IBLS Monthly Newsletter June 2005 Volume 4 No. 6
In This Issue:
IBLS is very pleased to welcome its newest Charter Partners from around the world. We are pleased to introduce the very prestigious firms from Australia, Colombia, Sudan, Spain and Italy. IBLS is very pleased to welcome its newest Charter Partners from around the world. We are pleased to introduce the very prestigious firms from Australia, Colombia, Spain and Italy.
Mallesons Stephen Jaques www.mallesons.com, New South Wales, Australia
Mallesons Stephen Jaques is a leading commercial law firm with a focus on Asia Pacific. It has offices in Australia's main business centers, Hong Kong, Beijing and London and an associated office in Port Moresby. Mr. Philip Argy has been a partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques for over 20 years. He is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Western Australia. Mr. Argy can be contacted directly at philip.argy@mallesons.com
Studio Associato Casini & Vincenzi, Modena, Italy
Studio Associato Cassini & Vincenzi is especially qualified to practice Internet law and labor law, including contract drafting and litigation. Its' attorney team may assist clients in Italian, French, and English.
The founding partner of the Studio Associato Cassini & Vincenzi is Mr. Paride Casini who has practiced law since 1983. He is registered in the Modena Bar Association, and admitted to practice before the highest Courts of Italy. Mr. Casini’s direct email address is casinilex@libero.it
B&R www.br-legalsolutions.com , Bogota, Colombia
B& R focuses on intellectual property, new technologies and international trade. The services are targeted to ITC companies and also to those for whom new technologies or internet transactions are part of their business. The areas of practice are Computer & Technology Law, Intellectual Property, International Law, Investment Law, and Telecommunications Law
The contact email for B&R Partner Mr. Alvaro Ramirez–Bonila, is alvaro@br-solucioneslegales.com
AbdelGadir Warsama Ghalib & Associates Legal Firm from Khartoum , Sudan
In addition to Computer & Technology Law, the law firm specializes in Banking Law, Credit, Debt and Collections Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property, Investment Law, Securities Law. Dr AbdelGadir can be reached by email awghalib@hotmail.com
Lopez, Gimenez Torres & Partners, Alicante, Spain
In addition to expertise in e-commerce and intellectual property law LOPEZ, GIMENEZ TORRES & PARTNERS's other areas of practice are Administrative Law, Appeals and Writs, Business Law, Computer & Technology Law, General Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, International Law, Investment Law, Real Property, Real Estate and Landlord & Tenants, Tax and Taxation Law.
To contact Mr. Jose Antonio Lopez please send an email to byl@arrakis.es
About IBLS Charter Partnership:
IBLS Charter Partnership status is available to legal professionals and attorneys around the world. This program represents a unique opportunity for global law firms and individual attorneys to showcase their expertise in Internet and E-Commerce Law. By participating in IBLS events, Council, Database and other services and activities IBLS Charter Partners have opportunities to reach new potential clients from anywhere in the world. The following is the list of different marketing and promotional opportunities that are available to IBLS Charter Partners:
- Publishing of the Charter Partner summaries in the Internet Law global and regional databases. Comprehensive indexing for easy searching by database subscribers. Indexing for all accepted summaries.
- Each summary has contact information for the Charter Partner, allowing for direct contact by potential clients, or inquiry via the provided IBLS intake sheet.
- Listing in the Charter Partner section of the IBLS website, with a direct link to the law firm's homepage.
- Promotion through IBLS publications and services. Inclusion in media kits, mentioning in email newsletters, referred to in interviews with the press, to name a few potential areas of promotion.
- Opportunities to teach for IBLS online education courses. Please visit the IBLS online education site for more details.
- First year free membership for the IBLS Global Internet Law Council.
- Free invitation to yearly IBLS hosted summits and conferences.
- The Charter Partner will receive the IBLS Charter Partner logo to be placed on their website, identifying the firm's expertise for their clients and website visitors.
- Private Charter Partner section on the IBLS site with additional resources and opportunities for firm promotion. Includes section sponsorships, message board, and more.
- Invitation to attend IBLS Conferences and Events as our guest, IBLS will cover the admission fee.
