Tag Archive | "video games"

Morning Roundup

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Morning Roundup

Good morning everyone! Today is Wednesday, March 10, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… Akerman Senterfitt opens a Las Vegas office… Arent Fox names Mark Katz it’s new chairman… The Massachusetts Bar Association will honor Fish & Richardson for their pro bono work… Greenberg Traurig defends their firing of an alleged thief… K&L Gates bolsters it’s London [...]

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Loeb & Loeb Creates New Video Game Practice

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Loeb & Loeb Creates New Video Game Practice

Loeb & Loeb has created a new practice focusing on the digitalization of video games. The firm has tapped Daniel O’Connell Offner, the former national chairman of the intellectual property transactions practice group at Nixon Peabody, to run the new practice. The new practice will focus specifically on such matters as  “the transformation of video [...]

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California Court Strikes Down Ban On Video Game Sales

Monday, February 23, 2009

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California Court Strikes Down Ban On Video Game Sales

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday against a 2005 California law that aimed to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.  The court ruled that the law violates the rights of minors under the First and 14th amendments of the Constitution.  The ruling upheld an earlier ruling [...]

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Law School to Hold Open House in Second Life

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Law School to Hold Open House in Second Life

Santa Clara University School of Law is holding an open house in the virtual world of Second Life today. Visitors to Second Life, an Internet-based universe where users create characters and interact in virtual, user-created locations, will travel virtually to Santa Clara Island to see the school. The event is designed to attract potential students and emphasize [...]

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Interactive Media & Video Game Law Practices Expand

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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Interactive Media & Video Game Law Practices Expand

Lawyers now seek a piece of the multi-billion dollar a year interactive media and video game industry.  In a growing trend, intellectual property law firms have begun to expand their expertise to cash in on the growing number of video game developers, publishers, and other interactive media clients. One innovative example includes Stubbs Alderton & Markiles [...]

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Law Firms Focus on Video Game Industry

Friday, January 2, 2009

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Law Firms Focus on Video Game Industry

In the Los Angeles Times, a feature on law firms creating specialized practices for the video games industry: A year ago, newly minted lawyer Shawn Foust approached a senior partner at his Century City firm with an idea: dedicate an entire practice to the video game industry. Today, the 26-year-old coordinates a team of 20 lawyers at [...]

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Teen’s Defense: Video Games Made Him Kill His Mom

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Teen’s Defense: Video Games Made Him Kill His Mom

A 17-year-old boy is on trial in an Ohio courtroom for matricide, allegedly shooting and killing his mother and wounding his father after they banned him from playing the first-person shooter video game Halo 3. From The Cleveland Plain Dealer: In September 2007, Daniel [Petric], then 16, had sneaked out of his bedroom window to purchase the [...]

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Blagojevich’s Troubles Deepen [Update]

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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Blagojevich’s Troubles Deepen [Update]

Today in Rod Blagojevich news: The Washington Post reports that the mysterious “senate candidate” that Blagojevich is recorded on tape saying offered $500,000 in campaign funds to the governor in exchange for Barack Obama’s senate seat, may be none other than Illinois representative Jesse Jackson Jr. In a press conference late today, Jackson said, “I reject and [...]

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