Hey 1Ls!

Fenwick & West (www.fenwick.com) and APALSA will be hosting an OCIP panel on Wed, March 30th at 12:45pm in Room 110 called “OCIP and Firms: the Myths and the Realities.” Fenwick will be providing Gregoire for lunch – please respond to the poll (below) by Wed, March 23rd to indicate that you’ll be coming.

RSVP here: http://www.doodle.com/bm4ivm86zdp99a5n

Fenwick is a great firm in the Bay Area, and it’s never too early to start making connections, especially when you can mention those at your interviews!

Thanks,
Joey Cachuela & Michelle Ma
APALSA Co-Chairs 2010-11

The Berkeley Technology Law Journal is soliciting entries for our annual student writing competition. We will accept submissions from J.D. candidates on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of law and technology, including but not limited to: intellectual property, antitrust, First Amendment, entertainment and new media, telecommunications, biotechnology, internet, and cybercrime. First prize includes $2,000, and Berkeley Law entrants also compete for the Aldo J. Test Award, carrying a $1,000 prize. The winning article will also be published in the Fall 2011 issue if it meets the Journal’s publication standards. The submission deadline is February 25, 2011.

BTLJ is one of the oldest, most respected, and most cited technology law journals in the country. The journal strives to keep judges, policymakers, practitioners, and the academic community abreast of the dynamic field of technology law.

If you need further information, please e-mail us at btljwritingcompetition@gmail.com or visit our website at www.btlj.org.

Michelle Ma & Kelly Yang
Notes & Comments Editors
Berkeley Technology Law Journal

The Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law is looking to fill an articles editor position. The position is available to 2L’s and 3L’s. For more information, contact the Editor in Chief at bjcl@law.berkeley.edu

Just in time for finals! Peer counseling is now available for all students!

Feeling overwhelmed? Frustrated? Down? Confused about what you are doing in law school? Need to talk about school, stress, friends, family, LIFE? Tired of pretending everything is fine?

Law Students for Law Students (LSLS) is a new student organization dedicated to providing support for law students through peer counseling and wellness programming. LSLS allows students to talk honestly to other students who understand what law school is like. Trained peer counselors offer free, confidential peer counseling services in an empathetic and non-judgmental manner. We don’t care if you don’t have everything together. We don’t care if you don’t even know what you are doing in law school. Come talk to us. Seriously.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, email:  lawstudentsforlawstudents@gmail.com or visit http://boalt.org/lsls/.

Law Students for Law Students (LSLS) is a new student organization dedicated to providing support for law students through peer counseling and mentoring. Applications are available now for peer counseling positions. Email lawstudentsforlawstudents@gmail.com to request an application and receive information on the group’s plans for the upcoming semester, anticipated training schedule, time commitment, and other details of participation. Applications are due Friday, March 19 at 5:00 p.m.

Law Students for Law Students (LSLS) is a new student organization dedicated to providing support for law students through peer counseling and mentoring. Peer counselors will offer free, confidential counseling services in an empathetic and non-judgmental manner. LSLS peer counselors will receive clinical training from a professional psychologist and experienced peer counselors.

LSLS allows students to talk to a peer counselor who understands what they are going through. This first-hand perspective can be especially valuable in high-stress environment like law school. Accordingly, students who have experienced their own challenges in law school will be particularly helpful and are encouraged to apply.

For more information please email: lawstudentsforlawstudents@gmail.com or attend the information session on Wednesday, March 10, at 12:45 p.m. in Room 12.

All communications will be kept confidential.

The California Law Review is accepting 3L student submissions! The deadline for our fall publishing cycle is October 1, 2009 at noon.

Please submit your pieces to CLR’s Administrator, Maro Vidal-Manou, at mvmanou@law.berkeley.edu. Include: (a) a double-spaced PDF copy of your comment, with a title and an abstract; and (b) a cover sheet with the title of your piece, your class year, and your contact information (telephone, email, address).

