This week’s DPELC-MSL Speaker Series featured Samara Mejia Hernandez and Benjamin Hernandez. Samara is an early stage investor at MATH Venture Partners and Benjamin is the Founder & CEO of NuMat Technologies. Though they are now fixtures in their industries, their personal and professional backgrounds differed from that of a lot of their peers. The […]
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Business-Savvy Strategies from Scott Mandell & David Morris
On this week’s DPELC-MSL Speaker Series, David Morris of Fox, Swibel, Liben & Carroll interviewed Scott Mandell of Enjoy Life Foods and Cannibastry Labs about his career as an entrepreneur. Scott founded his Enjoy Life Foods as part of a class assignment when he was a student at the Kellogg School of Management. The gluten-free, […]
5 Career Tips from Amazon’s Legal Team
On Tuesday, the MSL program organized an exclusive Q&A with Michael Deal, Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Amazon.com. Accompanied by Julius Chen (Senior Corporate Counsel), Khoury Cooper (Corporate Counsel), and Lauren Stubel (Recruiter), Deal spoke candidly to the MSL students about the inner workings of the company, the need for employees with interdisciplinary […]
DPELC-MSL Speaker Series: Kamau Murray
Kamau Murray made headlines early September when Sloane Stephens, the tennis star he has coached since 2015, won the U.S. Open. During the inaugural talk of the DPELC-MSL Speakers Series, however, it was Murray’s triumphant story of the XS Tennis and Education Foundation that kept the audience in rapt attention. Students, faculty and staff from around […]
NU Law Reporter on the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series
The Northwestern Law Reporter Magazine recently featured an article about the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series. As you may recall from previous blog posts, this speaker series brings in industry professionals–frequently entrepreneurs–who work at the intersection of law, business, and technology. Read the article below or click here for the full issue of the Northwestern Law Reporter. […]
MSL Speaker Series: Dima Elissa and Neelum Aggarwal
As part of the MSL Speaker Series, Dima Elissa and Neelum Aggarwal gave a talk on the adverse impacts of gender biases in biomedical research. MSL Student Atefeh shared the following reflections on their topic: We joined Dima and Neelum’s talk just few minutes after the Ethics class. Our thoughts from our Ethics discussion on […]
DPELC-MSL Speaker: Courtney VanLonkhuyzen
Courtney VanLonkhuyzen, general counsel at Lenovo Mobile Business Group, recently visited the Law School to give a talk as part of the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series. Like other speakers in the series, her work is squarely at the intersection of law, technology, and business. As some of you may have heard, Lenovo recently acquired Motorola from […]
Q&A with Norbert Riedel
Norbert Riedel visited the Law School as part of the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series. Below are some of the questions that were asked by students following the talk. If you haven’t read the post on the content of his talk, you may want to start here! What kinds of patents does Naurex/Aptinyx get? Mainly, composition of matter […]
DPELC-MSL Speaker Series: Norbert Riedel
OK, I am for sure going to get some of the science and terminology wrong here, but what can say? I am just a caveman lawyer without a STEM background, and, unfortunately, hanging around all our lovely STEM-trained MSL students has not magically turned me into a scientist. So I apologize in advance for the […]
MSL Speaker Series: Paul Brown
The VP of Legal at UL (Underwriters Laboratory), Paul Brown, recently came to speak as part of the MSL Speaker Series. UL is a company that deals with safety issues; the company performs safety analyses of new technologies, most notably the public adoption of electricity and the drafting of safety standards for electrical components and […]