Tuesday, February 19, 2008

W&M Partners Continue to Share Knowledge and Practical Tips

W&M partners continue to share knowledge and practical tips to the legal and business communities through lecturing and publishing. Over the past several months the partners have been busy with the following:

Olivera Medenica published the following articles:

· Advising e-Commerce Business Startups: A Crib Sheet, Ecommerce Law and Strategy, Law Journal Newsletters, American Lawyer Media, Vol. 23, No. 11 (March 2007).

· Advising e-Commerce Business Startups: Beyond the Crib Sheet, Ecommerce Law and Strategy, Law Journal Newsletters, American Lawyer Media, Vol. 23, No. 12 (April 2007).

· Credit Cards: To Charge or Not to Charge, N.Y.L.J (June 25 2007).

· Is Anyone Out There? Behavioral Targeting and Its Implications, Ecommerce Law and Strategy, Law Journal Newsletters, American Lawyer Media, Vol. 24, No. 8 (Dec. 2007).

· The Immutable Tort of Cyber-Defamation, Internet L.J., Aspen Publishers (Jan. 2008).



And she spoke at the following lectures:

· The Basics of Ecommerce Law – Lawline.com (Fall 2007)

· Networking Strategies for Women Attorneys – New York County Lawyers’ Association (Jan. 2008)

· NYU School of Continuing Education – guest lecturer on fashion law – IP Licensing Course (Nov. 2008)

W&M Clients Featured by NBC, WSJ, and NYT

W&M is proud to announce that its clients continue to receive mainstream press coverage for their continued success.

W&M client the National Kidney Registry has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun for its life saving work. The National Kidney Registry aims to create a unified pool of kidney donor and recipient vital information on the net. In an age where nearly every item of data is catalogued, digitized, and transmitted at light speed, there is so much life saving information that still lays hidden.

W&M client Jill Vegas was recently featured on NBC through its Open House program to share her expertise in home staging and that processes’ benefits to selling your apartment in a difficult market. In a NY real estate market that defies the laws of physics and the most common of common sense, sellers still need all the help they can get. Hence, a seller often requires skills beyond what brokers can offer. As a "Stager," Jill Vegas provides just that.

W&M client Mercat has had the distinction of having one of its dishes selected as one of the best dishes in all of New York City for 2007 by the New York Times. Mercat, the newest restaurant resident of the flavorful Bond Street area boasts a true Catalan voice that the Times and the New Yorker could not ignore.