Leaders
in the Silicon Valley Legal Community Come to Stanford to Discuss
E-commerce Best Business Practices Project
On September 15, following an invitation from
the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology and its Stanford
Center for E-Commerce, a group of Silicon Valley key players came
to Stanford to discuss a collaborative project focusing on Silicon Valley
best business practices. The Center for E-Commerce originally
proposed this project to further their mission of assisting in and
coordinating the efforts of the business community to proactively
address the many pressing legal questions surrounding online business
activity. The goal of the project is to find some
practical answers and solutions by bringing the Silicon Valley legal
and business community together with other professionals from around
the globe, so that these individuals can share
their ideas and strategies for dealing with the legal uncertainties
that arise when doing business online.
The Center for E-Commerce plans to launch this ongoing project with a one-day kick-off conference on best
practices associated with the online distribution of
software and other digital media. The program, tentatively scheduled for
next spring, will address the question of how companies develop
best practices and then focus on specific topics, such as globalization, security,
piracy, taxation, and privacy.
The Center for E-Commerce and the Stanford Program in Law, Science
& Technology are striving to expand their role
as the preeminent sites for intellectual exchange between leading
experts in the field of law and technology. This September
luncheon enabled us to gather the unique insights of a number of
legal pioneers in the e-commerce business community.
We thank the following
individuals for providing invaluable input during the meeting:
Marc Berejka -- Senior Director of Public Policy & Communications,
Microsoft Corporation
Jim Brelsford -- Jones Day
Andrew Bridges -- Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
Dan Cooperman -- General Counsel, Oracle Corporation
Bill Cosden -- Vice President & General Counsel, Active
Technologies, Inc.
Reggie Davis -- Senior Litigation Counsel, Yahoo! Legal Department
Keith Gottfried -- Senior Vice President-Law and Corporate
Affairs, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Legal
Officer, Borland Software Corporation
Michael Jacobson -- General Counsel, eBay, Inc.
Paul Jahn -- Morrison & Foerster, LLP
Theodore Jones -- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Ken Kaufman -- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Ron Laurie -- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
LLP
Heather Rafter -- Director of Legal Affairs, Digidesign, a
division of Avid Technology, Inc.
Michael Shpizner -- General Counsel, Fujitsu America, Inc.
Ross Veltman -- Ivy Associates
Also contributing to the meeting were Ian Ballon, who is
the Executive Director of the Center for E-Commerce and a partner at Manatt, Phelps
and Phillips, LLP, Prof. Margaret Jane Radin,
who directs the Program in Law, Science and Technology, and Stanford
Law School Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan.
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Ian Ballon |
Prof. Margaret Jane Radin |
Dean Kathleen Sullivan |
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