Conference Features Top 10 Internet Legal Risks
 
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Sept. 27, 2000-- A discussion of the top 10
Internet legal risks highlights a timely conference on Internet Law Nov. 1-2
in Tysons Corner, Va.
 
The conference is presented by Mealey Publications, a LEXIS-NEXIS® 

company and co-sponsored by Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., and George
Mason University School of Law, The Tech Center, in Arlington, Va.
 
Also eagerly anticipated are the views of a diverse panel of experts who
will give advice on helping to navigate the cyberspace frontier.
Participating will be representatives from some of today's hottest Internet
and technology companies -- Microsoft, America Online, Yahoo!, DoubleClick and
Dell Computers -- as well as online security experts and consultants.
 
"We know there are a lot of Internet-related conferences out there for
lawyers to choose from," said Tom Hagy, general manager and publisher at
Mealey's. "We designed this conference to fill in the gaps those other
conferences left open. This conference is designed to supply the information
needed to advise clients and companies on surviving cyberspace risks."
 
Chairing the conference are David Furbush, Esq., Brobeck Phleger &
Harrison LLP, Palo Alto, Ca.; James E. Gordon, CEO, OnlineSecurity, Inc., Los
Angeles; and James G. Rizzo, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C.
 
The prestigious faculty includes John Bentivoglio of Arnold & Porter in
Washington, D.C.; Carolyn Chabrow Berger of America Online Inc. in Dulles,
Va.; Melise Blakeslee of McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, D.C.; Michael
Carlinsky of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in New York; William Doyle of
Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach in San Diego; Rebecca Eisen of Brobeck
Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco; Katherine Forrest of Cravath Swaine &
Moore in New York; Emily Freeman of Marsh USA Risk & Insurance Services in
San Francisco; Michael Gahard of Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash.; Don Gordon
of Leopold Petrich & Smith in Los Angeles; Robin Gross of Electronic Frontier
Foundation in San Francisco; Paul Gupta of Sullivan & Worcester in Boston; and
Roger Hickey of Chicago Partners in Chicago.
 
Also, James Horstman of Iwan Cray Huber Horstman & Van Ausdal in Chicago;
Curtis Karnow and Kirk Ruthenberg of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in San
Francisco; Gary Layden of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in Arlington,
Va.; Eric Laykin of OnlineSecurity Inc. in Los Angeles; Nuala O'Connor of
DoubleClick Inc. in New York; Tony Pezzano of Morgan & Finnegan in New York;
Gene Riechers of FBR Technology Venture Partners in Reston, Va.; Andrew Sacks
of Dell Computer Corp. in Round Rock, Texas; Brenda Sharton of Goodwin Procter
& Hoar in Boston; Jon Sobel of Yahoo! Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif.; Richard
Sokolow of InterSource International Inc. in New York; Lee Tien of Electronic
Frontier Foundation in San Francisco; Charles Trepper of The Trepper Group in
Minnetonka, Minn.; and Bruce Webster of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington,
D.C.
 
In addition to a discussion of the top 10 legal risks associated with the
Internet, other session highlights include: protecting your cyberassets; an
examination of the new Internet economy; an update on file sharing and related
litigation; privacy -- how data is used and abused on the Internet; advising
new dot-com companies; liabilities associated with message boards; Internet-
related employment issues; types of coverage available for online companies;
tips and tools for electronic discovery; and much more.
 
A special feature of the conference will be a panel discussion on Napster,
MP3.com and MP3Board.com: What does the future hold for the online
distribution of music? How will this litigation impact the future of peer-to-
peer networking and file-sharing communities? Panel members are Katherine
Forrest of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, attorney for the record industry in the
MP3 and MP3Board.com litigation; Michael Carlinsky of Orrick, Herrington &
Sutcliffe, who represents MP3.com; Russell Frackman of Mitchell, Silberberg &
Knupp, attorney for the record industry in its case against Napster; and Don
Gordon of Leopold, Petrich & Smith, counsel to the Recording Industry
Association of America in the Napster case.
 
For more information on topics and speakers or to register, please call
our Conference Department at 1-800-MEALEYS (632-5397) or 610-768-7800,
e-mail: seminars@mealeys.com or visit http://www.mealeys.com/sem_agen.html#TEC.
 
In addition to Cyberlaw, Mealey's publishes litigation newsletters on
asbestos; lead paint exposure, drug and medical device litigation; mold
litigation; MTBE; Propulsid litigation; diabetes drugs (Rezulin); disability
insurance; construction defects; insurance coverage; insurance bad faith;
breast implants; Superfund and pollution; fen-phen and diet drugs; tobacco;
insurance fraud, insurance insolvency; latex, patents and intellectual
property; managed care; expert admissibility (Daubert) and international
arbitration.
 
Mealey's also sponsors conferences on many of these same topics. In
addition to the Internet Law seminar, these include: Lead Paint Exposure "101"
Rezulin (diabetes drugs), Oct. 23-24 in Phoenix; USTs (Underground Storage
Tanks), Oct. 23-24 Environmental and Toxic Tort Insurance, Nov. 2-3 in Boston;
Reinsurance, Nov. 9-10, in West Palm Beach, Fla.; Fen-Phen, Nov. 13-14 in West
Palm Beach; California's Section 17200 (Unfair Practices), Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in
Marina del Rey, Calif.; Construction Defects, Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Marina del
Rey. Call 1-800-MEALEYS or email seminars@mealeys.com for information.