Let the true joy of the holiday season settle in with merriment, food, drink, trivia knowledge, trivial debates (the tenderloin is correct!!!!), Montie being bad at sound levels and radically misjudging difficulty of rounds, and some semi-hyper-competitiveness! Yup, it’s that time again: Trivia Night – Wednesday, December 19th 5:15 PM to 8:00 PM in the […]
ShoutOut
I’d like to give a ShoutOut to Claire Trias of BCLT. She’s leaving the law school community at the end of October and will be sorely missed. I’ve worked closely with Claire the last 2 years on a coordination team aimed at making programs more streamlined and useful for students. I’ve always appreciated her willingness […]
Bob Berring 10-second Bio
NAME Bob Berring EMAIL rberring@berkeley.edu MY ROLE: Faculty WHAT DO YOU TEACH? Contracts, Advanced Legal Research, Chinese Law, Jurisprudence WHAT IS YOUR AREA OF RESEARCH OR WRITING? Mostly issues of digitizing legal information (I started writing about it in the 11980’s). Still work in Chinese Law and a smidge in Contracts. WHEN I STARTED WORKING […]
Popular Reading in the Law Library
Special thanks to Edna Lewis who reminds us of the Popular Reading section in the Law Library. The Law Library has a terrific popular reading collection housed on LL2. Fiction on the left, nonfiction on the right. you can look for a particular book by searching the title in LawCat. To browse the entire collection […]
Upcoming staff and faculty events
Wednesday, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 19 Staff coffee with Charles Cannon 3:00 p.m. in the Dean’s Seminar Room (repeats every other week) Friday, December 14 Berkeley Law Holiday Party 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (location t.b.d.) Wednesday, December 19 Berkeley Law Trivia Night 5:15 p.m in the Warren Room Remember to consult […]
Emily Bruce 10-second Bio
NAME Emily Bruce EMAIL ebruce@law.berkeley.edu MY ROLE: Staff DEPARTMENT/UNIT Student Services TITLE Assistant Director of Student Services – Equity and Inclusion WHEN I STARTED WORKING HERE: June 2018 in this role, but I have been affiliated with Berkeley Law since 2008 WHAT I DO IN FIVE WORDS OR LESS: Academic advising, as well as student-facing […]
Staff spotlight: Events Services Unit
Event Services Unit Staff These amazing event planners and ideas people bring creativity, resourcefulness, inclusivity, and professionalism to law school events in service of the faculty and staff, students, alumni, and friends of Berkeley Law. They work with departments throughout the school and across campus. (from left to right) Lily Yang was born in Taipei, […]
Thank you Susanna Spiro!
Shout out to Susanna for helping to update the graphics on the JD student enrollment guide! Many thanks for your patience and flexibility while I secured the necessary screen grabs and many more for your photoshop expertise. It’s a true pleasure working with you and I am so grateful for your help on this project.
Kamren Hernandez
Kamren Hernandez recently joined the mail services team along with Ronald Skinner. He previously worked for the Berkeley Unified School District, as a grounds and maintenance worker. He’s from the bay area born and raised and likes to chill and have a good time. He’s all for positive vibes and having fun with life.
Goings
The following people moved on to other opportunities in October: Anhara Alexander (HR) and Claire Trias (BCLT)