- Special pre-negotiated offers from IBLS Business Partners.
Additional Networking Opportunities are:
- Specific networking and referral opportunities through the Charter Partner exchange service, part of the private Charter Partner section on the IBLS site.
- Reciprocally being able to utilize conference rooms of other Charter Partners at no charge when conducting business out of your city. (More details upon becoming a Charter Partner).
- Internally sending and receiving referrals as a professional courtesy extended to fellow Charter Partners.
- Ability to request assistance from fellow Charter Partners for research or other projects.
Please click here to learn more about IBLS Charter Partnership.
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IBLS and Intego Abogados y Consultores lead European Initiative One of the fundamental European Commission (EC) initiatives is to further e-commerce. This has been identified by the EC as being a strategically imperative necessity in order to drive European competitiveness in the global marketplace. In response to this identified need, IBLS has partnered with Intego Abogados y Consultores, a top tier Spanish Law and Consulting Firm, in an effort to meet this identified European market need.
IBLS, in conjunction with Intego Abogados y Consultores, will be working on different European e-commerce legal initiatives in its effort to formulate the most strategically relevant solutions. IBLS expects the project to take place in partnership with EC. The expected rollout of this initiative is projected to have a time horizon of three to five years.
This IBLS multiple partnership effort is expected to lead in a rollout of a European Internet laws portal solution targeted to the European Government, Business and individual user community by the end of 2005.
About Intego Abogados y Consultores
Originally Association ERA, now a part of Intego Abogados y Consultores (the Firm) is the legal advisor of the European Commission in Spain and one of the leading firms in Spain. As such the Firm is engaged in advising the national courts and the professionals concerning European Law and managing the judicial documents sent to the European Commission. It consists of departments specializing in the juridical relevant matters to such effects and especially, Commercial law, Community law and Civil law Departments, as well as a procedural group entrusted to make the judicial claims effective.
In the Internet field, the Firm provides legal advice to Spanish, European and multinational companies as well as administrative bodies in Spain and the European Union on the subject of IT, especially on the web creation process and liabilities derived from data introduction and domains registration. The Firm is the legal advisor of a number of new technologies projects in Spain, concerning e-commerce, B2B projects, and digital signature.
For more information about the Intego Abogados y Consultores and to contact the Firm directly, please go to: www.intego.es.
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Quarterly Theme - Intellectual Property and the Internet Continuing with this month's newsletter, IBLS is introducing a new quarterly theme, this time on "Intellectual Property and the Internet”, another very important area of Internet and E-Commerce Law. A selected theme is covered in a special summary from the IBLS database. This month's summary focuses on the first judicial proceedings in Georgia in regards to the conflict of a trademark and domain name.
The title of this week's summary is "THE FIRST JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS CONNECTED WITH THE CONFLICT OF A TRADEMARK AND DOMAIN NAME WAS HELD IN GEORGIA" and it is written by IBLS Charter Parntner, Mr. George Taktakishvili from the Office Gela Mikadze.
To read the summary THE CONFLICT OF A TRADEMARK AND DOMAIN NAME IN GEORGIA please click here.
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Scott Wishart to Join IBLS as a New Director of IBLS Europe, Middle East and Africa We are pleased to announce an addition to our management and development group. Scott S. Wishart Esq. joins IBLS' Barcelona office as a new Director of IBLS Operations in Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Scott brings to our management group an extensive educational background, terrifically matched to our development needs. In addition to Scott’s U.S. legal training, he also holds a "Licence spéciale en droit européen" – (a "LLM in European Law"), as well as an MBA, a Master of Public and International Affairs, a Master of Science in the Management of Information Systems, and he also serves as an adjunct faculty member in Comparative Law at the University of Navarra,Spain.
Scott's career path has held an equally fortuitous course from the perspective of IBLS' development needs. In addition to incorporating on both sides of the Atlantic as a Business Analyst and Systems Consultant for Federal Express, Scott served as a Lobbyist at the European Parliament and as one of the Legal Editors in the Supreme Court Federal Unit of Shepard's Citations, a division of LexisNexis Web Publishing.
With his education, management experience and editorial training to back him up, our expectations are high. Welcome aboard, Scott!
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