February 17, 1997
To: Cyberspace Law Firm Associates
From: Nicholas Johnson
It's time to start the presentations process.
1. You are to prepare and deliver a presentation Wednesday evening. This coming Wednesday evening everyone will have an opportunity to do a "work in progress" presentation. What have you learned about your country? The businesses already there? The potential market for your "billion-dollar-bonanza"? The sources of law available to you off the Web, or in our law (or university) library? Your first cut at what the legal/policy issue/s look like at this point? The best proposed additions to our firm bibliography?
After all, our end product is a group product: our firm's proposals to Global Telecom, Media and Electronics, Inc., as to their business opportunities, and legal problems, in Asia. So the presentations will be one of our own MIS ("management information reporting system") ways of tracking our progress towards that goal.
2. You should plan it for 5 minutes. You are not obliged to write this up and hand it in, but I would advise you to do so. Without at least a talking points paper before you, it may be difficult to cover all the bases in the available time. Two hours is 120 minutes; assuming I take 5 minutes to open and 5 minutes to close, that means you have no more than 7 minutes (including discussion) with 15 presenters.
3. Pick your global corporation. If you have not yet done so, get an e-mail or memo to me indicating which (from our list, or of your choosing) major global corporation you choose to report on (its subsidiaries, etc., and its global reach). Like the countries, these companies will be allocated to you on a first-come basis.
4. Schedule revision. As I indicated last week, the Gantt chart was intended to be illustrative only. However, I do urge you to revise, and re-submit, a schedule of mileposts to me that includes all the pending, uncompleted assignments, and that breaks the main project (your research paper) into mileposts for modules.