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American Bar Association 2011 Midyear Meeting.

This year's meeting will be held February 9-15, 2011. For more information about this meeting please click here

The Second Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence Practitioners' Workshop Presented by the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law e-Discovery and Digital Evidence (EDDE) Committee in San Francisco on February 18-19, 2011. Find more information about this workshop by clicking here.

Estate Planning for Online Assets

This program is present by the Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust Section of The Bar Association of San Francisco on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 12:00 to 1:30 pm, BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco Calfornia. The speaker will be Partner Stephen Wu.
TOPICS:

• Estate planning for today's clients includes not only tangible personal property, real property and financial assets, but increasingly online assets with real and appreciating value.
• What are online assets? Why do they matter? How are they marshaled and valued?
• How to include online assets in your clients' estate plans.

For more information or to register, click here

Partner Stephen Wu Inducted into the Chagrin Falls
Schools' Achievement Hall of Fame

On September 30, 2010, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Steve's home town, he was inducted into the Chagrin Falls Schools' Achievement Hall of Fame 2010.  To view his acceptance speech click here.

Silicon Valley Law Partner Stephen S. Wu is New Chair of the American Bar Association Science and Technology Section

CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 2010—Stephen S. Wu, a partner in the Silicon Valley law firm of Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, today became chair of the American Bar Association Science and Technology Law Section.

“I hope to start a national dialogue about science and technology law with state, local and specialty bar associations. The goal is to help prepare our profession for rapid and sweeping changes in technology and science so that lawyers can handle legal issues that have developed and will continue to arise from technology and scientific advances,” said Wu upon taking office at the close of the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Wu served on the section’s governing council from 2004 to 2007, and was co-chair of the section’s Information Security Committee from 2001 to 2004.

Wu handles trade secrets, copyright, and trademark cases, as well as disputes relating to computer and Internet technology. In addition, Wu serves as outside general counsel for Silicon Valley startup and technology companies, handling licensing, marketing agreements and other technology transactions. He advises clients concerning issues of e-discovery, electronic records retention, digital evidence and legal matters relating to information security, privacy and e- commerce. He also advises clients concerning cutting-edge areas of law, providing counseling in areas such as video games, virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Before establishing his private practice, Wu was an in-house lawyer at VeriSign Inc., in charge of the company’s worldwide security and legal policies and practices governing digital certification information security services, while also being responsible for other more general corporate legal matters. He previously practiced intellectual property and commercial law, and handled products liability cases, general litigation, and technology licensing and transactions in two other large private firms.

He lectures on technology law at Santa Clara University School of Law, and regularly presents at legal and information security profession educational programs. He has written several books in his area of expertise. Wu is a 1988 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, and a 1985 summa cum laude graduate, with a Bachelor of Arts, from the University of Pittsburgh.

The ABA Section of Science & Technology Law provides leadership on emerging issues at the intersection of law, science, and technology; promotes sound policy and public understanding on such issues; and enhances the professional development of its members. The Section has over 13,000 members, with diverse backgrounds in areas such as e-commerce law, Internet law, computer law, communications law, and law relating to engineering, physics, biology, and medicine. It works through 26 substantive committees to explore the legal implications of topics such as e-commerce, information security, homeland security, privacy, the Internet, electronic discovery and digital evidence, animal law, rights and responsibilities of scientists, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

Stephen Wu Teaches in Second Life Conference

11/16/2009 08:12 Stephen Wu, a partner in Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP and President of the SL Bar Association in the Second Life® virtual world, gave a talk at the SLBA's mini-conference on "Practicing Law in a Virtual World" held on the Second Life campus of the University of Florida's Fredric G. Levin College of Law. His talk covered intellectual property issues of virtual worlds. For more information about the conference, click here for a summary of the conference and here for the SLBA's information page about the conference.

Article About Cornerstones of Trust Conference

11/06/2009 17:05 The Palo Alto Area Bar Association's November bulletin contains a story about partner Stephen Wu's program on e-discovery and digital evidence last month -- the Cornerstones of Trust Conference. The Conference took place on October 14, 2009 in Foster City, CA. Steve's program comprised the legal track of the Conference, which included a mock hearing and panels that included attorneys, forensic experts, information security experts, and a San Francisco Superior Court judge. The story in the PAABA bulletin appears on the Association's website here.

