Dozier Internet Law Contact

Dozier Internet Law offers a consultation if you are a qualified business or a professional seeking high quality legal advice and guidance. We like to invest our time and expertise with those businesses undergoing serious legal issues that demand highly specialized lawyers committed to finding solutions to business issues and problems.

Consultation with Dozier Internet Law PC

Dozier Internet Law attorneys are licensed to practice in Virginia, California, New York and New Jersey, but we can easily appear in courts throughout the US. We handle matters nationwide and even on a global basis. Please remember that we get involved in commercial (business) matters only and work on an hourly basis. Before being hired to assist a new client we enter into a formal, written retainer agreement and an up-front fee deposit is required. This is a complex arena of law, and we only render legal opinions and guidance after being retained.

Perhaps the best way to describe our services and how we operate is to describe some typical inquiries and how we would handle them:

• "I would like to get a trademark":

  First, understand that the online services charging less than $1,000 for a trademark registration provide only that...and typically nothing more. We conduct a detailed search to identify others using the same or similar name in the same category of goods or services, and provide our clients with an explanation of the risks associated with the use of the name and the filing of a registration. For instance, we may find that there is a competing business, not even on the Internet, that has rights to the name that pre-date your rights. It may be a big mistake to file for a trademark registration under those circumstances since your use would then become more public, and your attempt to establish rights in the name could result in either an expensive trademark opposition battle or a trademark infringement lawsuit being filed against you. The likely advice given those facts would be to either attempt to purchase or license the use of the trademark, change your name, or make sure your services are outside the category of goods and services of the conflicting mark. There are also other legal approaches available that would be reviewed. Ultimately, you would be making an informed business decision as opposed to walking straight into a potential big problem.

• "A former customer is lying about my business online and it is at the top of Google results for my business name":

  Very common problem, of course. We research the offender, the landscape, the propagation of the defamatory statements, and then consider all of the approaches and explain them to you in depth. For instance, we would lay out the SEM actions you might consider, the SEO techniques available, reputation management tactics that could be employed, the ability to go directly to the site with a cease and desist, the various types of lawyer demand letters or even telephone calls that can be made, and the lawsuit options including the jurisdictions and how receptive the courts are to such a claim in each jurisdiction. Keep in mind that "defamation" in California courts may be quite different that the Florida or New York courts. The risk factors vary, the immediacy of impact varies, and the likelihood of success varies with each option. But, our goal is to allow you to make an informed, quality decision.

• "I want to sue someone who copied my site":

  Frankly, copyright infringement legal action is incredibly expensive. But that is no reason to allow such theft to continue. You have several options, many of which can be done at the same time. Google may move this site in front of yours in the SERPs with a duplicate penalty if you don't act quickly. There are remedies available to have Google stop indexing the site, the host stop hosting the site, the payment processor stop processing payments, and on and on...none of which require expensive litigation. Depending upon the location of the infringer, a cease and desist and a demand for damages, in writing or by telephone, may be worth pursuing. We work through the risks and rewards with you so that you can make an informed and smart decision. And while your perception may be that there is no downside or additional adverse effect from pursuing the scofflaw, that may not necessarily be the case. Knowledge is power, particularly in an adversarial situation, and we work to gather the information, meld it with our experience and expertise (both legal and practical) and give you the knowledge to make the right decision on how to address such a problem.

• "I need a simple User Agreement and Privacy Policy for my site":

  There is absolutely no way a quality review of a website and e-commerce business can be conducted, and quality contracts prepared, without high guality engagement by the attorney with your site and business. There are dozens of issues that come into play, and we conduct audits to assist our clients in complying with the law and, as an end product of such a review, have the right contracts on their websites that will protect their businesses and themselves personally from the virtually unlimited liabilities that exist today in doing online commerce.

• "I would like to send a lawyer cease and desist letter to ABC":

  First, we explain the various options available after reviewing the situation in a quality way, explain the implications and anticipated consequences of each available course of action, and then assist you in making an informed decision as to how to proceed. Needless to say, if you are familiar with the online world of reputation management, and we are also familiar with an entire industry that has sprung up to manage business reputation problems online that arise from adversarial situations. You are much better off making an informed decision than having to invest huge sums of money trying to regain your reputation after a "mobosphere" attack.

If you want high quality analysis and advice, our minimum advance fee deposit is $3,500 to $10,000, refundable to the extent unused, against which we charge our hourly rates. The firm's refund policy is that the client is refunded all unused deposited sums upon request, or automatically when a file is closed, forwarded at the end of the month in which the file is closed. Other refunds are issued solely within the discretion of firm management, but you can expect that our time is billable to you once we are retained and start work. If you are a business, or professional, with an Internet law issue, and you are considering hiring an attorney, you can contact us for a consultation.

Dozier Internet Law Consultation

You can contact us for a consultation. The contact information is at the Dozier Internet Law Contact page located at this link.