SBA
Monday-Friday lunch
Holiday party tickets will be on sale all week. Tickets are $20.
HOLIDAY PARTY THIS SATURDAY 11/21.
Sports Law Society
Tuesday, November 17, 12:10 Moot Court
“The Role of Arbitration, Collective Bargaining and Judicial Review in DeflateGate” Panelists are Trevor Savage, Paul Greene (a sports lawyer at Global Sports Advocates), Linda McGill (an employment lawyer at Bernstein), Mike Ryan (an arbitrator and mediator), and James Spizuoco. Professor Diane Kenty will moderate the discussion and the Maine Sports Law Society is sponsoring the whole event. There will be pizza.
Energy and Environmental Law Society
Tuesday, November 17, Room 118, 12:10-1:10
Brown Bag lunch with Katherine Joyce, Esq., Bernstein Shur Katherine Joyce is chair of the Energy and Environmental Practice Group at Bernstein Shur. She focuses her practice in environmental permitting and compliance, particularly as it pertains to power generation facilities, large-scale commercial development, real estate remediation, solid waste, water, and air pollution issues, including existing and developing regulation of GHGs. Kat represents clients in various matters involving federal and state agencies, including the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
Transactional Law Society
Wednesday November 18,12:10 Middle Classroom
Demo of Lexis Practice Advisor with Steve Albro from LexisNexis. Practice Advisor offers annotated forms, secondary sources, cases and legislation tailored to a variety of transactional practice areas. These areas include Business Law, IP, Real Estate and M&A. Lunch will be provided, courtesy of Lexis. For more info, contact tobias.franklin@maine.
MASEL
Thursday, November 19,12:10, Room tbd
MASEL and SBA will be sponsoring a team to compete in the 2016 UVA Annual Law School Softball Tournament in Charlottesville, Virginia. The tournament will be held the first weekend of April, 2016. This tournament is a great opportunity to network with law students from over 100 other law schools and get our school some national recognition! If you have interest in playing in that tournament, or just helping fundraise to get us there, please join MASEL. This is a co-ed tournament and softball experience is not required. The team will be limited to a maximum of 15 participants.
Women’s Law Association
Thursday November 19, 5:30-8:30,First Floor
2015 Outstanding Alumna Award Event Honoring Aria Eee. Please RSVP by November 5th.
Parents-In-Law
Ongoing collection of information
Parents In Law is compiling a list of resources for new and prospective students who are parents. We would love your contributions to this list, which will be finished by the beginning of the spring semester. Please send your ideas for local childcare, kid-friendly recreation, family restaurants, support groups- anything you can think of that might help student parents new to the Greater Portland area. The contact email for this project is meredith.harrell@maine.edu
#tbt MLA
Thursday, December 3rd at 5:30pm
Join alumni and students for the first Throwback Thursday MLA. The Maine Law Alumni Association and MLA are partnering for this joint event. The location is tentatively scheduled for Salvage BBQ.
