Nov 10 Tue
2020

TLS Speaker Series with Erika Brown Lee

05:00PM - 05:45PM Washington College of Law

TLS Speaker Series with guest speaker Erika Brown Lee (Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Mastercard) and host Alex Joel (TLS Scholar-in-Residence). This series will explore what it is like, as a lawyer, to deal with privacy and technology issues in government versus the private sector.

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  • Lecture
  • Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Nov 10 Tue
2020

Information Session with Hogan Lovells

05:00PM - 06:00PM Online via Zoom

Information Session with Hogan Lovells

November 10th at 5:00 pm

This information session will be a roundtable discussion during which members from Hogan Lovells will introduce themselves, their careers, and provide any tips or advice for WCL students who might be interested in their firm. The program will be recorded and approximately one-hour in duration: 35-40 minutes of roundtable discussion, followed by a Q&A period.

Register on CareerLink. The Zoom link will be distributed the week of the event.


  • Information Session
  • Open To Students
Nov 10 Tue
2020

Day 2: SELS & BLSA Fall Speaker Series - WCL to Netflix: An Alumni's Career Path in Entertainment

06:00PM - 07:00PM

SELS and BLSA are excited to host Kaine Hampton, Counsel for Original Series at Netflix, alumnus, and former BLSA President, for a virtual event to speak to students about his journey from WCL to Netflix. Since leaving WCL, Kaine has worked for BET as a Music & Media Licensing Rights Associate and for Viacom as a Production Counsel in the Music & Entertainment Group. Coupled with his experiences prior to WCL, Kaine can speak to his own experience and aid students who wish to enter the Business and Legal Affairs side of the entertainment industry.

  • Conference
  • Open To The Public, Students, Faculty/Staff AND
Nov 11 Wed
2020

International Suite Talk Series featuring Thomas Morante, Senior Counsel, Carlton Fields

12:00PM - 01:00PM Online via Zoom

Tom Morante is Senior Counsel at Carlton Fields, For more than 30 years, he has counseled clients in U.S. and foreign insurance regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters. Tom’s clients rely on him to help them navigate an increasingly complex global regulatory and technology-driven environment. Tom advises insurance and reinsurance companies; captive insurers; insurance agents, brokers, and wholesalers; financial institutions; and investment funds and fund managers. His clients include businesses operating in the United States and abroad.


Tom handles matters involving life and annuities, health, property and casualty and business interruption coverage, extended warranty, representations and warranties, commercial general liability, title, data privacy and cyber risk, directors and officers, surplus lines, parametric, crop, credit, and political risk insurance. In addition, companies in numerous industries have sought Tom’s counsel on complex U.S. and foreign regulatory and transactional matters.


Collaborating with foreign law firms around the world, Tom also handles regulatory compliance, transactional, and enforcement matters abroad. He is fluent in Spanish and has studied in Colombia, Mexico, and Spain. Insurance clients regularly ask Tom to assist in the development of offshore life insurance, annuities, and investment products in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and other jurisdictions. He provides counsel on the foreign laws implicated in the distribution and cross-border sale of insurance products, with an emphasis on Latin America and Asia.


Tom’s representative insurance matters include domestic and foreign insurance company formation and authorization, mergers and acquisitions and sale of policy portfolios, captive insurance company formation, and policy contract drafting and coverage analysis. In addition, he handles insurance agent, agency, managing general agent, and third-party administrator licensing; advising on sales practices such as digital marketing, insurtech transactions, fronting and reinsurance transactions, structuring offshore private placement life insurance (PPLI) and private placement variable annuities (PPVA); structuring insurance dedicated funds; and cybersecurity and data privacy compliance.


Tom also advises insurance clients with respect to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations, the USA Patriot Act and foreign country anti-money laundering laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and foreign anti-corruption legislation. Further, Tom counsels clients on the financial services chapter of the USMCA, which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).


Tom leads Carlton Fields’ International Insurance Regulatory Team. He also chairs the ABA Business Law Section’s International Coordinating Committee and serves on the Editorial Board of the ABA Business Law Section’s “The Business Lawyer”, and on the board of advisors of Inter-American Dialogue’s Financial Services Advisor publication.

  • Seminar
  • Open To Alumni AND Students
Nov 11 Wed
2020

OAE 1L Lab: Preparing for Success -- IRAC & Exam Writing

12:00PM - 01:00PM Online via Zoom

This is the second workshop in a series of three designed to help prepare 1L students for success on their final exams.  This workshop will focus on exam writing skills. 

  • Workshop
  • Open To Students