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KENTUCKY BAR NEWS Salmon P. Chase College of Law NKU Chase to Host Law + Informatics Symposium on Labor and Employment Issues he Northern Kentucky Law Review and the NKU Chase Law + Informatics Institute will host the Law + Informatics Symposium on Labor and Employment Issues on February 15th. The symposium will focus on issues in labor and employment related to informatics, including such topics as social media in the employment context, candidate screening practices, employee privacy, data security and appropriate policies, National Labor Relations Board actions, and proposed legislation to protect employee account access. Presentations delivered at the conference will be published by the Northern Kentucky Law Review. The symposium will be held in Griffin Hall, home of the NKU College of Informatics, on the university campus in Highland Heights, Ky. Participants may register at www.lawandinformatics.org/ 2013symposium.html. An application for CLE program approval will be submitted in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Minnesota. The seminar will be followed by a networking reception. The symposium speakers will include: Richard Bales, NKU Chase College of Law; François Quintin Cilliers, University of the Free State, South Africa; Christine Suzanne Davik, University of Maine School of Law; Tawanda J. Edwards, Macy's; Jon M. T Garon, NKU Chase College of Law; Saby Ghoshray, WorldCompliance Company and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies; Paul Harpur, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia; William A. Herbert, New York State Public Employment Relations Board; David Allen Larson, Hamline University; Michelle A. Poore, Judge Advocate General's Corps; Tania Sebastian, Indian Social Institute, India; and Barbara Wagner, NKU Chase College of Law. The NKU Chase Law + Informatics Institute provides critical interdisciplinary research regarding law, regulation, and industry practice as it is applied across complex information systems, emerging technology, and all areas of law. While not limited to any legal field, the NKU Chase Law + Informatics Institute emphasizes intellectual property law, privacy, business and securities laws, international laws, and evidentiary rules because the creation, acquisition, aggregation, security, manipulation, and exploitation of data have the largest legal and societal consequences in these fields. Professor Jon M. Garon is the director of the NKU Chase Law + Informatics Institute. University of Kentucky College of Law UK Law Students Assist with Election Monitoring ix UK College of Law students joined Professor Joshua Douglas and Assistant Dean Danny Murphy to S Gary M. Weiss Mediation When it's a question of persuasion... Gary Weiss has a passion to come to the right result. One of few mediators Listed in Best Lawyers who maintains an in America; Personal Injury active practice Legal Malpractice so he knows the And now one of only eight present value of cases Kentucky lawyers named Principal Address Louisville for mediation/arbitration Tele: (502) 493-1394 30 Bench & Bar January 2013 E-mail: trialweiss01@yahoo.com Trialweiss@aol.com assist Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes and the Kentucky Board of Elections in running a smooth election. Third-year students Reese Faust and Josh Pence, second-years Megan Hughes and Dallas Hurley, and first-years Marc Manley and Laken Gilbert first observed the official Election Day Board of Elections meeting, during which the Board discussed issues that had arisen during the day. The students were then able to help out with other issues as they arose, including brief research projects and assisting local election officials. The Secretary of State invited students to stay at the Board of Elections through the early evening as the polls closed and counties began tallying the ballots. Legal Clinic Provides Thanksgiving Dinner to Clients n November, the UK College of Law Legal Clinic hosted "Coin Wars 2012" to raise money for Thanksgiving dinners for clinic clients. Each law school class competed by collecting money in a jar in the Student Bar Association office. Coins counted toward the class total, while any paper bills counted against them. The Class of 2013 led the entire length of the competition until the final day, when someone donated 32 one-dollar bills in the 3L jar, giving the Class of 2014 the lead. In all, the Clinic collected over $200, and was able to purchase and deliver nine complete turkey dinners for their clients. I Black Law Students Association Collects Books for International Book Project he UK Black Law Students Association (UKBLSA) collected books in November to donate to the International Book Project (IBP). The IBP was founded in 1966 to send books to those in need around the world. Due to the cost of shipping, IBP has developed a number of cost-effective strategies for delivering the books where they're most needed. UKBLSA collected 49 new and gently used children's books, which were shipped directly to Rwanda to help establish a library. T