Jun 2008	GU hosted for second year in a row an evening seminar and reception on Accessing the U.S. Market as a Foreign Business
May 2008	Lee Gesmer has been appointed co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section.
May 2008	Sarah Richmond has been appointed co-chair of the Communications Committee of the Business Law Section of the Boston Bar Association.
Apr 2008	Andrew Updegrove will give testimony to the Texas Legislature on the importance to governments of open document formats
Apr 2008	Lee Gesmer has been named as one of the top Massachusetts attorneys in business litigation in the 2008 Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers.
Mar 2008	Andrew Updegrove has been invited to become a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center's List of Arbitrators, Mediators and Experts
Feb 2008	Andrew Updegrove was interviewed by Groklaw's Sean Daly
Nov 2007	Andrew Updegrove was a speaker in Beijing, China at the IP China 2007 Conference, sponsored by the Ministry of Information Industry and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Nov 2007	Bill Contente and Russ Schlossbach presented a seminar at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) entitled "Mergers & Acquisitions."
Nov 2007	Bill Contente, Tom Durkin, Lee Gesmer, Peter Moldave, Sarah Richmond and Andy Updegrove were each named a 2007 Massachusetts Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Boston Magazine.
Sep 2007	Andrew Updegrove spoke at SD Best Practices 2007 on the topic Open Source and Freedom: Why Open Standards are Crucial to Protecting Your Linux Investment

August 20, 2008- Sean Gilligan was a speaker at a seminar on August 20, 2008 entitled Foreclosures and Repossessions in Massachusetts. The seminar was sponsored by Lorman Education, and focused on creditors rights issues in commercial bankruptcies, foreclosures and repossession actions.

June 18, 2008- Lee Gesmer was a speaker at the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education 11th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference 2008, which was held in Boston on June 18, 2008. He spoke on the topic, "Injunctions in IP Cases: How are judges crafting remedies in light of eBay?"

June 13, 2008- Andrew Updegrove was a panelist at the Fifth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices Conference at Stanford Law School, speaking on the topic of "Patent Best Practices of E-Commerce Businesses".

June 5, 2008- Sam Kim was the featured speaker at the Boston Society of Architects' Alien Architects Roundtable on issues related to establishing a practice in Massachusetts by foreign architects and architectural firms.

June 3, 2008 - Andrew Updegrove was a panelist at a Boston Entrepreneurs Network program titled Exit Strategies — Cashing In. The event focused on preparing emerging companies for successful exits through acquisition.

April 24, 2008- Sarah C. Richmond will co-chair a Boston Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program entitled VC Financing of Technology Companies: A Look Under the Hood. Peter Moldave will participate as a panelist in the program.

April 22-23, 2008- Andrew Updegrove co-moderated the Linux Foundation's 2008 Legal Summit for member legal counsel only (on the first day) and for all in-house legal counsel on the second. The conference was held in Schaumberg, Illinois.

April 9, 2008- Andrew Updegrove co-moderated a workshop titled "Open Source Legal Issues for Non-Lawyers" at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Austin, Texas. The Linux Foundation, a firm client, is the leading organization promoting and protecting the Linux ecosystem.

March 25, 2008- Andrew Updegrove was a panelist at this year's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco, with co-panelists Mark Shuttleworth, creator of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and Linux kernel developer James Bottomley. Their panel quizzed Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith on Microsoft's position on patents and interoperability.

March 19, 2008- Andrew Updegrove discussed Trends in Recent Open Source Legal Cases with Dan Ravicher, Legal Director of The Software Freedom Law Center, in a Webinar hosted by Black Duck Software.

March 13, 2008- Andrew Updegrove moderated a discussion of open and closed content and the interaction of digital rights management with mobile open source software at an all-day legal workshop held in conjunction with this year's Open Source Mobile Conference in San Francisco.

March 1, 2008- Sam Kim was a panelist at the 14th Annual National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Public Policy, hosted by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) at Harvard Law School and the Asian American Policy Review at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The conference, entitled "Generation Heroes," was about building a community of role models to reflect on ourselves and to challenge each other to greater accomplishments.

February 26, 2008- Andrew Updegrove was a keynote panelist at an Open Forum Europe event in Geneva, Switzerland, entitled Standards and the Future of the Internet. His co-panelists included Google Chief Internet Evangelist and "father of the Internet" Vint Cerf.

November 28, 2007- Bill Contente and Russ Schlossbach presented a seminar on Mergers & Acquisitions for MCLE (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education).

