Companies need to adopt proper policies and employ appropriate firewall applications to protect themselves. Linda Thayer, an attorney with Finnegan Henderson who worked for 12 years as a cryptographer for the NSA before going to law school. They will discuss more advanced issues relating to encryption and digital signatures. California is home to both Silicon Valley and the entertainment industry. California lawyers, therefore, are confronting Internet litigation and transactional issues well ahead of attorneys in other parts of the country.
Attorneys can inexpensively advertise their practices and distinguish themselves online.
Jim Evans, author of Law on the Net and Government on the Net will show some of the more advanced research techniques during the program. He is a frequent speaker and writer on Internet law and serves on the editorial boards of The Cyberspace Lawyer, The Journal of Internet Law, and Intellectual Property Lawcast and is the author of a number of articles on Internet-related law, several of which are available on his firm's Website. Mr. Ballon also serves as Co-chairman of PLI's Internet Law Institute. A native of Canada, Mr. Ballon has been in practice since 1986 and based in California since 1989.