Tom Rubin comes to the Berkman Center and Practical Lawyering class

The chief copyright, trademark and trade secret lawyer for Microsoft, Tom Rubin, has been a consistent contributor to our teaching program at the Berkman Center for the past three years. He’s been enormously generous with his time, meeting with Berkman-related students, faculty and fellows over several years. We’ve learned a great deal from Tom and … Read more

A few new firsts at the Berkman Center

Charlie Nesson and his daughter Rebecca Nesson are hosting the Tuesday lunchtime session at the Berkman Center today. – One first is that this is the first video webcast lunch event. We’ve regularly webcast these lunches audio-only. This week, with the help of Indigo Tabor, we are offering a live feed with video as well … Read more

Charles Ogletree & the Tulsa Race Riots litigation

Charles Ogletree, Johnnie Cochran and other leading litigators are in the midst of a campaign to get reparations payments going.  It will be interesting to see how juries or other decision makers will quantify any harms they may hold to have occurred (seems like there’s little debate that the bad things happened; just questions of how … Read more