Fred Williams Featured Speaker at First Biannual Ethics Center Symposium
On March 28, 2012, the Ethics Center will present its First Biannual Ethics Center Symposium. Held at the UNCC Center City campus, the event will feature two speakers – Bruce Arrigof and James, McElroy & Diehl’s Fred Williams – followed by a panel discussion and audience participation.
The Symposium, entitled “Digital People: Technology, Identity, and Social Change” will address how social media is changing our identities and society, and whether these changes are making us better or worse thinkers, communicators, social activists, and citizens.
Fred Williams has been of counsel with James, McElroy & Diehl since 2004, when he retired after 38 years with several federal agencies, including an assistant U.S. attorney in Charlotte. At JMD, he has represented and counseled persons involved in criminal and civil matters relating to electronic surveillance, computer intrusions and searches, copyright, trade secret and trademark. He is an adjunct professor in the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte.