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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 2, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 18, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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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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