User:Strongtiger/Ian Ballon

Ian Ballon represents technology, media and entertainment companies in complex copyright, Lanham Act, trade secret, and Internet-related litigation and counseling.

Mr. Ballon is the author of the four-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms 2d Edition (West 2009) and the earlier first edition, which has been cited in state and federal court opinions. He is also the author of The Complete CAN-SPAM Act Handbook (West 2008) and The Complete State Security Breach Notification Compliance Handbook (West 2009). Mr. Ballon also serves as Executive Director of Stanford University Law School's Center for E-Commerce (http://lawtech.stanford.edu/ecommerce/) and previously served as an Adviser to the American Law Institute's Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transactional Disputes (ALI Principles of the Law 2007).

Mr. Ballon was recognized by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal in 2009 for obtaining the third largest plaintiff's verdict in California in 2008 in MySpace, Inc. v. Wallace in a judgment of over $230,000,000. He was also named one of the top 100 lawyers in California in late 2008 and one of the Top 75 intellectual property litigators in California in 2009 by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. Mr. Ballon previously has been recognized as one of the top new media lawyers in the United States by CyberEsq. magazine, one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California by California Law Business, one of the top lawyers in L.A. by the Los Angeles Business Journal, one of the top 50 IP Litigators in California and one of the top 25 copyright, trademark and patent lawyers in California by The Daily Journal. He is listed in Legal 500 U.S., The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of intellectual property and information technology and Chambers and Partners USA Guide in the areas of copyright litigation and privacy and data security.

Mr. Ballon is admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia and Maryland and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

=Professional Involvement= •Advisory Board, Stanford University Law School's Program in Law, Science and Technology, 2007 to present •Executive Director, Stanford University Law School Center for E-Commerce, 2002 to present •Advisor, American Law Institute International Jurisdiction Project, 2002 to 2007 •Council Member (and previously Computer and E-Commerce Division Co-Chair), American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology, 2003 to 2005 •Member and contributing author, American Bar Association Cyberspace Jurisdiction Project. The committee's "Report on Global Jurisdictional Issues Created By Information Technology Networks" and proposals for new international standards were published in London, England in July 2000 •Co-Chair, Internet Subcommittee, ABA Section of Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation Committee, 1997 to 2000 •Programs Chair, ABA Section of Litigation, Computer and Online Litigation Committee, 1995 to 2001 •Member, GRAMMY® Foundation's Entertainment Law Initiative Advisory Committee, 2005 to present •Editorial Board, The Cyberspace Lawyer •Editorial Board, The Journal of Internet Law •Editorial Board, Privacy and Information Law Report •Editorial Board, E-Commerce Law Report

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