My name is Morris A. Singer. Thank you for your interest in my work.
I am a graduate of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA, awaiting my scores on the bar examinations in Massachusetts and New York. My legal interest is primarily in intellectual property, and more specifically in copyright and trademark law. As a law student, I also spent a great deal of time working in the juvenile courts, both as a student defense attorney for the indigent and as a law clerk.
On the Law Review, I served as Articles Editor. My published Note is on the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act of 2008. See Morris A. Singer, Note, The Failure of the PRO-IP Act in a Consumer-Empowered Era of Information Production, 43 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 185 (2009).
I spent a summer in Haifa working in Haifa University's new Intellectual Property clinic. There, I developed clarifications to Israel's new fair use doctrine, which was brought into law as part of Israel's Copyright Act of 2007. The work involved bringing together stakeholders from twenty-eight academic institutions and publishers in Israel to develop a set of best practices that risk-averse industry players can use to avoid litigation without sacrificing lawful uses of copyrighted materials.
On the pro-bono front, I volunteered with a program providing assistance to real property owners and tenants facing foreclosure and eviction from complications with sub-prime lending.
Prior to Law School, I ran a business developing Internet software solutions for labor unions in the open-source content management framework, Drupal. I wrote dozens of software packages and released several of them to the public under the GNU Public License.
In addition to my J.D., I have a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. While there, I honed my experience in both fields; I worked as a news editor at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, was elected to the Amherst Representative Town Meeting, served as the Coordinator for Voter Engagement of the Student Government Association, and worked as the Director of Communications for former Governor's Councilor Peter Vickery.
Presently, I volunteer on the Young Leaders Subcommittee of the Boston-Haifa Connection, the organization developing economic and social partnerships between Boston, MA and Haifa, Israel. Additionally, I chair a group working to publish a Sabbath prayer book for a thriving congregation of young professionals in downtown Boston. I am active with Combined Jewish Philanthropies and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
In my free time, I run, write for LawAndContent.com, develop my aesthetic senses through photography and electronic music-making, and enjoy growing my collection of disco and Philadelphia soul vinyl LPs and 12-inch singles.
