A little love for Fordham Law School

The US News & World Report is soon to
issue it's Law School
rankings.  This issue is always met with much discussion in my house as
my husband attended the country club Stanford Law School which
pitter-pats back & forth with Harvard for the #1 spot each year. 
(I still have to explain how the 4th amendment actually works when we
watch Law & Order.  He kicks my butt when it comes to leveraged
buys outs but outing him where I can is always good sport.) 

 I had much more humble beginnings as a
night school law student at Fordham Law School in the heart of New York
City where I was able to keep my job and attend night classes.  I was
also able to act as Summer Clerk to the Hon Joseph
M. McLaughlin (which is a clerk to the clerks kind of job where the pay
is zero, the experience is priceless and the clerks have remained great
friends and supporters.)

Fordham's night program is about to be ranked as #3 for
evening programs & I couldn't be more thrilled.  Fordham's
commitment to service and leadership through respect and service to
those led shaped and guided me as a young woman trying to make it in
the big city. The education I received there from fellow classmates
& faculty guides me today.

Great to see some good things coming to good people!!

Just a rah rah & a thought today...

Posted at 10:16AM Apr 15, 2009 by Michelle Finneran Dennedy in Fun facts  |  Comments[3]

Governance-- A top 10 of sorts

Open?  Yes.

Interoperable/ data portable?  check.

Beyond the buzz I would like to start getting specific about the
elements of a rough cut on a Cloud Governance Framework.  All of
the elements have their private cloud (traditional IT systems or
outsourced IT) corollary but I will suggest that the mass scalability
and distributed nature of Cloud add nuance if not new to this list:

1.  Privacy – control or “get over it”?  (Guess which one we like???)

2.  Intellectual Property – what's mine, yours & theirs

3.  Security – which perimeter are we protecting anyway?

4.  Export control – no bad guys & bombs

5.  Social Engineering – who do you train not to be
helpful?

6.  The Cops - investigation requirements and allowances

7.  Inappropriate Content – keeping naked & rude out

8.  Audit – what, how much & by whom?

9.  E-Discovery – how many docs does it take to make the
case? 

10.  Public policy -- how do we want external parties, users
and owners to interoperate & cause redress to happen in this
world? 

Harm, ownership and fiduciary obligation notions emerge and
diverge.  "The Framework" isn't ready for public
consumption beyond these skeletal issues at this point, but these are
some of the issues I'm starting to frame up.  Complex issues
such ID management, entitlements, document ephemerazation and context
decision management live in the nooks & crannies of this top 10
in my mind.

Just a bit of a hmmmm for today... 

Posted at 04:25PM Apr 07, 2009 by Michelle Finneran Dennedy in General  |  Comments[0]

Wow

Was it Alice in Wonderland or Willie the Pooh who observed "curiouser & curiouser..."?

Posted at 08:31PM Apr 02, 2009 by Michelle Finneran Dennedy in Fun facts  |  Comments[3]