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{% extends "base_about.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Outside Counsel & Contractors - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}Outside{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<h1>Outside Counsel</h1>
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<h2>Olivier Hugot - Of Counsel, France</h2>
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<p>Olivier Hugot is a member of the New York (2003) and Paris (2004) Bars.
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He advises and represents French and foreign companies in the areas of
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Internet, luxury and creation. He assists many innovative Internet
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entrepreneurs and companies, both in formalizing their projects as well as
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in development during fundraising.</p>
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<p>He advises clients in connection with the protection and exploitation
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of their rights in compliance with the constantly evolving internet
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regulations. Olivier has extensive experience in the practical and legal
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problems of the internet, both with counseling and litigation. He has
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also developed a particular expertise in the legal aspects of free
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culture.</p>
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<p>Olivier has presented his work at a number of conferences, particularly
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pertaining to free licenses (GNU/GPL, Creative Commons) as well at Wikimania
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2008, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. Olivier
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is also a masters instructor at the University of Paris I La Sorbonne and a
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+member of the associations INTA and IAEL.</p>
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<h2>Daniel B. Ravicher - Litigation Counsel</h2>
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Daniel B. Ravicher is a Lecturer in Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
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Law. He has published numerous legal articles and given dozens of
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presentations regarding Free and Open Source Software legal issues and
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served as lead counsel for free and open source software developers in the
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only GPL enforcement lawsuits ever brought in the United States.
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Professor Ravicher has been labeled a modern day ‘Robin Hood’
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by Science magazine, awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship for social
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entrepreneurship, named to both Managing Intellectual Property magazine's
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‘50 Most Influential People in IP’ list and IP Law & Business
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magazine's ‘Top 50 Under 45’ list and twice invited to testify
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before Congress on issues of technology legal policy. Professor Ravicher
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received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law,
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where he was the Franklin O'Blechman Scholar of his class, a Mortimer
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Caplin Public Service Award recipient and an Editor of the Virginia
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Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials
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science magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of
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South Florida. Professor Ravicher writes for The Huffington Post and
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Seeking Alpha and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the
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Courts of Appeals for the Federal, 2nd and 11th Circuits, the District
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Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the State of
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New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Professor Ravicher is also the Executive Director
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of <a href="http://pubpat.org">the Public Patent Foundation</a>.
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</p>
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<h2>Karen Sandler - Pro Bono Counsel</h2>
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<a id="karen"></a>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is currently the Executive Director of the GNOME
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Foundation and prior to taking up this position was General Counsel of
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the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Karen continues to do pro bono
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legal work with Conservancy, SFLC, and Question Copyright and serves
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as <a href="/about/officers#karen">an officer of both the Conservancy</a>
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and SFLC. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the
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corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and
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Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree
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from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and
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co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen
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received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She
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is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of
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the <a href="http://faif.us">“Free as in Freedom”
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podcast</a>.</p>
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<h1>Contractors</h1>
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<h2>Paul Visscher - Compliance Engineering & System Administration Contractor</h2>
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<p>Paul Visscher was first exposed to the Free Software Movement in late
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1997. Paul has been a professional system administrator for most of his
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adult life, focusing primarily on GNU/Linux based systems. He began
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contracting with the Software Freedom Law Center on Compliance Engineering
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in December 2009 and continued his Compliance Engineering work with the
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Conservancy beginning in October 2010. He is actively involved in his
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local GNU/Linux user group, as well various local programming groups. He
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is a former Chief Webmaster and a former volunteer system administrator
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for the GNU project.</p>
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{% endblock %}
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