The Tech Attorney Blog by Adam S. Feinsilver, Esquire

Where Techies, Business & the Law Converge…Or Clash

Sue Everybody!
When someone steals from your business or breaches a contract, you sue them. Let the lawyers take action. If you let the bad guys get away with it, the world know that it’s safe to plunder your gold. After all, it’s an open and shut case. File a claim. […]

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Every corporate buyout these days involves tech contracts. In fact, the tech deals could be the biggest asset of the target corporation! Will your mergers and acquisitions (M&A) counsel conduct proper due diligence on the tech contracts in a corporate buyout? Will they even understand those web development, software development, outsourcing, MLAs, […]

 

 Techlaw Podcast Episode 004: Mergers, Acquisitions & Tech: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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What’s behind those lawsuit threats from Intellectual Property attorneys? Are they all on the up & up? Could some IP attorneys be using the law as a weapon to threaten businesses into settling cases when there are no damages? It can cost you a ton of hard-earned money to defend a suit. […]

 

 Techlaw Podcast Episode 003: Intellectual Property Lawsuit Threats: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Oversensitive Documents
Back in my pre-mp3 days, a cassette (plastic object containing analog audio recordings) with prank phone calls was circulating through college campuses. On one of the calls, a prankster dialed up a local lawyer and claimed that he had been hurt on the job. The lawyer naturally targeted his questions to find […]

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Once again, the scanners are detecting more trouble sector nine. No doubt, it’s the work of that nefarious company, the sworn enemy of the Planet Apple; the evil overlord Microsoft! Does the news of Microsoft’s bid to take over Yahoo! have the Internet in a tizzy? Ayee, maytee, of this ye […]

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With the stock price up and expectations high, Steve Jobs walked onto the stage to announce “something is in the air” today. With one window open on Macrumors.com, another on Engadget and a third on Geekbrief.tv, I had my hopes up high for several eagerly-anticipated announcements. Unfortunately, coveritlive.com wasn’t quite able to to […]

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Two in one day? Yes. Here’s number 2.

 

 Techlaw Podcast Episode 002: Top 5 Website Development Contract Pitfalls: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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See it here.

 

 Techlaw Podcast Episode 001: Is Your Lawyer Padding Your Legal Bill?: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Publicity is Publicity
We’ve all heard the saying “bad publicity is good publicity.” Interesting theory. Well, bad publicity is controversial. Controversial gets your business’s name out there. So, good or bad, publicity is good!
Remember that great bad publicity Walt Disney World got from “groping Tigger”? Wasn’t that fantastic? […]

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Startups have enough on their plate without thinking about hiring lawyers. As a businessman, it feels like taking the seed money you’ve put together and dumping it into the Sarlacc pit (at least that pit would take 1,000 years to digest the capital). Buying the “invisible” is a tough purchase for a new […]

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