Raihan Islam

In order to prepare for May/June exams, I am going to focus on studying. Summer plans are not yet confirmed, but I am going to focus on developing more proprietary marketing software. Next year, the only permanent commitments I will maintain are the Law Society and the Debating Society, both of which I will represent as Communications Officer. Other than that, I will continue freelancing, and as long as I produce various pieces of software over the summer that are worthwhile, I am confident I will be able to start marketing them to the public like I did from 2000 to 2004.

From a great voter turnout, I will be the 2010 - 2011 King's College London Law Society Communications Officer, and I look forward to putting in a great deal of effort to improve the functioning of the society. Thanks to everyone who turned up at the Annual Linklaters Law Ball at the Dorchester Hotel, it was fun! It's going to be a great next year.

Debating Society elections are next week, and a lot of studying is coming ahead. I am otherwise working on a few contract projects, but as exam time approaches, I will be focusing on studies, and after June will I take on more as my schedule allows.

I have been helping out the King's College London Law Society this year, learning the procedures in working with the committee. I look forward to continue helping it next year, so I am running for the position of Communications Officer. With a full understanding of its website, membership database, and the stakeholders involved, I hope to expand upon the efforts made by this year's committee and literally move on to the next level.



Technology has improved social functioning and has certainly brought society to its current state, especially legally, and therefore no doubt exists that I will be able to apply technology further than has been done previously to improve not only the communications and the efficiency of the committee, but the society overall and King's College London's reputation in law, giving benefit to every student interested in a legal career or otherwise.

Next year, I intend to do the following:

• Complete the implementation road map started by previous Communications Officers: membership listing, registration, and administrative panels; events listing, registration, and payment whether for vocational, debating & mooting, social, or sports events; and guidance on how to access all information resources about various firms, whether legal or consulting
• Implement advanced profile functionality, allowing each member of the Law Society the ability to write a paragraph on their opinion of how best to excel in studies and succeed in post-study life
• Upgrade the website software to include information assurance and security mechanisms, ensuring data integrity and retention, beneficial for the Law Society Treasurer for accounting procedures, and beneficial for the Law Society Secretary and Administration Officer in dealing with membership verification, leading the way to secure online elections for future Law Society committees
• Provide relevant committee members live space on the website to make announcements
• Increase social networking functionality via sharing of information from the website onto Facebook and Twitter
• Develop tools to assist each officer in their efforts
• Contacting legal resource companies about developing specialized software, exclusive for Law Society member use!

The existing road map will be completed first, over the summer, followed by officially adopting these new plans into the road map, to be developed throughout the 2010 - 2011 school year... if I am elected!

The new year is moving along well, I will be finishing up my visit to Virginia Beach soon, heading back to London to get ready for classes. A few updates, though.

I have resigned from The Zeitgeist Movement and have suspended my activity with Critical Change. I still support the progressive direction of both, but for the former, the organization has a great deal to work on before I would like to represent it in the future given the rest of my priorities.

As I continue to get more immersed into legal studies, it continues to get more interesting - no, not boring - interesting, seriously! It is like having a machine, taking it apart, and understanding how it works, followed by putting it back together in the best way possible. Well, some might say that is more like engineering, but it happens to work in law, too.