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Part of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Thirty-Third Annual Summer Program of Continuing Legal Education Seminars, May 25 – June 8, 2012, this (two-part) program provides an introduction to a body of law that is becoming increasingly important not only within the disciplines of intellectual property, antitrust, media law, and entertainment law, but also to general business and corporate practice as well. Broadly construed, the law of unfair competition encompasses not only the relati…

Part of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Thirty-Third Annual Summer Program of Continuing Legal Education Seminars, May 25 – June 8, 2012, this (two-part) program provides an introduction to a body of law that is becoming increasingly important not only within the disciplines of intellectual property, antitrust, media law, and entertainment law, but also to general business and corporate practice as well. Broadly construed, the law of unfair competition encompasses not only the relati…

You know the basics, but you could benefit from discussion of some of the thornier issues in software law practice. How does the America Invents Act impact software? How do you take your client’s software global? Are you up-to-date on the impact privacy law and social media are having on the software business? The faculty first review trends and recent case law, and examine emerging cutting-edge issues. The faculty then discuss some of the classic thorny issues in software licensing and their…

The media is constantly shaping otherwise uninformed individuals about what our legal system is and is not. It is also evident that the media, technology and the Internet have drastically changed the way we practice law. Here in the information age everyone, at all levels of the judicial system, have access to mountains of information. Studies show that up to half of jurors learn what happens in a courtroom when they turn on their televisions in the evening or go to the theater…

Defamation run wild how the internet and social media have led to an explosion in defamation lawsuits. Reputations take years to build but can now be destroyed online in a matter of minutes by nameless, faceless wrongdoers.

Nationally recognized internet law attorney Erik Syverson from Miller Barondess, LLP and Brent Franson from Reputation.com will present legal and non-legal strategies for addressing …

Part 1 – With the wave of technology dominating the legal world, reporting from the courtroom has gone from scribbling notes on a pad of paper to live coverage through blogs, video and even tweets. Attorney and co-host, Bob Ambrogi welcomes Ron Sylvester, Staff Writer for Interactive News for The Wichita Eagle/Kansas.com and Attorney Eric P. Robinson, an attorney in New York who specializes in media and Internet law, to talk about the latest in live reporting from th…

Jeffrey Edelstein, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, discusses legal risks presented by social media marketing campaigns. Topics covered:

• the current regulatory climate, including the application of the revised Federal Trade Commission’s endorsement guides to social media campaigns, and the key changes to the FTC guides;
• recent FTC actions and NAD cases concerning social media;
• the false advertising risks, including liability for product…

Our lives are online. A lot of what we consider important is online. What are the legal developments behind our digitized world? Hear perspectives from both the US and the EU.

Topics:

Jurisdictional

• Application of EU law to US online company and vice-versa

Virtually all companies are using numerous promotional tools in their marketing, from sweepstakes and skill contests to gift cards, forms of social media and the like. Meanwhile, rapidly changing technologies and related laws have brought about a whole new arena of laws, regulations, as well as cases. Privacy issues are also becoming more complex and require more detailed compliance and close attention to review of marketing materials. Experts in this field will focus on critical issues arisi…

The American Bar Association recently sent out a request for comment about how much regulation, if any, the bar should adopt to control lawyer involvement in social media. How far is too far, in essence, is what the Bar is asking. When is it advertising that needs control, and what is the impact of Bates vs. Arizona that said the underlying principle should be “truth.” More recently, state judicial commissions are asking whether judges should be allowed to participate in social…

Should the U.S. Supreme Court broadcast its sessions to the American public or should cameras be kept out of the SCOTUS chamber? Proponents of cameras say they are needed for transparency. Opponents call the idea potentially unconstitutional and harmful. Lawyer2Lawyer co-hosts and attorneys, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Nancy Marder, Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and Eric P. Robinson, Deputy Director of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Courts and Media at the University of Nevada in Reno, for an in depth discussion on both sides of this very important issue.

