PRSA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LUNCHEON

Think Before You Click:
Legal Minefields in Social Media

September 1
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Social networking sites allow businesses to develop and deepen their relationship with customers, but with opportunity comes risk. Posts can violate intellectual property rights, defame others, and violate federal statutes for being "deceptive," failing to disclose legally-required information, or adopting statements by others that the company is prohibited from making. This presentation covers the common costly missteps made by businesses.

Debra Innocenti maintains a diverse practice in specialty litigation and general corporate law for technology and Internet-related industries. She assists startups and established companies with entity formation; governance and cooperate housekeeping; capital raising and financing; acquiring and protecting intellectual property; software licensing and open source compliance; e-commerce and e-tailing, including PCI compliance and digital signatures; data security and data privacy; social media regulation; and online business defamation and cyber harassment. WOAI has called her one of the top Internet and cyber lawyers in the state. Prior to her legal career, she was an instructor in the English-Communications department at St. Mary’s University.