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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jun. 28, 2007

Investigative Peril

Focus Column - By Antonio R. Sarabia ll - A wave of unlicensed Internet investigators is creating unexpected legal liabilities for clients who use the sleuths to protect intellectual property rights.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Antonio R. Sarabia ll

      Most of us remember the late-1990s phenomenon of Internet companies saying that brick-and-mortar business rules (and laws) did not apply to them. Remarkably, a service industry, closely tied to attorneys, is still living in that era, believing that neither requisite business skills (such as professional training) nor licensing laws should hamper them. These throwbacks to the last century a...

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