Mr. Ravicher is Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law -Center. Prior to joining the founding team at SFLC, Mr. Ravicher was associated with Skadden, Arps, -Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP, and -Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the -Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of -Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.. Mr. Ravicher -received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, -where he was the Franklin O. Blechman Scholar for his class, a -Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient and Editor of the -Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in -materials science magna cum laude with University Honors from the -University of South Florida. Mr. Ravicher has published numerous -legal articles and given dozens of presentations regarding Free and -Open Source Software legal issues and is an Adjunct Professor at -Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is admitted to practice before -the State of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, -the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the -11th Circuit, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District -of New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
-Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990. He wrote