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Spammers Spoof Lawyers In Italy

Unfortunately, this spoofing has nothing to do with commedia dell'arte; in Italy, attackers are sending spam messages forged to appear to come from lawyers and directing recipients to download malware. There's no reason to think it couldn't happen here or elsewhere.

Podcasters' Guide To Avoiding Lawyers

Boston attorney Jeffrey P. Hermes asks the question: "Do podcasters know their legal obligations?" The answer to that is largely, well, probably, "no." Though cases involving Internet content and properties are becoming more regular in the courtroom, the podcast is still virgin territory. Hermes believes that will change, and probably soon.

Yahoo Convinces Lawyers It's Doing Its Best

Looks like Yahoo! successfully sweet-talked Checkmate Strategic Group into settling its class action click fraud lawsuit, filed in June of 2005. The plaintiffs will receivea more forthcoming Yahoo!

Lawyers Meet Syndication

Issues of copyright, collaboration, and fair use have become more of a concern, and the lawyers at the Syndicate Conference panel, "The Legalities of Blogging," acknowledged they are the bad news on the flip side of syndication's good news.

When Lawyers Attack With Email

The summary - a young lawyer applies for a position with a firm, which extends an offer, then cuts the offered salary; the young lawyer fires off an email declining the position, after which the fun really began.

Ex-Googler Finds Lawyers Under The Tree

Ron Garret, a former Google staffer contributing to the Xooglers blog, hasn't been posting workplace anecdotes recently; it seems some legal types with big Gs on their Louis Vuitton attaches want a brief word with him.

Google Raises Bar With New Lawyers

The search engine company has added lawyers from a high-powered firm that has represented Grokster and Frank Quattrone.

Lawyers Take Control Of Macromedia Blogs

The news that Adobe is to aquire Macromedia is affecting, profoundly, Macromedia bloggers.

Scoble Calls Off Microsoft Legal Eagles

An update to my prior post. Jason Calacanis writes that Robert Scoble introduced him to the folks in the Windows Mobile ...

Apple, Microsoft Lawyers Get Busy With Bloggers

This is shaping up as the year of suing/sending cease and desist letters to bloggers...