Stephen Wu Teaches E-Discovery and Digital Evidence Program at the Cornerstones of Trust Conference

10/14/2009 18:39 Stephen Wu, a partner in Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, taught a program today on e-discovery and digital evidence, together with attorneys, forensic experts, information security experts, and a San Francisco Superior Court judge at the Cornerstones of Trust Conference in the Silicon Valley. Steve organized and taught at the legal track of the Conference. He co-taught the three courses in the legal track:

• A mock hearing on the spoliation of digital evidence before Judge Richard Kramer of the San Francisco Superior Court.
• A panel covering top forensics "Do's and Dont's" to keep in mind during investigations of possible legal claims.
• A panel discussing effective e-discovery collaboration among information technology professionals, IT security professionals, outside counsel, and in-house lawyers.

Stephen Wu Teaches Virtual Worlds Intellectual Property Course

09/23/2009 17:04 Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP partner Stephen Wu today gave a presentation entitled "Intellectual Property Megasuit: Could it Happen to You?" in San Jose at the Digital Law Conference program at the Engage! Expo virtual worlds and video game convention. Steve talked about the new class action trademark and copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Linden Research, Inc., the operator of the Second Life® virtual world 3D Internet application. He compared the new suit to Viacom's pending suit against Google.

Jeff Kobrick Teaching Advocacy Workshop at Stanford Law School

09/21/2009 09:29 Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP Partner Jeff Kobrick is teaching the Trial Advocacy Workshop to teach litigation skills to upper level law students at Stanford Law School during the Autumn 2009 quarter. He serves as the Co-Director of the Trial Advocacy Workshop.

Jeff is an experienced litigator and trial attorney, and has taught litigation skills to two generations of law students at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School in simulation courses. Jeff is also scheduled to teach Federal Litigation at Stanford Law School in the Winter and Spring quarters. The Federal Litigation course focuses on teaching students how to litigate a complex class action case in a federal court.

Stephen Wu is Teaching a Virtual World Law Course at Santa Clara University School of Law

06/03/2009 20:00Stephen Wu, a partner at Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, began teaching a course in Virtual World Law today at Santa Clara University School of Law. The School is offering the course as part of its High Tech Law Institute curriculum. Stephen Wu, who serves as President of the SL Bar Association, is co-teaching the course with Benjamin Duranske, the SL Bar Association's founding President.

Stephen Wu Teaches at the PLI Institute on Privacy and Data Security Law

06/01/2009 11:30 Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP partner Stephen Wu today gave a presentation in San Francisco at the Tenth Annual Institute on Privacy and Data Security Law entitled State Security Laws and Regulations - The New Deal. Mr. Wu gave an update on state data protection legislative developments.

Stephen Wu Teaches Digital Evidence Course at RSA Conference 2009

04/21/2009 15:04 Stephen Wu, a partner at Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, today presented a mock hearing program with a panel of lawyers and technologists and a federal magistrate judge on the spoliation of digital evidence at RSA Conference 2009. The program underscored the need for businesses to preserve vital electronic evidence relevant to pending or threatened litigation.

Santa Clara University School of Law Appoints Stephen Wu as Lecturer in Law

03/19/2009 02:36 Santa Clara University School of Law today appointed Stephen Wu, a partner at Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, as a Lecturer in Law to teach technology law in the School's High Tech Law Institute. Stephen Wu will be teaching Virtual World Law during the Summer 2009 term.

Stephen Wu Takes Office as SL Bar Association President

02/21/2009 11:16 Stephen Wu, a partner at Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP, took office today as President of the SL Bar Association, "an informal professional organization that helps members navigate the Second Life® legal landscape." With members from locations around the world, the association brings together lawyers and those interested in law and the legal profession in the Second Life® virtual world 3D Internet application.

Stephen Wu Appointed Chair-Elect of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law

On July 31, 2009, the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law appointed Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP partner Stephen Wu Chair-Elect for the 2009-2010 bar year. He will serve as Chair in the 2010-2011 bar year. Steve Wu served as Vice Chair and Secretary of the Section in previous years, and before that served as a member of the Section’s governing Council from 2004 to 2007 and Co-Chair of the Section’s Information Security Committee from 2001 to 2004.

The Section of Science and Technology Law is one of 24 sections in the American Bar Association and says its mission is to “provide a forum for addressing issues at the intersection of law, science, and technology.” Founded in 1974, “the Section has grown to become a focal point for information and policy on many important issues, such as computer and information security law, privacy, cybercrime, scientific evidence, genetic research and engineering, biotechnology and nanotechnology.”