Practice/Organization Description
Pillsbury provides strategic guidance on the latest social media trends, helping clients establish and maintain an online presence, optimize business opportunities, overcome hurdles and mitigate risk.
Consisting of intellectual property, corporate, technology, regulatory and litigation lawyers, our multidisciplinary Internet & Social Media team works at the forefront of emerging internet and social media issues. We advise clients on a wide range of business matters, including intellectual property protection and enforcement, FTC disclosures, compliance with advertising regulations and laws and regulations addressing defamation, privacy rights, and contests/sweepstakes. As industry thought leaders, we actively engage in discussions on the latest business, legal and technology trends, closely monitor emerging legal issues and social media, internet and related technology developments, and share cutting-edge insights on our social media blog.
Pillsbury’s Internet & Social Media team helps social media companies as well as companies that use social media with their business strategy and complex issues that are made even more so by a constantly evolving legal and regulatory landscape. We provide up-to-the minute, comprehensive and proactive advice to companies with a well-established online presence and those trying to create an online existence. Pillsbury lawyers guide clients through the commercial realities of conducting business online, addressing the legal, regulatory and policy challenges social media presents and helping them leverage web-based opportunities and minimize risks.
Our client base includes content owners, developers, and distributors; video game publishers; interactive entertainment companies, developers and publishers; investors with an interest in social media startups; social media websites; brand companies that use social media; colleges and universities; individuals and companies that work in digital media and entertainment; and web-based music platforms. We advise clients on both traditional and nontraditional legal questions raised by new technologies, informed by an in-depth understanding of and experience in addressing the business, legal and technology issues unique to social media.
