UMass Law Review symposium to feature discussion on law, media

Mar 19, 2019

The UMass Law Review’s annual Law Review Symposium will feature several panels with leading political and legal experts on the intersection of law and media.

The set of there panels will be held on March 28 at the law school campus, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The keynote will be delivered by Richard P. Flaggert, Partner at DLA Piper at 1:35 p.m.

The first panel, titled  Communication Platforms: Media Engagement in Politics & Government, begins at 9:30 a.m.

The panel will feature Representative Christopher M. Markey, Jillian E. Fennimore, Director of Communications, Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Peter N. Ubertaccio, Dean of the Tom & Donna May School of Arts & Sciences, Stonehill College, and Dee H. DeQuattro, Esq., Director of Development and Legal Services, Operation Stand Down Rhode Island.

The second panel, Virtual Platforms: Cyber Law Concerns in the Digital Age, begins at 11 a.m.

The panel will feature Andrew Beckerman-Rodau, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration, Suffolk University Law School, Hollie B. Lussier, Esq., Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer and General Counsel, Bristol County Savings Bank, and Representative Stephen R. Ucci, Rhode Island House of Representatives.

The third panel of the day begins at 12:30 p.m. and is titled Entertainment Platforms: Creativity in an Evolving Regulatory Environment.

The panel will feature Richard Kent Berger, Esq., Professor, UMass Lowell; Attorney, Berkent, PC, Bryan L. Adamson, Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law, and Richard E. Kühn III, Professor, Roger Williams University.

To register to attend the panels, visit www.surveymonkey.com/r/SDBZLCP