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Seminar Title: Legal Jedis and the Internet/Web
Instructor: James R. Wrenn, Jr.
Seminar offered via live, toll-free conference call 1-3pmET (unless otherwise noted):
Jun 26, Jul 31, Aug 28, Sep 25, Oct 30, Nov 27
Description:
Interactive seminar focusing on the legal status and history of the Internet and World-Wide Web and issues involving the impact of same on the practice of law, the legal profession and the judicial system.
Credit Hours: 2.0 CLE Hours (General—Internet/Web--Legal Status, History & Issues)
Accreditation:
AL, AR, CA, CO, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI: 2.0 hrs. general
MO, WV: 2.4 hrs. general
OK: 2.5 hrs. general
NJ: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2 hours of total CLE general credit
This program can be applied towards the 9 Substantive Hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) required by the Law Society of Upper Canada. Please note that this program is not accredited for Professionalism hours or for the New Member Requirement
Materials: This interactive seminar explains the origin of the internet, its legal status, history, and structure in focusing on issues created thereby that affect the practice of law, the legal profession and the judicial system. Like the "Force" in "Star Wars," the Internet/Web has a "dark" side and a "light" side requiring lawyers to be legal Jedis.
Dissemination: Materials mailed/emailed as registrations are received.
Seminar Content: Few people are aware of the legal and technological framework in which what has become the internet was created. Likewise, few understand the differences between what is known as "the internet" and the "world wide web" as well as the contexts in which such differences are irrelevant. The purpose of this seminar is to focus upon the technological and legal aspects of the structure of the internet/world-wide-web in ways that are affecting, and will increasingly continue affecting, the practice of law, the legal profession and our judicial system.
1.00 hour = The first hour focuses primarily upon legal and technical issues pertaining to the structure and functionality of the internet/world-wide-web generally.
1.00 hour = The second hour focuses primarily upon particular contexts in which the internet/www may/will affect the practice of law, the legal profession and the judicial system in increasingly significant, if not increasingly dramatic, ways.
2.00 hours = Total CLE credit.
Seminar Contents:
1. First Hour:
01. When and by whom was the Internet invented & what is its legal history/status?
02. What are the fundamental and legal differences between the World Wide Web & the Internet?
03. What are the Internet/www organizational/legal structures & who controls/seeks-to-control them?
04. What are the structural nature, and legal status, of "domains" and who controls them?
05. What are the relations between domain names and intellectual property?
2. Second Hour:
06. What are "IP Addresses," how do they differ from "domain names" and who controls them?
07. What should lawyers know about important differences between various types of email services?
08. What kinds of internet data are at least potentially, if not actually, subject to electronic discovery?
09. How, why, and when is the United Nations seeking to assert/exercise control over the internet?
10. How continuing evolution of the Internet will challenge the legal profession's duties to preserve legal concepts of privacy in contrast to the rapid degradation of actual privacy.
Presenter:
James Wrenn, Jr.
14210 Michaux View Way
Midlothian, Virginia 23113
804.378.2037 804.379.7163 (fax)
jwrenn@wrennlaw.com
Education
J.D. - University of Virginia Law School (1971)
B.A. - (History) University of Richmond (1968)
Bar Membership
Virginia State Bar: Member since 1972
Admission to Practice
Virginia Supreme Court & all inferior courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia
US District Courts for Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Positions
Virginia State Bar Counsel (1976-1977)
Virginia State Bar Special Counsel (1972-1976)
Private Practice since 1977
Academic Appointments
Adjunct Instructor on Legal Ethics, University of Richmond Law School
(1978-1980)
Adjunct Professor, School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University
(1975-1977)
Publishing/Writing/Lecturing
Author/Lecturer (pro bono) for seminars and publications by pro-bono CLE
organizations and bar associations (continually since 1975)
Author/Lecturer VLR Seminars (1986-1975) Recent Case-Law; Professional
Responsibility Issues
Editor of Virginia Law Reports (VLR) (formerly VRR) (private reporting service
for appellate case-law in Virginia) (1981-1995)
Affiliations
President, National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) 1976
Virginia Sate Bar (participation on various committees not listed)
Potpourri
Major Fields of Interest: Lawyer discipline, legal ethics, reinstatement, judicial
ethics, Judicial Inquiry & Review, Commission matters, expert-witness issues.