November 28, 2007- Andrew Updegrove was a Keynote speaker in Beijing, China at the Open Standards International Conference, a conference sponsored by the Changfeng Open Standards Platform Alliance, the China National Institute of Standardization and the China Electronic Standardization Institute. He organized, spoke at and moderated a track on the second day of the conference focusing on open standards and open source.

October 25 - 26, 2007- Andrew Updegrove co-led the Linux Foundation Legal Summit, an event restricted to in-house legal counsel of Linux Foundation members. The Summit focused on building a legal defense infrastructure for Linux and evolving intellectual property rights policies optimized to support open development models.

September 28, 2007- David Moran participated in an MCLE presentation entitled, "Tax Issues for the Business Attorney" focusing upon the initial choice of business entity and alternative and/or successor options available as a particular business matures or is in need of alternative investment strategies.

June 2008- An article written by J. David Moran and Justin Nesbit appears in the June 2008 edition of the WPI Venture Forum's Vantage newsletter. The article is entitled "The Midnight Ride of...the Tax Advisor" and is a brief summary of the Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.

May 30, 2008- The April - May 2008 issue of Standards Today was distributed, titled The Open Collaboration Revolution by Andrew Updegrove. The issue focuses on the dramatic degree to which the Internet and Web have led to greater collaboration in many areas, as well as to a liberalization of traditional rights of ownership in on-line content.

May 16, 2008- Andrew Updegrove's article Some Recession Advice for the Startup CEO appeared in MHT, the Journal of New England Technology.

April 1, 2008- The February - March issue of Standards Today was distributed, titled "Recognizing Civil ICT Rights" and Civil ICT Standards by Andrew Updegrove. The issue focuses on the need to protect civil rights from erosion as we transition from the face to face exercise of freedom of speech, freedom of association and other rights to a world where such rights are exercised primarily on line.

March 14, 2008- Andrew Updegrove's article, iPhones and App Stores: Steve Jobs Does it Again appeared in MHT, the Journal of New England Technology.

February 8, 2008- Andrew Updegrove's article, Going Mobile: The Year of the Smartphone Startup appeared in MHT, the Journal of New England Technology.

January 17, 2008- The December - January issue of Standards Today (formerly the Consortium Standards Bulletin) was distributed, titled ODF v. OOXML on the Eve of the BRM by Andrew Updegrove. The issue focuses on the weeklong meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland which attempted to address all technical objections to Microsoft's OOXML specification prior to a final decision in March to accept or reject that specification as a global standard.

December 7, 2007- Sarah Richmond's article "M&A Casualties can be Avoided with Proper Planning" appeared in the Inside Legal Services section of Mass High Tech.

December, 2007- The United Nations Development Programme Study Group on eGovernment Interoperability published an Overview, a Guide, and a Review of Government Interoperability Frameworks. Andrew Updegrove is a member of the UNDP Study Group that drafted these documents, which are intended to assist Third World countries accelerate their development progress through government adoption of more effective information and communications technologies.

November 20, 2007- The October - November issue of Standards Today was distributed, titled Completing The Consortium Standards Development Infrastructure by Andrew Updegrove. The issue focuses on the ways in which the traditional standard setting infrastructure is proving inadequate to modern demands, and recommends solutions for the problems identified.

November 9, 2007 - Bill Contente's article Angel Financing could do with a little Streamlining appeared in the "Insider View" section of the Boston Business Journal.

Summer 2007- Technology Law Bulletin includes the articles Communications Decency Act's Sage Harbor Broad But Bounded by Joe Laferrera and Supreme Court Changes Rules on Vertical Price Fixing by Lee Gesmer.

October 26, 2007- Andrew Updegrove's editorial Measuring the Value of Software Patents Versus Innovation appeared in Mass High Tech — The Journal of New England Technology.

September 27, 2007 - The August - September issue of Standards Today (formerly the Consortium Standards Bulletin) was distributed, titled Globalization, Standards and Intellectual Property Rights by Andrew Updegrove. The issue focuses on the standards-based advantages that companies based in developed nations have over those in undeveloped nations as they seek to enter world markets, and suggest reforms intended to reduce the frequency of international standards wars.

September 2007- The fifth volume in the Standards Edge series of books was published, titled The Golden Mean. Andrew Updegrove contributed two chapters, titled "A Work in Progress: Government Support for Standard Setting in the United States, 1980 - 2006" and "The Yin and Yang of China's Trade Strategy: Deploying an Aggressive Standards Strategy under the WTO".