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June 2007 Consumer Protection Update (July 9, 2007)
This telephonic brown bag program will summarize the significant developments in consumer protection law that occurred during June 2007. The presentation will cover cases, settlements, and other initiatives at the federal and state levels, as well as consumer class actions, Lanham Act litigation, and National Advertising Division case decisions.
This program is a monthly series of brown bags in which individuals can call in and hear consumer protection practitioners report on the previous month’s developments. The update portion of the program will last approximately 30-40 minutes and will be followed by Q&A. The PowerPoint presentation will be emailed prior to the call so that participants can follow along and view the advertising that is the subject of the panel’s discussion.
A different law firm will present the Consumer Protection Update each month. The Bingham McCutchen LLP will provide this month’s update, with the following panel of presenters:
Daniel Savrin
Melissa Liazos
July 2007 Privacy Update (July 16, 2007)
The world of privacy and information security changes rapidly – sometimes daily – and keeping up with legislative, regulatory, enforcement and litigation developments can be a daunting task. To provide a regular forum for discussing new privacy and data security happenings, the Section's Privacy and Information Security Committee together with the Corporate Counseling Committee has launched a monthly Privacy Update. This brown bag program will explore recent legislation, noteworthy enforcement activity, market news and general privacy happenings of interest.
The July program will be the ninth in a continuing monthly series, each hosted and presented by a different firm. This month, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP will present the update. Ryan Sulkin and Justine Young Gottshall will speak. The program will be moderated by Mary Ellen Callahan of Hogan & Hartson, a member of the committee.
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Consumer Protection Update - Volume 14, No. 1, Spring 2007
- Attorney Generals Turning Toward Technology - by Patrice Malloy
- Regulation of Interstate Telemarketing: Preemption On the Line - by Joseph W. Sanscrainte
- RFID Technology and Privacy Implications: A Primer - by Christopher M. Loeffler
- Advertising Self-Regulation: Moving Forward to Address New Challenges - by C. Lee Peeler
- Privacy Agenda for the 110th Congress Takes Shape - by Helen Goff Foster
- FTC Franchise Rule 2.0 - by Anthony Marks and Keith Klein
The Secure Times - Volume 2, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2007
- Holding Advertisers Responsible For Spyware - by Justin Brookman
- Whose Computer Is It Anyway? The Application of FTC Law In The Spyware Context - by Stacey Ferguson and David Koehler
- Data Security and Privacy in India - by Poojitha G. Rao and Paresh Trivedi
- Other People's Standards: Privacy in International E-Commerce - by Paul Jones
Consumer Protection & Privacy Publications
Consumer Protection & Privacy Comments and Reports
- Antitrust Consumer Protection Legislation 109th Congress
(November 2005)
Searchable Antitrust Library
Consumer Protection Conference
January 29-30, 2007
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
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Program Materials
Presenter: J. Thomas Rosch
"Where Do We Go From Here? - Some Thoughts On the Future of the Consumer Protection Mission"
Presenter: Deborah Platt Majoras
Remarks, American Bar Association Consumer Protection Conference
Presenter: D. Reed Freeman, Jr.
Privacy and Information Security: Enforcement Trends and Best Practices
Leadership
Consumer Protection Coordinator: David H. Evans
Privacy & Information Security
Chair: Thomas Zych
Consumer Protection
Chair: August Horvath
Consumer Protection Conference
Co-chairs: John E. Villafranco, David H. Evans
Links
- FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection
- FTC Decisions
- National Association of Attorneys General
- Better Business Bureau
- NAD
- Canadian Competition Bureau
- Advertising Standards Canada
- UK Office of Fair Trading
- UK Trading Standards Central
- UK Advertising Standards Authority
- European Advertising Standards Alliance
- EC Health and Consumer Protection DG
- Japanese FTC
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Steiger Fellowship
The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project provides law students the extraordinary opportunity to work in the in the consumer protection and antitrust departments of state and territorial Offices of Attorneys General throughout the United States, as well as the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs.. The eight-week paid Fellowships were initiated in 2004 by the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, in cooperation with the National Association of Attorneys General ("NAAG"), as a consumer protection outreach initiative to introduce law students to the rewards of legal careers in public service.
