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Computer & Technology Law Section MSBA COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY LAW SECTION Thanks to the efforts of our Council members and Committee
Chairs, the Computer Law Section enjoyed another active and productive
year in 2005-2006. The Computer Law Section successfully concluded its 2005-2006 business
year with the Annual Meeting on May 23, 2006, at which the election of
our new Governing Council and Officers was announced. MSBA Computer & Technology Law Section We had another busy and successful year for the Section. We held monthly Council meetings every second Tuesday of the month since September 2004. These meetings were open to the general membership. We have now concluded our year with our Annual Meeting of the membership on May 26, 2004. At that meeting, we voted on our new Governing Council and Officers and our guest speaker was Michael Jacobs who spoke on E-Discovery implications in the 21st Century. Our activities this past year included numerous CLEs, roundtable discussions, guest speakers and law school outreach visits. We were very happy to again co-sponsor the Computer Law Institute with Minnesota CLE this year. The Institute took place earlier than normal on September 9, 2004 and was well received by the attendees. We had two keynote speakers, the first was Patricia Sefcik from the Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. who spoke on the “Our Digital Future: Information Technology and Electronic Commerce’s Role in the Nation’s Economic Growth.” Our second keynote speaker was also the lunchtime speaker, Gary Smaby of Quatris Fund, Minneapolis, MN who spoke on “From Out of the Soap Scum, There’s Still Life in the Venture Capital Pool.” The format of the Computer Law Institute was modified to provide lunch and to host a lunch-time guest speaker rather than a happy hour social after the institute. Our Noon-time CLE committee generally tried to host a speaker, round-table or committee topic during the presentation phase of our monthly meetings: November - Chris Hilberg of Oppenheimer spoke on caselaw updates; January – Gary Weinstein of Faegre & Benson hosted a roundtable discussion on open source software; February – Chris Hilberg of Oppenheimer reviewed caselaw updates; March – Gary Weinstein of Faegre & Benson hosted the second roundtable on licensing models; and April - Richard Hagstrom and Michael Jacobs, Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette spoke on the Microsoft Antitrust Case for which Zelle Hofmann was lead counsel for the plaintiffs. Our Membership & Law Student Outreach Committee met with law students at Hamline (March), the University of Minnesota (November), William Mitchell (October) and St. Thomas (April). In addition, this committee conducted a survey of the section in November to assess practice areas, an assessment of current offerings and suggestions for improvements. The survey results were reported in the Winter 2004 newsletter. Our Case Law Committee was prepared with a report of current cases presented at two of the monthly meetings. The Technology Roundtable committee hosted roundtable discussions at two of the monthly meetings. The Section Bylaws amendment from the 2003-2004 year was approved by the MSBA and went into effect. The MSBA has restructured the voting body to allow for a representative from each section, Allen Oh of Moore, Hansen & Sumner agreed to be the section’s first representative for the 2005-2006 term. Katheryn A. Andresen MSBA Computer & Technology Law Section This was a busy year for the Section. We held monthly Council meetings every second Tuesday of the month since September 2003. These meetings were open to the general membership. We have now concluded our year with our Annual Meeting of the membership on May 25, 2004. At that meeting we elected our new Governing Council and Officers. Our activities this past year included numerous CLEs, roundtable discussions, guest speakers and law school outreach. We were very happy to again co-sponsor the Computer Law Institute with Minnesota CLE this year. The Institute took place October 30, 2003 and was well received by the 150 attendees. Our keynote speaker was Jeffrey Ritter of Kilpatrick & Lockhart of Washington, D.C. who spoke on the emergence of a new area of law in the technology field, “systems law”. Also, we were delighted that Vance Opperman and U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger agreed to debate the Patriot Act and its impact upon the electronic realm. We also held several Noon-time CLEs. In November Tim Krsul, of Oppenheimer, Wolff and Donnelly, spoke on the topic of “Insurance Coverage in the Age of Computers”. In March we hosted Patty Elias and Bruce McPheeters of Lawson Software to discuss the topic of “Complex Software License Negotiations Between Licensors and Licensees”. Our Contracts Committee held a roundtable discussion in May on contractual issues related to source code escrowing and release. Our Law Student Outreach Committee met with law students at Hamline, the University of Minnesota, William Mitchell and St. Thomas. Our Case Law Committee was prepared with a report of current cases in the Technology industry at every Council meeting. Also, in response to the fact that the “Internet Committee” of the MSBA disbanded, we formed a new committee to fill that void called the Technology Roundtable. This committee held monthly discussions on topics of interest in the Computer Law field which were well attended. Finally, our Section amended its Bylaws to indicate that a Council member who misses three Council meetings in a row without an excuse will lose their position on the Council. The Board of Governors approved our Amended Bylaws on December 5, 2003. Christopher J. Schulte
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