Media giant, Rupert Murdoch and his now defunct British tabloid, News of the World, are under fire over reports that journalists allegedly hacked into individualsa phones and allegedly took part in police bribery in a quest to get inside information. Hear Mike Koehler, Assistant Professor of Business Law at Butler University and Jane E. Kirtley, the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, talk with Lawyer2Lawyer co-host, Bob Ambrogi, about the legal issues including charges, privacy rights, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the scandalas impact on journalism and the fate of the Murdoch news empire.

With the Supreme Courtas 2010-2011 term over, looking back, there have been some decisions handed down by the Justices that have created a stir. From the controversial ruling of the Wal-Mart discrimination case, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, to the courtas rejection of a ban on violent video games, Brown v. EMA, this was by no means an ordinary term. Attorneys and co-hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams welcome Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal, American Lawyer Media, and law.com and Amy Howe, editor of SCOTUSblog, to look back at the 2010-2011 term, the Justices, spotlight the biggest cases of the term and look ahead to the upcoming term.

Recently in North Carolina, Judge Nancy Gordon ruled that Alaina Giordano, a mother of two living with Stage 4 breast cancer, be denied primary custody of her children after a bitter custody battle with her husband. Attorney and co-host Bob Ambrogi welcomes Attorney Lee S. Rosen from the Rosen Law firm and Attorney Sherri Donovan from Sherri Donovan & Associates, PC, to discuss the many components to this controversial custody case. Lee and Sherri take a look at the ruling, the power of the media and social media, the impact of custody battles and how illness should be treated in custody disputes

The debate over digital privacy is making big headlines with a recent controversy surrounding iPhone/iPad location tracking. Attorneys and co-host J. Craig Williams welcome Joshua A. Engel, Vice President and General Counsel for the Lycurgus Group and author of the Stockycat blog and Jeff Hermes, Associate Director of the Digital Media Law Project and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, to discuss the controversy. Joshua and Jeff look at privacy, legal concerns with the collection and storage of information and current litigation.

From music to film to theatre, celebrities can be a challenge in an entertainment law practice. Attorney and co-host Bob Ambrogi welcomes Gordon Firemark, an entertainment and new media lawyer in Los Angeles, to take a look at entertainment litigation and working with a celebrity. Bob & Gordon look at the various legal cases in Hollywood and chat about Gordonas new e-book, The Podcast, Blog & New Media Produceras Legal Survival Guide.

With a vote of 63-37, the Senate confirmed Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice making her the 112th justice, and the fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. Attorney and co-host, Bob Ambrogi welcomes Professor Joel Grossman, a professor of political science, and a constitutional law scholar from Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland School of Law and Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal and for ALM Media, to discuss the latest on the confirmation of Elena Kagan. They look at her background, some of the controversy over her confirmation and what kind of impact she will ultimately have on the Supreme Court.

The allure of social media has attracted businesses, law firms and the general public, but with the popularity of social media in and out of the workplace, comes potential legal issues. Attorney and co-host, J. Craig Williams welcomes Attorney Daliah Saper, Principal at Saper Law Offices and Attorney Bradley S. Shear, Founder and Managing Partner of the Law Office of Bradley S. Shear, LLC, to take a look at legal issues such as defamation, privacy issues, employee use of social media and how firms and businesses can protect themselves from a potential lawsuit.

Preserving the professional rules with regard to original content reporting and attribution to original sources is the topic on this Lawyer2Lawyer. Attorneys and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Alan Schwarz, a prolific sports writer from The New York Times, to discuss the legal and ethical issues pertaining to digital media. They discuss copyright law, the extent to which bloggers should give credit to original reportorial sources and the ethical guidelines bloggers and journalists should be following when it comes to content.

With the wave of technology dominating the legal world, reporting from the courtroom has gone from scribbling notes on a pad of paper to live coverage through blogs, video and even tweets. Attorney and co-host, Bob Ambrogi welcomes Ron Sylvester, Staff Writer for Interactive News for The Wichita Eagle/Kansas.com and Attorney Eric P. Robinson, an attorney in New York who specializes in media and Internet law, to talk about the latest in live reporting from the courtroom. They discuss procedure for getting permission from a Judge, cameras in the courtroom and how live reporting has affected traditional journalism in the courtroom.

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