Twenty Years In Civil and Criminal Practice Equals One Cyberlawyer

Since my admission to the California Bar in 1987, I have put in over twenty years practicing law. I have been a securities litigator, a trademark enforcement lawyer, a plaintiffs personal injury lawyer, a prosecutor, a federal public defender, and then, quite surprisingly, the lead lawyer for the recovery of Sex.Com, the world’s most valuable domain name. After accomplishing that feat over the course of twenty months, lots of people assumed I was an Internet lawyer. That was not entirely accurate, however. I won Sex.Com by using old school principles, such as “thou shalt not steal,” and “my client was first in line.” I’ve always been inspired by Joe Jamail’s summary of the trial lawyer’s art: “I just catch liars.” By Joe’s standard, I’ve been a trial lawyer for more than a few years. But that’s not the same as being an Internet lawyer, which had become my goal, for the near term.

So I took about a year away from work, started digging, not just into the law, but into the life of the Net. My favorite activity was exploring the latest business model for webmasters, downloading the contracts, checking out the program features, and evaluating whether anyone could actually make any money. I directly researched the contracts governing online schemes involving ebooks, affiliate programs, free websites, free hosting, credit card processing. I scanned the news for clues to the emerging legal battles on the cyberfrontier, I got magazine subscriptiions for everything from the Harvard Business Review to The Progressive, from American Lawyer to Wired, and signed up for free intellectual law resources that kept starting up, trying to track the wild phenomenon of the emerging universe of Internet law, monitoring the emergence of new legal doctrines like astronomers vying to name a new constellation. To educate myself as to what the law already had to say on the issues I felt were core to the emerging body of Internet law, I set myself the task of writing Charles’ Primer, which it is now time to edit extensively. Please enjoy it, but don’t take it as legal advice, but rather as a starting point for research and discussion.

Thank you for visiting my website. I built it just for you, and if I can be of any assistance to you, don’t hesitate to call me at 520-841-0835. My company is Online Media Law, PLLC, based in historic Tucson, Arizona. I am currently licensed to practice in the courts of California, and consult on Federal issues in various venues. And now, without further ado, the history of my sojourn these last twenty years in the law.

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