E-commerce Law Direct

E-commerce Law Direct comprises news, articles and specialist features from some of the leading legal experts operating in this area today. When you subscribe, you will receive more than just relevant information, you'll receive analysis and commentary from leading legal practitioners and organisations that operate in this field. Members of our panel advise blue-chip corporations every day - dealing with clients who operate the latest technology and who are at the "cutting edge" of e-commercial developments. Which means that they are able to pass on advice and experience to you each month that has already been tested in the harsh reality of the commercial world. Our team includes lawyers from leading law firms, including: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Herbert Smith Norton Rose Berwin Leighton Paisner Denton Wilde Sapte Simmons & Simmons Masons the Institute of Directors the Law Society the Consumer Association Covington & Burling Crowell & Moring Linklaters & Alliance Bristows Taylor Joynson Garrett Rouse & Co. Our case reports editorial board comprises these leading senior lawyers who all have earned considerable reputations for their work in this area: Eduardo Ustaran Berwin Leighton Paisner Eduardo specialises in information technology and the Internet. He advises on EU data protection law and has advised a number of multinational clients on the adoption of company-wide data protection strategies. He is a recognised expert in the area of online privacy and provides data protection-related advice to leading players in the electronic environment. He is a regular contributor to legal and industry journals and is a frequent speaker at international e-commerce conferences. He is responsible for 'complytoday', an interactive data protection compliance package for e-businesses. He is a dually qualified Spanish Abogado and English Solicitor. eduardo.ustaran@blplaw.com Philip Westmacott Bristows Philip is lead partner of Bristow’s IT Practice. He has advised in the information technology sector for over eighteen years. Philip’s practice covers the full range of intellectual property rights and his expertise extends into a number of both hi-tech and traditional industries. He is a member of the London Computer Law Group. He is also a member of the AIPPI and an associate of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents. He lectures in patent law on the Bristol University Diploma in Intellectual Property. He has a BA (Engineering and Law) from Cambridge University and qualified as a Solicitor in 1978 philip.westmacott@bristows.co.uk Rachael Wellby Crowell & Moring Rachael is an associate in the Technology Media and Telecoms group of international law firm, Crowell & Moring. Rachael specialises in European e-commerce and information law. Rachael has worked with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, focusing on international policy issues concerning online privacy and online dispute resolution. She is a regular contributor to E-Commerce Law & Policy on online dispute resolution. rwellby@crowell.com Stephen Sidkin Fox Williams Stephen is a founding partner of Fox Williams. He specialises in advising on agency and distributorship agreements and competition law. He frequently writes on disintermediation, the effect of e-commerce on agency and distributorship agreements and the competition law aspects of B2B exchanges. Stephen is featured in Mondaq’s Survey of Leading Internet & E-Commerce Lawyers. He is a member of the Society for Computers & Law and a member and past chairman of the Commercial Law Sub-Committee of the City of London Law Society, the sub-committee which has taken the lead in considering issues of e-commerce law on behalf of the Society. SLSidkin@foxwilliams.com John Enser Olswang John is a partner at Olswang and provides advice to clients active in all aspects of the media and communications business. His clients include record companies, broadcasters, surviving dotcoms, and household name retailers, as well as ISPs, portals, software developers and suppliers of interactive TV technology. John writes and speaks regularly on a range of topics relating to interactive media. All three of the independent legal directories rank him as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in e-commerce and digital media. John is a member of the DTI Foresight Programme’s working party on the Future of Information Relationships and author of the “Distribution of Audiovisual Content” chapter of Global Telecommunications Law and Practice (Sweet & Maxwell). jlc@olswang.co.uk Steven Philippsohn Philippsohn Crawfords Berwald Steven is a leading authority on fraud. He has recently given papers at the International Bar Association, the International Chamber of Commerce and to a UK Government Department. He frequently writes for newspapers and specialist law publications. He is co-editor of the UK Manual of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and is a member of the IAAC and the E-Fraud working party of the Fraud Advisory Panel. Steven qualified in 1972 and became the litigation partner of a substantial Central London practice prior to starting his own firm in 1979. His firm was identified in the 2000 edition of The Legal 500 as a leading fraud litigation practice in the UK. snp@pcbsols.com Allistair Booth Stringer Saul Allistair is a partner at Stringer Saul where his practice covers e-commerce, IT, publishing and bio/pharma sectors. He has published articles on linking and aggregating and lectured on those subjects, as well as cryptography, distance selling and other e-commerce matters. He has been practising law with specialist intellectual property firms in New Zealand and England since 1989. He graduated from the University of Auckland in 1988 with degrees in law and economics allistairbooth@stringersaul.co.uk Alasdair Douglas Travers Smith Braithwaite Alasdair is Head of the 18-strong Corporate Tax Department at Travers Smith Braithwaite, a 200 lawyer firm based in the City of London which specialises in corporate, financial and commercial law. His specialist tax interests are fund work, corporate finance, tax and investigations, as well as e-commerce. He is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, a member of the City of London Law Society Revenue Law Sub-Committee. Alasdair graduated from Edinburgh (LLB(Hons)) and London (LLM) universities; is admitted as a solicitor in Scotland (1977) and England (1981); became a partner at Travers Smith Braithwaite in 1985 and was Managing Partner of the firm from 1994 to 2000. Alasdair.Douglas@TraversSmith.com Dawn Osborne Willoughby & Partners Dawn is a partner of Willoughby & Partners and an executive of Rouse & Co International. Dawn specialises in giving advice relating to use of copyright and trade marks on the Internet. She is a panelist for WIPO, deciding domain name disputes under the ICANN procedure, a co-opted member of the international committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, due to her expertise in online alternative dispute resolution procedure and is a member of Internet committees for the International Trade Mark Association and the Society for Computers and Law. She is a graduate in law of Magdalen College, Oxford. Dawn@iprights.com Lindsey Greig, who was launch editor and a key figure behind the Lawyer, the UK's top weekly newspaper for the legal profession, edits E-commerce Law Direct. Back to ECLD Order now