2Ls will become eligible to submit on March 1, 2010. For more details about submission timelines and policies, please visit http://www.californialawreview.org/Submission.aspx and click on “Student Submissions.”

Still looking for a class to add for the semester? Enroll in the Criminal Law Journal Writing Workshop with Prof. Russi. In the class, you will write an article related to criminal law that will be published in the California Annual Review, an annual update on developments in California criminal law that is published by the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. The workshop will be a great way to develop a paper to meet your writing requirement and will look great on your resume!

The 2-unit class meets Thursdays from 4:20-6:10 in room 123. The CCN is 49577. Please contact amandalopez@berkeley.edu for more information.

Please attend our first general meeting of the year on Wednesday, August 26 at 12:45 in Room 110. Lunch is on us! This meeting will allow you to hear the various ways new members can participate in BTLJ and earn masthead credit. The meeting is mandatory, but if you cannot make it, please email Nathan Kamesar at kamesar@gmail.com and we can work something out. Come be a part of Berkeley Law’s biggest student group!

We are pleased to present the second issue of Ecology Law Currents, which focuses on California’s role in the future of environmental law and policy. This issue features contributions from panelists at the California Center for Environmental Law and Policy’s April 2008 Conference.
It is available online at: http://www.boalt.org/elq/index.php

Ecology Law Currents, ELQ’s online-only publication, features short-form commentary and analysis on timely environmental law and policy issues.

The Berkeley Chinese Law Society is hosting a dinner with Professor Anthony Zaloom on Wednesday, September 10th at 5pm.

Anthony Zaloom teaches Law and Business in China. He has worked in major law firms in both China and Japan for the last thirty-five years dealing with foreign and outward bound investments, corporate transactions, and litigation. He has been a guest lecturer at Stanford University Law School and at Tokyo University Law Department.

Come join us at Shen Hua on College this Wednesday!

RSVP ASAP by emailing BerkeleyChineseLaw@gmail.com

LAW JOURNAL
WELCOME RECEPTION

Featuring Dean Christopher Edley

Monday, September 8, 2008
12:45pm—1:45pm
Hearst Field Annex (Student Journal Offices)
Meet in the Courtyard by Laub Lobby between
12:30 and 12:40 to walk over to the Annex.

All students are welcome!
Light Lunch and Refreshments will be served.

Co-hosted by
ASIAN AMERICAN LAW JOURNAL
BERKELEY JOURNAL OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LAW & POLICY
BERKELEY JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW
BERKELEY JOURNAL OF EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LAW
BERKELEY JOURNAL OF GENDER, LAW & JUSTICE
BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
BERKELEY JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EASTERN & ISLAMIC LAW
BERKELEY LA RAZA LAW JOURNAL
CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW
ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY

Please join EECALSA for its first meeting of the year. All students are welcome. We will discuss the future of the organization, potential leadership positions and activities, and the available means to fund the organization. This is a young student group with a lot of potential for growth. Mediterranean lunch will be served.

What: Berkeley Technology Law Journal General Meeting
When: Monday, September 8th at 12:45pm
Where: Room 110

Attention BTLJers! Come on out to the next General Meeting this coming Monday! We will be discussing team assignments and the BTLJ Fall Calendar, as well as giving a brief source collection workshop. All members should attend!

It is not too late to join to BTLJ! If you are interested in checking out the journal but missed the first meeting, feel free to drop by the General Meeting!

Lunch will be served!

Hello Boalt Students,

For those organizations that could not make it to the BHSA funding meeting today I will be holding another brief meeting this Friday (9/5/2008) during lunch. The room is still TBD, but the meeting will be at 12:45 on Friday. This meeting is mandatory for all groups applying for funding for the 2008-2009 school year. All student organizations will need to send one representative from their organization that will serve as the primary contact for all BHSA funding purposes. Applications will only be made available via email to the designated representative who attends this meeting.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, BHSA Treasurer, Steve Valenzuela (at svalenzuela@berkeley.edu) if you have any questions.