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.
"When Good Robots Go Bad: Liability Issues in Personal & Service Robotics"
Steve will be presenting a program entitled "When Good Robots Go Bad: Liability Issues in Personal & Service Robotics" at the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Aug. 6, 2010 at 3:45 in San Francisco. Co-panelists are Ryan Calo, Dan Siciliano, and Ian Kerr. For more information click here.
Stephen Wu Teaching Virtual Worlds Law Again
Last summer, I had the privilege of teaching Virtual Worlds Law with Benjamin Duranske (http://virtuallyblind.com/) at Santa Clara University Law School. I am excited to announce that I am in the process of setting up another summer session with the law school to teach the course again. We have seen a number of developments in the area since last summer, most notably the Eros v. Linden case. And I believe that Ben and I will be honing the course offering to make it even better this year.
Last summer, we covered the following topics, discussing them in the context of both virtual worlds and online games:
- Governance of virtual worlds and possibly sovereignty of virtual worlds
- Virtual worlds contracts and contract law
- Virtual property - is it "property" recognized by the law?
- Intellectual property issues (primarily copyright and trademark)
- Unfair competition (unfair and deceptive trade practices, especially in the context of service providers that do not adequately prevent cheating or IP infringement by other users)
- Abuse and torts in virtual worlds
For a copy of our syllabus from last year, click here.
My question to you, my readers, is whether Ben and I are missing anything. Is there anything you would add to this syllabus? Is there anything you would remove?
Perhaps you are teaching the course yourself. Or perhaps you are interested in the practice area and want to learn more about it. If you tell us about issues of interest to you, I may not only include it in the syllabus but can also add it to this blog as well so that you can benefit from our work, along with the Santa Clara law students.
Please write or call me if you have any suggestions, and thank you for your ideas.
Jeff Kobrick Teaching Federal Litigation at Stanford Law School
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 Stanford's Trial Advocacy Workshop in the Autumn 2010 quarter and will serve as Co-Director of the Workshop.
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.”
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