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Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
An Interesting (although admittedly not terribly useful) Fact About the Supreme Court …
... courtesy of Jeffrey Toobin - The current Supreme Court is the first court in U.S. history where all nine judges are federal appeals court judges. The court that decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 had only one justice who had been a judge of any kind on any court anywhere (Associate Justice Sherman Minton).
"Why Antitrust Is More Interesting Than Any Other Area of Law"
OK, OK, this is not my blog post title. It's the title of a post by Professor D. Daniel Sokol over at the Antitrust & Competition Law Policy Blog. He provides ten reasons in support of this statement, but undermines his argument (which I hope is at least a bit facetious), by stating that tax law is second. (Not, not, not.) Of course, he shows what a nerd (wonk?) he is by not only listing the ten reasons from 1 to 10 (rather than in reverse, à la David Letterman), but failing to inject even...
Our AG Before the Supreme Court
Are state forensic laboratory reports prepared for criminal prosecutions testimonial evidence? If they are, they are subject to the Confrontation Clause of the U.S. Constitution ("in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to be confronted with the witnesses against him"), and the lab technicians behind them may be challenged under cross examination. If not, well .... This was the issue before the Supreme Court on November 10th, when Massachusetts Attorney General,...
Larry Lessig REALLY Can Do Powerpoint
I've never been captured by Larry Lessig's books, but once I stumbled on some of his online speeches and Powerpoint presentations (he doesn't use Powerpoint, so I'm using that term generically), and I realized that he was a zen master of this art form (and it can truly be an art form). Here's a recent example - Lessig on McCain on Tech. (And another great (and earlier) example here). Lessig's presentation style is sometimes called the Lessig Method.
White Paper: New Data Security Regulations Have Sweeping Implications For Massachusetts Businesses
A white paper written by my partner Joe Laferrera -- New Data Security Regulations Have Sweeping Implications For Massachusetts Businesses-- is embedded below (using scribd.com). Alternatively, click on the link. New Data Security Regulations Have Sweeping Get your own at Scribd or explore others:
The EFF “Unintended Consequences” White Paper Update Marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the DMCA
It's easy to forget that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is really two separate laws. One protects publishers from "inadvertent" copyright infringement by creating the "notice-and-takedown" regime that requires copyright owners to demand that publishers take down copyrighted works published by third parties before asserting infringement. The other part of the DMCA is the anti-circumvention rule that generally prevents anyone from from bypassing copy protection schemes. The Electronic...
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