Law clerk and its wonderful to be a unlikely but you also havo immediately start looking for your next job, which i was. I had a background in finance and i have cpas i thought i would be a perfect commercial litigator, or so i thought. I was anything with the chicago law firms, the large ones. To date myself for the Company Largest law from vince had about 230 partners in them for the chicago area, to show you how things changed. But i need litigation experience, i thought, and so i apply for the attorney generals honors program, and lo and behold they wanted a four year commitment. Well, when you are 27 years old, four years seems like a lifetime and i very much run my hands over that decision if i wanted to give four years of my life to Public Service. So here i am approximately 36 years later. But i guess what i want to say is that its gone by very quickly. Ive enjoyed it immensely and would not have traded it for any other opportunities in the world, professionally, showing you ho
Thank you for the kind introduction. It is wonderful to see some many friends here. Some i have not seen in a year or two it seems. Backgroundre on my than what harvey said and i want lawecall it for the students are younger attorneys here because it is kind of integral to my life in Public Service. In 1982, i am sure we have people that were not born that, i was a law clerk. It is wonderful to be a law clerk but you also have to immediately start looking for your next job which i was. And i had a background in finance and i am a cpa so i thought i would be a perfect commercial litigator. Or so i thought. I was interviewing with the chicago law firms. Myself further, the largest law firms had about 230 partners in the chicago area to show you how things have changed. But i needed litigation experience i thought and so i applied for the attorney generals honors program. Behold, they want a four year commitment. When you are 27 years old, four years seems like a lifetime. And i very much
Road map begins with the curse of the unicorn uber under pressure again. We have that softbank disaster after the funds wework debacle. Masa son saying his investment judgment was poor. Hp rallying ahead of the bell, the target of a potential takeover effort by xerox well start with uber. Shares facing more pressure after hitting an all time low yesterday. Company reports another billion dollars in losses as you know and the post ipo lockup period is expiring, freeing up a billion shares for trade the take among some is the shares are so underwater, maybe the expire doesnt mean as much. I dont buy that reasoning. I think that what matters on the conference call, they committed to losing money. Now they committed to making money in 2021. The patience level is lost here. I think this is one of those stocks where you say why do i need this, i can buy i can name ten other stocks and the kinds of stocks that are going up are value stocks, this is the ultimate of what youre not supposed to b
Thank you. Were proud of our partnership with the First Amendment institute at columbia. Both of us started in the Knight Foundation and now have other supporters, as well. I want to pick up with the notion of the marketplace of ideas. I think that is what a lot of people think the internet was going to be, some people of believe it really is. Kara do you believe socialmedia is performing effectively as the market place of ideas . Kara no, i dont, all i read about is how it doesnt. It is a cesspool. Sanford i sort of knew what your answer would he. Kara it is not completely a cesspool, it is just the way it has evolved has created dust she brought up the idea of the Public Square present everybody thinks that twitter is a Public Square, or facebook is a Public Square, or reddit, or any of these sites. The fact of the matter is that both of them are Public Squares owned and to the benefit of millionaires. So it is not a Public Squares. We have deemed them the rights of a Public Square b
Im lucky to be one of the 13 members of the annual Meeting Program committee. We are pleased to have a panel with us today. The committee itself is from around the country, practicing areas from construction, commercial, business, criminal law and our charge is to put together a small selection of the best cuttingedge programs every year. In the fall of 2018 we started with 50 submissions, looked for those that would be the most special, the most exceptional and we were lucky to have a proposal from the science and Technology Section and our moderator, heather rafter, entitled shaping our future, tech Company Lawyers on innovation and social responsibility. The program isnt is an all women panel. It happened to work out that way. We have so many amazingly talented women in our Tech Community that it naturally fell together and we are lucky to have this group today. A few housekeeping notes, heather covered one of them, the materials are available in the apps, use your cell phone to sil