BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251211T2237Z-1765492625.8948-EO-735228-1@10.73.7.213 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260305T025424Z CREATED:20251211T172428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T182936Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260115T140000 SUMMARY: “Do the Right Thing”: Reflections on Being a Federal Prosecutor DESCRIPTION: "Do the right thing” is a common refrain for prosecutors. Ther e is an inherent privilege in going to work every day with the only objecti ve of doing the right thing. Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wass erstein Fellow Ellen Sise '14\, Assistant United States Attorney and Deputy Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section in the Eastern Distr ict of New York. Ellen will disabuse you of the notion that you need to hav e a background in the military or intelligence to work in National Security \, explain the threat landscape and types of national security prosecutions brought by the Department of Justice (international terrorism\, domestic t errorism\, counterintelligence\, counterproliferation\, and cyber-threat ac tors)\, and discuss more broadly the role of an Assistant United States Att orney. We will explore the thrill of criminal trials and hot bench appeals\ , the importance of judgment for a prosecutor\, and what is surprising abou t being an AUSA.\n\nLunch provided. Please RSVP below! Open to the HLS comm unity. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Do the right thing” is a common refrain f or prosecutors. There is an inherent privilege in going to work every day w ith the only objective of doing the right thing. Join OPIA for a community discussion with Ellen Sise '14\, Assistant Un ited States Attorney and Deputy Chief of the National Security and Cybercri me Section in the Eastern District of New York. Ellen will disabuse you of the notion that you need to have a background in the military or intelligen ce to work in National Security\, explain the threat landscape and types of national security prosecutions brought by the Department of Justice (inter national terrorism\, domestic terrorism\, counterintelligence\, counterprol iferation\, and cyber-threat actors)\, and discuss more broadly the role of an Assistant United States Attorney. We will explore the thrill of crimina l trials and hot bench appeals\, the importance of judgment for a prosecuto r\, and what is surprising about being an AUSA.

Lunch provided. Pleas e RSVP below! Open to the HLS community.

If you or an event participa nt requires disability-related accommodations\, please contact HLS Accessib ility Services at accessibil ity@law.harvard.edu two weeks in advance of the event.

Ellen Sise is an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New Yor k\, and Deputy Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section. Ellen is a Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (“CHIP”) coordinator as we ll as the Office’s Disruptive Technology Strike Force coordinator. Before j oining the government\, Ellen worked as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LL P\, a white-collar boutique firm\, and served as a law clerk to the Honorab le Ann M. Donnelly of the United States District Court for the Eastern Dist rict of New York. Ellen is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Univers ity of Pennsylvania.

CATEGORIES:Career Event,OPIA Events,Speaker/Panel LOCATION:WCC\; 1023 Classroom GEO:0;0 ORGANIZER;CN="Micah Nemiroff":MAILTO:mnemiroff@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/do-the-right-thing-reflections -on-being-a-federal-prosecutor/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR