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Message from the Programs Chair (Jon Rubens) - Sep 16
Hello cyberspace committee members:
We are quickly approaching the deadline for submission of program proposals for the Business Law Section's Spring, 2010 meeting in Denver, April 22-25, 2010. The Cyberspace Committee will be allotted 2 program slots at the Denver Spring meeting. The Section also will consider and approve proposals for up to 14 undesignated programming slots. We are encouraged to submit proposals for these additional slots along with other committees as co-sponsors.
As the programs chair for the committee, I am soliciting and will be submitting proposals on the committee's behalf. Proposals need not come solely from committee leaders; any member of the committee is free to make a proposal. Once we have all of your proposals in hand, I will be working with Chair Fleming and Vice Chairs Lifshitz and Kunz to select among them in mid October. Soon thereafter, we'll let you know the final slate, and you can begin your planning. You do not necessarily need to have a full slate of speakers set before making your proposal, although you should have some sense that you can pull together a panel if you get the slot.
Please respond by, Friday, September 25, with proposals for Spring Meeting programs. Proposals may be in the text of an email message to jon.rubens@bullivant.com and should include:
1. Proposed program title;
2. Short description of the program topic;
3. Program Chair name and contact info;
4. Program Materials Coordinator (preferably not the same person as Program Chair) name and contact info;
5. Preferred time slot;
6. Potential co-sponsoring committee and a contact person with that committee;
7. Your comment on why this would be of interest to our audience in Denver;
8. List of potential speakers;
9. List of any potential speakers who may seek to have the Section waive meeting registration (government lawyers and judges only) and who may seek meeting expense reimbursement (government lawyers, judges, and limited other);
10. Any additional comment.
Keep in mind the following points while you prepare proposals:
- The Section seeks descriptive titles and topics; general titles such as 'hot topics in ___' are discouraged and may lead the program review committee not to consider our proposal fully.
- The Section requires diversity on all program panels.
- Co-Sponsored programs are favored.
- Each program must have a Program Chair and should also try to designate a separate Program Materials Coordinator. These are good opportunities for younger or newer members of the committee to participate in the programming process.
- Programs must have original materials. This does NOT include publicly available cases, statutes or regulations, previously published articles, pamphlets or books, or materials from websites.
- Programs should be interactive discussions. Programs should not consist of a series of presenters giving solo 10-15 minute talks, one after the other. Instead, we seek programs that involve a group of panelists discussing topics in an interactive format, keeping the audience engaged, and inviting questions throughout or at discrete points through the program, not squeezed into time remaining at the end;
- The Cyberspace Committee's two allocated slot programs will be scheduled at some time on Friday April 23, or Saturday April 24, but exact program time slots have not been fixed yet.
I have already spoken with a few committee members about possible programs. Please don't assume I or someone else will be submitting proposals for those programs! I still need a proposal from you.
Remember, we always encourage topical discussions, presentations, and speakers at subcommittee, task force and working group meetings. These presentations will continue to be announced in the Section's meeting materials, even though they do not afford CLE credits. Today, we are only looking for proposals on full-fledged 'Programs'.
Jon Rubens (jon.rubens@bullivant.com)
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