, where she is a member of the firm’s digital assets and data management team. She leverages a client-facing approach to the sensitive time nature of security incidents and advises clients on compliance with various data breach notification laws.

  Gutierrez held externships at various government agencies including the Federal Trade Commission, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. During law school, she was a research assistant for Professor Woodrow Hartzog, a leading privacy scholar, and co-chair of the Intellectual Property Society. Gutierrez also served on the diversity and inclusion committee of the Northeastern University Law Review and maintains a strong commitment to diversity in the legal field.

  Louis Perez
  Privacy Program Manager and Counsel, Kayak/ OpenTable, Boston

  Louis Perez is privacy program manager and counsel for KAYAK and OpenTable. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of KAYAK and OpenTable’s global privacy program. Perez serves as a subject matter expert in privacy laws, regulations and trends affecting global privacy and data use practice. His responsibilities include drafting, negotiating and reviewing privacy and data protection terms including data protection agreements pursuant to Article 28 of the GDPR. He also supports and advises KAYAK and OpenTable’s businesses cross-functionally, from reviewing marketing, sales, and product/engineering initiatives to assisting human resources and the dining and travel customer support teams on privacy matters.

  Before joining KAYAK and OpenTable, Perez was the associate privacy officer for Fresenius Medical Care North America. His responsibilities included writing and implementing privacy policies, conducting privacy investigationsand providing privacy trainings. He also served as the business privacy officer for four of Fresenius’s businesses: Frenova Renal Research, Spectra Laboratories, Fresenius RX and Renal Research Institute.

  Louis graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 2017 with a Health and Biomedical Law Concentration with Distinction. Louis enjoys mentoring law students and attorneys interested in pursuing a career in privacy law.

   

• 2020-2021

  Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | 12:10 - 1:00 PM
  Lunch and Learn Speaker Event Featuring:
  Michael Kasdan, Partner, Wiggin and Dana
  David Morris, Vice President and Associate General Counsel for TripAdvisor Inc.

  New Markets hosted an interactive and informal discussion about the evolving dynamics between in-house and outside counsel in the digital economy where agility, entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit, and technological and business competence are highly valued.

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  Wednesday, October 14, 2020 
  Lunch and Learn Speaker Event Featuring
  Daniel Wu, Privacy Counsel and Legal Engineer, Immuta

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  Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:40 PM
  Microsoft Agile Diversity Mentoring Program
  The Office of New Markets and the Centers for Co-op and Career Development and Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) are pleased to invite you to a kickoff event for the Microsoft Agile Diversity Mentoring Program. The program will consist of a one-hour panel presentation followed by a half hour of smaller mentoring sessions. Microsoft panelists will share their career journeys and offer guidance on effective networking. This program is designed to help students build relationships with corporate attorneys serving in different roles and functional areas and foster a diverse pipeline of law student talent for careers in technology law. Advance registration via Symplicity Events is required.

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  Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM
  Privacy and Big Tech: An Inside View
  Lunch and Learn Speaker Event Featuring:
  Fatima Jafri ’13, Lead Product and Privacy Counsel, Facebook.
  This will be an interactive and informal discussion about working as a lawyer in the technology industry sector with a focus on privacy and product development.

   

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  Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 12:10 - 1:10 PM
  ESG, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability - A Bridge Between Public Interest and the Private Sector
  Lunch and Learn Speaker Event Featuring:
  Chris Fletcher ’11, Business and Human Rights Specialist, Wells Fargo
  Marion Werkheiser, Founding Partner & Attorney at Law, Cultural Heritage Partners

  Please join us for The Power of Your JD In An Interdisciplinary and Innovative World Lunch & Learn Series with our upcoming guest speakers, Marion Werkheiser, managing member with Cultural Heritage Partners and Chris Fletcher ’11, human rights specialist with Wells Fargo. Werkheiser works with investors, financial institutions, and companies on ESG and corporate governance matters to reduce the impact of infrastructure projects on indigenous people and cultural heritage worldwide. As part of the Environmental and Social Impact Management team, Fletcher works to identify, assess and mitigate human rights risks in the context of corporate lending and financing.

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  Wednesday, April 7, 2021
  Spring 2021 Microsoft Agile Diversity Mentoring Program.
  The program consisted of a one-hour presentation by Microsoft panelists who shared their career journeys and offer guidance on effective networking. Small mentoring group sessions were formed and scheduled after the presentation. This program was designed to help students build relationships with corporate attorneys serving in different roles and functional areas and foster a diverse pipeline of law student talent for careers in technology law.

  Featured Microsoft panelists:
  • Christi Davisson, Senior Attorney -Education, Mobile Experiences and Gaming
  • Pooja Faldu, Corporate Counsel - Regional Operating Centers
  • Steven Fricke, Senior Attorney - Commercial Services (including Intellectual Property and Digital Transformation Transactions)
  • Ty Kayam ’17, Attorney - Healthcare and Technology Transactions
  • Mariama Swedish, Assistant General Counsel - Government Compliance

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  Friday, June 11, 2021
  Legal and Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence 2021
  Northeastern University's School of Law and Roux Institute is pleased to partner with the Center for Law + Innovation at the University of Maine School of Law to host a virtual conference a virtual conference that will bring together leading attorneys, data scientists, business executives and academics from the US and EU to discuss law, policy, ethics and careers. Registration is open to all (lawyers and non-lawyers).

  The one day virtual conference is part of Maine Law’s 2021 Information Privacy Summer Institute. Northeastern Law Professor Woodrow Hartzog will serve as a panel chair for the Privacy and Policy Responses to AI session.
  >> View the agenda

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  Monday, June 14, 2021 | 12:45-1:45 PM ET (via Zoom)
  The Big Wide World of Compliance in Financial Services - An Inside View
  Please join us for The Power of Your JD In An Interdisciplinary and Innovative World Lunch & Learn Series with our upcoming guest speaker Amy Morancie ’18, compliance associate for Wells Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina. This is Morancie’s third year with Wells Fargo’s Corporate and Investment Banking Firm. Since the beginning of her law school journey, she searched for alternative ways to utilize a JD outside of a courtroom. Her passion for compliance began with her work as a compliance intern for the Athletics Department at Northeastern University. Morancie obtained her bachelor’s degree in history and political science from the University of South Florida.