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Denise Howell

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Appellate, intellectual property, and technology lawyer; blogger and columnist; podcast host

Contact
1048 Irvine Avenue, #141
Newport Beach, CA 92660
dhowell@gmail.com
(949) 887-0631
Friendfeed: dhowell
Twitter: dhowell
Skype: denisehowell
GTalk: dhowell

Expertise
Though I am originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, I now live in Newport Beach. While at UCLA (B.A. 1987), I majored in English and earned departmental honors for a thesis on the works of T.S. Eliot. After college, my interests took a more South Campus turn. I began studying computers and technological issues while I earned my law degree from Boalt Hall in Berkeley (J.D. 1990). Today, I practice appellate and technology law, primarily on a consulting basis. Weblogs I write or have written include Bag and Baggage, Lawgarithms, Between Lawyers, and The Industry Standard. I write the Dicta column in The American Lawyer magazine on a bi-monthly basis. I also host an audio series at TWiT.tv called this WEEK in LAW, and another one at IT Conversations called Sound Policy. I am a member of the Identity Gang, a board member of the Attention Trust, and on the advisory boards of Lisensa/Top Ten Media and the Law & Policy Institutions Guide. I am a past President and Board member of Commercial Real Estate Women of Orange County, and a member of the Council of Appellate Lawyers, as well as the American, Orange County (Appellate Section) and Los Angeles County (Appellate Courts Committee) bar associations.

More Information
Bio; weblog about page; ZDNet bio; Google Profile

Talks, etc.

Supernova, session on workplace social networking, possibly others; San Francisco, CA: December 1-3, 2009
ALA Regional Conference, sessions on emerging technologies, Rohnert Park, CA: September 25-6, 2009
2.0 Council, San Diego, CA: September 17, 2009
Forensic Expert Witness Ass'n (FEWA) Web 2.0 Conference, Newport Beach, CA: September 15, 2009
LegalTech Los Angeles, Twitter panel (June '09)
IADC midyear meeting, presentation on "being a Google master," Carlsbad, CA (February '09)
OnHollywood, moderated panel Exploiting the Social Graph-What are the Boundaries, Legal or Otherwise (June '08)
Blogging as Client Development: Effective and Ethical, ALI-ABA teleseminar (May '08)
CCH Computer and Internet Law Advisory Council Meeting, Riverwoods, IL (May '08)
2007 USC/LACBA Institute for Corporate Counsel, panel on Internet law (December '07)
Los Angeles County Bar Association Appellate Courts Committee, presentation on law blogs (December '07)
Canadian Bar Association Second Annual Conference, session on "Ethics in the Technology Era" (November '07)
The California First Amendment Coalition Free Speech and Open Government Assembly, session on citizen media (October '07)
The Podcast & New Media Expo, panel on "Understanding Your Content Liability Risks in New Media: What Video and Audio Creators Need To Know Now" (September '07)
BlogHer, panel on "Professional Blogging: Business Considerations" (July '07)
Supernova, moderated session on Will IP Kill Social Media? (June '07)
Fourth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices Conference, Stanford Law School, panel on monetizing nontraditional content (June '07)
Portland Communicator's Conference, keynote re "Is Public Relations Dead?," (May '07)
Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts, Oh My! Unravel New Media’s Ethical Impact on Your Law Practice, San Francisco Bar Association (April '07)
Video on the Net, talk on video policy (March '07)
Community 2.0, session on the law of business communities (March '07)
Podcast Academy 4, "Navigating the Legal Considerations of Podcasts" (September, '06)
The Podcast and Portable Media Expo, "Avoiding Unmitigated Disaster and Achieving Unlitigated Success" (September, '06)
Corporate Podcasting Summit, "Where next? Just how disruptive is the potential of podcasting?" (June, 2006)
NPR's 'On The Media', 'Shielded!' (2MB MP3), an interview with Bob Garfield about the Apple v. Does decision (June, 2006)
City of Inglewood Technology Summit, "Law And The Live Web" (June, 2006)
International Technology Law Association 35th Annual Meeting and Conference, Hot Copyright Issues in the Digital World (Blogs and IP; slides; paper) (May, 2006)
Blog Law and Blogging for Lawyers, "Real-World Report from Some Leading Blawgers" (April, 2006)
How are blogs affecting the legal world?, a panel moderated by Hugh Hewitt in connection with Chapman University School of Law's NeXus journal (March, 2006)
New Communications Forum, "Blogging, The First Amendment & the Law: An Uneasy Cohabitation;" related resources here. (March, 2006)
The Ethics of Marketing and Solicitation, for the Orange County Bar Association Appellate Law Section (February, 2006)
Thicket In Your Ear: Podcasting And The Law, Portable Media Expo and Podcaster Conference (November, 2005)
Piracy, Grokster and Encryption: The Industry Strikes Back, UCLA School of Law (October, 2005)
The New York Times, Opening Arguments, Endlessly (October, 2005)
Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Promoting Copyright Infringement: The 'Grokster' Decision and the Future of Digital Distribution, topic: MGM v. Grokster (September, 2005)
U.C. Berkeley: Discovering the New Legal Landscape for Digital Media, topic: MGM v. Grokster (September, 2005)
Disruptions 2005, topic: "Digital Property and Digital Piracy: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (September, 2005)
BlogHer, topic: "Women Who Want to Fund, Build, and Sell Things" (July, 2005)
The Wall Street Journal Online, Grokster Roundtable (June, 2005)
IT Conversations, Discussion of MGM v. Grokster (June, 2005)
The AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100, honorable mention (June, 2005)
Gnomedex, topic: "Today's Digital Legalities;" related resources here (June, 2005)
Interview with JD Lasica, topic: "Grassroots Media and the Law" (June, 2005)
Digital ID World, topic: "Trusted Computing" (October, 2004)
IT Conversations, Discussion of MGM v. Grokster (August, 2004)
Interview with KCET's Life & Times, topic: "Cell phone cameras, courts, and privacy" (November, 2003)
Digital ID World, topic: "Digital Rights Management" (October, 2003)
ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies Conference & Expo, topic: "Law of the Blog" (June, 2003)
Revenge of the Blog, topic: "Law and Blogs" (November, 2002)
Digital ID World, topic: "Digital Rights Management" (October, 2002)